Housing
Oregon lawmakers ‘have a lot of work to do’ on homelessness
More than 4,000 Oregonians lost their homes in last summer’s wildfires. One of them was the aunt of state Rep. Lily Morgan (R-Grants Pass). Morgan’s aunt lived in House District 5, represented by state Rep. Pam Marsh (D-Ashland). The two representatives discovered a bipartisan connection when they met the morning of Jan. 21 as members…
Lenders poised to pounce on homeowners fighting foreclosure
As state and local governments grapple with allocating limited funds to the public health crisis, disaster relief efforts and struggling businesses, private equity funds and real estate investors are poised to gorge themselves on bargains not seen since the last time the economy imploded. “Once January comes, that’s when the carnage will come,” EasyKnock Inc.…
Kaia Sand | We should embrace ingenuity, not erase it
Scott placed the small ship by his window, light streaming through its sails. “We like to think that’s the ship that we get to sail through all this stuff in,” Scott said, explaining he found it discarded on the sidewalk — a “ground score.” A ground score, explained his wife, Barbie Weber, is “anything you…
Sunnyside camp removal prompts calls for additional sanctioned outdoor options
Jan. 29: The end of this story has been updated to reflect the recent attack and subsequent sweep near Laurelhurst park. On Tuesday, Jan. 19, Rapid Response Bio-Clean began a city-ordered removal of houseless residents from a camp around the outskirts of Sunnyside School Park in Southeast Portland. The removal came amid confusion among camp…
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Lenders poised to pounce on homeowners fighting foreclosure
As state and local governments grapple with allocating limited funds to the public health crisis, disaster relief efforts and struggling businesses, private equity funds and real estate investors are poised to gorge themselves on bargains not seen since the last time the economy imploded. “Once January comes, that’s when the carnage will come,” EasyKnock Inc.…
‘Democracy was a dirty word’: The oligarchization of the U.S.
Is the United States truly a democracy? To Camila Vergara, the modern signs and all forgotten historical facts point to no. Vergara is a postdoctoral research scholar at the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights at Columbia Law School. From a farmhouse in Los Ríos, Chile, where she grew up under…
Sunnyside camp removal prompts calls for additional sanctioned outdoor options
Jan. 29: The end of this story has been updated to reflect the recent attack and subsequent sweep near Laurelhurst park. On Tuesday, Jan. 19, Rapid Response Bio-Clean began a city-ordered removal of houseless residents from a camp around the outskirts of Sunnyside School Park in Southeast Portland. The removal came amid confusion among camp…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendors share their hopes for the next four years
On the morning of Jan. 20, Street Roots set up computer monitors to broadcast the inauguration of President Joe Biden in the front windows of our Old Town office. This way vendors and houseless neighbors could watch the historic event. Large speakers on the sidewalk provided audio. As people watched, we asked them about their…
Opinion
Opinion | In remembering the America of yesterday, we pursue the America of tomorrow
Like all of you, I am a knot of entangled emotions. On the one hand, I am strengthened by the orderly transition of power that we witnessed in Washington, D.C., at the inauguration; yet on the other hand, I remain deeply wounded by the staggering events in the weeks leading up to it. I want…
Kaia Sand | We should embrace ingenuity, not erase it
Scott placed the small ship by his window, light streaming through its sails. “We like to think that’s the ship that we get to sail through all this stuff in,” Scott said, explaining he found it discarded on the sidewalk — a “ground score.” A ground score, explained his wife, Barbie Weber, is “anything you…
