Opinion
Kaia Sand | Central City Concern transformed a hotel into housing
The Comfort Inn sign is now wrapped in black plastic, but plenty of hotel amenities remain at River Haven, a housing program for people in early recovery run by Central City Concern. The hotel art remains, such as a lobby photograph of a kayak docked near the Steel Bridge. A sign that designates “guest laundry”…
Opinion | Abortion is an economic issue
The majority of patients seeking an abortion in the United States already have one or more children and are trying to provide those kids the best life they can. Three-quarters of abortion patients are poor or low-income, already living close to the edge. Sexuality is an innate instinct for survival of the species, and contraception…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | More stability means more time for creativity
Johnny Rottin is excited to share his joys and his successes with you. He wants to share how and why he was able, in one short year, to gain a job, housing and the opportunity to work on his art. You may have met Johnny at the Street Roots Open House at its new office,…
News
‘No pu**ies, no bedwetters’
An internal Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office complaint obtained by Street Roots offers one possible explanation for the secretive abbreviation on a sheriff’s office-specific challenge coin first reported on by Street Roots in April: No pu**ies, no bedwetters. The Professional Standards/Internal Affairs Unit Pre-Investigative Committee determined the complaint did not meet criteria for an investigation less than…
Trauma’s Long Reach: The Homicide of Ervin Jones
Editor's note: This story contains graphic descriptions of racism and police violence. From the depth of the pain in their voices, you’d think it happened yesterday. The night Portland Police entered the Jones' family home in Guild’s Lake, while everyone slept, without a warrant, and shot Ervin Jones in the back, killing the innocent man…
