A bill in the Oregon Legislature calls for counting how many people die homeless, with a housing status of 'domicile unknown' Nearly a decade after Multnomah County launched Oregon’s first and only effort to count homeless deaths, state lawmaker ...
7 Apr 2021 - Joanne Zuhl
Many people experiencing homelessness are older than 55 and have underlying illnesses At a time when health care providers are accelerating mass vaccinations to get the COVID-19 vaccines into as many arms as possible, others are concerned that approach wo ...
20 Jan 2021 - Joanne Zuhl
As sit-down feasts are substituted with takeout boxes, many of Portland’s unhoused residents will be denied an important holiday tradition: human connection From birthdays to graduations and even to break-ups, every major event has been squeezed into the ...
25 Nov 2020 - Emma Nathanson and Joanne Zuhl
The Housing First pioneer explains why the policy of housing a person before attempting to fix their underlying issues works best In the late 1980s and early ’90s, on both ends of the country, the concept of Housing First was born. In 1988, a Los Angeles ...
11 Nov 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
Even if addiction isn’t what puts people on the streets, it’s often what keeps them there Fast, cheap and ubiquitous, heroin is engineered for the streets. That’s where Saphire Harris lived, homeless, with her brother and mother. Harris started using as a ...
4 Nov 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
Affordable housing and support services fall far short of demand. And, as a surge of evictions looms, the worst is yet to come. There are fewer than a dozen postal addresses along the short stretch of 97th Avenue, between Burnside and Glisan streets, but ...
28 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
From redlining to the Reagan administration to the present-day crisis, the government has spent decades shifting the burden to the private sector Housing is political, and public housing is political dynamite. The truly public buildings of the past have g ...
28 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
The White House’s attitudes toward homelessness could grow the population it wishes to sweep away As of this writing, the future of the Trump administration is unknown. What comes next may be the end of a contentious legacy of a single-term president or a ...
21 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
A series of in-depth articles examining national perspectives around America’s growing housing and homeless crisis streetroots.org/FindingHome Print ...
21 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
The incumbent says he’s frustrated with seemingly apathetic attitudes toward people living in unsanitary conditions on our streets Among Portland’s last four mayors, Ted Wheeler is the first to seek re-election. It’s a tough job. Portland’s mayor often ge ...
14 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl and Emily Green and Jessica Pollard