And the government must help, writes the executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless Donald Whitehead is executive director of National Coalition for the Homeless. “This is no time … to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.” — Dr. M ...
21 Jul 2021 - Donald Whitehead
OPINION | Unhoused people deserve to know how the new ordinance on camp sweeps will be applied. P ortland City Council last week unanimously passed an ordinance on homelessness put forward by Commissioner Dan Ryan. While the ordinance instructs the city t ...
7 Jul 2021 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Leo Rhodes reminds us that people’s needs vary: ‘You might not need it, but somebody else will’ “ I think it’s great,” Leo Rhodes told me of the range of camp villages the city and county governments are floating for Portland. “What I like about ...
9 Jun 2021 - Kaia Sand
Get this funding into the hands of those who provide direct social services Samm McCrary is a housing advocate who advocates with Residents Organizing for Change, Here Together, REACH and Central City Concern. The best time for legislators to act on behal ...
26 May 2021 - Samm McCrary
OPINION | How should Portland and Multnomah County funding be spent for what is, in fact, a diversity of needs? How could the city of Portland possibly sweep unhoused people when there’s nowhere to go? And about those places to go — where and what should ...
26 May 2021 - Kaia Sand
Episode 19: Oregon must extend the eviction moratorium, the Community Alliance Tenants director says On this episode of the Street Roots Podcast, Kim McCarty, the e xecutive director of the Community Alliance of Tenants, joins host DeVon Pouncey to discus ...
25 May 2021 - DeVon Pouncey
Episode 18: Several residents with a stake in the increased police presence discuss its impact on the West Coast On this episode of the Street Roots podcast, host DeVon Pouncey is joined by Lauren (Sisters of the Road), Mo (Defense Fund PDX), J-Mo (Defens ...
25 May 2021 - DeVon Pouncey
A Sunnyside resident shares her experience with outreach and hygiene support in the hopes it will inspire other Portlanders to do the same If you had told me back in December that I’d soon know all the homeless people in my neighborhood on a first-name ba ...
28 Apr 2021 - Hannah Wallace
WRAP Director Paul Boden discusses why it matters to pass the Right to Rest Act The Right to Rest Act was born on the streets. The Western Regional Advocacy Project — of which Street Roots was a founding member in 2005 — crafted it based on reports from ...
9 Apr 2021 - Kaia Sand
America needs to invest in housing infrastructure that provides all of us safety and stability Like the air we breathe and the food we eat, housing is a basic human need. But even before the pandemic hit, our housing system was already broken. We’ve seen ...
24 Mar 2021 - Brook Fadley