OPINION | When housed and unhoused neighbors gathered at a Portland park to listen to each other, new opportunities emerged The circle was big. Standing 6 feet apart, neighbors — at first mostly people who are housed, and slowly, more and more unhoused — ...
30 Dec 2020 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | The Street Roots Action Team's voter registration drive builds on efforts to broaden civic engagement They just keep at it. The day the Proud Boys attempted to disrupt the city, the Street Roots Action Team was undeterred and focused, out o ...
7 Oct 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR’S DESK | Street Roots is connecting impoverished people with cash assistance, stimulus checks and tax credits, but it’s not enough These days, I think about money a lot. Where is it, and how can it get into the pockets of poor folks? An antidote ...
15 May 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR’S DESK | As we confront this pandemic, we continue to look toward our best future There’s nothing incremental about this moment. At Street Roots, we’ve developed a theory of action: When we solve for one problem, we also solve for something else ...
27 Mar 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR'S DESK | Accustomed to getting the news out, they are becoming the media in a new way — by word of mouth Street Roots vendors are hitting the trails to deliver accurate information about COVID-19 to other unhoused people. Accustomed to getti ...
12 Mar 2020 - Kaia Sand