The program, similar to a universal basic income, is targeted to low-income residents As a coalition of city leaders around the U.S. gathers to support a guaranteed income, various communities are evaluating how it might work in their hometowns. A guarant ...
30 Nov 2020 - Annemarie Cuccia
A prisoner at Oregon State Penitentiary shares his experience in isolation after being tested for the virus Reprinted with permission from All Rise magazine. I sat on the top bunk of my 8-by-10 cell. As a 62-year-old man, I suffered from heart disease, an ...
29 Nov 2020 - Jimmie Cohron
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
Episode 13: The Street Roots correspondent discusses his reporting on builders’ influence on state policy, GoFundMe and more On this episode, Street Roots correspondent Chris May joined host DeVon Pouncey to discuss his recent coverage on homebuilder lobb ...
20 Nov 2020 - DeVon Pouncey
National housing advocate Diane Yentel talks to street papers about today’s eviction and housing crisis Diane Yentel is the president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, a membership organization dedicated solely to achieving socially ju ...
26 Oct 2020 - Israel Bayer
In 2007, a flash flood ripped through Kathryn McKelvey’s home in a rural Oregon town, leaving her family homeless. As fires now consume the West, her story shows how the climate crisis is throwing families into poverty and homelessness. The increasing inf ...
21 Sep 2020 - Kathryn McKelvey
As Americans ready themselves for the November presidential election, housing intersects with a number of key issues, from racial justice to the economy We are facing a new stage in our decades-long housing crisis. Over the past few weeks, the president ...
20 Sep 2020 - Glenn Harris and Michael McAfee and Dorian Warren
Some houseless campers remained in Forest Park despite thick smoke and fire risk this past week Under a blanket of sickly-colored smoke billowing overhead, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Sept. 10 ordered the closure of all city parks, citing the risk of fi ...
19 Sep 2020 - Henry Latourett...
As COVID-19 keeps some folks at home, grocery delivery and pickup should be available to people who receive food benefits I’ve got a dilemma shared by thousands of poor, senior and disabled Oregonians. Like many Oregonians with a disability, I receive SNA ...
18 Sep 2020 - Michael Hopcroft
We continue to break record temperatures and hurtle toward disaster, but there have been some notable victories, too The water that runs through the canals of Venice is clear, clearer than it has been in decades. It apparently just needed a vacation from ...
17 Sep 2020 - Tom Henderson