An increasing number of older Oregonians end up on the streets while local and state initiatives seek to mend a faltering safety net The intersection of poverty and aging is a precarious place. This is the liminal space where homelessness and serious heal ...
3 Jan 2024 - Ellen Clarke
A bill to give homeless people the right to be left alone fails to move through OR House Editor's note: This is an updated version of a story originally published in the April 26 print edition of Street Roots. O vid Neal III was 6-foot-4 with chisele ...
3 May 2023 - Tom Henderson
A resignation letter said the recently passed plan to ban unsanctioned encampments and construct mass camps will lead to 'irreparable trauma and unnecessary deaths' In another chapter of the city of Portland’s protracted struggle to address home ...
2 Dec 2022 - Piper McDaniel and K. Rambo
Nearly 40% of all Oregonians over 65 say they are at risk of losing their homes Nancie Carlson got a notice to vacate her apartment in Klamath Falls, where she lived for the past 10 years, in December. When she found out, she was shocked. She didn’t sleep ...
16 Mar 2022 - Piper McDaniel