Street Roots asked candidates running in Districts 1-4 their plans to address housing and homelessness Street Roots sent candidates in the May 21 Oregon Primary the same three questions about homelessness and housing in the state. Street Roots sent the qu ...
1 May 2024 - K. Rambo and Tom Henderson
Candidates from Districts 33, 46, and 48 share their thoughts on addressing housing and homelessness in the state Oregon House District 33 Brian Duty (D), Oregon House District 33 (Downtown, NW Portland) Brian Duty is a physician at Oregon Health & Sc ...
1 May 2024 - Tom Henderson
Street Roots asked candidates running in contested U.S. Congress primaries in and around Portland their plans to address housing and homelessness Click the links to view Street Roots' coverage of Multnomah County Commissioners, Oregon Legislature and ...
1 May 2024 - Tom Henderson
The Oregon Legislature wrapped up its even-year short session after approving millions of dollars to build new housing and provide more shelter beds and other services for people experiencing unsheltered homelessness Robert Day has given up on ever living ...
3 Apr 2024 - Tom Henderson
Oregon lawmakers reconvene Feb. 5 for a 35-day short session with an agenda including addressing housing, homelessness, substance use issues and the upcoming surplus tax kicker Jean Hendron kissed Ricky Bayse's forehead Nov. 14 and said goodbye. Bays ...
31 Jan 2024 - Tom Henderson
Church at the Park wishes to build a shelter in Dallas for its unhoused community members, but many local residents fiercely oppose the idea Organizers at the Church at the Park in Salem want to build a shelter 15 miles west of the Willamette River in the ...
18 Oct 2023 - Tom Henderson
Legislative session ends with a mixed bag on housing issues as human toll continues The 2023 Oregon Legislature convened Jan. 17. Melisa Blake died from hypothermia four days later in a downtown Salem parking lot. Legislators came to Salem with an energet ...
12 Jul 2023 - Tom Henderson
Despite bumps in the road, Project Turnkey seeks to turn more hotels into shelters David Boone, a 72-year-old Salem man, usually sleeps on the ground, but for one night, he slept in a palace. It had an actual bed with a mattress, box spring and clean shee ...
31 May 2023 - Tom Henderson
An urgent need for supportive housing voiced in the Legislature, but lawmakers continue broad focus on housing supply Jean Hendron had a lot to say about a bill to allow commercial spaces to be used as residential housing, but she chose not to use words. ...
17 May 2023 - Tom Henderson
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