Resources rather than jail is the goal of a future program to address homeless people who commit low-level crimes In an effort to stop the revolving door of homeless repeat offenders through Multnomah County’s criminal court system, local government agenc ...
2 May 2016 - Emily Green
High school student Nadya Okamoto formed Camions of Care to provide feminine hygiene products to women on the streets Menstruals, monthlies, menses, periods, “that time of the month”: Whatever you want to call it, menstruation is a natural and regular par ...
20 Feb 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
A lot people in the housing community, for better or worse, are worked up over Anna Griffin’s ongoing series on homelessness in The Oregonian. Get used to it. A new story will come out every Friday for the next six weeks. Wait, does this mean I’m promotin ...
23 Jan 2015 - Israel Bayer
A new report released last week by the City Club of Portland outlines the challenges and opportunities our community faces concerning homelessness and health care reform. The report found what many advocates have argued for years, that one of the greatest ...
9 Jan 2015 - SR editorial board
In this edition, Colleen Sinsky shines a light on an element of homelessness few people outside of the field truly understand. That being homeless often means being alone, in the most extreme sense under the most extreme conditions. It becomes tangible fo ...
18 Aug 2014 - SR editorial board
My heart breaks each time I am listed as the sole “emergency contact” above a blank “next of kin” line on an apartment application. It is sadly not uncommon for people who have been homeless to lack even that basic human need: a reliable person to call wh ...
16 Aug 2014 - Colleen Sinsky
A good friend of mine told me last week that he had read that Utah is ending homelessness. He read it all over the Internet. Oh boy, I thought to myself. After reading more and talking to advocates around the country, it was clear that the public was bein ...
28 Feb 2014 - Israel Bayer
This week on the homeless front... Oct. 28, 2008 From Street Roots: Paul Boden asks when a family falls- does anyone hear them? Taking down the system: Rules for Radicals in the digital era. Around the horn: Supporters rally to save Nashville tent city fo ...
29 Oct 2008 - Street Roots
Battle over how to define homeless heats up on the hill September 16, 2008 The New York Times reports on the debate over how we as a nation define homelessness. Why does defining homelessness matter? The City of Portland claimed to have reduced homelessne ...
16 Sep 2008 - Street Roots