The two buildings, which will provide housing for communities of color, will be named after local Black artists Housing, by Harvey Rice’s standards, is the foundation to a strong community. “You have to have a roof over your head and be stable in order to ...
11 Nov 2020 - Sarah Hansell
After a four-month closure, the Salvation Army Female Emergency Shelter opens its renovated facility with a bevy of new programs After four months of being closed, the Salvation Army Female Emergency Shelter, an institution in Portland since 1999, reopene ...
20 Dec 2019 - Sarah Hansell
The nonprofit Homeless Youth Law Clinic assists with legal issues that go far beyond housing When Demetris Taylor-Brown, at age 21, learned his girlfriend was pregnant, he made some big decisions. He turned down his scholarship to Grambling State Universi ...
24 May 2019 - Sarah Hansell
Leanne Serbulo, Portland State University housing and segregation researcher, talks to Street Roots about the landmark legislation Fifty years ago, a national advisory body known as the Kerner Commission released its landmark report on the causes behind t ...
20 Apr 2018 - Sarah Hansell
Beaverton’s Nina Fekaris talks about the complicated overlap of housing, health care and education in Oregon’s rural communities According to Oregon Health & Science University’s Office of Rural Health, Oregon has 53 service areas in 24 counties where ...
19 Jan 2018 - Sarah Hansell