The Hygiene Hub, under the Morrison Bridge, offers toilets, wind and solar showers, information and other resources A cluster of small, bright blue buildings has recently bloomed beneath the Morrison Bridge on the east side of Martin Luther King Jr. Boule ...
16 Dec 2020 - Helen Hill
‘We can find people like nobody’s business,’ says the founder of the nonprofit, which has celebrated more than 300 reunions across the United States “Everyone is someone’s somebody.” That’s the motto of Miracle Messages, a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit ...
30 Mar 2020 - Helen Hill
That homeless people are dangerous is a misconception, Street Roots vendors say. And for some on the streets, it’s housed people who are feared. In a recent kickoff fundraiser for the Bybee Lakes Hope Center, a recovery program proposed for the never-used ...
24 Jan 2020 - Helen Hill
The event, on the longest night of the year, will provide a space for mourning and challenge people to help build a just community On Saturday, Dec. 21, the sun will shine for a moment directly on the Tropic of Capricorn, and the North Pole will be aimed ...
20 Dec 2019 - Helen Hill
‘It kind of lights up the whole city. But just for the homeless people.’ Early Friday morning, April 19, the sidewalk outside Street Roots was alive with talk of the gleaming full moon the night before. Some vendors were enchanted and left their rooms, te ...
26 Apr 2019 - Helen Hill
Street Roots vendors talk about how they’re ‘spending a hell of a lot of time' Waiting in line sucks. We’ve all had to do it, and we will again. It’s exasperating and humbling, and it robs us of a precious, finite commodity: time. But when you are li ...
12 Apr 2019 - Helen Hill
A periodic column about the parts of homelessness most people don’t talk about There are many aggravations and indignities people living on the streets endure, especially in the winter months. One persistent hazard is insect parasites, specifically body a ...
8 Feb 2019 - Helen Hill
Five Street Roots vendors talk about life on the streets In the 2017 Multnomah County Point In Time homeless count, 1,355 adult women were identified as homeless, making up 36 percent of the total homeless population. This was up more than 16 percent from ...
7 Dec 2018 - Helen Hill
The revolutionary Portland architect talks to Street Roots about the impact of the village mentality America is short some 7 million affordable apartments for those living in poverty, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s 2018 report. W ...
9 Nov 2018 - Helen Hill
The Maybelle Community Singers will lend their voice to a special appearance with the Oregon Symphony at Portland’s Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall Thank you. Thank you for your patience Trekking from office to office. Thank you.” Sixty voices si ...
11 May 2018 - Helen Hill