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Director’s Desk: Portland's housing crisis, today and tomorrow

A year-end roundup of what’s shaking on the homeless and housing front People ask Street Roots why we aren’t covering more of the housing crisis in the newspaper. It’s a simple answer for a complex problem: We pride ourselves on publishing original conten ...

23 Dec 2015 - Israel Bayer
Groundswell pushes housing issues to the forefront in Portland

It may be the first time in recent memory that affordable housing and homelessness will play a leading role in the 2016 election cycle. On one side of this issue is a business community fed up with homelessness. On the other side is a community filled wit ...

17 Sep 2015 - Israel Bayer
What will it take to end homelessness?

Portland, like many cities throughout the United States, finds itself at a crossroads. How do we collectively tackle the housing crisis and begin to really put the resources needed into ending homelessness? Anna Griffin’s series on homelessness in The Ore ...

18 Feb 2015 - Israel Bayer