Housing veterans, local numbers fall short By Robert Britt, Staff Writer When Army veteran Mark Townsend left the military service in the early ’70s, a decades-long battle with substance abuse and homelessness was just beginning. Addiction marred Townsend ...
14 Aug 2012 - Street Roots
Northwest Pilot Project sponsors local artists exhibit On Thursday, May 5, the Artreach Gallery will host a group show, sponsored by Northwest Pilot Project’s Art in the Lobby program, featuring work by several artists, including Street Roots volunteer M ...
4 May 2011 - Street Roots
In my darkest hours, there were many who shined a light by Sam Al-Jondi, Contributing Writer I am not writing this article to be vindictive or angry, but rather trying to find a good solution to one of our social problems: homelessness. I recently visited ...
15 Mar 2011 - Street Roots
Times up at the West with less than a month left to find housing [caption id="attachment_4329" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="West Hotel on NW 6th between Davis and Couch"] [/caption] By Amanda Waldroupe, St ...
17 Nov 2010 - Street Roots
Downtown "affordable" housing inventory continues to descend "The city of Portland, nonprofit housing developers and the Housing Authority of Portland deserve praise for slowing the rate of losing units downtown, but that's not enough ...
23 Mar 2010 - Street Roots
When is new housing not new? When it's reprogrammed From the Dec. 12 special affordable housing edition, "In need of a new deal." Portland's efforts to build a net gain of affordable housing for its lowest income residents have failed ...
24 Dec 2008 - Street Roots