Last week, on my way home to grab a bite to eat before an event, I noticed 15 or so older women bedding down together in Old Town. Their presence stopped me in my tracks. One elderly woman, homeless for less than a year, only received $700 from Social Sec ...
1 May 2014 - Israel Bayer
Commissioner Dan Saltzman and his challenger Nicholas Caleb are running Portland Commissioner No. 3. Street Roots posed three questions to the candidates on housing and homelessness. Street Roots: Portland is experiencing an affordable housing crisis. The ...
1 May 2014 - Street Roots Staff
-Number of volunteer hours contributed to Portland Parks & Recreation in 2013: 475,324-Number of community and art centers in Portland Parks & Recreation as of 2013: 14-Number of restroom buildings operated by Portland Parks & Recreation as of ...
3 May 2014 - Street Roots Staff
Oregon has seen an estimated 35 anti-gay ballot measures in recent history, and those keeping count say that’s likely more than any other state in the country. Oregon is now staring down No. 36. The Friends of Religious Freedom has filed for yet another a ...
6 May 2014 - George T. Nicola
This month saw the passing of one of Portland’s greatest. Former City Commissioner Charles Jordan passed away at the beginning of April at the age of 77. Jordan was a city commissioner for 10 years and later directed the city’s Park and Recreation Bureau ...
6 May 2014 - M. Nels Johnson
Big news last week put Oregon at the forefront of a national movement to disentangle local law enforcement agencies from the harmful practices of federal immigration enforcement, throwing a wrench in the ongoing, devastating deportation dragnet. Sheriff ...
6 May 2014 - Becky Straus
Before we sat down at the café around the corner from the Street Roots office, I asked Robert how he was doing. “Another day in paradise,” he said, without a hint of the irony or bitterness that usually colors that response. He has a friendly and open way ...
7 May 2014 - Sam Bouman
It’s 2008, and the recession has settled upon Oregon. Unemployment skyrockets, the housing market takes a dive, and families are losing their homes and livelihoods. Faced with rising numbers of people falling into poverty and needing assistance, Oregon re ...
7 May 2014 - Joanne Zuhl
Over the course of their careers Portland filmmakers Matt Zodrow and Tracy MacDonald have travelled the country learning the histories and stories of Americans, but for their latest project, Whitelandia, the Emmy-award winning husband and wife team have t ...
8 May 2014 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Born and raised in Northeast Portland, Street Roots vendor George Mayes has been an eyewitness to the many changes Portland has undergone in the past few decades. One of seven children of a longshoreman father from Texas and a railroad worker mother from ...
8 May 2014 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot