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Director's Desk: Legislature makes housing gains, but sweeps still plague homeless

An emphasis on sweeps is an emphasis on making life more difficult for our neighbors who live outside Mark jotted a letter on a sheet of amber-green colored paper that he tucked into a Street Roots newspaper. He did this over and over, writing letters to ...

9 Mar 2018 - Kaia Sand
Director’s Desk: Portland’s homeless sweeps echo of WWII-era incarceration

Those who have the least are being displaced and forced to downsize – to discard the possessions they hold dear “I can only carry so many backpacks on my back at the same time with my precious items,” Barbara told me. She was tired, upset, exhausted. Stan ...

16 Feb 2018 - Kaia Sand