housing wages and provide benefits. This is a story of shared visions. It’s the story of carrying forward ... into shelters and eventually housing, a program called Project Turnkey. The Econo Lodge in which ... Greater Good Northwest now hosts its transitional housing program was one of those motels. In total, the ...
14 Jul 2021 - Kaia Sand
— the same maps of the greater Portland area with 37 regions outlined with a Sharpie that Street Roots ... including surveys on implementing services for Metro’s new supportive services bond; hygiene needs among ... unhoused people for the city; and soon, an evaluation of the Portland Street Response pilot among unhoused ...
7 Apr 2021 - Kaia Sand
Wendy and Jeremiah credit their strong relationship and bond with their enduring resilience Wendy ... the community, including the devastation of affordable housing, rendered many in the struggling ... daughter and a cousin in Oregon, and she wanted a new start. She landed in Portland, and soon after, she ...
14 Jun 2019 - Jessica Hamilton
House. Open. Love. Tell. The “love” display in the “Get It On Paper” exhibit at Portland’s Central ... social safety net, and the founding of Welcome Home Coalition, which worked to pass the Portland Housing ... Bond and the Metro Housing Bond. Advocacy is rooted deep with Street Roots, stronger because of the ...
12 Apr 2019 - Kaia Sand
male bond. When Aaron died, it was just like a piece of my son went with him.” Terra has been homeless ... Christmas, she put on a concert for me. She played me ‘House of the Rising Sun.’ I was so taken back. What ... newspaper is sold in Portland, Oregon, by people experiencing homelessness and/or extreme poverty as means ...
22 Mar 2019 - Pat Zimmer
Street Roots vendors talk about how they cope with illness For those who are housed, feeling the ... his body healed. “You’ll die eventually if you don’t get housing or get off the streets,” he said. ... got sick. “I had to sleep in the snow. It was freezing. Thankfully they had the Portland Rescue ...
22 Mar 2019 - Helen Hill
housing bond is a really good step in the right direction. That’s going to be the big one because they are ... neighborhood what they want before you start getting all of these development permits. We need housing around ... swarm the place.” Jason: “Probably unemployment. There are a lot things: unemployment, housing, taxes. ...
31 Aug 2018 - Eric Sweger
The Lullaby Project pairs new mothers with professional musicians to promote bond with infant For ... the project through Portland Homeless Family Solutions, the homeless shelter where she and her family ... have been staying since November. Portland Homeless Family Solutions is a nonprofit organization that ...
20 Apr 2018 - Helen Hill
On track to get housing, Mark meets his daily needs with money he earns selling Street Roots In ... so sweet,” he said. He bonded with many of them and still remembers words of wisdom from his ... from Redding to Portland in search of better work opportunities. Just before he left, however, his ...
6 Oct 2017 - Helen Hill
bonded as a painter so he can get more painting jobs. He recently finished an entire house for a Street ... has had diverse jobs from modeling for Nieman Marcus at 6 years old to painting houses at 18 and ... up here (to Portland) and started working right away,” Rahsaan said. “I just want to keep working. ...
22 Jun 2018 - Leonora Ko