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AYCO faces displacement, worries about community impact

Trinity Broadcasting site rejected by the Portland Housing Bureau The Portland Housing Bureau’s (PHB) ... Portland Housing Bureau released an open solicitation for affordable housing proposals. The solicitation ... selected through the competitive process led by the Portland Housing Bureau, which received five total ...

10 Nov 2021 - Aurora Biggers
Art exhibit imagines what can replace Oregon’s toppled monuments

monuments and memorials? In Portland, the answer has almost always been wealthy, white individuals. For ... newspaper. In 2020, demonstrators toppled 11 statues in Portland and Eugene. Out of those 11 statues, only ... said Mack McFarland, an art curator in Portland. “Those were all donations to the city, mostly by ...

29 Sep 2021 - Karly Quadros
A pilot program in Iowa produces encouraging results for foster kids

exposure to methamphetamine. Owens said the kids were well-bonded to each other, and he knew if he removed ... mother’s ex-husband, the father of six of the children, should move into the house to help. “We weren’t ... still used in some form. Judges conducted a similar pilot in Portland, Omaha, Nebraska and Santa Cruz, ...

27 Oct 2021 - Libby Dowsett
Kaia Sand | Five Street Roots ambassadors land jobs at Greater Good Northwest

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
Kaia Sand | Where, exactly, can unhoused people camp under Portland’s new policy?

director of Street Roots. This column represents her views. Ryan’s policy director, Mark Bond, brought ... policies and court decisions. Those include the Shelter to Housing Continuum the City Council passed in the ... policy, of course, isn’t written that way — in fact, Bond, of Ryan’s office, made clear that ...

7 Jul 2021 - Kaia Sand
Portland has laid out plans for new shelters, but numbers and locations remain elusive

shelters will open remains unclear. On May 28, during a meeting of A Home For Everyone, Portland City ... September. Ryan’s statements on the proposal noted that it’s possible because of the Shelter to Housing ... formally adopted, real estate developer Homer Williams announced plans to build a housing community of 50 ...

9 Jun 2021 - Christen McCurdy
Lakayana Drury | ‘The problem is police agencies, not Black people’

OPINION | Reflecting on the Derek Chauvin trial, the Word Is Bond executive director says that if ... director at Word Is Bond. I consider myself a Black optimist. But perhaps I am not the unicorn I think ... brutalize our people for decades. What we need are the resources — economic, educational, housing and family ...

20 Apr 2021 - Lakayana Drury
Kaia Sand | Empathy is built through Street Roots’ journalism and vendors’ prose

who survive deprivations right before our eyes and the many more we can’t see, who are housing ... a ramshackle house sunk into the wetlands that edged a highway, The Washington Post came to my doorstep, and ... his readers than those who suffered, but because he formed strong bonds, spoke Arabic and suffered the ...

12 May 2021 - Kaia Sand
Dan Ryan: ‘We have to bust out of those silos’ to solve our housing crisis

housing bonds have passed. There is, like never before in Portland, more focus on rental assistance, and ... with two housing bonds passed, and also now the Here Together Measure that was passed last spring. So ... issue? Ryan: We actually have a lot of proposals that we’ve passed, a couple housing bonds, and we’re ...

10 Feb 2021 - Joe Opaleski
Summer Reads 2021: Street Roots’ book picks

policing to housing shortages — could hardly be higher, McGhee tackles the question hovering in the minds ... tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of ... playground.” – Heather Stadick, Street Roots board treasurer From Hay House Inc.: Becoming Supernatural ...

23 Jun 2021 - Street Roots