Kuwait makes this new career a natural fit. Ricky moved to Portland in 2004 and has been a vendor with ... Street Roots for 19 years. “I met some vendors who were at Blanchet House, and they told me about Street ... “People were calling for me and helping me out, and eventually, housing came through.” Ricky finally found ...
13 Dec 2023 - Meg Eberle
torso. Chris propped his hands against the counter and swiveled his body. Robert was, indeed, pushing ... because Portland State University professor Coty Raven Morris has been holding choir practice. She’s ... at two recent house parties (these are fundraising parties hosted by supporters who bring friends ...
13 Dec 2023 - Kaia Sand
I have lived on the streets of Portland for over 10 years. Unlike many people, I did not have a bad ... are a penniless outsider. I did not use the showers available to homeless Portlanders. When I first ... landed on the Portland streets, many people had badly infected feet. Their feet were cracked and ...
22 Nov 2023 - Peter Salzmann
Homeless Portlanders, service providers prepare for Nov. 13 sleeping ban enforcement while the ... answers about what enforcement would look like. Portland City Council passed the so-called daytime camping ... — on the part of legal advocates, service providers, officials and homeless Portlanders. Mayor Ted ...
8 Nov 2023 - K. Rambo
Portland, Incumbent, Submitted answers Maxine Dexter (D), District 33 1. What do you believe is the main ... cause? The main driver of homelessness in Oregon is lack of affordable housing. We have failed to produce ... sufficient housing at all levels of income to sustain affordable rental as well as purchasing markets for ...
12 Oct 2022 - Aurora Biggers and Piper McDaniel and K. Rambo
bassist for local pop-punk band Edd Party, said. He was referring to Portland’s DIY music scene, which ... takes place in auto shops, houses, warehouses and bridge underpasses. The events, referred to as ... ‘renegades,’ underground shows, or just ‘shows,’ are evening performances by a handful of bands who ...
9 Aug 2023 - Miles Silvey
“Drag the House Up!,” a July 12 fundraiser at The Get Down in Southeast Portland. The event, which drew ... fiscal year 2023 as part of the Joint Office’s LGBTQIA2S+ Housing Forum. Portland: Neighbors Welcome, ... a volunteer-run nonprofit advocating for affordable housing in Portland, started organizing the drag show in ...
26 Jul 2023 - Ellen Clarke
related to the account, including several instances where the daily records of cash on hand were lower ... bidding process for its construction and purchase. “CIS uses the animals housed in the pole barn to ... Congressional hearing. The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples of the United States held ...
2 Aug 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
suffering from the deadly drug epidemic. “More research and data is needed before handing out crack pipes ... testimony supporting a harm reduction bill in the most recent legislative session, Oregon House Bill 2395, ... in a letter to the House Committee on Behavioral Health in January. Citing her role as a local ...
19 Jul 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
to help more Portlanders gain knowledge of fentanyl. This is the first of several columns I will ... have naloxone on hand, that their friends have naloxone on hand, making sure they are checking their ... overdose prevention sites is really important. Especially in our current housing crisis in the current ...
19 Jul 2023 - Kaia Sand