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Kaia Sand | Shine a spotlight on street papers

Europe, with a handful in Asia and South America. Big Issue South Africa is the only INSP member paper on ... services for our region — the Rose City Resource in the Portland metro area and the Emerald City Resource ... papers.) Portland will host the International Street Paper Network Summit next year in September 2025. ...

4 Sep 2024 - Kaia Sand
Land Back Festival celebrates culture, art with a message

Third annual Indigenous-led event aims to unify Portland’s Indigenous communities The Land Back ... off on its own,” Stubits said. “The programming has wanted to grow each year, but Portland Parks ... and learn. So they passed on ownership to my company.” Portland Parks Foundation, or PPF, transferring ...

4 Sep 2024 - Kimberly Cortez
Grants Pass scrambles to meet humanitarian standards at new outdoor homeless sites

speaker of the house when the Legislature passed the law in 2021, and she said the intent was to codify, ... Street Roots to Oregon Housing and Community Services, or OHCS, the agency responsible for housing ... is after that,” Ogier said. “Is it to get these people back into housing, or is it to be cruel? ...

30 Aug 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Kaia Sand | Community safety is about supporting community, not fracturing it

Roots vendors conducted a survey with Portland State University’s Homelessness Research & Action ... businesses in the neighborhood. While it’s good that Portland Street Response is also named in the Old Town ... One needs to call Portland Street Response in a crisis and know they will rapidly arrive. That ...

28 Aug 2024 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | The other side of the medal

Ministry of Housing estimates about 100,000 people are homeless in Paris and the surrounding region, about ... removing them from the sight line of Olympic sightseers for the short term without long-term housing or ... still lived homeless in this area, discreetly behind an edge of laurels where Chatelain's hand ...

14 Aug 2024 - Kaia Sand
Artist and novelist Willy Vlautin’s on his new book, rock’n’roll lifers and lost American dreams

being a really affordable working-class city. When I first moved to Portland, I bought a house, and ... a pretty high-end, pretty cool job, you probably can't afford to buy a house in Southeast Portland, or ... life in many characters. Originally from Nevada, Vlautin has lived in Portland since the ‘90s. He was ...

31 Jul 2024 - Jason Cohen
City contractors post sweep notifications for homeless encampments amid heat wave

a series of setbacks for homeless Portlanders trying to seek stable housing and employment. Paperwork and ... continued posting sweep notifications on homeless encampments throughout emergency As Portland experienced ... near-triple-digit heat killed at least six Multnomah County residents of undetermined housing statuses. Rapid ...

24 Jul 2024 - Kimberly Cortez
Street Roots vendor profile | Widening his world

simple words. Easy to say, yet difficult to live by when life deals a bad hand. To Street Roots vendor ... With the help of Transition Projects, he ultimately signed up for housing. “I stayed at the Bud Clark ... Commons for four months, going through their program,” Vern said. “Then they gave me a housing voucher. ...

24 Jul 2024 - Dieter Loibner
Libraries offer some of the few remaining truly public places

Kimberly said. "We also hand out naloxone and Narcan, especially with what's been going on with ... a community of about 2,240 people some 55 miles southwest of Portland. Her small library started a food pantry ... have housing. They come to the library every day. They're spending time here. They're using ...

3 Jul 2024 - Tom Henderson
Letter from the editor | We won’t ‘BS’ you about homelessness

seeking to arrest, fine and jail homeless Portlanders. This is old hat for service providers, experts and ... homeless Portlanders. “It's focusing on the wrong thing. It's not going to end homelessness.” ... housing applications. Again, this isn’t an opinion. It’s a fact and one that has been studied and proven ...

3 Jul 2024 - K. Rambo