If homelessness, housing and wages are any indicator of how much Black Lives Matter in Portland — then we are failing, badly. The latest 2015 Multnomah County Homeless Count was released in early June. If homelessness, housing and wages are any indicator ...
29 Jun 2015 - Israel Bayer
Neighborhood Partnerships and the Oregon Housing Alliance asked: What do you want to see? Last month we asked community members to share their vision. We asked: What does building Oregon’s future mean to you? What would change in your life, in your experi ...
1 Jun 2015 - Omar Carrillo
A simple wooden cross hangs around the neck of Jim Anderson, a tall and lanky Pete Seeger lookalike who is now 88. “I hope the Mexicans will win the Mexican American war on poverty,” he announces as we begin. It takes me a few minutes to catch on: his sen ...
18 Apr 2015 - Myrla Magness
There has been a lot of discussion about income inequality in our country lately — we are living in a time when wealth is concentrated among the richest Americans, and the gap between the richest and everyone else is the widest it’s been since the 1920’s. ...
1 Dec 2014 - Michael Buonocore
The last few months have seen a spree of really good news for Portland’s tech industry. From Intel’s $13.8 billion second quarter (up 8 percent from a year earlier), to Bain Capital taking a $230 million stake in online banking startup Simple, to the host ...
3 Sep 2014 - M. Nels Johnson
Last week, on my way home to grab a bite to eat before an event, I noticed 15 or so older women bedding down together in Old Town. Their presence stopped me in my tracks. One elderly woman, homeless for less than a year, only received $700 from Social Sec ...
1 May 2014 - Israel Bayer
Recently, there has been quite a buzz in the criminal justice reform community across the nation. Attorney General Eric Holder, who heads our nation’s Department of Justice, announced earlier this month that the DOJ will be taking steps to reform and tran ...
11 Sep 2013 - Cassandra Villaneuva
Street Roots editorial Oregon statutes are filled with preemptions, those law-of-the-land overrides on local government. They have their supporters and detractors, depending on what side of the argument you’re on, but in the best of matters they can be pr ...
13 Mar 2013 - Street Roots Staff
By Israel Bayer, Staff Writer Homelessness in our community and cities throughout the country has become the new normal. That’s a problem. Three decades ago, the federal government began slashing housing and mental health programs. The bleeding has never ...
25 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff