Access Denied | Sweeping Portlanders without viable alternatives isn’t a plan Imagine that you’re eating cookies in the kitchen. No plate, no napkin. Standing over the counter, a dusting of crumbs forms under you. Using one hand, you collect them and form ...
9 Nov 2022 - Hanna Brooks Olsen
OPINION | Portland City Council’s camping-ban vote ignores concerns of unhoused Portlanders, undermines progress Like a car wrenching into a U-turn on a slick and treacherous road, Portland City Council dangerously pivoted our city when it voted to ban un ...
7 Nov 2022 - Kaia Sand
Director’s Desk | These deaths are the horrible outcome of inequitable access to housing and other healthcare necessities The Little Match Girl had no good options. She contended with poverty and freezing cold, Hans Christian Andersen writes in his 19th-c ...
24 Aug 2022 - Kaia Sand
A science fiction story about an invisible man speaks to the experiences of homeless Portlanders, who often only wish for people to recognize their humanity When I was homeless here in Portland, I would save enough money to get a room for the night. I ...
27 Jul 2022 - Leo Rhodes
Street Roots maintains an internal set of criteria and considerations regarding interview practices for unhoused Portlanders. Compassion and consent lead the way. Street Roots often receives praise from readers for including the triumphs, concerns and exp ...
6 Jul 2022 - SR editorial board
Opinion | Stable housing is vital, but remains underfunded compared to policing Imagine a city in which some people have plenty, and some barely have anything at all. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her views. T ...
29 Jun 2022 - Kaia Sand
Bronwyn Jones Carver has been homeless since a landlord tried to raise her rent by nearly 100% in 2015. Since then, she's learned to adapt and reach for new heights. My name is Bronwyn Jones Carver. I have been homeless for seven years this June. At ...
22 Jun 2022 - Bronwyn Carver
Opinion | Portland should build a local Project Turnkey Program The Comfort Inn sign is now wrapped in black plastic, but plenty of hotel amenities remain at River Haven, a housing program for people in early recovery run by Central City Concern. The hote ...
15 Jun 2022 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | On the verge of investments in shelter, housing and services, city sweeps only serve to impede improvement Construction fences angled in odd directions shape the phantom of what was a smattering of tents on Northwest Second Avenue and Couch Stre ...
8 Jun 2022 - Kaia Sand
Dear community, On Monday, April 18, just before 5 a.m. on Northeast 33rd Avenue in Portland, an explosive device was thrown at a parked motorhome where a woman was sleeping inside. The explosion was so strong, it blew out the front windshield and engulfe ...
1 Jun 2022 - Eileen Hager