Get this funding into the hands of those who provide direct social services Samm McCrary is a housing advocate who advocates with Residents Organizing for Change, Here Together, REACH and Central City Concern. The best time for legislators to act on behal ...
26 May 2021 - Samm McCrary
OPINION | How should Portland and Multnomah County funding be spent for what is, in fact, a diversity of needs? How could the city of Portland possibly sweep unhoused people when there’s nowhere to go? And about those places to go — where and what should ...
26 May 2021 - Kaia Sand
Episode 19: Oregon must extend the eviction moratorium, the Community Alliance Tenants director says On this episode of the Street Roots Podcast, Kim McCarty, the e xecutive director of the Community Alliance of Tenants, joins host DeVon Pouncey to discus ...
25 May 2021 - DeVon Pouncey
Episode 18: Several residents with a stake in the increased police presence discuss its impact on the West Coast On this episode of the Street Roots podcast, host DeVon Pouncey is joined by Lauren (Sisters of the Road), Mo (Defense Fund PDX), J-Mo (Defens ...
25 May 2021 - DeVon Pouncey
She came to Portland inspired to help the houseless community, and the Red House propelled her into activism Raven Ellaine came out West in an effort to provide mutual aid, which, as she describes it, is a way people come together using their resources or ...
19 May 2021 - Ellena Rosenthal
Critics say the ordinance, which makes unauthorized camping a misdemeanor, criminalizes homelessness while proponents say it’s necessary for community safety The Bear Creek Greenway, a 20-mile paved trail connecting several towns in Southern Oregon, has b ...
28 Apr 2021 - Hanna Merzbach
A Sunnyside resident shares her experience with outreach and hygiene support in the hopes it will inspire other Portlanders to do the same If you had told me back in December that I’d soon know all the homeless people in my neighborhood on a first-name ba ...
28 Apr 2021 - Hannah Wallace
WRAP Director Paul Boden discusses why it matters to pass the Right to Rest Act The Right to Rest Act was born on the streets. The Western Regional Advocacy Project — of which Street Roots was a founding member in 2005 — crafted it based on reports from ...
9 Apr 2021 - Kaia Sand
A bill in the Oregon Legislature calls for counting how many people die homeless, with a housing status of 'domicile unknown' Nearly a decade after Multnomah County launched Oregon’s first and only effort to count homeless deaths, state lawmaker ...
7 Apr 2021 - Joanne Zuhl
Seven projects have been funded so far under Project Turnkey, which converts hotels and motels into emergency shelter or affordable housing In March, nearly 100 people displaced by the Holiday Farm Fire filed into the rooms of a building formerly known as ...
7 Apr 2021 - Hanna Merzbach