We want our 30% set aside, already! Sisters Of The Road, Street Roots, Downtown Chapel, Community Alliance of Tenants, and the Western Regional Advocacy Project hosted a vigil late this afternoon on the site of the North Macadam development, block 33, to ...
31 Mar 2010 - Street Roots
Downtown "affordable" housing inventory continues to descend "The city of Portland, nonprofit housing developers and the Housing Authority of Portland deserve praise for slowing the rate of losing units downtown, but that's not enough ...
23 Mar 2010 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! How much difference can one little newspaper make in your life? The answer lies in the hands of your friendly neighborhood vendor, who will be cradling the latest edition of Street Roots starting at 9 a.m. Friday. Here’s what your eyes will ...
4 Mar 2010 - Street Roots
Together, we forge a movement By Israel Bayer Street Roots Executive Director Street Roots, along with allies at Sisters Of The Road and Community Alliance of Tenants, took a monumental road trip to San Francisco for the Western Regional Advocacy Project’ ...
26 Jan 2010 - Street Roots
Cries of solidarity leave this marcher speechless By Julie McCurdy Contributing Writer I was asked the other day by a very well-intentioned woman about the “face” of homelessness. She asked if I could describe a “typical” homeless person. I looked at her ...
25 Jan 2010 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Winter has definitely arrived, if not officially, than at least in spirit. But in all kinds of weather you can find your local neighborhood vendor with the newest edition of Street Roots, out Friday morning. Check out the latest and greatest ...
10 Dec 2009 - Street Roots
West Coast stands together to tackle roots of homelessness By Israel Bayer Executive Director, Street Roots The Western Regional Advocacy Project or WRAP (of which both Street Roots and Sisters Of The Road are founding members) is working to build a movem ...
10 Dec 2009 - Street Roots
Measure 66 & 67 failure would mean heavy cuts in affordable housing Bad news over the weekend on the affordable housing front. First, yesterday the Oregonian reported that two affordable housing projects in South Waterfront have been scrapped. This co ...
7 Dec 2009 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Even in difficult times, there’s so much to give thanks for — including the newest edition of Street Roots and your friendly neighborhood vendor who is working, rain or shine, to bring you the news. Here’s what’s in the new edition, hitting ...
25 Nov 2009 - Street Roots
Loss of low-cost housing routing poor from downtown Affordable housing for Portland’s poorest residents has declined significantly in the city center, even as more high-end housing increased. According to the Central City Housing Inventory, released in Ju ...
1 Sep 2009 - Street Roots