OPINION | Public education is a right in this country. Why not housing? What if people had a right to housing in the way that they have a right to a K-12 public education? That’s a question Andy Nelson, executive director of Impact NW, posed to me. Impact ...
26 Jan 2022 - Kaia Sand
In memory of longtime Street Roots elder Art Garcia, a column from the vaults Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her views. The work we do at Street Roots is built on the work of people who have come before us. A b ...
12 Jan 2022 - Art Garcia and Kaia Sand
OPINION | Pay attention to local government responses, homelessness in 2022 I hear a sense of despair from so many of you over the humanitarian crisis of homelessness. While many community members volunteer with community organizations and through mutual ...
5 Jan 2022 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Archbishop Desmond Tutu taught that we are ‘bound up with others in the bundle of life’ “ In our fragile and crowded world we can survive only together,” said Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died Dec. 25 at 90 in Cape Town, South Africa. The great ...
29 Dec 2021 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | The holidays are a hard time of the year for people on the streets He looks up, bright-eyed, thirty-something, holding his plate of biscuits and gravy in the photo. Daniel Campbell was a poet, a Street Roots vendor and an incredible helper to ot ...
22 Dec 2021 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Domicile Unknown report shows people on the streets die decades before their time For nearly a decade now, Street Roots has published the Domicile Unknown report with Multnomah County and the Multnomah County medical examiner. Named after the ca ...
15 Dec 2021 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Supported by Project Turnkey these shelters brough stability to those seeking safety The clear light of Umpqua Valley streamed through the Douglas firs and the cedar trees. This view surrounds people who seek to escape violence through motel-bas ...
8 Dec 2021 - Kaia Sand
Dan Newth was holding up a bundle of the holiday zines, but I didn’t expect him to also be managing the leash of an extremely cute dog. He explained to me that he was watching the dog, named Dendi, for his customers while they shopped in New Seasons, some ...
1 Dec 2021 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | In Nettie's new role she provides sales tips and support to other vendors Decked out in a crisp hoodie with a coach’s whistle draped around her neck, Nettie Johnson checks in on her vendor roster at our Old Town office. She chats with peo ...
24 Nov 2021 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | Foster care shuffle series investigates issues, looks to solutions This week culminates the five-part “Foster Care Shuffle” solutions journalism series. This series, deftly edited by K. Rambo and written by Libby Dowsett, continues Street Root ...
10 Nov 2021 - Kaia Sand