Walking on an incline Hacienda CDC battles for supportive housing in Northeast Portland By Joanne Zuhl Staff writer It is not difficult to spot Hacienda CDC-supported housing. It is by design the most colorful housing in the Cully neighborhood — now 400 u ...
1 May 2009 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Tomorrow is May Day and Street Roots is marking the day and with a package of stories reflecting on the immigrant labor experience during these remarkable times. It’s the perfect read before or after the march, or on Saturday morning over co ...
30 Apr 2009 - Street Roots
It's a great day for street papers Thing 1: The New York Times reports on the growing interest in street papers nationwide, including Street Roots, Real Change in Seattle and Street Sense in Washington, D.C. Street Roots vendor Kevin Bynum and Managi ...
13 Apr 2009 - Street Roots
Street Roots talks preserving minority affordable housing From the March 20 edition of Street Roots. The housing economic forces that affect North and Northeast Portland today are rooted in changes that began decades ago. In the late 1980s, the neighborho ...
1 Apr 2009 - Street Roots
Book Smarts Grassroots democracy comes by our own hands “Hegemonic Love Potion,” by Jules Boykoff. Factory School, Queens, NY, 2009 103 pages. By Jay Thiemeyer Contributing writer At a recent reading, Jules Boykoff, anarchist scholar and activist with Agi ...
23 Mar 2009 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Smile and the whole world smiles with you! Give it a try, starting with your neighborhood vendor who is always happy to see you. The new paper comes out tomorrow, the first day of spring, and a perfect way celebrate is to pick up your copy h ...
19 Mar 2009 - Street Roots
Are we stimulated yet? We know the stakes are big- nearly $800 billion in stimulus money, more than $80 million headed to Oregon for housing and community services alone, just over $4 million pledged to Portland for homelessness prevention, with potential ...
19 Mar 2009 - Street Roots
Forum for the stimulus challenged Feeling like the only one in the room who doesn't fully understand the bazillion dollar stimulus package? Then take advantage of Oregon ON's Portland Public Forum, noon to 1:30 p.m., March 19 at New Genesis Comm ...
16 Mar 2009 - Street Roots
Oregon gets a C for its homeless children The National Center on Family Homelessness ranks Oregon 26th- right in the middle of the pack- out of all the states for its extent and well-being of homeless children. Overall, the Center's report "Ame ...
10 Mar 2009 - Street Roots
Book Smarts It's time to get your summer reading list in order, and Street Roots has a few picks for you to consider. So we're starting Book Smarts- a bi-weekly profile of some of the hot options for you this summer. Summer, of course, being a s ...
9 Mar 2009 - Street Roots