Opinion | The order lacks constructive measures. Where are people expected to go? Mayor Ted Wheeler invoked an emergency declaration to prohibit people from living along many major streets where people camp often seeking visibility as a form of safety. It ...
9 Feb 2022 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Knowledge from the unhoused provides critical insight The Street Roots ambassadors grew animated discussing the topic of ranked-choice voting. They considered how this method of voting could motivate people to vote because they might feel like t ...
2 Feb 2022 - 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
TRANSFORMING JUSTICE | Reasons for increased crime vary, so solutions should too Violent crime is up in cities across the nation, including Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and now Portland — a city not usually on the high-crime map. Mothers are los ...
17 Nov 2021 - Shannon Wight
The city's ties with Clean & Safe lack oversight. The city should not rush to approve a new contract. Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty described the rush by some members of Portland’s City Council to sign a new five-year contract with Downtown Portla ...
29 Sep 2021 - SR editorial board
When Portland City Council announced an unanimous decision to sweep Laurelhurst Park a few weeks ago, no one would go on record to talk about it A united Portland City Council announced a unanimous decision to sweep Laurelhurst Park a few weeks ago — a sy ...
18 Aug 2021 -
With long waits and exorbitant fees hindering access to public records, accountability should be built into the city charter Portland’s Charter Commission has a lot to consider as it begins its once-a-decade obligation to review our city’s defining docume ...
2 Jun 2021 - SR editorial board
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
Accountability is lacking, but we have an opportunity to make a difference Hannah Saiger, originally from New York City, is spending this year in Portland on Tivnu: Building Justice, a Jewish social justice gap year program. She works for Cascadia Cluster ...
12 May 2021 - Hannah Saiger
Take the Portland Street Response program out of the police union contact In June, amid immense public outcry surrounding the death of George Floyd and other Black Americans who have died at the hands of police, the Street Roots Editorial Board called for ...
17 Mar 2021 - SR editorial board