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  1. Solidarity in the midst of uncertainty in America

    Street Roots has worked to prioritize the voices of immigrants and refugees, the poor, critical thinkers, policymakers and truth-tellers. We will continue to do so. The November election brought big wins for housing across the country. There were 34 ballo ...

    16 Nov 2016 - Israel Bayer

  2. Shut out

    Rental assistance is a proven tool for ending and preventing homelessness. Too bad Portland’s housing market isn’t cooperating. Julius Brown and his fiancée, Denise William, thought they had found the perfect home after moving into a two-bedroom apartment ...

    4 Aug 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe

  3. Director's Desk: Homelessness isn’t a media event. It’s real life.

    If I were currently homeless I would choose living outdoors over living in shelter. Hands down. That doesn’t mean I would be choosing to be homeless. The mayor recently declared an end to his “Safe Sleep” policy in our city. The policy allowed for people ...

    4 Aug 2016 - Israel Bayer

  4. City buys Joyce Hotel

    Joyce Hotel will remain open for some of the most vulnerable residents in our community After six months of uncertainly, the Portland Housing Bureau has completed an agreement to buy the Joyce Hotel, Downtown Portland’s last low-barrier housing for the ci ...

    22 Jun 2016 - Joanne Zuhl

  5. Breaking: City makes last attempt to save Joyce Hotel

    Two-dozen low-income residents wait to hear their fate The saga of the Joyce Hotel has developed a new twist: The city of Portland has made another offer to purchase the building in an effort to salvage one of the last low-income housing options in downto ...

    6 May 2016 - Joanne Zuhl

  6. A photographer's journey into the eyes of Portland’s homeless

    Pedro Oliveira's "Careful: Soul Inside" tells stories of individuals, raises awareness Raised by a single mother after my father died, I know well the social barriers that one faces when having the tough luck of being born among the less em ...

    25 Feb 2016 - Pedro Oliveira

  7. Life of glamour — and homelessness

    Mark Reay has acted for HBO, modeled for Vogue and worked with Martin Scorsese. He is also homeless. A typical week for model, actor and photographer Mark Reay — a debonair, 6-foot-3, 56-year-old — is spent shooting at New York Fashion Week, appearing in ...

    11 Sep 2015 - Steven MacKenzie

  8. Portland Business Alliance: We can do better than this

    The Portland Business Alliance took out a full-page ad in today’s Oregonian with the headline, “We can do better than this.” The ad goes on to say, “Our city is experiencing a crisis on our streets and in our parks. Everyday thousands of people sleep in o ...

    15 Jul 2015 - Israel Bayer

  9. Homeless phone-charging “thief” wanted security

    How Portland police and local courts wasted time and money on a petty theft of mere fractions of a penny There are common misdemeanor offenses and then there are the obscure. This past July, a homeless Portland woman was charged with third-degree theft wh ...

    6 Mar 2015 - Emily Green

  10. Oregonian series an opportunity to seize the moment

    A lot people in the housing community, for better or worse, are worked up over Anna Griffin’s ongoing series on homelessness in The Oregonian. Get used to it. A new story will come out every Friday for the next six weeks. Wait, does this mean I’m promotin ...

    23 Jan 2015 - Israel Bayer

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