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  1. Director's Desk: Without housing, we shouldn't be shocked that someone froze to death on our streets

    Every day is life or death on the streets For people experiencing homelessness, 2017 started just like 2016 ended. Survival. On Jan. 2, Mark Elliot Johnson was found dead of hypothermia in East Portland after temperatures dipped below freezing. According ...

    4 Jan 2017 - Israel Bayer

  2. Vendor finds a way to heal by helping others

    Rebekah says Street Roots has allowed her to discover the community and the money she needs Rebekah’s story, like those of so many people who come through the door of Street Roots, is a story of trying to find redemption against a backdrop of poverty and ...

    29 Oct 2015 - Israel Bayer

  3. Director’s Desk: ‘We cannot become numb' to deaths on the street

    James Michael Bostick wasn't 'just another homeless junkie.' He was Krista Campbell's son – 'an incredible man.' James Michael Bostick died of a heroin overdose on June 5 in Portland’s Union Station downtown.  At 42 years old ...

    15 Oct 2015 - Israel Bayer

  4. Housing, not bullets and more training can help end the violence, death...

    Housing, not bullets and more training can help end the violence, death... Street Roots editorial from the January 7, edition “Whenever I see the police kill another homeless person, my heart cries out and I shed a tear. When is enough, enough? These peop ...

    10 Jan 2011 - Street Roots

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