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For the record: Sept 12-25, 2014

-2013 salary of Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian: $72,000-2013 average salary of principal executive officials in the Bureau of Labor and Industries: $94,685-Percent of Oregon wage and salary workers with union membership in 2012: 15.7-Percent of Ore ...

23 Sep 2014 - Street Roots Staff
The feds are redefining homelessness to make it disappear

What kind of a cold, mean, and even sadistic homeless service provider would you need to be to tell a family of three, four or five people living in a single room occupancy hotel or “illegally” sleeping on the floor of a friend’s apartment that is despera ...

12 Aug 2014 - Paul Boden
Paul Boden and the history of homelessness as we know it today

Paul Boden is the executive director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project, or WRAP. The organization is made up of community organizations around the United States, including Street Roots and Right 2 Survive in Portland. The group published the ground ...

2 Jul 2014 - Israel Bayer
National discussions on health care, homelessness offer hope

Central City Concern’s Health Services Advisory Council gives consumers the opportunity to express their and peers opinions on how the Old Town Clinic operates, and empowers members to have a voice in the community. Toward this endeavor, I had the opportu ...

17 Jun 2014 - Samm McCrary
Ending homelessness. A pipe dream or a reality?

The following is an excerpt from a speech by Nan Roman, president and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. The Alliance is a public education, advocacy, and capacity-building organization with a network of more than 10,000 nonprofit, public s ...

22 Apr 2014 - Nan Roman
Cruel, inhuman and degrading: US policies on homelessness called out by UN

My organization, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, works to end homelessness in the United States. As the Law Center’s policy director, most people would expect me to be pounding the pavement here in Washington, D.C. – lobbying the admi ...

16 Apr 2014 - Jeremy Rosen
For the Record: January 3-16, 2014

Number of lights at ZooLights in 2013: 1.5 million Number of acres the Oregon Department of Forestry owns: 16 million Largest donation given through the 2013 Willamette Week Give!Guide: $20,000 Number of organizations receiving donations through 2013 Wil ...

13 Jan 2014 - Street Roots Staff
Nick Fish: A Preservation Story

A look back at the past year in affordable housing, and the investments in play to carry it forward For the past five years, I had the privilege of leading the Portland Housing Bureau. In June, Mayor Hales gave me a new set of bureau assignments, and I pa ...

20 Aug 2013 - Nick Fish
HUD’s hatchet job

The federal sequester chops $13 million from Oregon’s social-service network, leaving housing and homeless programs bracing to absorb the hit By Jake Thomas and Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writers By now, every American is probably familiar with the term and conce ...

6 May 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Housing sequestration 101: It’s going to hurt

The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities runs down the impact of cuts to homeless, housing services By Douglas Rice, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The budget cuts known as sequestration, initiated on March 1, will likely force state and local ...

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