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Power in the printed word: 'Housekeys not handcuffs'

‘House Keys Not Handcuffs’ is an insightful testimony to the trials and triumphs of the homeless Paul Boden’s “ House Keys Not Handcuffs,” a dramatic and disconcerting book on homeless organizing, art and policy in San Francisco and elsewhere, begins with ...

28 Jul 2015 - Paul Von Blum
Statehouse testimony stresses right to rest, survive

House keys, not handcuffs! House keys, not handcuffs!” Chants and songs rang loud from the Capitol steps on a warm Thursday afternoon in Salem. Advocates, housed and unhoused, traveled from across the state and beyond to voice their support of Senate Bill ...

27 Mar 2015 - Grace Badik and Paul Boden
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
McKinney-Vento turns 25; homelessness still grows

McKinney-Vento turns 25; homelessness still grows By Paul Boden, Contributing Columnist Passed in 1987, McKenny-Vento was intended to address the emergency needs of homeless people while the federal government worked to restore the funding which had been ...

16 Aug 2012 - Street Roots
Fed up with housing policy

Fed up with housing policy By Paul Boden, Contributing Columnist More than 1.46 million households are currently living on less than $2 a day per person in the wealthiest country in the world, more than double what it was in 1996. This shameful fact has h ...

6 Jun 2012 - Street Roots
The time doesn’t fit the crime on the streets

The time doesn’t fit the crime on the streets By Paul Boden, Contributing Writer The Western Regional Advocacy Project has been documenting the increases of mentally ill people in local jails as a result of diminished funding for mental health treatment a ...

19 Jan 2011 - Street Roots
The quality of whose life? The zero-sum game. Part II

The quality of whose life? The zero-sum game. Part II A panhandler on Powell Street in San Francisco. Photo by BrokenSphere/Wikimedia Commons The second in a four-part series on the country’s modern anti-poor movement By Paul Boden, Contributing Writer Wh ...

17 Dec 2010 - Street Roots
The quality of whose life?

The quality of whose life? The first in a four-part series on the country’s modern anti-poor movement by Paul Boden, Contributing Writer One more stark reminder of the disconnect between our ideals and public policy is to look at the declining stocks of o ...

7 Dec 2010 - Street Roots
Camping ordinance being challenged

Camping ordinance being challenged The Oregon Law Center's class action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Portland's camping ordinance follows in a long line of similar lawsuits filed across the country to vindicate the Constitutional ...

8 Jan 2009 - Street Roots