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Breaking: Right 2 Dream Too finds a new location

City, Right 2 Dream Too broker a deal in the 11th hour Right 2 Dream Too (R2DToo), the 5-year-old rest stop that serves more than 100 people experiencing homelessness, has found a new location. The camp provides vulnerable individuals and couples experien ...

6 Apr 2017 - Israel Bayer
Housing advocate Art Rios fought the system; now he fights within it

Art Rios will be honored at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council's national conference in Portland Art Rios has long been a visible member of downtown Portland’s homeless population and an outspoken advocate for people experiencing homel ...

19 May 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
A streetwise perspective on housing, mental health

COMMENTARY | A conversation with Right 2 Dream Too co-founder Ptery Lieght Housing activist Ptery Lieght has been involved for years in efforts to make safe, affordable housing available to all. He has been active in Portland’s two legal camps for the hom ...

29 Oct 2015 - Rachel Levy
Vendor Leo Rhodes: A tent city is always a work in progress

A tent city like Right 2 Dream Too starts with a core group of people and some brainstorming The idea is simple: Give the homeless a safe, secure place to be. A core group of people gets together and starts brainstorming, on getting support, infrastructur ...

6 Aug 2015 - Leo Rhodes
What will it take to end homelessness?

Portland, like many cities throughout the United States, finds itself at a crossroads. How do we collectively tackle the housing crisis and begin to really put the resources needed into ending homelessness? Anna Griffin’s series on homelessness in The Ore ...

18 Feb 2015 - Israel Bayer
Let’s give people something to believe in

It’s time to embrace the idea of organized camping and the Tiny House Movement in Portland for people experiencing poverty. We are now three decades into to the rise of massive homelessness in the United States. During that time we’ve seen tens of billion ...

16 Aug 2014 - Israel Bayer
Tent city part deux? Homeless individuals in Clackamas County look to Right 2 Dream Too as a model

On any given evening along the dark, wooded perimeters of the Springwater Corridor in Clackamas County, more than 50 homeless individuals tuck themselves in for the night and hope for the best — or, at least a good night’s rest. To many, uninterrupted sle ...

20 May 2014 - Alex Zielinski
Candidate Q & A: Commissioner Dan Saltzman and Challenger Nicholas Caleb talk affordable housing

Commissioner Dan Saltzman and his challenger Nicholas Caleb are running Portland Commissioner No. 3. Street Roots posed three questions to the candidates on housing and homelessness. Street Roots: Portland is experiencing an affordable housing crisis. The ...

1 May 2014 - Street Roots Staff
A snowstorm, a tent city and Portland Police Chief Mike Reese

What a week on the homeless front. A partnership between some of the most powerful interests in the city and a group of homeless activist, a snowstorm and the Portland police chief announcing a plan to address homelessness downtown. Wow. I haven’t even me ...

7 Feb 2014 - Israel Bayer
Developers pitch buyout of R2DToo lot, and $850,000 toward rest stop's future home

Pearl District developers want Right 2 Dream Too out of their neighborhood, so much so that they’re willing to pony up more than $846,000 toward the homeless groups future home. City Council will vote next week on whether to accept the money. Pearl Hotel ...

6 Feb 2014 - Joanne Zuhl