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  1. Director’s Desk: The murky future of Terminal 1

    Proposal for massive Portland homeless shelter is half-baked at best In June, I wrote about a new proposal by developers Homer Williams and Dike Dame. The original idea was a $100 million plan to build space for 700 new shelter beds and create 700 beds in ...

    11 Aug 2016 - Israel Bayer

  2. Roy Pascoe: 'If I wasn’t fighting for my life, I’d be fighting for the river'

    COMMENTARY | The Portland activist died May 15, 2016. He was 53. Roy Pascoe was born on July 31, 1962, and grew up mainly in Bremerton, Wash. He fished, swam, sailed, and worked on the docks in Puget Sound. He also worked in food service on naval ships an ...

    2 Jun 2016 - Erin Goodling

  3. Breaking down the fourth wall

    Living Stages examines homelessness, housing instability in Theater of the Oppressed performances On a cold Saturday morning in a dance studio under the Hawthorne Bridge, a group of a dozen or so amateur actors gathered for the first of a two-day Theater ...

    25 Nov 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Criminalizing the homeless costs us all

    Criminalizing the homeless costs us all By Paul Boden, Contributing Writer The Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) and the USA-Canada Alliance of Inhabitants (USACAI) are calling on our members and allies throughout the United States and Canada to jo ...

    1 Mar 2012 - Street Roots

  7. SR editorial: Right 2 Dream Too validates its role to the streets

    SR editorial: Right 2 Dream Too validates its role to the streets The Right 2 Dream Too overnight sleeping area on Fourth Avenue and Burnside deserves to be taken seriously. Specifically, city officials, nonprofits and institutions that champion housing s ...

    5 Jan 2012 - Street Roots

  8. Homeless activists say safety, stability the priority

    Homeless activists say safety, stability the priority [caption id="attachment_5964" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Folks with Right 2 Dream Too at their "membership site" at NW Fourth and Burnside.&qu ...

    10 Oct 2011 - Street Roots

  9. Breaking News: Homeless stake out their own "occupation"

    Breaking News: Homeless stake out their own "occupation" [caption id="attachment_5955" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Ibrahim Mubarak in front of the new homeless "occupation" at Fourth and ...

    8 Oct 2011 - Street Roots

  10. Festival of Resistance

    Festival of Resistance Regular Street Roots columnist and Right 2 Survive member Julie McCurdy (she also has a poem and column in the current edition) wanted to invite readers out tomorrow to the Festival of Resistance, a celebration and preparation to ta ...

    30 Apr 2010 - Street Roots

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