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Our sinking suburbs

Across the nation, suburbs now surpass cities and rural areas in the number of people living in poverty If you want to know what homelessness looks like in the 21st century, you have to look beyond the familiar hoods and urban alleys. You have to head out ...

5 Jul 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Local Voices: Suburban poverty

What people are saying around Portland about suburban poverty “We are seeing more and more calls coming to City Hall. Our staff get three to five phone calls a week from people seeking help of various kinds. Prior to the recession we did not get any calls ...

26 Jun 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
We need to update our perceptions about poverty

Time was that moving out of the city and into the suburbs was a mark of success, a move solidifying a family’s foothold in the middle class and a future of upward mobility. In the 1960s and 70s, the federal government encouraged suburban living, investing ...

25 Jun 2013 - SR editorial board