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  1. Reducing homelessness: A straightforward recommendation

    COMMENTARY | Combination of housing specialists, vouchers can be successful After declaring a housing state of emergency, the city of Portland has taken the compassionate step of opening up a temporary emergency night shelter this winter for homeless wome ...

    27 Feb 2016 - Susan Emmons and Bobby Weinstock

  2. Notable Quotables

    Highlights from a year of interviews “So, if we can reclaim the House in the election of 2014 and hold the Senate, then Harry Reid rolls back the filibuster, then we can get a lot done the last two years of the Obama presidency. That means we can’t sit ar ...

    14 Dec 2013 - Street Roots Staff

  3. Susan Emmons one of the city’s seers

    Thanks for the interview with Susan Emmons and for archiving online the important talk she gave at First Congregational Church.  Better than anyone in Portland, Emmons tells the story of how this community contributed to the numbers of homeless people by ...

    7 Dec 2013 - Martha Gies

  4. ‘The answer is housing’

    With three decades of experience housing Portland’s poorest residents, Susan Emmons is ramping up her message on how all of us can help end homelessness In 1978, downtown Portland had 5,183 apartments affordable to the city’s poorest citizens. Susan Emmon ...

    27 Nov 2013 - Jasmine Rockow

  5. Oliver Lecture – November 17, 2013

    Charles was homeless and looking rough. He was pushing a shopping cart and living under the Burnside Bridge when he was referred to Northwest Pilot Project. He was 56 years old. He had been an unofficial apartment building manager for fifteen years.  He l ...

    21 Nov 2013 - Susan Emmons

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