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  1. Director’s Desk: Portland's housing crisis, today and tomorrow

    A year-end roundup of what’s shaking on the homeless and housing front People ask Street Roots why we aren’t covering more of the housing crisis in the newspaper. It’s a simple answer for a complex problem: We pride ourselves on publishing original conten ...

    23 Dec 2015 - Israel Bayer

  2. Keep Portland renters in their homes; it's an emergency

    A decisive response from City Council is urgently needed Portland is in a state of emergency. Throughout the city, landlords are issuing evictions – even clearing out entire buildings. Tenants who aren’t evicted remain in danger of being priced out, as wa ...

    24 Sep 2015 - Katrina Holland and Justin Buri

  3. Groundswell pushes housing issues to the forefront in Portland

    It may be the first time in recent memory that affordable housing and homelessness will play a leading role in the 2016 election cycle. On one side of this issue is a business community fed up with homelessness. On the other side is a community filled wit ...

    17 Sep 2015 - Israel Bayer

  4. Renter state of emergency

    Housing crisis, evictions prompt renewed calls for action This week, the Community Alliance of Tenants declared a renter state of emergency. It’s a state many people have been living in for a long time. Considering the trauma involved when people cannot f ...

    11 Sep 2015 - SR editorial board

  5. Eviction education, in a comic book form

    “Know Your Rights: Don’t Get Evicted” aims to deliver important renters’ rights information in a fun and accessible format In the comic, the renters’ attorney asks in court whether the landlord has any documentation proving the tenants are bad and should ...

    19 Jun 2015 - Jared Paben

  6. 2014 landlord-tenant law changes are on their way

    Renters in Oregon had more reasons to celebrate this holiday season, as new tenant protections were added to Oregon’s Landlord-Tenant Law Jan. 1, 2014. The Community Alliance of Tenants (CAT) is Oregon’s only grassroots, tenant-led renters rights organiza ...

    28 Jan 2014 - Justin Buri

  7. ‘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

  8. Affordable housing reform needed to help Section 8 work

    Two months isn’t a lot of time to find an apartment when landlords can discriminate against voucher holders By Justin Buri, Contributing Columnist We know that when Oregon residents have access to safe, stable and affordable housing, we are not only able ...

    7 Mar 2013 - Street Roots Staff

  9. We say no to Constitutional Amendment 79!

    We say no to Constitutional Amendment 79! Street Roots, The Community Alliance of Tenants, JOIN and the Oregon Opportunity Network are all coming out against Measure 79. Constitutional Amendment 79: Amends the Constitution: Prohibits real estate transfer ...

    11 Oct 2012 - Street Roots

  10. Crawling between Shasta and Weed, California

    Crawling between Shasta and Weed, California [caption id="attachment_2790" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Chugging up the mountain w/the caravan"] [/caption]   And then this happened. [caption id="attac ...

    19 Jan 2010 - Street Roots

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