How Portland’s rental market is making a bad situation worse for survivors of domestic violence Portland’s cutthroat rental market is forcing an increasing number of domestic violence survivors to make a tough choice: stay in an abusive relationship or be ...
5 Nov 2015 - Emily Green
In 2013, Oregon lawmakers changed our public safety course, putting us on track to create safer, healthier communities. The Justice Reinvestment Act (HB 3194) of 2013 averted our need to start building a new prison in Oregon, saving taxpayers an estimated ...
6 Mar 2015 - Kerry Naughton
"Becky” was in a state of disbelief. One week ago she told her boyfriend she was pregnant. Now he was handing her a hat, insisting, Becky says, that she cover up the bleeding wound he had allegedly inflicted to the back of her head only moments earli ...
20 Jan 2015 - Emily Green
“Roots, Reality & Rhyme: The One-Woman Show” For the past two decades poet, performer and teaching artist Turiya Autry has been getting up close and personal with Portland audiences. Known for her visceral, lyrical autobiographical pieces, she works i ...
19 Jan 2015 -
As regular readers of our column know, Partnership for Safety and Justice works with survivors of crime, and others impacted by the criminal justice system, to advocate for policies that make Oregon’s public safety structure more effective and more just. ...
30 Sep 2014 - Denise Welch
If it didn’t involve famed NFL player Ray Rice, and if it wasn’t under the unblinking eye of today’s omnipresent elevator cameras, the incident of a man beating his fiancé to the point of unconsciousness would be just another case of horrific abuse. Just ...
19 Sep 2014 - SR editorial board
A survivor called our 24-hour crisis line asking for emergency shelter. She was fleeing from her abuser, who had found her at her sister’s house and assaulted her so badly she ended up in the hospital. “Unfortunately, we have no shelter space available, a ...
27 Mar 2014 - Kerry Naughton
The knocks came early. At around 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 23, Daniel Hernandez Garcia and his girlfriend of five years, Josefina Aguiniga, answered the door of their Southeast Portland home to find two officers. “They told me they were police officers and they w ...
4 Mar 2014 - Nathan Gilles
Number of lights at ZooLights in 2013: 1.5 million Number of acres the Oregon Department of Forestry owns: 16 million Largest donation given through the 2013 Willamette Week Give!Guide: $20,000 Number of organizations receiving donations through 2013 Wil ...
13 Jan 2014 - Street Roots Staff
Street Roots is currently participating on a committee convened by Portland City Commissioner Dan Saltzman and County Commissioner Deborah Kafoury to determine where $1.7 million should go to support housing and homeless services. It’s great to think that ...
17 Oct 2013 - Israel Bayer