Yes for Affordable Housing supports the largest effort our region has ever taken to fund deeply affordable housing The season has shifted. Even sunny days have the snap of autumn to them. During a downpour, a Street Roots vendor bundled up in a doorway, s ...
21 Sep 2018 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR’S DESK | Criminalizing people for being homeless is cruel and inhumane, the Ninth Circuit Court ruled A lot gets written in a day, and on Tuesday, Sept. 4, Donald Trump managed to punch out 16 wild and furious tweets. But among this frenzy, it’s ...
7 Sep 2018 - Kaia Sand
Mercy Corps Northwest is piloting a program for several Street Roots vendors, matching income they earn with money for housing costs Recently, a Street Roots vendor showed up in our office refreshed. His face looked smoother, more rested, than it had earl ...
24 Aug 2018 - Kaia Sand
In recent weeks, four Street Roots vendors or former vendors have died. We have lit so many candles in our Street Roots office. In recent weeks, four Street Roots vendors or former vendors have died. Andy Howard, Dallas Boyd, Dani Wyatt and David Testawi ...
10 Aug 2018 - Kaia Sand
Buying the coffee helps sustain Street Roots, a local company and farmers around the world There are many beginnings to the story of Street Roast coffee, but one story starts on a Central Valley, Calif. farm in the 1980s where the Gleason sisters, Joey an ...
27 Jul 2018 - Kaia Sand
Portland needs to be all-in as a national leader Calling a city a cesspool certainly grabs attention. That’s how Portland Police Association President Daryl Turner started his public Facebook statement on July 16, decrying the new Independent Police Revi ...
20 Jul 2018 - Kaia Sand
City receives hundreds of camp complaints weekly, we should send demands for compassion instead Sometimes it feels like we’ve been given different maps to the same city. When your map has no residence that you rent or own, your city looks dystopian, one w ...
13 Jul 2018 - Kaia Sand
Policing the poor just means there’s so much more work to do Now we know: More than half of the people arrested in Portland last year were homeless. Rebecca Woolington and Melissa Lewis reported in The Oregonian on June 27 that unhoused people comprised ...
6 Jul 2018 - Kaia Sand
Just as Minoru Yasui of Portland's Japantown was courageous in challenging the racist laws of the federal government during WWII It’s not a time to be complacent. The horrifying sequence of actions from the Trump administration has lurched open colle ...
29 Jun 2018 - Kaia Sand
'People need to know that people are on their side' It was a situation that easily could have gone badly. By the time I walked up, a clearly distressed man was sitting on the sidewalk, yelling, while an officer towered over him. Down the block, ...
15 Jun 2018 - Kaia Sand