PHOTOS | Advocates participating in the weeklong Give Us Shelter March are calling for Oregon to declare a state of emergency on housing Advocating for a state of emergency to be declared on Oregon’s housing crisis, demonstrators set off from Portland on ...
31 May 2019 - Street Roots
A selection of letters from the Houselessness Cohort at Sunnyside Environmental School in Portland This winter, a group of students from Sunnyside Environmental School formed a Houselessness Cohort to better understand the issue of homelessness. Working w ...
29 Mar 2019 - Street Roots
Not every crisis is a crime Endorse our plan for a new system of first responders – teams of firefighter-EMTs and peer support specialists with training in de-escalation who can respond with compassion to 911 calls about people struggling with homelessne ...
22 Mar 2019 - Street Roots
Toledo Streets' Vendor of the Year is patient, kind and wise Nearly 10,000 vendors in 34 countries sell street papers, including Street Roots. Feb. 4-10 is the International Network of Street Papers’ Vendor Week (#VendorWeek), celebrating vendors’ wo ...
1 Feb 2019 - Street Roots
The Mi Valedor street paper vendor urges people to get the support they need Nearly 10,000 vendors in 34 countries sell street papers, including Street Roots. Feb. 4-10 is the International Network of Street Papers’ Vendor Week (#VendorWeek), celebrating ...
1 Feb 2019 - Street Roots
The Megaphone street paper vendor is no stranger to activism Nearly 10,000 vendors in 34 countries sell street papers, including Street Roots. Feb. 4-10 is the International Network of Street Papers’ Vendor Week (#VendorWeek), celebrating vendors’ work in ...
1 Feb 2019 - Street Roots
The Denver Voice street paper vendor says you never know what people have been through Nearly 10,000 vendors in 34 countries sell street papers, including Street Roots. Feb. 4-10 is the International Network of Street Papers’ Vendor Week (#VendorWeek), ce ...
1 Feb 2019 - Street Roots
The Street Sense street paper vendor reminds us we're all beautiful Nearly 10,000 vendors in 34 countries sell street papers, including Street Roots. Feb. 4-10 is the International Network of Street Papers’ Vendor Week (#VendorWeek), celebrating vend ...
1 Feb 2019 - Street Roots
A collection of stories about Portland's oldest neighborhood In this series, Street Roots looks back at the history and diverse voices of Old Town Portland. Old Town: 'The original downtown' Street Roots reflects on some of the characters ...
4 Jan 2019 - Street Roots
Highlights from some of our newsmakers of the past year January 5 Muhammad Yunus Nobel Peace Prize winner “When we were in caves, we were not sending job applications to anybody. We took care of ourselves and did that for hundreds of thousands of years. ...
28 Dec 2018 - Street Roots