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Kaia Sand | Addressing homelessness through the legislature and what we can learn from it

Opinion | The $400 million legislative housing package protects human rights; no city can use the funding for sweeps People survive in tents in Deschutes National Forest, along the Umpqua River of Roseburg, on the sandy knolls of Lincoln City. In Medford, ...

2 Mar 2022 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | How do we create 3,000 liveable spaces for people without criminalizing them?

Opinion | We can go bigger — and kinder I’ll hand it to Sam Adams. Putting aside the alarming nature of his idea to warehouse 3,000 people in militarized spaces, he was thinking big — but not big enough. It’s the same thing with the People 4 Portland camp ...

23 Feb 2022 - Kaia Sand
In their own words: Unhoused Portlanders speak on the emergency order banning encampments in high-traffic corridors

Street Roots spoke to more than 12 unhoused Portlanders living along roads and freeways included in Mayor Ted Wheeler’s Feb. 4 emergency order banning encampments in high-traffic corridors. Of the few who had heard of the order, none were clear on if they ...

23 Feb 2022 - Henry Brannan
Mayor’s order forbidding camping in high-traffic areas leaves unhoused Portlanders with few places to go

Portland city government has no plans to relax sweep criteria in safer areas following emergency order Mayor Ted Wheeler announced an emergency order prohibiting homeless encampments along an identified list of dangerous roadways on Feb. 4, drawing immedi ...

23 Feb 2022 - Piper McDaniel and K. Rambo
Editorial | You're startling us, Sam

Forcing people into a camp patrolled by military personnel, unarmed or otherwise, doesn’t end or address homelessness, it simply contains it in a carceral complex Mayoral aide Sam Adams’ proposal to build mass camps for unhoused Portlanders and staff them ...

14 Feb 2022 - SR editorial board
Jan. 31 Sam Adams Memo (full text)

A Jan. 31 memo penned by mayoral aide Sam Adams proposed, among other things, to build large-scale homeless encampments in Portland staffed by Oregon National Guard and others. The full memo, first reported by Willamette Week, is below in PDF format. Jan. ...

11 Feb 2022 - Street Roots
Kaia Sand | Unhoused people must have a voice in policy

Opinion | Knowledge from the unhoused provides critical insight The Street Roots ambassadors grew animated discussing the topic of ranked-choice voting. They considered how this method of voting could motivate people to vote because they might feel like t ...

2 Feb 2022 - Kaia Sand
Divisions continue around Medford’s anti-camping ordinances

A Facebook group, gaps in service and the death of a young man: How a battle about homelessness is enveloping a Southern Oregon town Southern Oregon is known for its relatively mild weather. But, in mid-December, an unusual cold snap in Medford left one u ...

26 Jan 2022 - Hanna Merzbach
Cartoonist McKensi Payne embraces comics’ unique ability to tell a complicated story

‘Alana’s Guide to Getting By’ illustrates how one person navigated homelessness in Portland The Portland State University Collaborative Comics Project aims to change the narrative around homelessness through ethnographic cartooning based on the experien ...

26 Jan 2022 - Kanani Cortez
LaQuida Landford's innovative vision for her community

Landford was already distributing resources in her community, but now she hopes to expand her reach with a hub where people can go to receive vital resources In 2018, LaQuida Landford returned from a trip to her father’s home country, Belize, with a clear ...

26 Jan 2022 - Latisha Jensen