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  1. Meet the artists changing the narrative around student homelessness

    A collaboration between comic artists, a research team and college students aims to tell the complex stories of homelessness and housing insecurity via ethnographic cartooning The Portland State University Collaborative Comics Project aims to change the n ...

    5 Jan 2022 - Kanani Cortez

  2. Kaia Sand | There’s much to do, here are 3 places to start

    OPINION | Pay attention to local government responses, homelessness in 2022 I hear a sense of despair from so many of you over the humanitarian crisis of homelessness. While many community members volunteer with community organizations and through mutual ...

    5 Jan 2022 - Kaia Sand

  3. Portland Street Response set for citywide expansion

    Non-police crisis intervention program seeks more funding for around-the-clock operations, building awareness on streets Bronwyn Jones Carver is a member of Street Roots’ MoJo program. MoJo is composed of vendors learning about journalism, covering life o ...

    29 Dec 2021 - Bronwyn Carver

  4. Kaia Sand | Providing housing, support services saves lives

    OPINION | Domicile Unknown report shows people on the streets die decades before their time For nearly a decade now, Street Roots has published the Domicile Unknown report with Multnomah County and the Multnomah County medical examiner. Named after the ca ...

    15 Dec 2021 - Kaia Sand

  5. Domicile Unknown Report found 126 deaths in 2020

    Drug overdoses and medical conditions contributed to the largest number of deaths among the 126 people who died while homeless in Multnomah County in 2020, highlighting need for services, permanent housing. The last time Hope Yamasaki saw her son was at t ...

    15 Dec 2021 - Latisha Jensen

  6. Deterrents and ‘hostile architecture,’ who gets to claim public space?

    A $500,000 investment in anti-homeless benches raises alarms for homeless people, advocates Laurelhurst Park is a beautiful, tree-lined park with running trails and a duck pond that sits at the heart of the Laurelhurst Neighborhood, straddling the border ...

    8 Dec 2021 - Taylor Griggs

  7. Kaia Sand | Peace at Home turned motels into shelters

    OPINION | Supported by Project Turnkey these shelters brough stability to those seeking safety The clear light of Umpqua Valley streamed through the Douglas firs and the cedar trees. This view surrounds people who seek to escape violence through motel-bas ...

    8 Dec 2021 - Kaia Sand

  8. Congregate shelter benefits debatable

    Recent investments in congregate shelters raise questions about priorities, efficacy According to a recently announced spending plan to address homelessness jointly funded by the city of Portland and Multnomah County, local sheltering options will substan ...

    24 Nov 2021 - Taylor Griggs

  9. Safe Rest Villages and then what?

    Advocates and officials agree: investment required beyond temporary shelter Sandra Fairbank has been unhoused for seven years, becoming homeless after leaving an abusive marriage. Since then, she has moved from camp to camp in different parts of the city ...

    10 Nov 2021 - Taylor Griggs

  10. City can’t say when they will plan, build Safe Rest Villages

    The city has only identified two of six sites, hasn’t broken ground on a single camp or released information on contracted service providers Commissioner Dan Ryan’s goal to build six city-sanctioned outdoor homeless encampments by the end of the year appe ...

    27 Oct 2021 - Taylor Griggs

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