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Kaia Sand | $14 million toward a ‘housing first’ plan

OPINION | County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson announces plan to begin housing homeless Multnomah County residents Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson announced a planned $14 million investment to begin housing homeless Multnomah County residents F ...

8 Feb 2023 - Kaia Sand
County and advocates disagree on sufficiency of severe weather shelter guidelines

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the Jan. 25 edition of Street Roots. Since publishing, Multnomah County opened severe weather shelters an additional time, on Jan. 29, and closed them Jan. 30. This instance is not discussed in the art ...

25 Jan 2023 - Jamie Arcelay
Community Transitional School aims to provide academic support and stability

Students and staff at school for homeless students continue uphill trek to normalcy following the end of pandemic restrictions “ When I was in kindergarten, I did not know what a book was,” a quiet fifth-grade student in Cheryl Bickle’s class recently wro ...

25 Jan 2023 - Ellen Clarke
Opinion l Mental Health Association of Portland tells City Council its plan for mass encampments is costly, inhumane and ineffective

The Mental Health Association of Portland opposes city of Portland’s camps for people who are homeless, as described in five resolutions passed by four of five City Council members The Mental Health Association of Portland opposes the city of Portland’s c ...

16 Nov 2022 - Mental Health A...
Opinion | Where Do People Go Once They’re Swept?

Access Denied | Sweeping Portlanders without viable alternatives isn’t a plan Imagine that you’re eating cookies in the kitchen. No plate, no napkin. Standing over the counter, a dusting of crumbs forms under you. Using one hand, you collect them and form ...

9 Nov 2022 - Hanna Brooks Olsen
Kaia Sand | Camping bans, mass camps will worsen Portland’s problems

OPINION | Portland City Council’s camping-ban vote ignores concerns of unhoused Portlanders, undermines progress Like a car wrenching into a U-turn on a slick and treacherous road, Portland City Council dangerously pivoted our city when it voted to ban un ...

7 Nov 2022 - Kaia Sand
Joint Office of Homeless Services reduces supply distribution, advocates concerned as colder weather approaches

JOHS reduced supply distribution to a single pickup per month, advocates say this decision has dire consequences As another cold winter approaches, homeless Portlanders will soon face bitter conditions many are ill-equipped to confront, and outreach worke ...

2 Nov 2022 - Tyler Walicek
Medford City Council candidate stirs up anti-poor politics with environmentalism

As fire danger escalates in Southern Oregon, Medford City Council candidate Matt Roberts seeks to criminalize those living on the frontlines of climate change On a sweltering October day in Medford, Oregon, five Medford police officers approached a tent n ...

19 Oct 2022 - Sam Becker
HUD's 'House America' initiative takes housing-first approach to homelessness

Street Roots talks with key official about the program’s aims to alleviate homelessness by year’s end Communities across the country face an unprecedented rate of homelessness. Once considered a phenomenon generally confined to big cities by the public an ...

26 Aug 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Kaia Sand | Oregon Health Authority reports deaths of unhoused Oregonians in 2022

Director’s Desk | These deaths are the horrible outcome of inequitable access to housing and other healthcare necessities The Little Match Girl had no good options. She contended with poverty and freezing cold, Hans Christian Andersen writes in his 19th-c ...

24 Aug 2022 - Kaia Sand