With three decades of experience housing Portland’s poorest residents, Susan Emmons is ramping up her message on how all of us can help end homelessness In 1978, downtown Portland had 5,183 apartments affordable to the city’s poorest citizens. Susan Emmon ...
27 Nov 2013 - Jasmine Rockow
Street Roots looks at the Convention Center Hotel, years of affordable housing planning Metro, the regional government for the tri-county area, has long known that the region has a problem: Rents are soaring, there is a real lack of affordable housing and ...
4 Sep 2013 - Jake Thomas
The documentary ‘Band of Sisters’ explores U.S. Catholic nuns’ passion for social justice Sister Lillian Murphy may be a nun, but that doesn’t mean she spends her days dressed in a habit. True, after she became a Catholic nun in 1959 she donned the distin ...
12 Aug 2013 - Rosette Royale
There’s a lot of money — and lives — resting on Oregon’s grand experiment in restructuring health care through Medicaid. Portland metropolitan area’s largest coordinated care organization, Health Share of Oregon, like others across the state, have a manda ...
30 Jul 2013 - Amanda Waldroupe
Oregon is at the forefront of health care reform. Both national and local media, including Street Roots, has been covering the planned changes over the past two years. More recently, a multi-million dollar ad campaign has begun to educate residents on wha ...
30 Jul 2013 - SR editorial board
What Portland needs is real leadership on the homeless and housing front to develop a permanent funding source to give people a safe place to call home. Many of us working in the trenches are working to make that dream a reality and looking at a variety o ...
10 Jul 2013 - Israel Bayer
A conversation about the housing challenges and opportunities facing Oregon farmworkers Oregon employs between 90,000 and 150,000 farmworkers, not including their families. The precise numbers are difficult to establish year by year, because of the nature ...
5 Jun 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities runs down the impact of cuts to homeless, housing services By Douglas Rice, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The budget cuts known as sequestration, initiated on March 1, will likely force state and local ...
27 Apr 2013 -
By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer They carpooled and packed into buses, wearing buttons in solidarity and some paired in matching T-shirts. More than 150 of them, of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, made the trip. They came for Housing Opportunity Lobby Da ...
23 Apr 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Street Roots vendors Don and Cynthia get a place to call their own By Ashley Koronko,Contributing Writer It was cold and windy when I pulled up to meet Cynthia and Don near what was soon to be their new apartment at Stark Firs. They flag me in, spotting ...
18 Apr 2013 - Street Roots Staff