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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
OPINION | Among narratives of fear, an ode to Old Town

Kaia Sand | ‘This neighborhood beats as one of Portland’s strong hearts, and its people who live their lives in public are people to love’ I have been at a loss for words as I listen to fearsome descriptions of Old Town on some media outlets and from the ...

20 Oct 2021 - Kaia Sand
Bill to make IDs free for unhoused Oregonians expected to have big impact for a low cost

Under the bipartisan legislation, a nonprofit would verify that a person was experiencing homelessness, and the state would waive the fee to obtain photo identification P hoto identification is required for everything from opening a bank account to cashin ...

31 Mar 2021 - Hanna Merzbach
In the shadow of the Capitol: a housing crisis

Inside, Oregon lawmakers and special interests wrestle with homelessness. Outside, on the streets of Salem, people experience it. As Oregon legislators grapple with homelessness, a woman living on the streets outside the state Capitol in Salem grapples wi ...

31 Mar 2021 - Tom Henderson