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    Finding Home

    A series of in-depth articles examining national perspectives around America’s growing housing and homeless crisis. 

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    The Next Generation

    The Next Generation is a Street Roots series that focuses on the well-being and housing stability of children and young adults, locally and nationally, and explores the work being done to prevent another generation from becoming homeless. Street Roots received funding from Meyer Memorial Trust's Housing Advocacy Portfolio to develop dedicated reporting for The Next Generation series.

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A large room with designated markers for people to reside during severe weather.

County and advocates disagree on sufficiency of severe weather shelter guidelines

By
Jamie Arcelay
January 25, 2023
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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
By
Ellen Clarke
January 25, 2023
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A garden area fenced off. Trees and planter boxes are in the enclosed garden area.

How tenants around Portland fight back against landlords

With help from mutual aid group Don’t Evict PDX, tenants receive rental assistance funds, guidance on eviction notices and support for tenant advocacy and organizing
By
Christine Menges
January 4, 2023
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Photo of snowy Downtown Portland skyline with icy bridge hand rail in foreground

Available resources during Portland area's dangerous cold snap

Temperatures will be especially dangerous beginning Wednesday night, when temperatures are predicted to drop to 17 degrees before wind chill, through Friday morning, when temperatures are expected to reach as high as 30 degrees
By
Street Roots Staff
December 21, 2022
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An illustrative mock up rendering of an apartment building

Housing for frontline social service workers addressing the homelessness crisis

The Atomic Orchard Experiment aims to honor what people do as workers and as Portlanders
By
Ellen Clarke
December 21, 2022
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Portland city council building in the background and a cutout of Dan Ryan smiling in the foreground.

Dan Ryan yet to respond to June call for new tenant protections

An attorney tasked with enforcing similar protections tells Street Roots why protections work and how they serve to level an uneven playing field
By
Piper McDaniel
December 14, 2022
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An illustration of a conveyor belt with houses falling off the conveyor belt. Each house has a label that says, "eviction" on it. In the background are a pattern of scales filling the space.

Eviction court favors landlords

Oregon is in a housing crisis. Experts say eviction court is part of the problem.
By
Piper McDaniel
December 7, 2022
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Photo showing Commissioner Dan Ryan and Mayor Ted Wheeler flanked by staff and volunteers during Nov. 1 town hall at Blanchet House

Senior policy advisor for Commissioner Dan Ryan resigns in response to plan for mass camps

A resignation letter said the recently passed plan to ban unsanctioned encampments and construct mass camps will lead to 'irreparable trauma and unnecessary deaths'
By
Piper McDaniel K. Rambo
December 2, 2022
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Ron Wyden talking. His image is overlayed over a photo of an outdoor encampment with an American flag.

Sen. Wyden says housing is a human right

Sen. Wyden's DASH Act languishes in committee, despite being among most comprehensive current proposals to address homelessness
By
Piper McDaniel
November 23, 2022
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A person is smiling and looking at the person serving him food, setting down a plate for him.

Winter Resource Guide | Where to give help

Volunteer and donation opportunities in Multnomah County
By
Sophie
November 16, 2022

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