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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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Street Roots Podcast logo with photos of DeVon Pouncey and Kim McCarty

Street Roots Podcast | Kim McCarty: Government needs to step up to protect renters

Episode 19: Oregon must extend the eviction moratorium, the Community Alliance Tenants director says
By
DeVon Pouncey
May 25, 2021
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Street Roots Podcast | Escalation of sweeps rattles Portland’s unhoused community

Episode 18: Several residents with a stake in the increased police presence discuss its impact on the West Coast
By
DeVon Pouncey
May 25, 2021
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Raven Ellaine

Raven Ellaine: ‘I’m a proud, Black trans woman’ — and so much more

She came to Portland inspired to help the houseless community, and the Red House propelled her into activism
By
Ellena Rosenthal
May 19, 2021
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Christine Marie Caligiuri

Anti-camping law in Medford draws national attention

Critics say the ordinance, which makes unauthorized camping a misdemeanor, criminalizes homelessness while proponents say it’s necessary for community safety
By
Hanna Merzbach
April 28, 2021
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Hannah Wallace cleans a bathroom while wearing a protective mask

Opinion | How helping my houseless neighbors helped me

A Sunnyside resident shares her experience with outreach and hygiene support in the hopes it will inspire other Portlanders to do the same
By
Hannah Wallace
April 28, 2021
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Right 2 Rest hearing is this Tuesday at 1 p.m.

Opinion | ‘We all know these laws are only enforced against certain people’

WRAP Director Paul Boden discusses why it matters to pass the Right to Rest Act
By
Kaia Sand
April 9, 2021
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Candles at a vigil

Multnomah County tracks homeless deaths. Now, other counties might too.

A bill in the Oregon Legislature calls for counting how many people die homeless, with a housing status of 'domicile unknown'
By
Joanne Zuhl
April 7, 2021
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The exterior of the former Red Lion in Eugene

A Eugene hotel is now a shelter — the first of many planned across Oregon

Seven projects have been funded so far under Project Turnkey, which converts hotels and motels into emergency shelter or affordable housing
By
Hanna Merzbach
April 7, 2021
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Tents line a sidewalk by Laurelhurst Park in August 2020

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
By
Hanna Merzbach
March 31, 2021
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The gold statue at the top of the Capitol

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.
By
Tom Henderson
March 31, 2021

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