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April 28, 2021

Housing

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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

Opinion

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Illustration of $100 bill with Benjamin Franklin winking

Opinion | IRS audits the poor, ignoring wealthy tax dodgers and big corporations

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Investing in enforcement of tax laws could bring in over a trillion dollars in government revenue
By
Mary King
April 28, 2021
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George Denison's portrait, integrated with his handwriting from the essay he wrote for Street Roots

Street Roots vendor writing | ‘Words cannot explain my first visit to the dying center’

George Denison recalls living in San Francisco in the 1980s, when his friends, his co-workers and so many others were dying of AIDS
By
George Denison
April 28, 2021
Street Roots
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
Street Roots
Flowers, signs, candles and other items adorn the site of Robert Delgado's memorial

Kaia Sand | The bystanders who witness police killings suffer, too

OPINION | Unhoused people are overexposed to trauma. The effects accumulate.
By
Kaia Sand
April 28, 2021

Social Justice

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Fred Hampton

Behind the death of ‘Black Messiah’ Fred Hampton

Recently unearthed documents, an Oscar-winning film and today’s racial justice movement bring new significance to the Chicago Black Panther Party chairman’s 1969 assassination
By
Suzanne Hanney
April 28, 2021
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Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton in a scene from in “Judas and the Black Messiah"

What ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ got right about Fred Hampton

Activist Mary Scott-Boria shares her memories of Chicago’s Black Panther Party leader and the movement
By
Suzanne Hanney
April 28, 2021

Vendor Profiles

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Street Roots vendor Dale

Street Roots vendor profile | Finding his place in the community

Dale enjoys traveling around the city and meeting new people
By
Kat Wasula
April 28, 2021
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Max McEntire holds keys to his apartment

A Street Story | Max finds a home

‘I like it inside, and I’m so warm. I was cold out in the tent.’
By
Emma Nathanson
April 28, 2021
April 28, 2021, cover of Street Roots
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