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July 7, 2021

Culture

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A scene from the film and the cover of the tape

Opinion | What the reception to Seattle’s grittiest film can tell us about the city’s homelessness crisis

Since ‘Streetwise’ was released almost four decades ago, inequality has only grown larger
By
Andrew Hedden
July 7, 2021

Housing

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A tent sits near the bank of the river

Kaia Sand | Where, exactly, can unhoused people camp under Portland’s new policy?

OPINION | Unhoused people deserve to know how the new ordinance on camp sweeps will be applied.
By
Kaia Sand
July 7, 2021

Opinion

Street Roots
A photo illustration shows the silhouette of adult with a child walking on train tracks

Opinion | The boy who loved the father in his dream

Ga lo Vann shares the story of the first hanbleceya and with it reveals the curse of modern-day America and how it has played out in the life of a man sent to prison for killing his sexual abusers as a boy
By
Ga lo Vann
July 7, 2021
Street Roots
A scene from the film and the cover of the tape

Opinion | What the reception to Seattle’s grittiest film can tell us about the city’s homelessness crisis

Since ‘Streetwise’ was released almost four decades ago, inequality has only grown larger
By
Andrew Hedden
July 7, 2021
Street Roots
Hands holding coins

Opinion | Guaranteed income can solve U.S. poverty

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | A team of researchers proposes the IRS make monthly payments to lower-income families to move every household above the poverty line
By
Mary King
July 7, 2021
Street Roots
A tent sits near the bank of the river

Kaia Sand | Where, exactly, can unhoused people camp under Portland’s new policy?

OPINION | Unhoused people deserve to know how the new ordinance on camp sweeps will be applied.
By
Kaia Sand
July 7, 2021

Social Justice

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Walled In podcast logo: A co-production of Street Roots and The Exiled Voice

Walled In podcast | After prison, ‘I had to relearn how to touch people’

Episode 2: Former prisoners discuss how absence of touch and rules against intimacy affected them while they were incarcerated, and an expert explains the science behind touch starvation
By
Emily Green Joshua Wright
July 10, 2021
Street Roots
A watercolor illustration depicts an Indigenous person removing a protective face mask to reveal nothing, just a blank space where her mouth should be.

COVID-19’s toll on Oregon’s tribal elders imperils preservation of Native languages

They taught more than grammar and vocabulary; they taught the cultural meaning behind the words. And now, they’re gone.
By
Brian Oaster
July 7, 2021
Street Roots
Illustration of two hands reaching for each other, but not touching, with prison bars in the background

The science behind human touch — and what happens when prisoners go without

Deprivation of positive physical contact can result in depression and aggressive behavior, explains the founder of the Touch Research Institute
By
Emily Green
July 7, 2021
July 7, 2021, cover of Street Roots
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