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DIRECTOR’S DESK | The people with the most at stake must continue to guide the process for this program that Street Roots championed

Kaia Sand

June 18, 2020

Sophie Maziraga stands with her hands up

Struck by a rubber bullet: My experience as a Black woman at a Portland protest

COMMENTARY | ‘Surviving police brutality is a different type of trauma known to an endless number of Black people,’ Street Roots staffer Sophie Maziraga writes

Sophie Maziraga

June 10, 2020

We must not let up on the call for justice

DIRECTOR'S DESK | Portland’s City Council has a chance to change the city's legacy of prioritizing police over its Black residents’ well-being

Kaia Sand

June 10, 2020

SR Editorial: The people are speaking – the time to begin dismantling the police is now

Portland should begin the process of transitioning to equitable emergency response and away from an oppressive system of violence that’s proven it’s unsalvageable

SR editorial board

June 5, 2020

Illustration of a peach sliced in half, whose stone is divided into different paths leading to different homes

I will challenge my fear with generosity — and peach cobbler

A CROOKED PATH FORWARD | The pandemic has tested my interpersonal skills, but I’m rising to the challenge

Dustin Dandliker

May 31, 2020

Illustration of a police officer standing next to an unhoused person

As police increase Old Town presence, Street Roots vendors focus on learning their rights

DIRECTOR’S DESK | ACLU of Oregon provided Know Your Rights training in response to concerns from unhoused people

Kaia Sand

May 29, 2020

Sign in window reads: Sorry, we're closed.

Economic devastation from COVID-19 did not have to be this bad

COMMENTARY | The feds should pay people to stay home while investing in a long-term recovery plan

Mary King

May 27, 2020

Around the world, housing is a prevention and a cure for COVID-19

COMMENTERY | It has never been clearer: The right to housing is ‘a matter of life and death’

Maimunah Mohd Sharif Leilani Farh

May 25, 2020

Pie chart: In the coming weeks, would you prefer to temporarily ... 53% move into hotel/motel, 13% movie into RV/car park, 8% self-organize a tent camp that won't get swept, 7% stay where I'm at ...

Survey: Moving into motels, hotels is top choice of unhoused people

DIRECTOR’S DESK | Street Roots and four partner organizations asked 97 houseless Portlanders where they’d prefer to live temporarily during the pandemic

Kaia Sand

May 22, 2020

FINDING FRINGE: Against the grain, this coastal man searches for universal human rights

Living modestly in the forestland of Lincoln County, David Peltier believes in breaking the cycle of poverty and ending isolation

Paul K. Haeder

May 19, 2020