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Kaia Sand | How do we create 3,000 liveable spaces for people without criminalizing them?

Opinion | We can go bigger — and kinder
By
Kaia Sand
February 23, 2022
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Editorial | You're startling us, Sam

Forcing people into a camp patrolled by military personnel, unarmed or otherwise, doesn’t end or address homelessness, it simply contains it in a carceral complex
By
SR editorial board
February 14, 2022
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Opinion | It’s tough to be old and poor

By
Michael Hopcroft
February 9, 2022
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"Hope" is displayed above a tent

Kaia Sand | Mayor’s emergency order displaces unhoused people

Opinion | The order lacks constructive measures. Where are people expected to go?
By
Kaia Sand
February 9, 2022
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A photo of Donovan Scribes holding a Pan-African flag with the Oregon sky in the background. The sky and sun are bright in the background.

Opinion | ‘Why Scribes?’ The long, ancestral journey that led me to change my name

A story of family, history and reimagination of tradition
By
Donovan Scribes
February 9, 2022
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A cracked pink piggy bank is held together by two bandages.

Opinion | Using austerity to fight inflation falls short

New policies that better support workers and employ more people are needed
By
Martin Hart-Landsberg
February 2, 2022
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Raven Drake speaks with ambassadors outside the Street Roots office.

Kaia Sand | Unhoused people must have a voice in policy

Opinion | Knowledge from the unhoused provides critical insight
By
Kaia Sand
February 2, 2022
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A row of houses painted vibrants colors.

Kaia Sand | Imagining a right to housing for all

OPINION | Public education is a right in this country. Why not housing?
By
Kaia Sand
January 26, 2022
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A photo of Robin Burek, Portland Street Response Program Manager, and Haika Mushi, Community Health Worker holding a box outside of Street Roots office.

Kaia Sand | Dear People for Portland, Don’t abuse the intent of Portland Street Response

OPINION | The crisis response program is designed to meet people with compassion in their greatest times of need
By
Kaia Sand
January 19, 2022
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A photo of the print issue of Street Roots from 2009 showing Art's column.

‘Some time on the ranch can do a man some good’

In memory of longtime Street Roots elder Art Garcia, a column from the vaults
By
Art Garcia Kaia Sand
January 12, 2022

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