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Street Roots vendor writing | Cleanup day at the Laurelhurst camp

From Central City Concern to city staffers to Ground Score, many teams joined the effort. Why can’t we do this for all Portland camps?

Bronwyn Carver

July 14, 2021

Eboni Brown talks to Street Roots ambassadors

Kaia Sand | Five Street Roots ambassadors land jobs at Greater Good Northwest

OPINION | The Ambassador Program emerged from the pandemic, and now, new doors are opening

Kaia Sand

July 14, 2021

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

Ga lo Vann

July 7, 2021

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

Andrew Hedden

July 7, 2021

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

Mary King

July 7, 2021

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.

Kaia Sand

July 7, 2021

Street Roots Podcast | NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof wants to make you uncomfortable

Episode 20: The “Tightrope” author and longtime Oregonian talks about using his platform to draw people’s attention to our nation’s inequities

DeVon Pouncey

July 3, 2021

Confucius Plaza Apartments building exterior

Opinion | The commons: Imagining a better normal

Facing problems of gentrification and increased housing costs, many communities have turned housing into commons

Jason Hopper

June 30, 2021

Diary of a Victims’ Advocate | A labyrinth of legal hurdles for immigrants and refugees

OPINION: Existing outside the dominant culture can result in unintended life-changing consequences

H. A.

June 30, 2021

Biketown e-bikes parked outside of Hacienda CDC

Opinion | E-mobility for all keeps getting closer

MOVING FORWARD | Electric bikes come with substantial environmental and social benefits, but some marginalized communities are being left out. Here’s why — and what they’re doing about it.

Henry Latourette Miller

June 30, 2021