The life of Leo Rhodes Leo Rhodes is a Street Roots vendor, columnist, board member and homeless advocate. His work has been highlighted in the newspaper throughout 2009. He sells the newspaper almost daily in the Hollywood neighborhood in Northeast and h ...
1 Dec 2009 - Street Roots
Dignity Village today Dignity Village has battled through a turbulent past to arrive where it is today. Starting as a group of eight men and women who pitched five tents on public land nearly nine years ago, the village today is a far cry from a tent city ...
27 May 2009 - Street Roots
Sight Unseen: City’s count of people on the street finds some, but misses the broad scope of modern homeless demographics By Mara Grunbaum, Staff Writer Want to fill out a survey?” asked outreach worker Brandon Schwanz of a young man on a bench outside th ...
19 Feb 2009 - Street Roots
Full story: Making a pitch for tents (Story from June 27 issue) By Amanda Waldroupe One of the reverberating aftershocks of the three-week-long homeless protest outside City Hall is the question of whether Portland needs another " tent city " to ...
11 Jul 2008 - Street Roots
Housing puzzle: New Street Roots on the streets tomorrow (July 10) With a new housing commissioner, mayor and City Council on the horizon, Portland's affordable housing developers decided in January that it was time to start looking at their operatio ...
10 Jul 2008 - Street Roots