That will only come if the housing crisis is addressed on multiple fronts. This week, Oregon’s House Democrats joined the chorus of elected officials calling for relief to the housing crisis facing the region. We trust, as with the emergency declarations ...
19 Nov 2015 - SR editorial board
COMMENTARY | We have the right to ask why affordable-housing development lags Urban renewal is the most powerful tool Portland has to direct development in the ways that we as a community want. Without it, we are at the mercy of private forces that we can ...
15 Oct 2015 - John Mulvey
We know we can be successful given the right resources and tools Someone asked me this week: Is the homeless and housing crisis really something that should be declared a state of emergency, or was it just politics? I don’t know. You tell me. Is having th ...
8 Oct 2015 - Israel Bayer
The Urban League of Portland urges City Council to enact bold anti-displacement measures Portland’s African-American community knows well that the repeated displacement of our people from their homes and neighborhoods is not an accident. It is the result ...
1 Oct 2015 - Tameka Taylor and Bruce Poinsette
The new investment will go to support "A Home For Everyone," a community partnership to end homelessness Mayor Charlie Hales and Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury announced this morning a $30 million city and county commitment to support ne ...
30 Sep 2015 - Israel Bayer
Vendor Harry Richards got his apartment keys this past week and has moved inside. “Thank you, thank you, thank you, Street Roots!” Harry said. “Through my own hard work, I’m back inside! Street Roots supported me and kept me in papers when I had hard time ...
17 Sep 2015 - Street Roots Staff
In the middle of the housing debate, we find both a bustling city and a city filled with human suffering People experiencing homelessness having sex in a doorway in downtown Portland. A camp full of bicycle parts. A group of people getting high or shootin ...
27 Aug 2015 - Israel Bayer
Public agency partners and community leaders seek solutions to basic life challenges Transportation, getting from point A to point B, is a simple part of people’s daily lives, yet it has a complex impact on our communities, physical health and family budg ...
20 Aug 2015 - Gerik Kransky
‘House Keys Not Handcuffs’ is an insightful testimony to the trials and triumphs of the homeless Paul Boden’s “ House Keys Not Handcuffs,” a dramatic and disconcerting book on homeless organizing, art and policy in San Francisco and elsewhere, begins with ...
28 Jul 2015 - Paul Von Blum
There’s a lot of reason to celebrate this Independence Day. July Fourth is a time to look back on the founding of the United States and the documents that shape and control our democracy. We saw the system at its best during the last days of June: the Sup ...
7 Jul 2015 - Janet Byrd