Resources rather than jail is the goal of a future program to address homeless people who commit low-level crimes In an effort to stop the revolving door of homeless repeat offenders through Multnomah County’s criminal court system, local government agenc ...
2 May 2016 - Emily Green
Imagine you’re a single parent in Portland. You’re stringing together paychecks to keep up with your exorbitant rent in the apartment complex on the edge of town, the only one you can afford. Despite your best efforts to save money, you’re vulnerable to a ...
29 Apr 2016 - Nick Sauvie, Maxine Fitzpatrick, Eli Spevak
Vendor Assistant: The vendor assistant would be responsible for opening and closing and overseeing the Street Roots vendor office on Sunday and Monday from 7:30am to 3:00pm. This position is for 16-hours a week at $15.50 an hour. Basic job duties: Open an ...
29 Apr 2016 - Israel Bayer
Cities in Oregon and on the West Coast are taking measures to boost affordable housing, fight homelessness Portland is experiencing a dire shortage of affordable housing, but not one that is unique to the city. The housing crisis, as it has become known, ...
28 Apr 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
BOOK REVIEW | James Kilgore explains our dubious grip on freedom in ‘Understanding Mass Incarceration’ The irony of our criminal justice system is that our “land of the free” locks up more of its people than any other country. As such, it’s an outlier in ...
28 Apr 2016 - Mike Wold
Dennis, who has made friends through Street Roots, now stays in a shelter; his next goal is an apartment Dennis Chavez is an Army veteran with a different kind of mission: finding permanent housing and a steady job. He was born in Orange County, Calif., a ...
28 Apr 2016 - Leonora Ko
Robert James Campbell died homeless, leaving behind a treasure-trove of photographs from a transitional era of jazz in New York. Jessica Ferber’s new book reveals the story he captured. Portland is almost synonymous with coffee shops. So it shouldn’t have ...
28 Apr 2016 - Brian R. Page
In court, civil rights groups question constitutionality of laws business leaders want the mayor to enforce On April 21, several area civil rights groups, charities and religious organizations united to file an amicus brief in the ongoing appeal of Alexan ...
28 Apr 2016 - Emily Green
Harold Johnson, a longtime teacher and poet, aspired to write a novel. Decades later, his goal has come to fruition. Last fall, Portland poet Harold Johnson launched his novel at Broadway Books, and a standing-room-only crowd filled the Northeast Portland ...
28 Apr 2016 - Martha Gies
Many people on the streets are good, common folk, caught out on the wire The stories of people experiencing homelessness are many. Starting Friday, April 29, readers will be able to get a 32-page zine of stories about people’s experience of sleeping outs ...
28 Apr 2016 - Israel Bayer