This month, a seldom-quoted document called the Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness got a bit of a makeover. It’s only five years old, but the nation’s only comprehensive policy for addressing homelessness was falling behind the times. ...
29 Jun 2015 - SR editorial board
For many years, the budget process for Multnomah County was a painful study in having to do more with less. That is not the case for now. This year, Chair Deborah Kafoury’s 2016 proposed budget is $1.7 billion, with more than $90 million in expected new ...
12 Jun 2015 - SR editorial board
Mayor Charlie Hales and the rest of City Council continue to send a message that housing matters. In his 2015-16 proposed budget, the mayor has allocated an additional $5.9 million on housing. This comes out of a nearly $50 million surplus the city has th ...
7 May 2015 - SR editorial board
This year both the City of Portland and Multnomah County launched A Home For Everyone, a new plan to address housing and homelessness in our community. Mayor Charlie Hales and city housing commissioner, Dan Saltzman, along with Multnomah County Chair Debo ...
17 Apr 2015 - SR editorial board
Gretchen Kafoury passed away of natural causes on Friday, March 13 at the age of 72. Like others, Street Roots was sad to hear the news, and overcome with emotion to not only honor, but to carry on her work. To say that Oregon lost a great leader seems in ...
19 Mar 2015 - SR editorial board
Oregon has a proud history of protecting its wildlife and natural resources. We also have significant environmental problems. The latter is particularly frustrating when the best intentions are left to languish under the weight of an underfunded bureaucra ...
25 Feb 2015 - SR editorial board
In his State of the City address, delivered last week before City Club of Portland, Mayor Charlie Hales talked about spending the past two years “righting the ship.” Financially, the city is stronger than it has been for several years, with commissioners ...
6 Feb 2015 - SR editorial board
In a time when prison reform looks to be gaining momentum in Oregon and around the country, Multnomah County, one of the nation’s most liberal counties, is headed in the wrong direction. As reported by Street Roots earlier this month (“Captive consumers,” ...
23 Jan 2015 - SR editorial board
First, let’s preface what we’re about to say with a commonly accepted generality: The economy is improving. Second, consider how much more glaring that generality makes the latest study on how much taxpayers are subsidizing the miserly habits of corporati ...
16 Jan 2015 - SR editorial board
Welcome to the inaugural weekly edition of Street Roots! Man y people have asked us how going weekly would change our editorial content. In a way, it won’t change at all. Our aspiration has always been to cover a wide variety of issues important to Oregon ...
31 Dec 2014 - SR editorial board