Back by popular demand, Street Roots has a new edition on your neighborhood corner starting Friday, Feb. 6. Our previous two issues have sold out, so take a moment and give a little business to those friendly vendors who are working every day to deliver the news. Here’s what you can expect in the latest Street Roots:
Sight unseen: City’s count of people on the street finds some, but misses the broad scope of modern homeless demographics. Mara Grunbaum reports on the latest endeavor to find out exactly how many people are without homes in Portland.
Document fee proposal returns with reinforcements: Housing advocates have garnered the backing of homebuilders, bankers and Realtors to tack an additional fee on recording documents to establish a landmark funding stream for affordable housing in Oregon.
City housing director resigns post: A brief Q and A with Will White, who has headed up the city’s Bureau of Housing and Community Development for five years. He resigned this week just as the city lays out a roadmap for a new housing mechanism.
'We’re not crazy:' Gulf War illness is real — deal with it, veterans tell national panel.
Elsewhere man: Sociologist Dalton Conley takes a wide-angle view of the newly hatched middle class.
And that’s just skimming the surface. Pick up your copy for a cozy read over coffee and let us know what you think. Write us here or send your reflections to joanne@streetroots.org As always, thank you for being a part of the Street Roots team!