What kind of a cold, mean, and even sadistic homeless service provider would you need to be to tell a family of three, four or five people living in a single room occupancy hotel or “illegally” sleeping on the floor of a friend’s apartment that is despera ...
12 Aug 2014 - Paul Boden
Central City Concern’s Health Services Advisory Council gives consumers the opportunity to express their and peers opinions on how the Old Town Clinic operates, and empowers members to have a voice in the community. Toward this endeavor, I had the opportu ...
17 Jun 2014 - Samm McCrary
My organization, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, works to end homelessness in the United States. As the Law Center’s policy director, most people would expect me to be pounding the pavement here in Washington, D.C. – lobbying the admi ...
16 Apr 2014 - Jeremy Rosen
HUD hopes for the future with Secretary Shawn Donovan From the August 21 edition of Street Roots Shaun Donovan, named secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development served as an intern at the National Coalition for the Homeless when his c ...
2 Sep 2009 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Thanks to all of you who wrote in about our vendors lately. We’ve known how great they are for years, and it’s good to hear it from their customers, too. So, if you haven’t talked to your vendor lately, you’ve got a great reason to swing by ...
20 Aug 2009 - Street Roots
NW Section 8 casualties get some relief HUD: An estimated one out of every 200 Oregonians are homeless Nearly 300 families in Northwest Oregon got some breathing room this month- a one-month extension on assistance to keep them in housing. In late May, th ...
10 Jul 2009 - Street Roots