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Coming to terms with our societal sepsis

DIRECTOR’S DESK | There are a lot of ill people surviving on the streets, and they are being left behind Earlier this week, I looked around in the vendor office. Of the six vendors who were at tables, drinking coffee and chatting, three had wheelchairs; t ...

7 Jun 2019 - Kaia Sand
Marchers trek from Portland to Salem for housing, homeless rights

PHOTOS | Advocates participating in the weeklong Give Us Shelter March are calling for Oregon to declare a state of emergency on housing Advocating for a state of emergency to be declared on Oregon’s housing crisis, demonstrators set off from Portland on ...

31 May 2019 - Street Roots
SR editorial: Rental screening changes are needed to tackle inequity

Commonly accepted practices are preventing good renters from getting into housing in Portland Across our city, too many people are homeless or unstably housed. What we don’t need are insurmountable barriers to housing that target people of color and those ...

19 Apr 2019 - SR editorial board
The connection between eviction and suicide

Understanding the link has created opportunities for training and prevention in Oregon “Breaking the Silence” is a statewide media collaboration aimed at putting a spotlight on the public health crisis of suicide in Oregon and offering our readers, listen ...

5 Apr 2019 - Amanda Waldroupe
SR editorial: Oregon renter-protections bill is the least we can do

Limits on no-cause evictions and rent increases are a necessary first step, but there’s more to be done The Oregon Legislature is already moving on renter protections. That’s a good sign. On Feb. 4, the Senate Housing Committee, chaired by Sen. Shemia Fag ...

1 Feb 2019 - SR editorial board
Camp sweep comes as city takes over on ODOT land

Two Street Roots vendors had been living in the camp for months without hassle On Wednesday, Jan. 10, David Samson called the Street Roots office for his fiancé, Bettyjo Griffiths. His message: Come quickly, their camp was being swept. Before Bettyjo left ...

11 Jan 2019 - Kaia Sand
County steps in to help tenants facing eviction at Lincoln Hotel

The vulnerable residents of this affordable complex in downtown Portland have found an ally The 31 low-income tenants facing eviction from the Lincoln Hotel in downtown Portland have found an ally in Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury. Before a Jan. ...

11 Jan 2019 - Amanda Waldroupe
SR editorial: Time for Oregon Legislature to discuss rent stabilization

We’re in a housing crisis. We need to lift the pre-emption on rent control. We cannot build our way out of our housing crisis. The free market will always cleave to profits as high as the market can bear. And in a city as desirable as Portland, regardless ...

4 Jan 2019 - SR editorial board
For David Schwimmer, new film brings deeper empathy, understanding of homeless crisis

The actor talks about producing a Christmas movie – a story of people in temporary housing trying to survive poverty “I had a friend who was homeless for two years, living on Skid Row in Los Angeles. He kept it a secret from us, his close friends. We had ...

14 Dec 2018 - Adrian Lobb
Federal rules stifle Portland-area efforts to house chronically homeless

A mentally disabled senior's inability to qualify for appropriate assistance underscores the struggle Despite an attempt to get the most vulnerable among Portland’s homeless population into housing, some highly qualified people are being left out in ...

21 Sep 2018 - Emily Green