OPINION | Portland City Council’s camping-ban vote ignores concerns of unhoused Portlanders, undermines progress Like a car wrenching into a U-turn on a slick and treacherous road, Portland City Council dangerously pivoted our city when it voted to ban un ...
7 Nov 2022 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | On the verge of investments in shelter, housing and services, city sweeps only serve to impede improvement Construction fences angled in odd directions shape the phantom of what was a smattering of tents on Northwest Second Avenue and Couch Stre ...
8 Jun 2022 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Sweeps force people out of sight, but do nothing for long term housing options We sat down for our weekly meeting but there was no way Street Roots editor in chief K. Rambo and I could concentrate. The blue and red police lights flashed in the w ...
18 May 2022 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | An audit of the state’s Home Mortgage Interest Deduction reveals the tax policy’s inequities The largest government subsidy for housing in Oregon does not help people exit homelessness. Rather, it benefits high-income, white, urban Oregonians, a ...
23 Mar 2022 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | The $400 million legislative housing package protects human rights; no city can use the funding for sweeps People survive in tents in Deschutes National Forest, along the Umpqua River of Roseburg, on the sandy knolls of Lincoln City. In Medford, ...
2 Mar 2022 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Knowledge from the unhoused provides critical insight The Street Roots ambassadors grew animated discussing the topic of ranked-choice voting. They considered how this method of voting could motivate people to vote because they might feel like t ...
2 Feb 2022 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Public education is a right in this country. Why not housing? What if people had a right to housing in the way that they have a right to a K-12 public education? That’s a question Andy Nelson, executive director of Impact NW, posed to me. Impact ...
26 Jan 2022 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Domicile Unknown report shows people on the streets die decades before their time For nearly a decade now, Street Roots has published the Domicile Unknown report with Multnomah County and the Multnomah County medical examiner. Named after the ca ...
15 Dec 2021 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Supported by Project Turnkey these shelters brough stability to those seeking safety The clear light of Umpqua Valley streamed through the Douglas firs and the cedar trees. This view surrounds people who seek to escape violence through motel-bas ...
8 Dec 2021 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR’S DESK | Our president, who deplores the visibility of homelessness, doesn't understand the federal government’s role in the housing crisis On Monday, Trump free-associated about homelessness with Fox News’ right-wing provocateur Tucker Carl ...
3 Jul 2019 - Kaia Sand