Colleen Sinsky reflects on the 2015 Housing Opportunity Day at the state Capitol in Salem, Oregon Most homeless people don’t care about politics. They just think that everything is "how it’s going to be.” This was my friend Mike, a grizzled veteran ...
19 Mar 2015 - Colleen Sinsky
In this edition, Colleen Sinsky shines a light on an element of homelessness few people outside of the field truly understand. That being homeless often means being alone, in the most extreme sense under the most extreme conditions. It becomes tangible fo ...
18 Aug 2014 - SR editorial board
My heart breaks each time I am listed as the sole “emergency contact” above a blank “next of kin” line on an apartment application. It is sadly not uncommon for people who have been homeless to lack even that basic human need: a reliable person to call wh ...
16 Aug 2014 - Colleen Sinsky