Sex, lies and homelessness [caption id="attachment_7780" align="alignnone" width="500"] Maggie Lorenz-Todd looks out from the bedroom of her Portland home. “We’re going to do everything and anything we can to not be outside a ...
20 Nov 2012 - Street Roots
We say no to Constitutional Amendment 79! Street Roots, The Community Alliance of Tenants, JOIN and the Oregon Opportunity Network are all coming out against Measure 79. Constitutional Amendment 79: Amends the Constitution: Prohibits real estate transfer ...
11 Oct 2012 - Street Roots
A very gendered experience: Survey reveals startling statistics about the health and experiences of homeless women By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer Karen Creed’s walk is a limp. As she moves down the concrete path near southeast Portland’s St. Francis’ c ...
13 Sep 2011 - Street Roots
Street Roots joins housing group on a two-day peer learning trip to Seattle Street Roots is joining Commissioner Nick Fish later today (by bus due to a mudslide along the Amtrak line) — along with an array of city and county representatives, the Portland ...
2 Mar 2011 - Street Roots
Talking faith-based community and homelessness By Israel Bayer, Staff Writer Paul Schroeder is the author of “On Social Justice: St. Basil the Great,” and the creator of Building the New City, a curriculum on homelessness for faith communities in use by c ...
15 Nov 2010 - Street Roots
City pumps $1 million into housing bottleneck By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer The Portland Housing Bureau announced this month how it plans to spend a $1 million special allocation to address the rise in homelessness in Portland. The money is being used ...
5 Nov 2010 - Street Roots
Mother’s Day, 2010: A view from the street By Nana M., Contributing Columnist Surreal…an out-of-body experience…can’t really be happening to me. I wandered around near my old home in southeast Portland, searching for a likely place to lay my sleeping bag, ...
12 Oct 2010 - Street Roots
Housing placement agency moves east — along with their clients By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer Celebration was in order on Friday, April 16 in an unassuming looking, one-story building off NE 82nd Avenue and NE Halsey that once housed a sketchy bridge c ...
28 Apr 2010 - Street Roots
Miracle on Portland's streets Street Roots and Leah Nash recently highlighted Melissa and Sean's lives and their struggles with mental health and homelessness. Through the stability of Street Roots and working with JOIN, we have a success story ...
9 Dec 2009 - Street Roots
The life of Leo Rhodes Leo Rhodes is a Street Roots vendor, columnist, board member and homeless advocate. His work has been highlighted in the newspaper throughout 2009. He sells the newspaper almost daily in the Hollywood neighborhood in Northeast and h ...
1 Dec 2009 - Street Roots