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With Portland Street Response, city is piloting for success and fewer obstacles

A compassionate approach to first response is popular, and we need that compassion to spill over to more areas The Portland Street Response pilot is a reality. This is a big opportunity, Portland. Now, let us take this will toward compassion, and extend i ...

22 Nov 2019 - Kaia Sand
Without parking, car and RV dwellers have nowhere to go

COMMENTARY | Cities must do better at counting residents who live in their automobiles, and then provide them with services and ample parking My neighbor, Billy, has lived for 17 years in a 20-foot-long recreational vehicle parked within a mostly industri ...

18 Oct 2019 - Graham Pruss
Assault on tent campers among spate of violence against unhoused

Injured when a truck rammed his tent, a Portland man says he's had to stop working At first, only the back half of the beat-up pickup truck with a faded-blue paint job can be seen in the security-camera video. About 10 yards behind the truck and to i ...

27 Sep 2019 - John Emshwiller
Ground Score puts homeless Portlanders to work for a fair wage

Workers collect and sort recyclables and trash that would otherwise be left on the ground or shipped to landfills The sun beats down on Audrey McCall Beach directly south of the Hawthorne Bridge, steps from the Eastbank Esplanade. Families cool off in the ...

2 Aug 2019 - Helen Hill
A democracy that reaches the unhoused

DIRECTOR’S DESK | It’s only appropriate that the people who have a key stake in the new Portland Street Response are asked to participate in the process of designing it Clipboards in hand, the teams dispatched to survey people on the streets about their e ...

26 Jul 2019 - Kaia Sand
Most cruelty complaints against homeless pet owners are baseless, says Multnomah County Animal Services

While the agency encourages people to call if they suspect animal abuse or neglect, the vast majority of complaints it receives are unfounded After sitting in traffic for a half-hour, we arrived at Southeast 35th Avenue and Yamhill Street. It was an unsea ...

12 Jul 2019 - Emily Green
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
Oh, the places we could go!

DIRECTOR’S DESK | Proposed portable toilets would shift funds used to clean up homeless camps toward facilities that foster dignity and public health If you soon see plaid- and PDX-carpet patterned portable toilets around the city, see, too, the promise o ...

17 May 2019 - Kaia Sand
Martin v. Boise confronts excuses about homelessness, demands action

COMMENTARY | The 9th Circuit ruling prevents cities from criminalizing homelessness Americans have a powerful and unique urge to blame homeless people for their own circumstances. This common misperception — that people choose to be homeless — is too ofte ...

12 Apr 2019 - Sara K. Rankin
Cities can’t criminalize homelessness: Appeals court upholds ruling

Sit-lie ordinances are 'cruel and unusual punishment' when no alternatives exist Local governments will have a harder time forcing homeless people out of public spaces after a ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that government cann ...

12 Apr 2019 - Ashley Archibald