We want to change the criminal justice system – and we want you to design a logo Street Roots’ office bustles with the leadership and talents of people on the streets. On one recent day, Street Roots vendors circled around Haven Wheelock of Outside In to ...
25 Oct 2019 - Kaia Sand
Street Roots rode along with an Enhanced Crisis Intervention Team officer to find out Zachary Nell signed up to respond to calls involving people in mental crisis, the kind of call that occurs dozens of times a day in Portland. The personable, 33-year-old ...
11 Oct 2019 - John Emshwiller
REPORT | Portland Street Response survey, conducted with and for unhoused people There’s plenty of Trumpian cruelty toward the poorest people in our nation in the news. While it is tempting to challenge that wrong-headedness head-on, I will challenge it i ...
19 Sep 2019 - Kaia Sand
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
DIRECTOR’S DESK | As the city explores how to pilot Portland Street Response, it’s reaching out to unhoused residents A snoring dog lay at the feet of Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty as she leaned back against a table, nodding. A woman described how when she ...
12 Jul 2019 - Kaia Sand
In line with Street Roots' campaign, Wheeler earmarks $500,000 in contingency funds for an alternative first response to crises on the streets Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler recommended $500,000 for Portland Street Response in his proposed city budget re ...
1 May 2019 - SR editorial board
DIRECTOR’S DESK | While Portland Police Response addresses problems upstream, we're also tackling the barriers downstream I intend to write about hope, but to do that, I’ll start with some bleak moments. Bear with me. Kaia Sand is the executive di ...
26 Apr 2019 - Kaia Sand
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
DIRECTOR’S DESK | If there's no funding for a compassionate response to crises on the streets, then support of the plan goes nowhere We’ve heard a tremendous response to the Portland Street Response plan published in our March 15 edition. The grounds ...
29 Mar 2019 - Kaia Sand
A better response to people on Portland's streets might be the linchpin to creating the space for more effective policing Without the political will to comprehensively address Portland’s houseless crisis, the Portland Police Bureau will continue to s ...
22 Mar 2019 - SR editorial board