What Portland needs is real leadership on the homeless and housing front to develop a permanent funding source to give people a safe place to call home. Many of us working in the trenches are working to make that dream a reality and looking at a variety o ...
10 Jul 2013 - Israel Bayer
The Street Roots online auction is live, running today through Monday, July 29, at www.streetrootsauction.org. Visit the site and you’ll have a chance to support Street Roots and get some great items in return. The organization moved the auction from Oct ...
27 Jul 2013 - Israel Bayer
The past month we have seen a media frenzy surrounding homelessness. That’s why I cringed a little bit when I read the Willamette Week’s cover story on homelessness titled, “The Real World: Portland.” The author interviewed ten people living on the street ...
5 Sep 2013 - Israel Bayer
Street Roots is a proud partner again this year with the Willamette Week’s 2013 Give!Guide and more than 100 community organizations. These organizations work day-in and day-out to make Portland a better city — a city that we can all be proud to call home ...
21 Nov 2013 - Israel Bayer
Nothing about publishing a newspaper is easy. Being able to maintain a timely and informative product that engages and educates the public is even harder. Street Roots works tirelessly to bring readers insights and stories that represent the community we ...
21 Dec 2013 - Israel Bayer
What happens when a group of people experiencing homelessness and poverty decide to take matters into their own hands and organize to improve their quality of life? Unfortunately, they often are looked upon as a nuisance in the community. It’s common know ...
16 Jan 2014 - Israel Bayer
People often ask me, what motivated you to get into this line of work and to be engaged with politics. There’s a lot of different ways I could answer that question. Growing up in rural-industrial America, my first relationship to anything even remotely po ...
5 Feb 2014 - Israel Bayer
A good friend of mine told me last week that he had read that Utah is ending homelessness. He read it all over the Internet. Oh boy, I thought to myself. After reading more and talking to advocates around the country, it was clear that the public was bein ...
28 Feb 2014 - Israel Bayer
New readers often tell me about Street Roots, “I had no idea the content was so good. You’re actually producing real, in-depth journalism.” Why yes — yes we are. Readers then usually follow with, “I wish more people understood the concept and read the new ...
17 Mar 2014 - Israel Bayer
Did you know Street Roots is working towards going weekly? It’s a big deal. Going weekly will mean stabilizing your neighborhood vendor’s income. It will mean fostering more relationships between people experiencing poverty and the general public. It will ...
12 Apr 2014 - Israel Bayer