Stand with Street Roots. Together, we will weather this storm. Street Roots not only needs your support – we want your support. Street Roots fully understands the gravity of the current political climate. The question before us remains — how does a local ...
20 Apr 2017 - Israel Bayer
We can get ahead of the curve on homelessness Young people grow up understanding that having people experiencing homelessness in their city is simply a fact of life. It’s a sad reality. The truth is mass homelessness hasn’t always existed in American citi ...
13 Apr 2017 - Israel Bayer
Turnover in political leadership, Trump's threats leave Ted Wheeler with a daunting task People ask me all of the time, “What do you think of Mayor Wheeler?” I tell them, I don’t know the mayor well, but from my short time working with him he’s one o ...
30 Mar 2017 - Israel Bayer
Trump's grave promises make local and state housing legislation essential In the past few months, a bar owner brandished an assault rifle at police. He was drunk and upset at individuals experiencing homelessness in the community. Another man tossed ...
16 Mar 2017 - Israel Bayer
House Bill 2215 would end criminalization of sleeping while homeless, support basic human rights Homelessness is hell. Sleep deprivation. Verbal taunts. Physical violence. Surviving in the cold and wet. Being displaced by law enforcement on a routine basi ...
2 Mar 2017 - Israel Bayer
Without the camp, hundreds of people on the streets will be isolated Right 2 Dream Too, the 5-year-old rest stop that serves more than 100 people experiencing homelessness, offers critical services in Portland’s Old Town/Chinatown. Some people don’t want ...
23 Feb 2017 - Israel Bayer
We must organize, not demonize: Resist! I’ve never really trusted or liked American politics, even though I’m deeply engrossed in it. Much of the reason I ended up on the path I’m on was due to my own circumstances with poverty, mentors who influenced me ...
16 Feb 2017 - Israel Bayer
Oregon's House speaker says she needs our help to 'create the silver lining' Tina Kotek is Oregon’s speaker of the House and a representative serving District 44, North and Northeast Portland. Her district includes St. Johns, the Port of Po ...
11 Feb 2017 - Israel Bayer
President's executive actions, proposed state cuts spell disaster for Oregonians Trying to understand all of the policy decisions being made by both the Trump administration and the Oregon State Legislature is like waiting for the impact of a car cra ...
26 Jan 2017 - Israel Bayer
DIRECTOR'S DESK | Portland's mayor says his priorities are protecting renters' rights, adding affordable housing I had the opportunity to sit down with Mayor Ted Wheeler last week in the midst of the snowstorm to talk about housing and home ...
19 Jan 2017 - Israel Bayer