Close ties raise questions about fairness in the city’s effort to alleviate homelessness After weeks of failed attempts to get homeless Portlanders cleared from several streets downtown near Northwest Third Avenue to make way for a pending event, Daniel K ...
30 Mar 2022 - Piper McDaniel
OPINION | An audit of the state’s Home Mortgage Interest Deduction reveals the tax policy’s inequities The largest government subsidy for housing in Oregon does not help people exit homelessness. Rather, it benefits high-income, white, urban Oregonians, a ...
23 Mar 2022 - Kaia Sand
Under emergency authorization from Portland mayor, Dan Ryan announces new SRV site locations W hen Portland Commissioner Dan Ryan introduced the Safe Rest Village initiative last year, he planned to have six new tiny home-style homeless shelter villages o ...
9 Mar 2022 - Taylor Griggs
The grace period for back rent is over, vulnerable communities expected to be disproportionately impacted Evictions are on the rise in Oregon and experts say vulnerable communities will be disproportionately impacted. Eviction filings have climbed in rece ...
2 Mar 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Opinion | The $400 million legislative housing package protects human rights; no city can use the funding for sweeps People survive in tents in Deschutes National Forest, along the Umpqua River of Roseburg, on the sandy knolls of Lincoln City. In Medford, ...
2 Mar 2022 - Kaia Sand
Street Roots spoke to more than 12 unhoused Portlanders living along roads and freeways included in Mayor Ted Wheeler’s Feb. 4 emergency order banning encampments in high-traffic corridors. Of the few who had heard of the order, none were clear on if they ...
23 Feb 2022 - Henry Brannan
Portland city government has no plans to relax sweep criteria in safer areas following emergency order Mayor Ted Wheeler announced an emergency order prohibiting homeless encampments along an identified list of dangerous roadways on Feb. 4, drawing immedi ...
23 Feb 2022 - Piper McDaniel and K. Rambo
Forcing people into a camp patrolled by military personnel, unarmed or otherwise, doesn’t end or address homelessness, it simply contains it in a carceral complex Mayoral aide Sam Adams’ proposal to build mass camps for unhoused Portlanders and staff them ...
14 Feb 2022 - SR editorial board
Rising unemployment, financial instability and pandemic uncertainty prompt uptick in renter organizing P andemic woes and landlord harassment sparked a surge in tenant unions. Early in the third year of the pandemic, as the omicron variant unravels the sm ...
2 Feb 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Opinion | Knowledge from the unhoused provides critical insight The Street Roots ambassadors grew animated discussing the topic of ranked-choice voting. They considered how this method of voting could motivate people to vote because they might feel like t ...
2 Feb 2022 - Kaia Sand