Sight Unseen: City’s count of people on the street finds some, but misses the broad scope of modern homeless demographics By Mara Grunbaum, Staff Writer Want to fill out a survey?” asked outreach worker Brandon Schwanz of a young man on a bench outside th ...
19 Feb 2009 - Street Roots
Full story: Making a pitch for tents (Story from June 27 issue) By Amanda Waldroupe One of the reverberating aftershocks of the three-week-long homeless protest outside City Hall is the question of whether Portland needs another " tent city " to ...
11 Jul 2008 - Street Roots
Housing puzzle: New Street Roots on the streets tomorrow (July 10) With a new housing commissioner, mayor and City Council on the horizon, Portland's affordable housing developers decided in January that it was time to start looking at their operatio ...
10 Jul 2008 - Street Roots