COMMENTARY | Their real goal may be to stop us from making them pay their fair share Two business associations have filed a legal challenge to Metro’s proposed May 2020 ballot measure to prevent and reduce homelessness. The grocers and manufacturers group ...
21 Mar 2020 - Mary King
DIRECTOR'S DESK | It's all-hands-on-deck when it comes to hygiene support We’re not helpless out here,” Raven Drake told me, standing in front of an eight-person tent that, she explained, would serve as a medical tent should any people in neighb ...
6 Mar 2020 - Kaia Sand
Oregon author Connie King Leonard’s YA novel draws from her own experience as a teacher with homeless students During the 2018-19 school year, more than 22,000 Oregon students, grades K-12, were homeless. They slept on couches with extended family or frie ...
28 Feb 2020 - Pat Zimmer
DIRECTOR’S DESK | Voters need to turn out in droves to pass this homeless-services measure The green and yellow tent backs up to a concrete piling on Naito Parkway. Behind the piling, more tents are equally spaced, an archipelago of brightly colored dwell ...
28 Feb 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR’S DESK | Creativity and resourcefulness are essential for people on the streets, but so are grand solutions from the public sector Mike leaned slightly on his cane as he walked, his white pit bull strutting jauntily next to him. Randy’s bag of ca ...
14 Feb 2020 - Kaia Sand
A statewide state of emergency could lead to real solutions without fear standing in the way This week, in our latest installment of Life on the Streets, vendors share their thoughts about fear — being fearful and being feared. “People either respond wit ...
24 Jan 2020 - SR editorial board
DIRECTOR’S DESK | This isn’t just a Portland problem; it’s an Oregon problem It is too easy to live in Portland and view homelessness as Portland’s problem. But here’s a startling perspective. Despite the fact that the Point in Time Count measured a sligh ...
17 Jan 2020 - Kaia Sand
COMMENTARY | Trans people experiencing homelessness find few protections from HUD Ben Carson, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, made news last year for his statements about transgender people. In a September 2019 meeting w ...
10 Jan 2020 - Jonah DeChants
COMMENTARY | The Portland woman died in July, a victim of the 'cleanup' policy the city is doubling down on In the midst of the Christmas, Hanukkah crush, even for Wiccans and Pagans, it’s easy to overlook a relatively recent national ritual tha ...
10 Jan 2020 - Desiree Hellegers
COMMENTARY | The commissioner’s coalition-building style created lasting improvements in how we look at solving the crisis I remember the first time I met Nick Fish. He had an almost naive optimism about what he wanted to accomplish on the housing front. ...
10 Jan 2020 - Israel Bayer