Breaking: Safety net funding prevails in city budget hearing By Joanne Zuhl Staff Writer After months of speculation over budget cuts and service reductions, Portland’s safety net for the homeless and poor has tentatively been restored in this morning’s C ...
30 May 2012 - Street Roots
Holding the line: A day in the life of 211info’s call center By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer You can hear it, from many miles away; that vacillation between hope and defeat grinding within men and women as they try to hold it together for the duration of one ...
24 May 2012 - Street Roots
‘Domicile unknown’ By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer Laurie Crow would have been 54 on Dec. 27, 2011. Instead, she became one of 47. Only a few weeks before her birthday, she died curled up in her sleeping bag in a meadow near Going Street. Her partner, Claren ...
10 May 2012 - Street Roots
Mayor Sam Adams defends proposal on city surveillance cameras By Joanne Zuhl Staff Writer Mayor Sam Adams stood firm on his support of the proliferation of camera use by police under allegations from civil liberties advocates that they are ineffective and ...
2 May 2012 - Street Roots
An end to the madness? by Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer For the tens of thousands of Oregonians and their families who have lost their homes in the past four years, the recent announcement of the national mortgage settlement is of small comfort compared to th ...
28 Feb 2012 - Street Roots
Drug impact areas 240 people lighter after six months By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer Six months into operation, the city’s drug impact area program has excluded 240 defendants from the city’s downtown and inner eastside neighborhoods — nearly one in four of ...
25 Jan 2012 - Street Roots
Right 2 Dream Too denied waiver by city by Joanne Zuhl, staff writer Right 2 Dream Too has been denied a waiver from the city for its rest area for the homeless at the corner of Northeast Burnside and Fourth Avenue and now owes the city $641 for code viol ...
11 Jan 2012 - Street Roots
Making a dream reality: Right 2 Dream Too’s success flies in the face of skeptics [caption id="attachment_6517" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="A rendering of Right 2 Dream Too created by a local architecture firm ...
5 Jan 2012 - Street Roots
City opens up overnight camping option for select sites By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer For years, Portland’s anti-camping ordinance has been the target of countless demonstrations by the homeless and their supporters. They have marched, protested and held v ...
4 Jan 2012 - Street Roots
Right 2 Dream Too ask for hardship waiver against looming penalties for Fourth and Burnside camp [caption id="attachment_6362" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Members of Right 2 Dream Too at a recent meeting to ...
20 Dec 2011 - Street Roots