DIRECTOR’S DESK | Street Roots and four partner organizations asked 97 houseless Portlanders where they’d prefer to live temporarily during the pandemic Over the past few weeks, the Street Roots vendor-led Coronavirus Action Team fanned out, offering unho ...
22 May 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR’S DESK | Street Roots is connecting impoverished people with cash assistance, stimulus checks and tax credits, but it’s not enough These days, I think about money a lot. Where is it, and how can it get into the pockets of poor folks? An antidote ...
15 May 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR’S DESK | There are some things we all can do to stay focused on everybody’s public health The disconcerting phone calls started coming in this week. Antsy to open up businesses, people were once again complaining about all the tents. My response ...
8 May 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR'S DESK | We can build a better future, even though we don’t yet know what that is A wedding during a pandemic. Unhoused people running an office. A rainbow in a stormy sky. During these undeniably hard times many of us grapple with new expe ...
24 Apr 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR'S DESK | Street Roots has supported this effort coordinated by Join to open campsites on city land After several weeks of intensive planning between city workers, community organizers and organizations, three temporary camp villages are set ...
10 Apr 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR’S DESK | As we confront this pandemic, we continue to look toward our best future There’s nothing incremental about this moment. At Street Roots, we’ve developed a theory of action: When we solve for one problem, we also solve for something else ...
27 Mar 2020 - Kaia Sand