OPINION | Street Roots’ winter fund drive is a critical time for the organization, homeless Portlanders and local journalism Street Roots vendors are bustling all around the city. You might be chatting with your vendor after you picked up groceries. Maybe ...
30 Nov 2022 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | The Behavioral Health Resource Center adds drop-in, showers, laundry and shelter It’s easy to spot the new Behavioral Health Resource Center downtown at Southwest Park Avenue and Oak Street because it’s adorned with a three-story mural by artist ...
23 Nov 2022 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Portland City Council’s camping-ban vote ignores concerns of unhoused Portlanders, undermines progress Like a car wrenching into a U-turn on a slick and treacherous road, Portland City Council dangerously pivoted our city when it voted to ban un ...
7 Nov 2022 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Wheeler, Ryan proposal joins a long line of city actions countered by protests and lawsuits On Oct. 21, Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Dan Ryan proposed “a citywide ban on self-sited unsanctioned encampments coupled with designated alternati ...
2 Nov 2022 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | It is the best of plans, it is the worst of plans: Talk to those impacted before voting to change their lives The mayor’s office, along with Commissioner Dan Ryan, unleashed the best of the plans and the worst of plans, with no evidence that unh ...
26 Oct 2022 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Two cycling events show how simple it is to be considerate, inclusive of unhoused neighbors The sun was low in Old Town as bikers pulled up to the corner of West Burnside Street and Northwest Third Avenue. Soon, the corner was bustling with cycl ...
31 Aug 2022 - Kaia Sand
Director’s Desk | These deaths are the horrible outcome of inequitable access to housing and other healthcare necessities The Little Match Girl had no good options. She contended with poverty and freezing cold, Hans Christian Andersen writes in his 19th-c ...
24 Aug 2022 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Spurred by need and creativity, Street Roots' growth demands more space Jason found Street Roots its new organizational home. It was February of 2021, and I was biking around Old Town, a map of properties printed from Portland Maps clutched ...
17 Aug 2022 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Street Roots invests in building on Northwest Third Avenue and West Burnside Street, plans to renovate A man walked to the corner of Northwest Third Avenue and West Burnside Street, moving slowly, likely worn from weathering nights outside. I ge ...
10 Aug 2022 - Kaia Sand
I'm proud that Street Roots received a Portland Clean Energy Fund grant Our city is poised to make a large investment in climate change equity — and that’s a really big deal. I’m proud that Street Roots is one of 65 organizations to receive grants fr ...
3 Aug 2022 - Kaia Sand