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
JOHS reduced supply distribution to a single pickup per month, advocates say this decision has dire consequences As another cold winter approaches, homeless Portlanders will soon face bitter conditions many are ill-equipped to confront, and outreach worke ...
2 Nov 2022 - Tyler Walicek
As fire danger escalates in Southern Oregon, Medford City Council candidate Matt Roberts seeks to criminalize those living on the frontlines of climate change On a sweltering October day in Medford, Oregon, five Medford police officers approached a tent n ...
19 Oct 2022 - Sam Becker
Candidates running in districts 33, 38, 41, 43 and 49 Maxine Dexter (D), State Rep. District 33, Portland, Incumbent, Submitted answers Maxine Dexter (D), District 33 1. What do you believe is the main cause of the homelessness crisis? In terms of concret ...
12 Oct 2022 - Aurora Biggers and Piper McDaniel and K. Rambo
NAYA, which already maintains three affordable development projects in the Cully neighborhood, plans to begin construction on a new project in the Portsmouth neighborhood next year As rents continue to skyrocket, increasing numbers of renters across the U ...
31 Aug 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Street Roots talks with key official about the program’s aims to alleviate homelessness by year’s end Communities across the country face an unprecedented rate of homelessness. Once considered a phenomenon generally confined to big cities by the public an ...
26 Aug 2022 - Piper McDaniel
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
Cost of living, inflation and ongoing pandemic impacts contribute to record levels of poverty "It feels like I’m the string quartet on the Titanic," M. said — referencing the quartet playing as the ship sank — while they cradled two paper grocer ...
17 Aug 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Mayor Ted Wheeler declared a state of emergency July 22 due to the impending danger of extreme heat, but city contractors continued sweeping homeless encampments until at least July 25 at noon While city and county agencies, as well as mutual aid groups, ...
3 Aug 2022 - K. Rambo
“Homelessness is not a political issue. It’s about human lives.” What was once a battered Econo Lodge, a strip of rooms bordering a blacktop asphalt parking lot near downtown Hillsboro, is now a flagship rehousing project offering temporary transitional h ...
3 Aug 2022 - Piper McDaniel