An increasing number of older Oregonians end up on the streets while local and state initiatives seek to mend a faltering safety net The intersection of poverty and aging is a precarious place. This is the liminal space where homelessness and serious heal ...
3 Jan 2024 - Ellen Clarke
A bill to give homeless people the right to be left alone fails to move through OR House Editor's note: This is an updated version of a story originally published in the April 26 print edition of Street Roots. O vid Neal III was 6-foot-4 with chisele ...
3 May 2023 - Tom Henderson
It’s unclear how many fires classified as ‘homeless related’ actually involve homeless Portlanders Darrell Pattum wasn’t there when an arsonist burned down his camp in 2019, but his neighbors said a man walked out of a nearby business and threatened them ...
9 Nov 2022 - Aurora Biggers and Henry Brannan