Despite veterans’ access to vouchers and funding, finding landlords willing to rent to them has been a challenge With approximately 360 Portland-area veterans still in need of housing, city and county officials are pleading with landlords to consider taki ...
24 Jul 2015 - Emily Green
In 2013, the city agreed to create a mental health center in its settlement with the Department of Justice over police use of force. Two years later, what that would look like is all still a matter of perspective. Local hospitals are going full steam ahea ...
7 May 2015 - Christen McCurdy
"Becky” was in a state of disbelief. One week ago she told her boyfriend she was pregnant. Now he was handing her a hat, insisting, Becky says, that she cover up the bleeding wound he had allegedly inflicted to the back of her head only moments earli ...
20 Jan 2015 - Emily Green
They’re everywhere, but often go unnoticed — the empty lots and vacant buildings that dot many of Portland’s thoroughfares and neighborhoods. Overgrown with innumerable weeds or concealed by a layer of asphalt, they hardly catch the eye. But in a city tha ...
27 Aug 2014 - Emily Green
After years of austere budgets, City Hall has scraped up some extra cash for the upcoming budget cycle. Some of it could go to building affordable housing, aiding homeless individuals, helping distressed renters and other initiatives. In December, the Off ...
15 Feb 2014 - Jake Thomas
A new report released today by the City of Portland and Multnomah County shows a 10 percent increase in street homelessness since 2011. The latest 2013 Point-in-time count conducted by the city and county showed 2,869 individuals who were homeless — meani ...
14 Jun 2013 - Israel Bayer
By Jake Thomas, Staff Writer Raymond Thornton turns 48 this month, but there was a time he wasn’t sure he’d see another birthday. He spent three years on the streets, battling alcohol and substance addictions before he arrived at the Clark Center in 2011. ...
18 Mar 2013 - Jake Thomas
The new 2013-14 proposed budget from the City of Portland is out. The Portland Housing Bureau, which oversees a myriad of housing and homeless services, is facing a $1 million dollar cut from the city budget and an additional $1.2 million dollar cut from ...
7 Feb 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Staff reports Outreach workers from organizations throughout Portland and Multnomah County will be out at the end of January trying to determine exactly how many people are homeless in this area. The work is in partnership with Portland and Multnomah Coun ...
28 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Right 2 Dream Too deserves city leadership By Israel Bayer The city should find a way to offer Right 2 Dream Too land to relocate the tent city currently occupying Southwest Fourth and Burnside. The argument that people shouldn’t be living in tents as an ...
2 Aug 2012 - Street Roots