Street Roots asked candidates running for Portland City Council position two and position three their plans regarding homelessness, cost of living, pandemic recovery and more. You can read more 2022 election coverage here. Portland City Council Position 2 ...
7 May 2022 - Street Roots
How housing faired at the past session in Salem by Alison McIntosh, Contributing Writer Looking ahead to February 2012 — our voices can create housing opportunity. The State Legislature has been adjourned for over two weeks now, and we’re a little more th ...
27 Jul 2011 - Street Roots
Holding up the roof at the House By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer The Housing Alliance is finalizing its advocacy agenda for the 2011 legislative cycle and preparing the case it will make to the state Legislature regarding why the state should support an ...
31 Jan 2011 - Street Roots
Clock winds down on remaining West Hotel residents [caption id="attachment_4394" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The West Hotel on Northwest 6th Avenue."] [/caption] by Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer With o ...
30 Nov 2010 - Street Roots
Commentary: The bad habits have to go By Heather Lyons Contributing Writer I’ve spent a lot of time looking at spreadsheets lately. These spreadsheets attempt to quantify programmatic need and calculate the resources necessary to develop permanent support ...
23 Apr 2010 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! April has arrived! And so has your new Street Roots! Well, almost. Vendors will be hard at work Friday morning unloading the latest edition for your reading pleasure this weekend. Here’s a sampling of what’s inside this issue: A conversation ...
1 Apr 2010 - Street Roots
We want our 30% set aside, already! Sisters Of The Road, Street Roots, Downtown Chapel, Community Alliance of Tenants, and the Western Regional Advocacy Project hosted a vigil late this afternoon on the site of the North Macadam development, block 33, to ...
31 Mar 2010 - Street Roots
Downtown "affordable" housing inventory continues to descend "The city of Portland, nonprofit housing developers and the Housing Authority of Portland deserve praise for slowing the rate of losing units downtown, but that's not enough ...
23 Mar 2010 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! How much difference can one little newspaper make in your life? The answer lies in the hands of your friendly neighborhood vendor, who will be cradling the latest edition of Street Roots starting at 9 a.m. Friday. Here’s what your eyes will ...
4 Mar 2010 - Street Roots
Together, we forge a movement By Israel Bayer Street Roots Executive Director Street Roots, along with allies at Sisters Of The Road and Community Alliance of Tenants, took a monumental road trip to San Francisco for the Western Regional Advocacy Project’ ...
26 Jan 2010 - Street Roots