Few City Hall pairings have been as joined at the hip as Commissioner Nick Fish and the Portland Housing Bureau. In his tenure on the City Council, Fish has been the architect of the city’s current housing and homeless operations, a defender of the social ...
4 Jun 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Street Roots received three first place, and one, second place award this weekend from Oregon/Southwest Washington Society of Professional Journalists. Managing Editor Joanne Zuhl took home first place for "Investigative reporting," for her re ...
19 May 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Staff Reports In 1989, Portland’s Outside In, which provides varied services and health care to homeless youth and low-income communities, began a revolutionary needle exchange program. One of the first in the country to offer needle exchange, Outside In ...
10 May 2013 - Street Roots Staff
The federal sequester chops $13 million from Oregon’s social-service network, leaving housing and homeless programs bracing to absorb the hit By Jake Thomas and Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writers By now, every American is probably familiar with the term and conce ...
6 May 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Safety net services for Portland’s poor and homeless faced down another season of funding cuts and emerge virtually intact in Mayor Charlie Hale’s budget, released this morning in City Hall. While federal cuts are still going to hit the city’s housing and ...
30 Apr 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Proponents of an Oregon bill hope to bring back vocational learning in schools By Nathan Gilles, Staff Writer In his left hand, high school senior John Theimer holds a shiny dial caliper. Using the engineering tool, which looks like a cross between a wren ...
26 Apr 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Labor organizer Saru Jayaraman says that restaurants are the next front in the fight for food justice By Mike Wold, Contributing writer Fair trade, farm-to-table, locally sourced: Restaurant menus are replete with politically correct terms, but the kitche ...
23 Apr 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Report: Affordable housing remains out of reach for many Staff Reports Fewer available rental units, rising demand among renters and higher rents are putting greater stress on low-income renters. That’s according to the annual housing affordability report ...
23 Apr 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Street Roots vendors Don and Cynthia get a place to call their own By Ashley Koronko,Contributing Writer It was cold and windy when I pulled up to meet Cynthia and Don near what was soon to be their new apartment at Stark Firs. They flag me in, spotting ...
18 Apr 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Out with the old, in with the new with Street Roots online Staff reports While other newspapers have jibber-jabbered for years about dropping the printed page for a total digital delivery, Street Roots is actually making the leap! As of April 1, Street Ro ...
11 Apr 2013 - Street Roots Staff