For many housed people, there is a tendency to conflate unhoused populations with violent crime and danger, but crime rates tell a different story. Editor's note: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence. In May, Willamette Week reported ...
13 Jul 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Opinion | Portland should build a local Project Turnkey Program The Comfort Inn sign is now wrapped in black plastic, but plenty of hotel amenities remain at River Haven, a housing program for people in early recovery run by Central City Concern. The hote ...
15 Jun 2022 - Kaia Sand
Close ties raise questions about fairness in the city’s effort to alleviate homelessness After weeks of failed attempts to get homeless Portlanders cleared from several streets downtown near Northwest Third Avenue to make way for a pending event, Daniel K ...
30 Mar 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Under emergency authorization from Portland mayor, Dan Ryan announces new SRV site locations W hen Portland Commissioner Dan Ryan introduced the Safe Rest Village initiative last year, he planned to have six new tiny home-style homeless shelter villages o ...
9 Mar 2022 - Taylor Griggs
Street Roots spoke to more than 12 unhoused Portlanders living along roads and freeways included in Mayor Ted Wheeler’s Feb. 4 emergency order banning encampments in high-traffic corridors. Of the few who had heard of the order, none were clear on if they ...
23 Feb 2022 - Henry Brannan
Portland city government has no plans to relax sweep criteria in safer areas following emergency order Mayor Ted Wheeler announced an emergency order prohibiting homeless encampments along an identified list of dangerous roadways on Feb. 4, drawing immedi ...
23 Feb 2022 - Piper McDaniel and K. Rambo
Forcing people into a camp patrolled by military personnel, unarmed or otherwise, doesn’t end or address homelessness, it simply contains it in a carceral complex Mayoral aide Sam Adams’ proposal to build mass camps for unhoused Portlanders and staff them ...
14 Feb 2022 - SR editorial board
A Jan. 31 memo penned by mayoral aide Sam Adams proposed, among other things, to build large-scale homeless encampments in Portland staffed by Oregon National Guard and others. The full memo, first reported by Willamette Week, is below in PDF format. Jan. ...
11 Feb 2022 - Street Roots
Opinion | Knowledge from the unhoused provides critical insight The Street Roots ambassadors grew animated discussing the topic of ranked-choice voting. They considered how this method of voting could motivate people to vote because they might feel like t ...
2 Feb 2022 - Kaia Sand
Proposed Safe Rest Village sites vary in distance and availability to key resources for homeless communities. Here's what we found: Homeless Portlanders, advocates and politicians have a range of thoughts about the pros and cons of sanctioned encampm ...
18 Jan 2022 - Taylor Griggs