Marin Jurgens shares what motivates her work, creating an ethnographic comic and more The Portland State University Collaborative Comics Project aims to change the narrative around homelessness through ethnographic cartooning based on the experiences of ...
12 Jan 2022 - Sarah Hansell
Liz Yerby illustrates India’s story and encourages readers to see the ‘full narrative’ of peoples lives The Portland State University Collaborative Comics Project aims to change the narrative around homelessness through ethnographic cartooning based on ...
12 Jan 2022 - Sarah Hansell
A collaboration between comic artists, a research team and college students aims to tell the complex stories of homelessness and housing insecurity via ethnographic cartooning The Portland State University Collaborative Comics Project aims to change the n ...
5 Jan 2022 - Kanani Cortez
Non-police crisis intervention program seeks more funding for around-the-clock operations, building awareness on streets Bronwyn Jones Carver is a member of Street Roots’ MoJo program. MoJo is composed of vendors learning about journalism, covering life o ...
29 Dec 2021 - Bronwyn Carver
A $500,000 investment in anti-homeless benches raises alarms for homeless people, advocates Laurelhurst Park is a beautiful, tree-lined park with running trails and a duck pond that sits at the heart of the Laurelhurst Neighborhood, straddling the border ...
8 Dec 2021 - Taylor Griggs
Under the bipartisan legislation, a nonprofit would verify that a person was experiencing homelessness, and the state would waive the fee to obtain photo identification P hoto identification is required for everything from opening a bank account to cashin ...
31 Mar 2021 - Hanna Merzbach
OPINION | The city deserves praise for placing portable toilets around town, but it's drawn ire — with one police officer reportedly assisting in a sabotage effort Hand washing and hygiene are essential to preventing the spread of the coronavirus. Bo ...
4 Nov 2020 - Kaia Sand
A compassionate approach to first response is popular, and we need that compassion to spill over to more areas The Portland Street Response pilot is a reality. This is a big opportunity, Portland. Now, let us take this will toward compassion, and extend i ...
22 Nov 2019 - Kaia Sand
Injured when a truck rammed his tent, a Portland man says he's had to stop working At first, only the back half of the beat-up pickup truck with a faded-blue paint job can be seen in the security-camera video. About 10 yards behind the truck and to i ...
27 Sep 2019 - John Emshwiller
Workers collect and sort recyclables and trash that would otherwise be left on the ground or shipped to landfills The sun beats down on Audrey McCall Beach directly south of the Hawthorne Bridge, steps from the Eastbank Esplanade. Families cool off in the ...
2 Aug 2019 - Helen Hill