Commissioner Dan Saltzman and his challenger Nicholas Caleb are running Portland Commissioner No. 3. Street Roots posed three questions to the candidates on housing and homelessness. Street Roots: Portland is experiencing an affordable housing crisis. The ...
1 May 2014 - Street Roots Staff
The following is an excerpt from a speech by Nan Roman, president and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. The Alliance is a public education, advocacy, and capacity-building organization with a network of more than 10,000 nonprofit, public s ...
22 Apr 2014 - Nan Roman
• Percentage of low-income Oregon families who pay more than half their income on housing: 80 • Percentage of Oregon children living in poverty in 2011: 25 • School children in Oregon who were homeless in 2013: 20,000 • Hours per week a worker earning min ...
1 Mar 2014 - Street Roots Staff
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
• Average income needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment in Multnomah County: $17,720 • Average annual Social Security payment for retired workers in Multnomah County: $12,861 • Number of hours per week a worker earning minimum wage must work to afford a ...
10 Feb 2014 - Street Roots Staff
Pounds of coffee donated by Stumptown in 2013: 14,000 Number of nonprofits Stumptown supported in 2013, including Street Roots: 160 Units of carbon dioxide emission reduced by Stumptown in 2013: 9,300 Number of cars removed from the road to equal 9,300 un ...
28 Jan 2014 - Street Roots Staff
With three decades of experience housing Portland’s poorest residents, Susan Emmons is ramping up her message on how all of us can help end homelessness In 1978, downtown Portland had 5,183 apartments affordable to the city’s poorest citizens. Susan Emmon ...
27 Nov 2013 - Jasmine Rockow
Street Roots looks at the Convention Center Hotel, years of affordable housing planning Metro, the regional government for the tri-county area, has long known that the region has a problem: Rents are soaring, there is a real lack of affordable housing and ...
4 Sep 2013 - Jake Thomas
The documentary ‘Band of Sisters’ explores U.S. Catholic nuns’ passion for social justice Sister Lillian Murphy may be a nun, but that doesn’t mean she spends her days dressed in a habit. True, after she became a Catholic nun in 1959 she donned the distin ...
12 Aug 2013 - Rosette Royale
There’s a lot of money — and lives — resting on Oregon’s grand experiment in restructuring health care through Medicaid. Portland metropolitan area’s largest coordinated care organization, Health Share of Oregon, like others across the state, have a manda ...
30 Jul 2013 - Amanda Waldroupe