Note: Street Roots’ interview with Jorge Luis Reinaldo was conducted in Spanish, with assistance from an interpreter. Quotes are translated as directly as possible while maintaining appropriate ...

One 2023 death reveals a complicated web of policy and procedures impacting the city’s emergency response systems efficacy It takes about seven minutes for Portland Street Response to get downtown ...

Reporter Shasta Kearns Moore investigated a teacher accused of an inappropriate relationship with a student. Before her story was even published, the threats began. He vowed to sue her and her ...

One 2023 death reveals a complicated web of policy and procedures impacting the efficacy of the city’s emergency response systems It takes about seven minutes for Portland Street Response to get ...

A good friend of mine told me last week that he had read that Utah is ending homelessness. He read it all over the Internet. Oh boy, I thought to myself. After reading more and talking to advocates ...

A year-end roundup of what’s shaking on the homeless and housing front People ask Street Roots why we aren’t covering more of the housing crisis in the newspaper. It’s a simple answer for a complex ...

Advocates say a lack of water, shade and other resources endanger people forced to live on a bare lot as hot weather approaches The city of Grants Pass is scrambling to meet basic humanitarian ...

In her debut novel, Northwest author Megan Kruse explores family and queerness from three perspectives Megan Kruse came of age as a queer youth in quasi-rural Washington – outside of Tulalip to be ...

Throughout modern history, political cartoonists have been threatened, censored, jailed and even murdered because of their art. In his book, “ The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their ...

There’s big money to be made in our jails and prisons. Just ask Securus Technologies, Inc. In 2013, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) signed a four-year contract with the Texas-based prison ...

My organization, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, works to end homelessness in the United States. As the Law Center’s policy director, most people would expect me to be pounding ...

Homeless by bureaucracy A Street Roots Editorial Take a good look at these faces. They reflect the faces of today’s homeless population – right before they become homeless. They are not the faces of ...