The fund is also intended to keep Sotelo’s small business afloat throughout this ordeal. Sotelo’s protégée, Victoria Reader, is currently running Novo Start, according to Hoffman. Reader came to ...

Anti-homeless policy has been a staple of cities the world over, whether those policies be forthright, like loitering laws and sit-lie ordinances, or peppered into a city’s infrastructure and public ...

ICE agents in Portland told 22-year-old Jorge Luis Reinaldo he needed to sign papers. When he arrived, they detained him, despite previously scheduled legal proceedings. Note: Street Roots’ interview ...

As fire danger escalates in Southern Oregon, Medford City Council candidate Matt Roberts seeks to criminalize those living on the frontlines of climate change On a sweltering October day in Medford, ...

SEX WORKERS have been making money in Portland’s Old Town for as long as the neighborhood has existed. In the late 1800s, prostitutes filled storefronts known as cribs, hung out in saloons, and held ...

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 ...

Continuing efforts to rename lakes, creeks, mountains and other geographical places with offensive and racist names are happening in Oregon, often with help from tribes and Native historians From ...

Oregonians use thousands of single-use beverage containers every day. Recycling them is a low-barrier job for Portlanders known as ‘canners.’ Scott Atkins started collecting and recycling cans and ...

Jim Annett (left) and Sharon Annett (right) have provided foster care to children for more than 20 years. The Annetts use the treatment foster care model, which provides children with intensive ...

When looking at your own history, who looks back? It could be someone just like you. A new exhibit at the Chachalu Cultural Museum in Grand Ronde called “My Father’s Father’s Sister” explores that ...

"It’s all about providing the resources. It’s all about income disparity, and it’s about making the decision as a society that we need to help people who can’t manage to participate in the way that ...

In Great Britain last year, a survey taken before Christmas found that 74% of people were worried about the levels of homelessness. The survey commissioned by the charity Crisis measured attitudes ...