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 ...

Ghosts of Agent Orange: The notorious defoliant continues to ravage generations of Vietnamese Former Marine and member of Portland’s Veterans for Peace chapter, Dan Shea knows the lasting effects of ...

In 1891, George Breckonridge was the first juvenile to be placed into custody at the reform school for boys in Woodburn, Ore. His crime was stealing a newspaper off his neighbor’s porch. Fast-forward ...

Holiday thanks from Street Roots vendors “I’m grateful for the community around me. Those who buy Street Roots, those who smile or give me a nod for the work I do selling SR. And I’m grateful too for ...

Cruel, inhuman and degrading: US policies on homelessness called out by UN My organization, the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, works to end homelessness in the United States. As the ...

Safe to swim? What the experts have to say about the risks of taking a dip in the Willamette River Since the completion of the Big Pipe project in 2011, which stopped Portland’s sewage from spilling ...

Louis Adams has moved into Bud Clark Commons after medical issues pushed him to top of waiting list Louis Adams is back indoors after being homeless for 17 years. “It is just like winning the lottery, ...

Second chances: 25 years of Outside In’s needle exchange program Bridget didn’t want to buy syringes at the pharmacy. It was too humiliating an ordeal for the champion gymnast turned heroin addict to ...

When you realize the unique scale of not just American poverty, but American inequality in the 21st century, the fact that France doesn’t have it, Germany doesn’t have it, Canada doesn’t, Australia ...

When the safety net breaks, Portland's most vulnerable are left to pick up the pieces The walls at Safety Net of Oregon, a nonprofit that once helped disabled people manage their federal benefits, are ...

Oregon Health Authority asks feds to fund housing support Medicaid would reimburse CCOs for services that reduce barriers to housing, 'the most important social determinant of health' Late last year, ...

The title of author Sasha Abramsky’s new book, “The American Way of Poverty,” might sound a bit patronizing to patriotic ears, given that Abramsky was born in Great Britain and attended Oxford ...