Founded in 1999, Street Roots is a Portland-based nonprofit dedicated to creating income opportunities for individuals experiencing homelessness and poverty. As a member of the International Network ...

The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

Gabi Huffman recalled being near a breaking point. After leaving what she called a “really bad relationship,” she was living in a church basement shelter with her daughter, who was three months old at ...

Delmiro Trevino was waiting for his breakfast at the Hi Ho Restaurant in the small Oregon town of Independence when a local police officer and three Polk County sheriff’s deputies abruptly confronted ...

The clock started ticking Nov. 1. That’s the day the city of Portland planned to enforce its law banning people living outdoors from setting up encampments as part of Mayor Keith Wilson’s goal of ...

The city of Eugene gives tax breaks and subsidies to developers to encourage them to build affordable housing. But local advocates say too many can’t afford what the government labels “affordable ...

This is a follow-up to an Oct. 30 article about homelessness in Corvallis. Corvallis officials take heat from local advocates, but city councilors promise they want to do more to address homelessness.

Things are starting to look up for Jeremy Joel Coffey. “I’m due to graduate from outpatient drug treatment (soon),” Coffey said. “Treatment’s been great. I feel really grounded in sobriety.” For a ...

For Jermaine, one of his greatest values is hard work. Having sold newspapers with Street Roots since it was on Northwest Davis Street, he takes pride in the relationships he has cultivated and the ...

As the city begins to cite and arrest people for living outside, those working with homeless Portlanders say the ban only makes life harder for people living outside ...

At the edge of Delta Park in North Portland, an old red-and-blue Motel 6 sign still stands over the property, a remnant of its former life as a roadside motel. Today, it is something different: the ...

Uncertainty around the distribution of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds for November was alleviated Nov. 7 as Oregonians saw their benefits issued. As of press time, the Trump ...