Scott Atkins started collecting and recycling cans and bottles about 15 years ago to supplement his income. In a 10-hour work day, he says, a canner can make a couple hundred dollars. However, doing ...

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 ...

In the mid-1980s, the most dire problem on the streets of Portland (from the point of view of the downtown business community, which funded campaigns to elect persons to city hall and the county) was ...

From lakes to creeks, mountains to plateaus, efforts across Oregon to change offensive and racist geographical place names are increasing in recent years, though dozens remain. Last month, the U.S.

Editor's note: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence. In May, Willamette Week reported the Old Town homeless village was closing. One of the original C3PO (Creating Conscious ...

The waiting list for treatment foster care in Illinois has grown to about 10 to 15 youths at any given time for the teams’ 40 slots — which will increase to 50 if LSSI is able to fund the additional ...

When the fire call data is broken out over the year, the numbers follow a similar pattern. There were 220 fire calls along the greenway in 2020, 267 calls in 2021, and Browning expects upwards of 200 ...

"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 ...

An oft-sued nonprofit is poised to play a major role in Portland’s controversial mass homeless camps. Mayor Ted Wheeler announced the city selected Urban Alchemy to run at least one mass homeless camp ...

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 ...

Street Roots is an award-winning weekly investigative publication covering economic, environmental and social inequity. The newspaper is sold in Portland, Oregon, by people experiencing homelessness ...

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 ...