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 ...

Grants Pass faces a lawsuit over its homelessness ordinances after the city closed a designated site at J Street (pictured) in January 2025. Plaintiffs say homeless residents are left with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Only 1% of respondents chose enforcement of camping bans and removal of campsites, and 2% chose enforcement of zero-tolerance drug laws. This reality could spell peril for Robert’s electoral strategy, ...

The Housing First pioneer explains why the policy of housing a person before attempting to fix their underlying issues works best In the late 1980s and early ’90s, on both ends of the country, the ...

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 ...

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 publication focusing on economic, environmental and social justice issues. The newspaper is sold in Portland, Oregon, by people experiencing homelessness and/or ...

While it’s true PPB routinely had fewer sworn officers since 2020 — between 7% and 20% depending on the month and year — PPB made 44% fewer arrests in the last four years compared to 2016-2019, ...

Portland would normally collect up front from developers unwilling to meet the city’s affordable housing standards. Block 216’s switcheroo delayed its payment. Now, it may never pay. When developers ...