Type | Weekly alternative newspaper |
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Format | Compact |
Editor | K. Rambo [1] |
Founded | 1998 [2] |
Political alignment | Homeless advocacy |
Headquarters | Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
Circulation | 10,000(as of 2018) [3] |
Website | streetroots |
Street Roots is a Portland, Oregon, United States based homeless advocacy group [4] and a weekly alternative newspaper that covers homeless issues. [5] The newsprint is sold by and for the homeless in Portland. [6] The paper is published every week and sold through vendors who are currently or formerly homeless. The paper's editorial position is homeless advocacy. Vendors purchase the paper for 25 cents and sell them for $1 and keep the difference of 75 cents. The paper features alternative news, interviews, and poetry written by local journalists as well as the homeless and those who work with them.
It was originally started out as a newsletter called Burnside Cadillac in 1990, which started the vendor model in 1996. [7] The name was still Burnside Cadillac in 1998. [8] During the same year, it first appeared as Street Roots as an "offshoot" to Burnside Cadillac. [2] Israel Bayer was hired as executive director a few years later, and remained in that position for 15 years, performing numerous duties as he emerged as "one of Portland's leading moral authorities on homelessness," according to coverage in Willamette Week . He announced his departure in 2017. [9]
In 2007, it was described as the "most vocal opponent" of a proposed "sit-lie ordinance" championed by the Portland Business Alliance and then-Mayor Tom Potter. Its acceptance of a $30,000 grant from Street Access For Everyone (SAFE), at a time when its annual budget was $90,000, prompted concerns about editorial influence. The funding was designated for printing 10,000 resource guides that listed services for the homeless and an employee to assemble the guides. The executive director at the time of Street Roots Israel Bayer asserted the paper would not change its editorial position against the sit-lie ordinance. Kyle Chisek, a non-voting member of SAFE at the time announced the money wasn't intended to influence newspaper's editorial position. Chisek added that SAFE committee and Street Roots shared commitment to "providing a service for the homeless." [10] Initially, the city was concerned that this guide might be a duplicate of services already offered by the government and other non-profit agencies. [10]
The Rose City Resource, a guide to local services related to homelessness, began as a four-page section of the paper in 1999, was launched as a separate publication following the SAFE grant. It served as a model for a similar publication established in Seattle in 2018. [11] [12] [13] By 2018, the guide had grown to 104 pages, and was published twice a year. [14]
In recent years, Street Roots has continued to take positions on public policy related to homelessness. [15] [16]
The organization had purchased a new building in the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood in 2023 in order to expand. It intends to relocate to the new building by November 2023. [17]
Papers are sold for $1 each. Vendors purchase the copies of papers for 25 cents each and keep the difference of 75 cents. [18]
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The newspaper covering issues connected to homelessness and poverty first appeared in 1998 as an offshoot of the now-defunct Burnside Cadillac.
Kaia Sand, executive director of the homeless advocacy group Street Roots,
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