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(Thread)With the spotlight on philanthropy that #GivingTuesday brings, today I’ll share 10 @StreetRoots highlights from the past year to share why I love it, and to encourage you to support it through @GiveGuide. giveguide.org/#StreetRoots
👉#1. Last week two vendors signed a lease on an apartment. Last year they were living outdoors; over the summer, they moved into a couple’s shelter. When anyone from the @StreetRoots community moves into housing, everyone rejoices🧡 #GivingTuesday giveguide.org/#StreetRoots
👉 #2). In our March 15 issue, @StreetRoots senior reporter @GreenWrites created a blueprint for a new first responder system, #PortlandStreetResponse — and City Council approved a pilot just over 8 months later 🎉)giveguide.org/#StreetRoots
Witnessing @StreetRoots vendors and @homelessnesspdx volunteers survey on #PortlandStreetResponse, @alex_zee of @portlandmercury interviewed some of the “top experts” who were surveyed — unhoused people. portlandmercury.com/news/2019/08/0…
“It would be nice if it wasn’t just someone telling me to move,” said a middle-aged man, rolling up a sleeping mat under the Burnside Bridge. “Someone with empathy,” writes @alex_zee @portlandmercury @StreetRoots #PortlandStreetResponse
“We exist in an environment where we can’t help but fear the police,” one woman told @alex_zee @portlandmercury. “It would be better to have an outside party intervene.” #PortlandStreetResponse
We’ve been building toward this for months. Now we’re ready. In the new @StreetRoots, we unveil our plan for non-law enforcement street first responders. We’ve laid it all out as #PortlandStreetResponse. Please find your vendor tomorrow so you have the plan in hand.
Momentum began last summer for the need for non-law enforcement street first responders when @rwoolington and @iff_orMelissa reported in @Oregonian that 52% of 2017 arrests targeted unhoused people. @StreetRoots #PortlandStreetResponse oregonlive.com/portland/2018/…
We’ve run a series on how fines and fees further drive people into poverty by @GreenWrites in @StreetRoots. Again, we need to shift more of our emphasis from enforcement to one of humane response. #PortlandStreetResponse news.streetroots.org/archive?f%5B0%…
