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When trash builds up on the sides of the road like this in Portland, the houseless are often blamed when in fact, the dumping is more often due to housed people and a failing sanitation system, made worse by the pandemic. Kat Leon/PSU Vanguard

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The trash is out of control in PDX

Ian McMeekan
January 18, 2024

You see it daily in Portland—trash piling up on the streets and litter covering sidewalks. The easiest people to blame for all this litter are houseless people. Yet, are…

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Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week

Jazzminn Morecraft
November 23, 2021

The week of Nov. 13–21 is Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. Annually, across the country, people come together to draw attention to the problems of hunger and houselessness, utilizing a…

Portland OR, Jesse Sadler outside of the first tiny house he built at Hazelnut Grove Village on Sunday March 7, 2021. Sofie Brandt/PSU Vanguard

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Hazelnut Grove should be celebrated, not destroyed

Melody Field
March 9, 2021

Hazelnut Grove, a self-governed tiny home village located in North Portland with about 15 formerly houseless residents, is under threat of being torn down, dispersing the people who live there. …