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Commentary: To properly help homeless people, Portland must be focused on cooperation

Por: Portland Press Herald Opinion December 04, 2023

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As someone who has worked for the past eight years as a street outreach pastor in the homeless community here in Portland, I want to take issue with a couple of points raised in a Nov. 29 front page article – one that is explicitly stated, the other implied. First, what was implied. Even though the report acknowledged that the cause of the fires that killed two people in the Greater Portland area is still under investigation, the sub-headline... + full article



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