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  1. Homeless campers, ODOT reach settlement on sweeps

    The Oregon Department of Transportation, Multnomah County and a group of homeless individuals have reached a settlement in a lawsuit challenging notice policies for camp sweeps on ODOT property. In the end, the ball moves very little, but the agreement re ...

    1 Aug 2014 - Joanne Zuhl

  2. East of Eden: former pastor 
Mike Davis
 ministers to the hundreds of homeless in East Portland

    Crouched in the trampled underbrush along the Springwater Corridor, Mike Davis pulls back a loose tent flap to reveal a quietly sobbing woman. “I don’t know what to do, Pastor Mike,” she says, shakily raising an unlit cigarette to her lips. “Can you help? ...

    13 Mar 2014 - Alex Zielinski

  3. Camp sweeps shouldn’t be inhumane

    Lawsuits seldom provide the most compelling reads. But the stories told in the recent filing by the Oregon Law Center are personal and disturbing. It tells the story of several Portland men and women experiencing homelessness, who after losing everything ...

    26 Dec 2013 - SR editorial board

  4. Homeless campers sue ODOT over sweeps

    The Oregon Law Center has taken up the case of a group of homeless people who say they have been wronged by the Oregon Department of Transportation when it cleared out their encampment in Southeast Portland. The suit maintains that the law requires ODOT t ...

    18 Dec 2013 - Joanne Zuhl

  5. Four days after ODOT sweep, homeless man dies at controversial camp

    Technically speaking, he was a transient white male, age 59, declared dead from natural causes at 9:18 p.m., Oct. 7, in East Portland. To his friends, he was Alvin Smith. He lived with about 50 other people at the controversial camp along Johnson Creek at ...

    22 Oct 2013 - Joanne Zuhl

  6. Oregon Law Center scores victory for people sleeping outside

    Oregon Law Center scores victory for people sleeping outside by Joanne Zuhl Homeless campers came out the winners in a settlement with the Oregon Department of Transportation that buys them time before their property is swept from camps. The settlement, s ...

    12 Sep 2011 - Street Roots

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