Mayor Ted Wheeler declared a state of emergency July 2 due to extreme heat, but city contractors continued posting sweep notifications on homeless encampments throughout emergency As Portland experienced deadly, record-breaking heat in early July and hund ...
24 Jul 2024 - Kimberly Cortez
The private for-profit contractor reversed course after initially asking a judge to set aside a previous default ruling against the company Rapid Response Bio Clean, the city of Portland’s primary sweep contractor, dropped its request for a judge to set a ...
17 Jul 2024 - Terah Bennett and K. Rambo
Despite a new plan’s optimism, city-county homelessness agreement discourse follows age-old pattern in a ginned up moral panic The city of Portland began enforcing its updated anti-public sleeping ordinance July 1, threatening to fine and arrest homeless ...
17 Jul 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
After successful court challenges to previous sleeping ban, the new ordinance is in effect Portland police can ticket and arrest homeless Portlanders who reject a shelter offer as of July 1. In its latest attempt to dust off a practice deployed by the cit ...
3 Jul 2024 - K. Rambo
McMinnville Public Library provides not only books, but basic amenities creating a space for respite Philip Elliott used to be a resident manager for a nonprofit shelter provider. That was before the organization laid him off in 2020, and he became unshel ...
3 Jul 2024 - Tom Henderson
US Supreme Court overturns lower court ruling on Oregon homelessness case, decides criminalizing homeless residents for sleeping outside is not cruel and unusual The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson on June 28, reversing the ...
28 Jun 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Oregon’s Project Turnkey shows early successes, could serve as a model for national emergency housing investments A local hospital discharged a man fighting stage three cancer after a surgery. Planning to recover in his vehicle, he left carrying a bag of ...
19 Jun 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Pets can be integral to surviving homelessness. Providing hope, connection and companionship in difficult circumstances. With a smile on her face, Julie holds her small dog close. They live together in a Portland shelter. “She is my life,” Julie said. “I ...
5 Jun 2024 - Ellen Clarke
Born out of a need to communicate across difference and build community, Street Roots civic circles engage Portlanders in dialogue For a few months now, Street Roots vendors Sonya Aho, Robin “Shaggy” Douglas, George McCarthy, Craig Preston and Robert Wate ...
29 May 2024 - Thijs Kleinpaste
The request for the court to set aside the lawsuit ruling was due in part because its owner and attorney forgot about the case The city of Portland’s primary private contractor for sweeps quietly lost a wrongful death lawsuit in January 2022, court record ...
22 May 2024 - Terah Bennett and K. Rambo