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  1. County and advocates disagree on sufficiency of severe weather shelter guidelines

    winter.” Sweeping priorities Comstock also said city-ordered sweeps, which often lead to homeless ... resources due to sweeps, they are at a greater risk of developing a cold weather injury or illness such as ... outside is being displaced, swept, on a weekly basis.” Sweeps are commonplace in Portland, though Street ...

    25 Jan 2023 - Jamie Arcelay

  2. Kaia Sand | Untangling the web of entities and officials responsible for addressing homelessness

    endeavored to systematize these sweeps so that, at its best, no one person can unduly influence the system ... harm-reduction strategies.” But at its worst, this is a system that is organized around city sweeps rather than ...

    11 Jan 2023 - Kaia Sand

  3. Street Roots vendor profile | Speaking truth to power

    unhoused in pre-pandemic Portland, Randy Humphreys was a victim of a city sweep in which contractors ... been there for me when I needed it,” Humphreys said. Randy knew sweeps affected more than just him, so ...

    14 Dec 2022 - Sasha Azizi Ros...

  4. Street Roots vendor profile | Rebuilding her life

    providing supplies and alerting persons on the streets to upcoming sweeps. The ambassador program started in ... when sweeps are coming,” she said. “Often signs are taken down and people are not prepared for sweeps ...

    7 Dec 2022 - Meg Eberle

  5. The Driftwood Castle at Kelley Point Park

    the swelling tributary will undo the architecture and sweep away its remnants — if Portland Parks and ...

    23 Nov 2022 - Aurora Biggers

  6. Opinion | Where Do People Go Once They’re Swept?

    Access Denied | Sweeping Portlanders without viable alternatives isn’t a plan Imagine that you’re ... cup with your other hand and sweep the crumbs in? Or do you brush them all over the floor? Proposing ... encampment sweeps in the absence of structural changes to the housing, employment, health care and justice ...

    9 Nov 2022 - Hanna Brooks Olsen

  7. Medford City Council candidate stirs up anti-poor politics with environmentalism

    evicted –– for every reason under the sun. The bottom line, regardless of stated reason for sweeps, is ... reason under the sun,” Goodling said. “The bottom line, regardless of stated reason for sweeps, is that ...

    19 Oct 2022 - Sam Becker

  8. Joint Office of Homeless Services reduces supply distribution, advocates concerned as colder weather approaches

    the city’s own confiscation of such supplies during sweep operations. Federal COVID relief funding ... impact to this work. “Having five tents a month is not enough — especially when sweeps are happening, and ... things.” As one arm of the government sweeps encampments and confiscates possessions and survival gear, its ...

    2 Nov 2022 - Tyler Walicek

  9. Kaia Sand | A quarter century of camping bans, sit-lie ordinances

    March 19, 2003, but, as the city began to deploy sweeps on that camp, it transformed into a protest ... and St. Johns Landing during the pandemic years. Stop the Sweeps has staged actions in recent years. ...

    2 Nov 2022 - Kaia Sand

  10. Kaia Sand | Wheeler, Ryan, you are cordially invited to a town hall. Please RSVP.

    does is sweeps. So the mayor’s office is saying the way they engage with unhoused people over policy is ...

    26 Oct 2022 - Kaia Sand

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