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Kaia Sand | Camp sweeps solve nothing — but upcoming budgets could help

a diversity of needs? How could the city of Portland possibly sweep unhoused people when there’s nowhere to ... Villages? When there are nominally enough places to go — is the city then going to sweep everyone who’s not ... a crescendo. I’ll start with the pressure: The city program that instigates sweeps announced "a more ...

26 May 2021 - Kaia Sand
Portland has laid out plans for new shelters, but numbers and locations remain elusive

with sweeps of houseless camps P ortland city leaders adopted a code change in April intended to get ... houseless people off streets and into shelters. But with camp sweeps already accelerated, how and when those ... announcement left many houseless people and advocates rattled. STREET ROOTS PODCAST: Escalation of sweeps ...

9 Jun 2021 - Christen McCurdy
Street Roots Podcast | Escalation of sweeps rattles Portland’s unhoused community

discuss the uptick in sweeps in Portland as the economy attempts to reopen. “During the COVID quarantine ... and lockdown, there was an extreme reduction in what we call sweeps (forcible relocations), ” said ... businesses are reopening, we are seeing a dramatic increase in sweeps.” During the recording of this episode, ...

25 May 2021 - DeVon Pouncey
HUD report understates America’s homeless crisis, critics say

sweeps in L.A.’s Echo Park The rates of unsheltered homelessness — including people living in encampments ...

2 Jun 2021 - Jake Maher
Black former prisoners get support with reentry as they speak up for policy change

doesn’t seem to matter to most people outside. “Now I’ve got to do, what, sweep the sidewalk, sleep on the ...

2 Jun 2021 - Brian Oaster
Street Roots Podcast | Jed Parriott is fed up with sweeps in L.A.’s Echo Park

police tactics during sweeps at Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles. “There was a major — I would say it was ... about the connection between the Echo Park sweeps and the games. “Every city that the Olympics goes to, ... Which means sending police to sweep homeless folks out of sight and out of mind, sending police to do ...

23 Apr 2021 - DeVon Pouncey
Anti-camping law in Medford draws national attention

unorganized camps there. STREET ROOTS NEWS: Medford residents to sue over camp sweep during wildfire (from ... as other community members,” Mitton said via email. “Fires sweeping down the greenways pose an ... into account. While Oregon requires camps to be posted 24 hours ahead of sweeps, the Livability Team ...

28 Apr 2021 - Hanna Merzbach
Kaia Sand | The bystanders who witness police killings suffer, too

Raven said, Lents Park. As she said this, I thought about how each city-ordered camp sweep that sends ...

28 Apr 2021 - Kaia Sand
A Eugene hotel is now a shelter — the first of many planned across Oregon

another $750 million toward the program. While California’s initiative has been characterized by sweeping ...

7 Apr 2021 - Hanna Merzbach
Opinion | End the cruel cycle of camp sweeps

As local governments sweep people with growing frequency in downtown and residential areas, they are ... forced into ever more marginal spaces. What is even more egregious is that local governments then sweep ... recognize housing as a human right and put this belief into action by stopping the sweeps of people who have ...

10 Feb 2021 - Erin Goodling