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Street Roots vendor profile | Friends all around him

had to move his tent four times now because of the sweeps. “I don’t mind too much,” he said. “It’s ... Street Roots, anything from sweeping and mopping to helping carry the boxes of new papers in each ...

22 Nov 2023 - Robin Havenick
Questions remain ahead of Portland sleeping ban enforcement

people are destabilized by sweeps, or now by daytime camping bans, it adds stress to their system, and it ...

8 Nov 2023 - K. Rambo
Portland has a waste problem — where is it coming from?

a considerable amount of sweeping across the city,” she said. “We've already kind of transitioned to ...

1 Nov 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
Kaia Sand | Orion Magazine publishes five Street Roots poets

camps, actions commonly referred to as “sweeps.” On average, the city sweeps about a hundred camps ... that impose draconian policies targeting the poorest people in society. In “Cannot Sweep Nature,” she ... describes the aftermath of city contractors removing the camp where unhoused people reside. Cannot Sweep ...

20 Sep 2023 - Kaia Sand
Street Roots vendor profile | Turning her words into pictures

always check it, so I hope I will be contacted.” When homeless people are on the move from sweeps, it ...

27 Sep 2023 - Meg Eberle
Who gets to cycle in Portland?

to reach without a bike or a car. Cargo bikes can also offer some protection from sweeps, Cobb said, ... for sweeps of these areas. In its 2022 Bicycle Counts report, PBOT attributed the change to “the ...

26 Jul 2023 - Miles Silvey
Kaia Sand | Portland Street Response is working — and in jeopardy

order for PSR to engage in sweeps is mission creep “antithetical to the program’s core mission and ... sweeps of unhoused people, enforce camping bans, or require individuals to engage in shelter or service ...

27 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand
Right to rest? Not in Oregon.

… these sweeps kill’ As originally drafted, Senate Bill 611 would have limited annual rent increases to 3% ... "People's lives are on the line," he said "When we allow for sweeps to happen, we're ... destroying people's only shelter. These sweeps kill." ‘We’re going to continue to build power ...

3 May 2023 - Tom Henderson
Kaia Sand | Camping bans are cruel and inhumane

on top of the already relentless camp sweeps makes it hard to cluster a couple of tents together to ...

8 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | Tell us your Street Roots vendor stories

every cherished item through sweeps and theft, or lost their teeth because that’s the cheapest option ...

31 May 2023 - Kaia Sand