Street Roots’ independent Sweep Tracker will use crowdsourced information to provide ... accountability The only source for quantitative data on homeless encampment sweeps in Portland is the city agency ... responsible for conducting those sweeps — or most of them, more accurately. Which, in itself, is cause for ...
1 Jun 2022 - SR editorial board
which can compound that discomfort for unhoused neighbors. Additionally, as is the case with sweeps ... repeatedly posting many homeless encampments before actually sweeping them, approaching people who are posted ...
6 Jul 2022 - SR editorial board
streetroots.org/orange-fence-project. In the coming weeks, Street Roots will also launch the city’s first independent Sweep Tracker, ... Sweep Tracker portion of the project goes live. The success of The Orange Fence Project will rely ... Street Roots will provide the first independent encampment sweep tracker and comprehensive overview of ...
9 Mar 2022 - SR editorial board
When Portland City Council announced an unanimous decision to sweep Laurelhurst Park a few weeks ... decision to sweep Laurelhurst Park a few weeks ago — a symbolically triumphant consolidation of ... unified press release (i.e. Safe Rest Villages, new shelter beds, new housing vouchers), prior to sweeping ...
18 Aug 2021 -
Homeless camp sweeps in Portland illustrate dearth of services available now Every year about this ... time, like clockwork, the City of Portland conducts annual camp sweeps in inner Southeast Portland, and ... sweeps is standard — it is the first step to getting people into housing. Everyone supports that. But ...
28 May 2015 - SR editorial board
campers who have their possessions confiscated during camp sweeps. A recent article in the Portland ... There’s no reason to think we can’t do something great when it comes to camp sweeps. We have to move ... result in better outcomes. camp sweeps homelessness Editorial SR editorial Print ...
1 Dec 2014 - SR editorial board
an illegally conducted sweep by the Oregon Department of Transportation, which owns the property. ... a camp is being cleared out, and for storing non-garbage property for the requisite time after the sweep ... agreement to post notices of camp sweeps at least 10 days before the action, and that property would be ...
26 Dec 2013 - SR editorial board
do. Editorial SR editorial Street sweeps homelessness lawlessness anti-camping City Hall Charlie Hales ...
19 Aug 2013 - SR editorial board
with the work of the fire department, it becomes a sweeping representation of people experiencing ...
24 Jan 2020 - SR editorial board
the law, whether they’re charged or not. And finally, just to sweep all the corners clean, it gives ...
18 May 2017 - SR editorial board