on top of the already relentless camp sweeps makes it hard to cluster a couple of tents together to ...
8 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand
every cherished item through sweeps and theft, or lost their teeth because that’s the cheapest option ...
31 May 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | On the verge of investments in shelter, housing and services, city sweeps only serve to ... intent to sweep in 72 hours or more. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column ... dedicated to tracking these interrelated displacements through its independent Sweep Tracker. Readers ...
8 Jun 2022 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Sweeps force people out of sight, but do nothing for long term housing options We sat ... Within days, the city swept him again, and I haven’t seen him since. That was the first sweep of many we ... traumas of systemic racism reverberate, and that includes the city’s system of sweeps. One man had been ...
18 May 2022 - Kaia Sand
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
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
OPINION | Unhoused people deserve to know how the new ordinance on camp sweeps will be applied. ... ordinance is focused on how the city conducts sweeps. These are my takeaways: • The most important audience ... decides where to sweep, plenty is still ambiguous. Again, the most important audience is unhoused people ...
7 Jul 2021 - Kaia Sand
K. Rambo when they reported last week on Old Town sweeps deployed as “structure abatements,” ... I’ve never heard a story of someone arriving at actual housing through a sweep. People get housing ...
13 Jul 2022 - Kaia Sand
funding for sweeps People survive in tents in Deschutes National Forest, along the Umpqua River of ... being used for sweeps, making sure that we address this issue as humanitarianly as possible.” The ... legislation prevents funds from being used for mass shelters as well as sweeps, both tactics Mayor Ted Wheeler ...
2 Mar 2022 - Kaia Sand
namely how they will and are being used to sweep and warehouse unhoused people on the streets, and how ...
13 Apr 2022 - Kaia Sand