we have tents along a lot of these sidewalks, and there are arguments to just sweep and get these ... different stakeholders — to examine our camp cleanup or sweeps policy. And we made a lot of improvements in ...
14 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl and Emily Green and Jessica Pollard
government? Iannarone: I think the moratorium on the sweeps is going to face the most opposition. Because the ... way that we’ve framed sweeps is around cleanup. A lot of what people are seeing as the livability ... I have continuously called for is that we need to reallocate the money that we spend sweeping people ...
14 Oct 2020 - Joanne Zuhl and Emily Green and Jessica Pollard
Ted) Wheeler, you didn’t think that doing sweeps was an effective tool. Being a homeless camper myself, ... I see sweeps almost on a daily basis, and the recurring question I hear asked all the time is when ... sentiment. He doesn’t believe that the way to fix this is through just going up and doing sweeps. Sheffield: ...
7 Dec 2018 - Emily Green and John Emshwiller
camp sweeps and the opening of additional shelters. During interviews with Street Roots, leadership ... well as a stoppage to sweeps and the prison industrial complex. “It’s just increased the urgency and ... Wheeler, demanding rent, mortgage and homeless camp sweep freezes, and a universal basic income. Palmer ...
2 Apr 2020 - Emily Green
among its members. Portland has stopped the majority of its homeless camp sweeps, and the county has ...
7 Apr 2020 - Emily Green
Hensman does enforce the city’s laws, however, which means continued camp sweeps and moving people along. ...
25 Apr 2020 - Emily Green
but it’s an enormous net that sweeps in millions of people every year based on minor, low-level ... are more specific, but they sometimes do the same work. They end up sweeping in poor people, people of ...
22 Feb 2019 - Emily Green
something that is more sweeping than anything that’s been discussed. You can see a very long op-ed article ... sweeping aside a number of the protections, and then he said it ought to include lifestyle information, and ... hearing, you had requested he submit whatever limitations might be placed on such a sweeping program. Has ...
2 Mar 2017 - Emily Green
followed systematically is the one policy that should not be carried out – sweeps of homeless encampments, ... because (the sweeps) they are inhumane and ineffective. In this last year alone, the mayor carried out 601 ... sweeps of homeless encampments. And it hasn’t made, as you might imagine, any dent in the homelessness ...
21 Sep 2017 - Emily Green
the sweeping financial reform act known as Dodd-Frank, and he tirelessly pushed for gay equality and ...
19 Jan 2017 - Emily Green