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  1. County and advocates disagree on sufficiency of severe weather shelter guidelines

    winter.” Sweeping priorities Comstock also said city-ordered sweeps, which often lead to homeless ... resources due to sweeps, they are at a greater risk of developing a cold weather injury or illness such as ... outside is being displaced, swept, on a weekly basis.” Sweeps are commonplace in Portland, though Street ...

    25 Jan 2023 - Jamie Arcelay

  2. Opinion | Hope is stillborn in tent city

    already experienced their disaster and are using a tent to survive are persecuted by sweeps. No, tents are ...

    22 Mar 2023 - Ariel Stone

  3. Details on Portland’s mass camp plans emerge from failed negotiation

    anticipated to hold up to 500 people and absorb some people the city anticipates sweeping during an 18-month ...

    8 Mar 2023 - Piper McDaniel

  4. Street Roots vendor profile | ‘Street Roots is my backbone right now’

    to replace. Her RV was taken in a sweep, and demolished with all her belongings. “It seems like once ... a job.” For Kat, it seems sweeps are now more intense. She has been swept six times in the past four ... months. She tries to find spots to sleep where she can avoid sweeps, many of which currently involve the ...

    22 Feb 2023 - Meg Eberle

  5. Kaia Sand | Halting tent distribution takes away an essential lifeline

    connecting people to their needs, using, for example, sweeps as a point of contact to offer people shelter. ...

    22 Feb 2023 - Kaia Sand

  6. Homeless Multnomah County resident deaths surge 53% in 2021

    A Street Roots analysis of 2021 sweeps found city practices were potentially at odds with CDC guidelines ... after county officials helped the city craft expanded criteria to increase sweeps in the months ... following the delta variant surge. County officials emphasized the decision to expand sweep criteria was ...

    15 Feb 2023 - Piper McDaniel and K. Rambo

  7. Street Roots vendor profile | In Portland, Kae is her true self

    memories attached to them have been taken in sweeps. She is consistently a victim of street sweeps, where ...

    3 Feb 2023 - Sasha Azizi Ros...

  8. Members of Portland’s ‘expediting groups’ exempt from lobby disclosures

    sidewalks, a set of regulations that proponents of sweeps have marshaled in their push to remove homeless ... Street Roots showed business owners successfully asking city officials for sweeps outside of established ... city processes intended to ensure encampment evaluations and sweeps are based on objective criteria. ...

    8 Feb 2023 - Piper McDaniel

  9. Housing issues promise to dominate legislative session

    mitigation" and "abatement/clean-up" that homeless advocates worry might be used to sweep people out ...

    1 Feb 2023 - Tom Henderson

  10. Medford City Council candidate stirs up anti-poor politics with environmentalism

    evicted –– for every reason under the sun. The bottom line, regardless of stated reason for sweeps, is ... reason under the sun,” Goodling said. “The bottom line, regardless of stated reason for sweeps, is that ...

    19 Oct 2022 - Sam Becker

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