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
The perils of sweeps – when officials clear camps and remove the belongings of people living on the ... safe sleep and the action of sweeps are, in my opinion, directly related to physical and mental health ... her medications were taken in a sweep.” Masiello believes the vigil is a great opportunity to bring ...
20 Dec 2019 - Helen Hill
the sweeping views of the Gorge). With over 100 years of opportunity for change, we still see many of ...
23 Apr 2020 - Doug Kenck-Crispin
COMMENTARY | ICE raids parallel police sweeps that break up homeless camps in Portland Imagine ... deported. A story like this was reported Jan. 3 on National Public Radio as the nationwide sweeps of ... undocumented families began. What is the difference between police sweeps of homeless camps in Portland and ...
29 Jan 2016 - Pat Rumer
among its members. Portland has stopped the majority of its homeless camp sweeps, and the county has ...
7 Apr 2020 - Emily Green
Officials are making strides on policy, but authorities are still sweeping camps By now the ... off. On the streets it is cold, wet and alienating. On the streets, authorities are still sweeping ... providing security, rest and regular meals. To the city’s credit, this was not billed as an official sweep ...
17 Dec 2015 - SR editorial board
sweep of the Greeley campers on city property, but the promised garbage and portable toilet services ... have yet to be delivered. Elsewhere in Portland, the city continues to routinely sweep homeless people ... through over 30 sweeps in his time on the streets here. I helped him through yet another one at the end of ...
22 Oct 2015 - Vahid Brown
to protect people experiencing homelessness. “The first thing we need to do is stop sweeping ...
7 Apr 2020 - Tom Henderson
with the work of the fire department, it becomes a sweeping representation of people experiencing ...
24 Jan 2020 - SR editorial board
Hensman does enforce the city’s laws, however, which means continued camp sweeps and moving people along. ...
25 Apr 2020 - Emily Green