Clean and Portland Police Bureau, or PPB — the two groups most often responsible for sweeping homeless ... Program. While the sites the navigation teams visit may be eligible for sweeps, they can refer people to ... various shelter options regardless of their status. The sweep-centric referral process causes issues for ...
13 Dec 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
sweeps on Mississippi Avenue, she continues to feel welcomed by the neighborhood, especially some of her ...
6 Dec 2023 - Jessica Hamilton
had to move his tent four times now because of the sweeps. “I don’t mind too much,” he said. “It’s ... Street Roots, anything from sweeping and mopping to helping carry the boxes of new papers in each ...
22 Nov 2023 - Robin Havenick
people are destabilized by sweeps, or now by daytime camping bans, it adds stress to their system, and it ...
8 Nov 2023 - K. Rambo
a considerable amount of sweeping across the city,” she said. “We've already kind of transitioned to ...
1 Nov 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
always check it, so I hope I will be contacted.” When homeless people are on the move from sweeps, it ...
27 Sep 2023 - Meg Eberle
camps, actions commonly referred to as “sweeps.” On average, the city sweeps about a hundred camps ... that impose draconian policies targeting the poorest people in society. In “Cannot Sweep Nature,” she ... describes the aftermath of city contractors removing the camp where unhoused people reside. Cannot Sweep ...
20 Sep 2023 - Kaia Sand
to reach without a bike or a car. Cargo bikes can also offer some protection from sweeps, Cobb said, ... for sweeps of these areas. In its 2022 Bicycle Counts report, PBOT attributed the change to “the ...
26 Jul 2023 - Miles Silvey
order for PSR to engage in sweeps is mission creep “antithetical to the program’s core mission and ... sweeps of unhoused people, enforce camping bans, or require individuals to engage in shelter or service ...
27 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand
on top of the already relentless camp sweeps makes it hard to cluster a couple of tents together to ...
8 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand