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Opinion | See the Invisible Man

there.’ The sweeps and so on. Imagine living a life like that. How would you feel?” If you treat human ...

27 Jul 2022 - Leo Rhodes
Kaia Sand | Street Roots vendors move into housing

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
Analysis of 2021 sweeps raises questions about pandemic policies and procedures

Analysis of sweeps in 2021 shows potential inconsistencies with CDC guidelines, instead correlate ... with the city's ‘reopening’ Sweeps of homeless encampments in Portland have stayed at a similar ... reduced prior to May 24. While the sweeps come on the backdrop of city officials attempting to make sweeps ...

6 Oct 2021 - K. Rambo
OPINION | After a sweep, ‘where are we supposed to go?’

Portland’s sweeps leave people with few resources scrambling to navigate a profoundly broken ... Permanente campus by Interstate 5 in Portland were posted for a sweep on Sept. 9. I am a houseless woman ... helped other than providing a specific date for a sweep. I will say Rapid Response has improved their ...

29 Sep 2021 - Bronwyn Carver
Editorial | Interviewing unhoused neighbors requires care

which can compound that discomfort for unhoused neighbors. Additionally, as is the case with sweeps ... repeatedly posting many homeless encampments before actually sweeping them, approaching people who are posted ...

6 Jul 2022 - SR editorial board
Homeless people are more likely to be victims of violence than housed people

homelessness leads to treating homelessness as a law enforcement issue, which results in increases in sweeps ...

13 Jul 2022 - Piper McDaniel
Kaia Sand | 10 ways to support houseless neighbors

powerful voices. The Orange Fence Project, for example, includes a crowd-sourced Sweep Tracker to add ... a layer of transparency to the city-enforced camp sweeps. 9. Give money. If donating money is a way you ...

22 Jun 2022 - Kaia Sand
Police know arrests won’t fix homelessness. They keep arresting people anyway.

on the street or in shelters often see their possessions confiscated or trashed during sweeps and ...

29 Jun 2022 - Melissa Lewis
Kaia Sand | Camp sweeps solve nothing — but upcoming budgets could help

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
Street Roots Podcast | Escalation of sweeps rattles Portland’s unhoused community

discuss the uptick in sweeps in Portland as the economy attempts to reopen. “During the COVID quarantine ... and lockdown, there was an extreme reduction in what we call sweeps (forcible relocations), ” said ... businesses are reopening, we are seeing a dramatic increase in sweeps.” During the recording of this episode, ...

25 May 2021 - DeVon Pouncey