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Kaia Sand | Where, exactly, can unhoused people camp under Portland’s new policy?

OPINION | Unhoused people deserve to know how the new ordinance on camp sweeps will be applied. ... ordinance is focused on how the city conducts sweeps. These are my takeaways: • The most important audience ... decides where to sweep, plenty is still ambiguous. Again, the most important audience is unhoused people ...

7 Jul 2021 - Kaia Sand
Street Roots Podcast | Jed Parriott is fed up with sweeps in L.A.’s Echo Park

police tactics during sweeps at Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles. “There was a major — I would say it was ... about the connection between the Echo Park sweeps and the games. “Every city that the Olympics goes to, ... Which means sending police to sweep homeless folks out of sight and out of mind, sending police to do ...

23 Apr 2021 - DeVon Pouncey
Editorial | Introducing The Orange Fence Project

streetroots.org/orange-fence-project. In the coming weeks, Street Roots will also launch the city’s first independent Sweep Tracker, ... Sweep Tracker portion of the project goes live. The success of The Orange Fence Project will rely ... Street Roots will provide the first independent encampment sweep tracker and comprehensive overview of ...

9 Mar 2022 - SR editorial board
2022 Elections | Portland City Council and City Auditor’s race

Street Roots asked candidates running for Portland City Council position two and position three their plans regarding homelessness, cost of living, pandemic recovery and more. You can read more 2022 election coverage here. Portland City Council Position 2 ...

7 May 2022 - Street Roots
2022 Elections | Metro President and Council

Street Roots asked candidates running for Metro President and Metro Council in districts two, four and six their plans on how they plan to address homelessness, rising cost of rent, affordable housing and more. You can read more 2022 election coverage her ...

7 May 2022 - Street Roots
Opinion | End the cruel cycle of camp sweeps

As local governments sweep people with growing frequency in downtown and residential areas, they are ... forced into ever more marginal spaces. What is even more egregious is that local governments then sweep ... recognize housing as a human right and put this belief into action by stopping the sweeps of people who have ...

10 Feb 2021 - Erin Goodling
Q&As with 23 candidates running for Oregon governor

Gubernatorial candidates answer questions on climate, housing, homelessness and more These Q&As were conducted in collaboration with the Oregon Media Collaborative comprised of more than 40 news organizations across the state. Read about the collabora ...

5 May 2022 - Street Roots
Kaia Sand | We are responsible for giving our unhoused neighbors good options

namely how they will and are being used to sweep and warehouse unhoused people on the streets, and how ...

13 Apr 2022 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | Addressing homelessness through the legislature and what we can learn from it

funding for sweeps People survive in tents in Deschutes National Forest, along the Umpqua River of ... being used for sweeps, making sure that we address this issue as humanitarianly as possible.” The ... legislation prevents funds from being used for mass shelters as well as sweeps, both tactics Mayor Ted Wheeler ...

2 Mar 2022 - Kaia Sand
Mayor’s order forbidding camping in high-traffic areas leaves unhoused Portlanders with few places to go

Portland city government has no plans to relax sweep criteria in safer areas following emergency ... Crash Network projects and create a rental cap for the City.” — Stop the Sweeps Portland Homeless ... homeless advocacy group Stop the Sweeps told Street Roots in an email. “If Mayor Wheeler wanted to solve ...

23 Feb 2022 - Piper McDaniel and K. Rambo