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
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
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
namely how they will and are being used to sweep and warehouse unhoused people on the streets, and how ...
13 Apr 2022 - Kaia Sand
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
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
9 a.m. sweep. Within minutes of the sweep beginning, a scuffle broke out. Campers there said that ... Program, or HUCIRP, contracts to carry out sweeps, had antagonized residents while breaking down the camps. ... Rush, who is HIV positive. After losing his home on the first day of the sweep, Rush slept outside by ...
2 Dec 2020 - Henry Brannan
by Vanessa Veselka (2020) Winner of the Oregon Book Award for fiction. This sweeping novel follows two half-sisters’ ...
23 Jun 2021 - Street Roots
month’s police sweeps of an unofficial mutual-aid site in the city’s Hawthorne Park. Jayden Becker and ...
7 Oct 2020 - Joe Opaleski
operate on our streets. He chose instead to fund even more of the interminable cycle of camp sweeps ... to point out that the budget increase for funding Rapid Response sweeps came from the surplus ...
9 Feb 2022 - Kaia Sand