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
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
penalties makes absolutely no sense. That's not the correct approach.” In regards to sweeps, which ... stabilizing their lives, Bonamici was not explicitly opposed. She emphasized sweeps should only happen with ... are on the streets. (I don’t doubt) whether sweeps are traumatic for people — oftentimes, they ...
28 Sep 2022 - Piper McDaniel
of sweeps goes forward, and the like, they’re not just moving houseless people to another ... believes sweeps are driven by frustration, but at times, the approach lacks logic. “I want people to ...
28 Sep 2022 - K. Rambo
favor of sweeps, noting their use “depends on the circumstances” and said homeless Oregonians must be ... trying to support our state and local partners.” Regarding sweeps, Blumenauer isn’t opposed but ...
28 Sep 2022 - Piper McDaniel
month’s police sweeps of an unofficial mutual-aid site in the city’s Hawthorne Park. Jayden Becker and ...
7 Oct 2020 - Joe Opaleski
line, and I have a place to store my clothes without fear of police sweeps. This gives me a sense of ...
31 Aug 2022 - Jessica Hamilton
by Vanessa Veselka (2020) Winner of the Oregon Book Award for fiction. This sweeping novel follows two half-sisters’ ...
23 Jun 2021 - Street Roots
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
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