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Director’s Desk: Portland’s homeless sweeps echo of WWII-era incarceration

Legislature considers who should conduct sweeps – the Portland city government or the Oregon Department of ... Transportation – it is worth remembering the toll that sweeps take on the poorest among us. Yes, it is important ... that at the very least, folks have better notification, the sweeps are conducted with greater ...

16 Feb 2018 - Kaia Sand
Director's Desk: Police sweep of new self-governed camp is opportunity lost

these camp sweeps, and they were isolated in the woods without access to trash disposal. At best, they ... need to shelter outside for the foreseeable future, I think it’s fair to say that sweeps are really not ... 2 sweep of Village of Hope. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. You can reach her at ...

2 Feb 2018 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | What the reception to Seattle’s grittiest film can tell us about the city’s homelessness crisis

criticism for both lacking funding and enshrining yet another punitive measure — the sweeping of encampments ...

7 Jul 2021 - Andrew Hedden
In the news: 20 years of Street Roots reporting

sweeps create greater problem” Street Roots has long addressed the hardship that camp sweeps create among ... and health hazards. Critics of sweeps say they lead to property seizure and wrongful arrests. As they ... are today, sweeps in 1999 were often conducted in response to complaints from housed neighbors. ► 2000 ...

4 Oct 2019 - Street Roots
HUD report understates America’s homeless crisis, critics say

sweeps in L.A.’s Echo Park The rates of unsheltered homelessness — including people living in encampments ...

2 Jun 2021 - Jake Maher
Black former prisoners get support with reentry as they speak up for policy change

doesn’t seem to matter to most people outside. “Now I’ve got to do, what, sweep the sidewalk, sleep on the ...

2 Jun 2021 - B. Toastie
Director’s Desk: Aggressive homeless sweeps would undercut progress on the streets

city. You kind of support the police sweeping the homeless out of the city, a city that has little to no ... helping people on the streets maintain trash-free camps. If that means sweeping homeless people, it’s ... homeless. I want to believe him and have no reason not to. Saying that, camp sweeps have increased ...

19 May 2017 - Israel Bayer
Kaia Sand | The bystanders who witness police killings suffer, too

Raven said, Lents Park. As she said this, I thought about how each city-ordered camp sweep that sends ...

28 Apr 2021 - Kaia Sand
Anti-camping law in Medford draws national attention

unorganized camps there. STREET ROOTS NEWS: Medford residents to sue over camp sweep during wildfire (from ... as other community members,” Mitton said via email. “Fires sweeping down the greenways pose an ... into account. While Oregon requires camps to be posted 24 hours ahead of sweeps, the Livability Team ...

28 Apr 2021 - Hanna Merzbach
Kaia Sand | There is room for all in this circle

Laurelhurst Park — what’s commonly described as a camp sweep — illustrating a fact that’s clear after every ... disappear. They go somewhere with new traumas. STREET ROOTS NEWS: After painful sweep of Laurelhurst Park, ... unhoused residents want a space to exist The next chapter of the Laurelhurst camp sweeps began blocks away ...

30 Dec 2020 - Kaia Sand