by Vanessa Veselka (2020) Winner of the Oregon Book Award for fiction. This sweeping novel follows two half-sisters’ ...
23 Jun 2021 - Street Roots
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
like so many others, she died houseless, the victim of a “sweeps” system that Mayor Ted Wheeler and ... DIRECTOR’S DESK: City efforts should lead to health and housing, not sweeps and more suffering Eighty-two is ... have to go to in an effort to reclaim items taken during sweeps — from the last of their family photos, ...
10 Jan 2020 - Desiree Hellegers
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
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
The Sunnyside Neighborhood Association and Rep. Nosse ask officials for an end to camp sweeps and ... support. Jan. 29: The end of this story has been updated to reflect the recent attack and subsequent sweep ... lives near the encampment, called for an end to all houseless camp removals, often called sweeps, and ...
26 Jan 2021 - Henry Brannan
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
homelessness leads to treating homelessness as a law enforcement issue, which results in increases in sweeps ...
13 Jul 2022 - Piper McDaniel
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