on the street or in shelters often see their possessions confiscated or trashed during sweeps and ...
29 Jun 2022 - Melissa Lewis
sweep, they did. Would this mean that the city of Portland will clear camps from ODOT land with ...
11 Jan 2019 - 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
namely how they will and are being used to sweep and warehouse unhoused people on the streets, and how ...
13 Apr 2022 - Kaia Sand
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
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
An emphasis on sweeps is an emphasis on making life more difficult for our neighbors who live ... focused on another element of our housing crisis: camp sweeps. This was problematic from the get-go ... because an emphasis on sweeps is an emphasis on making life more difficult for our neighbors who live ...
9 Mar 2018 - Kaia Sand
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
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