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Who gets to cycle in Portland?

to reach without a bike or a car. Cargo bikes can also offer some protection from sweeps, Cobb said, ... for sweeps of these areas. In its 2022 Bicycle Counts report, PBOT attributed the change to “the ...

26 Jul 2023 - Miles Silvey
Right to rest? Not in Oregon.

… these sweeps kill’ As originally drafted, Senate Bill 611 would have limited annual rent increases to 3% ... "People's lives are on the line," he said "When we allow for sweeps to happen, we're ... destroying people's only shelter. These sweeps kill." ‘We’re going to continue to build power ...

3 May 2023 - Tom Henderson
Injury claims from PPB’s 2020 protest response cost city of Portland over $2.8 million

January. The bill targets existing loopholes enabling law enforcement agencies to sweep violations under ...

5 Apr 2023 - Piper McDaniel
Members of Portland’s ‘expediting groups’ exempt from lobby disclosures

sidewalks, a set of regulations that proponents of sweeps have marshaled in their push to remove homeless ... Street Roots showed business owners successfully asking city officials for sweeps outside of established ... city processes intended to ensure encampment evaluations and sweeps are based on objective criteria. ...

8 Feb 2023 - Piper McDaniel
Street Roots vendor profile | Speaking truth to power

unhoused in pre-pandemic Portland, Randy Humphreys was a victim of a city sweep in which contractors ... been there for me when I needed it,” Humphreys said. Randy knew sweeps affected more than just him, so ...

14 Dec 2022 - Sasha Azizi Ros...
Street Roots vendor profile | Rebuilding her life

providing supplies and alerting persons on the streets to upcoming sweeps. The ambassador program started in ... when sweeps are coming,” she said. “Often signs are taken down and people are not prepared for sweeps ...

7 Dec 2022 - Meg Eberle
The Driftwood Castle at Kelley Point Park

the swelling tributary will undo the architecture and sweep away its remnants — if Portland Parks and ...

23 Nov 2022 - Aurora Biggers
Opinion | Where Do People Go Once They’re Swept?

Access Denied | Sweeping Portlanders without viable alternatives isn’t a plan Imagine that you’re ... cup with your other hand and sweep the crumbs in? Or do you brush them all over the floor? Proposing ... encampment sweeps in the absence of structural changes to the housing, employment, health care and justice ...

9 Nov 2022 - Hanna Brooks Olsen
Joint Office of Homeless Services reduces supply distribution, advocates concerned as colder weather approaches

the city’s own confiscation of such supplies during sweep operations. Federal COVID relief funding ... impact to this work. “Having five tents a month is not enough — especially when sweeps are happening, and ... things.” As one arm of the government sweeps encampments and confiscates possessions and survival gear, its ...

2 Nov 2022 - Tyler Walicek
Kaia Sand | A quarter century of camping bans, sit-lie ordinances

on March 19, 2003, but, as the city began to deploy sweeps on that camp, it transformed into ... of Hope in 2018 and St. Johns Landing during the pandemic years. Stop the Sweeps has staged actions ...

2 Nov 2022 - Kaia Sand