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Property planned for Temporary Alternative Shelter Site contaminated with hazardous chemicals

DEQ awaits a risk assessment from the city to inform the timeline for cleanup The city of Portland's plan for a new sanctioned homeless site, slated for an early 2024 opening, is currently contaminated with hazardous chemicals. The city has a lot of ...

15 Nov 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
MultCo DA: Mayor didn’t notify DA of ‘daytime camping ban’ enforcement, hasn’t responded to DA’s questions about its role

Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt told Mayor Ted Wheeler the district attorney’s office is not able to fulfill its role as described in the ordinance banning most sleeping in public in a Nov. 6 letter. The Multnomah County District Attorney’ ...

9 Nov 2023 - K. Rambo and Jeremiah Hayden
Questions remain ahead of Portland sleeping ban enforcement

Homeless Portlanders, service providers prepare for Nov. 13 sleeping ban enforcement while the mayor's office goes quiet Less than two weeks before the city is set to enforce its wide-reaching public sleeping ban Nov. 13 — days after nighttime temper ...

8 Nov 2023 - K. Rambo
Portland has a waste problem — where is it coming from?

Despite public perception, Metro data shows housed residents are responsible for most waste dumped on public property “Trash tells a story,” Stephanie Rawson said. While the general public may not see abandoned garbage as an archeological site, Rawson, Me ...

1 Nov 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
Shelter project gets unfriendly reception in small towns

Church at the Park wishes to build a shelter in Dallas for its unhoused community members, but many local residents fiercely oppose the idea Organizers at the Church at the Park in Salem want to build a shelter 15 miles west of the Willamette River in the ...

18 Oct 2023 - Tom Henderson
Oregon Law Center sues city over ‘camping’ ban, judge denies temporary restraining order

A lawsuit filed Friday argues the ordinance is objectively unreasonable, violates state law and Oregon constitution A Multnomah County Circuit Court judge denied an Oregon Law Center, or OLC, motion requesting a temporary restraining order to halt the c ...

29 Sep 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
Commissioner Rene Gonzalez said his decision to halt tent distribution was for fire safety. Emails tell a different story.

A Jan. 11 memo suggests Gonzalez halted tent distribution to align with mayor’s camping ban Foreshadowing things to come, Portland Commissioner Rene Gonzalez halted tent distribution by Portland Fire and Rescue personnel, including Portland Street Respons ...

2 Aug 2023 - Piper McDaniel
Portland’s daytime camping ban lacks concrete plans, procedures

Vague communication from city causes concern among homeless Portlanders and service providers Portland’s ‘daytime camping ban’ went into effect July 7, but the city has not communicated a rollout timeline, a map of allowed sleeping spots or when exactly P ...

12 Jul 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
Despite historical failures, Portland wants to fine, jail homeless Portlanders

In a city where homeless people are already much more likely to face arrest than housed people, officials have a ‘new’ proposal: warn, fine and arrest homeless Portlanders Update: Portland City Council passed the ordinance discussed in this story June 7. ...

6 Jun 2023 - K. Rambo
Right to rest? Not in Oregon.

A bill to give homeless people the right to be left alone fails to move through OR House Editor's note: This is an updated version of a story originally published in the April 26 print edition of Street Roots. O vid Neal III was 6-foot-4 with chisele ...

3 May 2023 - Tom Henderson