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Despite increased capacity, still not enough shelter beds

There are only 1,600 shelter beds in Multnomah county for more than 4,000 people experiencing homelessness Despite increasing capacity since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Multnomah County’s supply of publicly-supported shelter beds for people ex ...

30 Mar 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Business owners asked for sweeps and got them

Close ties raise questions about fairness in the city’s effort to alleviate homelessness After weeks of failed attempts to get homeless Portlanders cleared from several streets downtown near Northwest Third Avenue to make way for a pending event, Daniel K ...

30 Mar 2022 - Piper McDaniel
All 6 Safe Rest Village sites are confirmed, what’s next?

Under emergency authorization from Portland mayor, Dan Ryan announces new SRV site locations W hen Portland Commissioner Dan Ryan introduced the Safe Rest Village initiative last year, he planned to have six new tiny home-style homeless shelter villages o ...

9 Mar 2022 - Taylor Griggs
Kaia Sand | Addressing homelessness through the legislature and what we can learn from it

Opinion | The $400 million legislative housing package protects human rights; no city can use the funding for sweeps People survive in tents in Deschutes National Forest, along the Umpqua River of Roseburg, on the sandy knolls of Lincoln City. In Medford, ...

2 Mar 2022 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | How do we create 3,000 liveable spaces for people without criminalizing them?

Opinion | We can go bigger — and kinder I’ll hand it to Sam Adams. Putting aside the alarming nature of his idea to warehouse 3,000 people in militarized spaces, he was thinking big — but not big enough. It’s the same thing with the People 4 Portland camp ...

23 Feb 2022 - Kaia Sand
In their own words: Unhoused Portlanders speak on the emergency order banning encampments in high-traffic corridors

Street Roots spoke to more than 12 unhoused Portlanders living along roads and freeways included in Mayor Ted Wheeler’s Feb. 4 emergency order banning encampments in high-traffic corridors. Of the few who had heard of the order, none were clear on if they ...

23 Feb 2022 - Henry Brannan
Mayor’s order forbidding camping in high-traffic areas leaves unhoused Portlanders with few places to go

Portland city government has no plans to relax sweep criteria in safer areas following emergency order Mayor Ted Wheeler announced an emergency order prohibiting homeless encampments along an identified list of dangerous roadways on Feb. 4, drawing immedi ...

23 Feb 2022 - Piper McDaniel and K. Rambo
Editorial | You're startling us, Sam

Forcing people into a camp patrolled by military personnel, unarmed or otherwise, doesn’t end or address homelessness, it simply contains it in a carceral complex Mayoral aide Sam Adams’ proposal to build mass camps for unhoused Portlanders and staff them ...

14 Feb 2022 - SR editorial board
Jan. 31 Sam Adams Memo (full text)

A Jan. 31 memo penned by mayoral aide Sam Adams proposed, among other things, to build large-scale homeless encampments in Portland staffed by Oregon National Guard and others. The full memo, first reported by Willamette Week, is below in PDF format. Jan. ...

11 Feb 2022 - Street Roots
Kaia Sand | Unhoused people must have a voice in policy

Opinion | Knowledge from the unhoused provides critical insight The Street Roots ambassadors grew animated discussing the topic of ranked-choice voting. They considered how this method of voting could motivate people to vote because they might feel like t ...

2 Feb 2022 - Kaia Sand