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Grants Pass scrambles to meet humanitarian standards at new outdoor homeless sites

Advocates say a lack of water, shade and other resources endanger people forced to live on a bare lot as hot weather approaches The city of Grants Pass is scrambling to meet basic humanitarian standards after it cleared homeless residents from its parks a ...

30 Aug 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
MultCo Sheriff orders deputies not to book anyone in jail under the city’s latest sleeping ban

Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell urges focus on creating pathways out of homelessness in a statement explaining the policy; Wheeler pushes PPB to continue enforcement Just under a month after Mayor Ted Wheeler directed the Portland Police Bureau, or PPB, ...

7 Aug 2024 - Kimberly Cortez
City of Albany orders people to vacate its only designated spot for public sleeping

Homeless residents living in the vacant lots must vacate by Aug. 29 Albany city officials set aside two vacant lots at Ninth Avenue and Jackson Street a year ago where people living on the street could pitch up to 15 tents. Now those people have until Thu ...

7 Aug 2024 - Tom Henderson
City contractors post sweep notifications for homeless encampments amid heat wave

Mayor Ted Wheeler declared a state of emergency July 2 due to extreme heat, but city contractors continued posting sweep notifications on homeless encampments throughout emergency As Portland experienced deadly, record-breaking heat in early July and hund ...

24 Jul 2024 - Kimberly Cortez
Kaia Sand | Hang onto your humanity

Director’s Desk | It’s too easy to scapegoat people in unsteady times When thunder boomed briefly on Sunday, July 21, followed by a smattering of rain, I felt a small bit of relief from the buzzing anxiousness of everything. Kaia Sand is the executive dir ...

24 Jul 2024 - Kaia Sand
Rapid Response agrees to pay in wrongful death suit

The private for-profit contractor reversed course after initially asking a judge to set aside a previous default ruling against the company Rapid Response Bio Clean, the city of Portland’s primary sweep contractor, dropped its request for a judge to set a ...

17 Jul 2024 - Terah Bennett and K. Rambo
Local policymaking reveals ideological rifts while homelessness crisis continues

Despite a new plan’s optimism, city-county homelessness agreement discourse follows age-old pattern in a ginned up moral panic The city of Portland began enforcing its updated anti-public sleeping ordinance July 1, threatening to fine and arrest homeless ...

17 Jul 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Libraries offer some of the few remaining truly public places

McMinnville Public Library provides not only books, but basic amenities creating a space for respite Philip Elliott used to be a resident manager for a nonprofit shelter provider. That was before the organization laid him off in 2020, and he became unshel ...

3 Jul 2024 - Tom Henderson
Portland enforces public sleeping ban

After successful court challenges to previous sleeping ban, the new ordinance is in effect Portland police can ticket and arrest homeless Portlanders who reject a shelter offer as of July 1. In its latest attempt to dust off a practice deployed by the cit ...

3 Jul 2024 - K. Rambo
Supreme Court rules arresting, citing people for not having shelter is constitutional

US Supreme Court overturns lower court ruling on Oregon homelessness case, decides criminalizing homeless residents for sleeping outside is not cruel and unusual The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson on June 28, reversing the ...

28 Jun 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden