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Oregon mayor to ban homeless camps on Portland streets

10/22/2022 4:38:00 AM

Oregon mayor to ban homeless camps on Portland streets

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Oregon mayor to ban homeless camps on Portland streets An Oregon mayor plans to ban camping on Portland streets in the next year and a half Homeless Camping Ban PortlandCLAIRE RUSH“The magnitude and the depth of the homeless crisis in our city is nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said Friday. “We need to move our scattered, vulnerable homeless population closer to the services that they need.” Oregon'sMore than 3,000 people are living without shelter in Portland, a 50% jump from 2019, and there are more than 700 encampments across the city, Wheeler said.Scott Kerman, executive director of Blanchet House, a Portland nonprofit that provides social services for people experiencing homelessness, said the plan “has some positive elements” but that “there remain a lot of unanswered questions and unknown details,” particularly regarding the enforcement provision. Some unhoused people are resistant to living in large group environments due to previous negative experiences, he said. Read more:
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