"Portland leaders start work on plan to ban homeless camping
By Rebecca Ellis (OPB)
Oct. 26, 2022 5 a.m.
The City Council will hear testimony on the package beginning at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Many of the specifics remain unclear.
After six years in office, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler revealed last week
he was ready to make a sharp change in strategy toward the region’s
homeless crisis.
Alongside Commissioner Dan Ryan, his office has crafted a series of
resolutions that aim to build at least three large city-sanctioned
camping sites and ban other homeless camping across Portland. The
Portland City Council will hear public comment Wednesday afternoon.
The plan is already controversial. So far, 175 people have signed up to
testify and the city has received 500 letters about the proposal.
Supporters have hailed it as a necessary, long overdue step to address
the tents that have multiplied in almost every neighborhood. Critics say forcing people to move into camps is inhumane and that the camps, which
could ultimately host between 150 and 500 people, will quickly grow
unruly and unsafe."
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/10/26/portland-oregon-leaders-start-process-to-ban-homeless-camping/
That's already more than most folks need to know. Something like
that might happen--eventually. But, not anytime soon. Maybe in another
five or ten years--if ever. I'm looking forward to the firestorm that
starts when they start naming actual sites. That might happen in another
year or two.
TB
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