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  • Portland leaders start work on plan to ban homeless camping

    From Technobarbarian@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 26 18:42:50 2022
    "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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  • From bfh@21:1/5 to Technobarbarian on Wed Oct 26 21:51:52 2022
    Technobarbarian wrote:

    "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

    "No, officer. I'm not a homeless camper. I have a home, but I just
    like to camp on the sidewalk."

    --
    bill
    Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.

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