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Homeless people who camp on public property in Portland, Oregon, and reject offers of shelter could be fined up to $100 or sentenced to up to seven days in jail under new rules approved ...
City Council members in Portland were considering on Wednesday whether to ban homeless camping during daytime hours in most public places, a move that aims to bring the city into compliance with a ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The small Oregon city at the heart of a recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows cities to enforce outdoor sleeping bans has voted to prohibit camping but ...
A group of homeless people in Portland, Oregon, filed a class action lawsuit on Friday challenging new restrictions the city placed on daytime camping in an attempt to address safety issues ...
A small encampment named Camp Michela after a homeless single mother who was murdered in 2012 was established in Roseland behind the Dollar Tree on Sebastopol Road with the approval of the Sonoma County Community Development Commission in November 2015, and relations were initially harmonious with the local community. In December 2015, police ...
On December 1, 2011, a small group of evicted activists from Occupy Portland encampment set up a table on the plaza of the Portland City Hall and lit a candle, and called it 24/7 Prayer Vigil to Lift the Camping Ban, to draw attention to the city's anti-camping ordinances that were cited during the Occupy Portland eviction. [52]
Nov. 9—The homelessness crisis sent many Portlanders into a panic this week when two councilors announced they wanted to temporarily suspend the city's camping ban and effectively end encampment ...
Dignity Village is a city-recognized legal encampment of an estimated 60 homeless people in Portland, Oregon, United States.In the days before Christmas of 2000, a group of individuals living outdoors in Portland established a tent city.