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outsiderPDX

Last year was the deadliest on record for people in Portland who are homeless

thelundreport.org/content/last

evil scumbag, murdering ratbastard, former mayor ted wheeler is PROUD of his record:

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler exits City Hall after 8 years: ‘I held fast. I didn’t quit. I didn’t give up. I don't care how many people died as a result of my policies. I was - and still am - right."

(i made some of that up. he should kill himself in shame, the heartless, soul-less homunculus.

#deathdealerwheeler#homelessness#trafficfatalities
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Justice for Willie Simmons

State police again barred from homeless sweeps amid effort to clear French Quarter

> The city and the State Police do not have a formal agreement dictating the terms of their relationship. At the time, the State Police argued that the sweeps were within their jurisdiction because the encampments were located under state-owned highways.

veritenews.org/2024/11/25/loui

Verite News · State police again barred from homeless sweeps amid effort to clear French QuarterThe temporary restraining order bars state troopers from engaging in sweeps of unhoused residents or seizures of their property.
#NewOrleans#sweeps#homeless
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Encampment removals have become more common as local governments try to reduce the number of people living on sidewalks and in other public spaces. They are likely to escalate further after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June allowed municipalities to arrest or cite people for sleeping on public property even if there’s no available shelter.

Municipalities are often under pressure from business owners and residents to remove encampments, which officials said can obstruct sidewalks and pose public health, safety or environmental hazards.

Many cities told ProPublica that letting people live outside is not compassionate. “We cannot allow unsheltered residents to live in conditions that are below what we would accept for ourselves,” a Minneapolis spokesperson said in a statement to ProPublica.

Some cities, including San Francisco, characterized encampment removals as a first step toward shelter and housing.

“We are going to make them so uncomfortable on the streets of San Francisco that they have to take our offer” of shelter or housing, San Francisco Mayor London Breed said in July after announcing more aggressive sweeps would take place.

Advocates and people living on the streets say encampment clearings perpetuate homelessness.

“Every time someone gets swept, it just sets us back like 10 steps,” said Duke Reiss, a peer support specialist at Blanchet House in Portland, which provides meals and services to those experiencing homelessness. “It makes it almost impossible to get people help because everything requires documentation.”"

projects.propublica.org/homele

ProPublica · Swept AwayPeople say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or keep a job.
#USA#Homelessness#Homeless
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Nat Oleander

Trans refugees fleeing the South are coming to places like #Seattle and facing #policebrutality, arrest, #sweeps, theft of their belongings by the cops, and death.... one of the people murdered during their #eviction by King County police was a trans elder.

Show up for the unhoused and make it clear that ALL LGBTQIA+ people deserve basic rights. Many queer/trans people don't have the luxury of worrying about the right to marry.... they're just trying to survive.

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#pride#happypride
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