Others have written and documented extensively about the pressing need for a turnkey solution for the homeless, caught in a vicious cycle of shelters, streets, and ER visits.
Outreach Village wants to help break the cycle.
Families in Southeast Portland say growing homeless camps have them afraid to leave the house
Tents, broken-down cars, piles of garbage and RVs line the streets off Southeast 80th and Powell in Portland, Oregon. It's a residential neighborhood turned nightmare for families who live there.
Homeless camps are often blamed for crime but experts say it's not so simple
Do illegal homeless camps generate crime? It's a sensitive question, but one that's becoming politically urgent in cities where pandemic-era tolerance policies have allowed the camps to sprawl into more visible areas.
5 Harsh Realities Of Homeless Camps Nobody Talks About
If you live in a major American city, you've probably seen your fair share of homeless camps. They usually crop up in empty lots, parks, and Big Rock Candy Mountains. City governments generally have them torn down and cleaned up whenever they can. Leaving aside whether or not that's the right way to address homelessness, somebody has to do the work of cleaning those places up. Our source, Carol, did just that. She told us how ...