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What are the main causes of homelessness? Public weighs in

June 29, 2016
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Portland Tribune, June 28, 2016 Eds. Note – this is a completely useless article filled with assumptions and misguided notions of help, drifting quickly in the moral maze of civil liberties. The author does not understand the subject. Yet we feel compeled to include it as a snapshot of what goes on for thinking about […]

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Homeless women, once a rarity, now represent 40 percent of people on streets

January 25, 2016
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The Oregonian, Jan. 24, 2016 On the semi-mean streets of Portland, nobody messes with Jennifer Candido. They wouldn’t dare. Even in the halls of a day shelter for homeless women, a safe place, Candido carries herself with the swagger and attitude of a prizefighter entering the ring – chin up, back straight, jaw set. “They […]

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Editorial: Death of fellow citizens on the streets, like Elvira Shetter-Marshall, is everybody’s problem

January 10, 2016
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The Register-Guard, Jan. 10, 2016 At 7:30 a.m. on Dec. 29, Elvira Mary Shetter-­Marshall, age 58, was found dead outside the Eugene Municipal Court in a covered bike-rack area where she often slept. The temperature that night had fallen to 34 degrees, four degrees above the mark that activates the Egan Warming Center. Details about […]

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Mayor’s $924,000 homelessness plan will provide housing and services rolled into one

August 21, 2015
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Portland Tribune, Aug. 20, 2015 City, county and social service leaders announced new initiatives to better help those most in need in Portland on Thursday. The initiatives include a High-Intensity Street Engagement effort between the city of Portland and Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare to focus housing placement and retention efforts, including culturally specific wraparound services, for […]

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You Paid For It: Cleaning up camps on Portland streets

May 15, 2015
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You Paid For It: Cleaning up camps on Portland streets – KATU.com May 15, 2015 The City of Portland has been working on problems with homelessness long before Charlie Hales was mayor. “People see that, and it’s frustrating on a human level, and it’s frustrating because it’s an unpleasant part of living in the city,” […]

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Authorities give homeless campers 14 days to vacate Stevens Road Tract

February 26, 2015
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The Bulletin, Feb. 24, 2015 The state and the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office are taking action to get transient campers out of tents on state lands east of Bend and into more suitable living shelters. The Oregon Department of State Lands on Monday posted emergency closure signs at the Stevens Road Tract restricting public access […]

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Funding changes force move for ShelterCare’s Homeless Medical Respite program

October 7, 2014
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The Register-Guard, Oct. 4, 2014 Nearly three weeks after a steep drop in state funding prompted the Eugene homeless advocacy nonprofit ShelterCare to end its mental health crisis housing program, the agency says it will move its medical treatment initiative for homeless people into the former motel that housed the mentally ill. The building at 780 […]

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CRC demands punishment for cop who pepper-sprayed homeless campers

August 15, 2014
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Portland Mercury, August 13, 2014 Police commanders reviewing the chaotic aftermath of a homeless camp sweep beneath the Morrison Bridge last October all agreed on one thing: Officer Todd Engstrom made a mistake. By suddenly grabbing a camper’s dog—which had been running loose, but not menacing anyone—Engstrom turned an already tense confrontation into something violent. […]

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Five-part series by KATU on mental illness gets it – in 1982

May 31, 2014
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KATU investigative reporter Randy Ripplinger dives into Portland’s “skid road” in 1982 for “Staying Alive.” Eventually organizations like Central City Concern and Northwest Pilot Project rebuilt, for the most part, single room housing in Portland’s downtown for those with mental illness and addiction. This five-part, weeklong series is incorporated into one sequence in the video […]

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Halfway through contract to clean up campsites, security firm has only been dispatched once – for a false alarm

May 18, 2014
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The Portland Mercury, May 15, 2014 Halfway through a three-month contract to clean up illegal homeless camps on city property, local security firm Pacific Patrol Services hasn’t been sent to a single actual campsite. As of Monday, PPS had only been dispatched once, on April 29, to what city records show was a false alarm. […]

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