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| Since Portland is a destination on the Oregon Trail, unlike Boise or Grant's Pass which are merely a waypoints, therefore efforts to criminalize houselessness are less likely to be successful, and the City and County should promote social and economic and geographic mobility instead. [[https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/ordinance/546-mult-co-iga|Houselessness Response Action Plan]] should include "measurable, community-wide indicators" of this, such as volunteer hours served, and number of city contractors who are recently house-less or housing insecure. | Since Portland is a destination on the Oregon Trail, unlike Boise or Grant's Pass which are merely a waypoints, therefore efforts to criminalize houselessness are less likely to be successful, and the City and County should promote social and economic and geographic mobility instead. [[https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/ordinance/546-mult-co-iga|Houselessness Response Action Plan]] should include "measurable, community-wide indicators" of this, such as volunteer hours served, and number of city contractors who are recently house-less or housing insecure. Make partnerships with rural counties to give people work in agriculture, timber, and commercial fishing, and other seasonal "outdoor" work. |
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| Exemplary providers are [[https://www.sistersoftheroad.org/|Sisters of the Road]], R2D2, and [[https://www.cascadiaclusters.org/|Cascadia Clusters]]. Like many shelters and "temperorary alternative shelters", Blanchet House gives a two-tier class system with no social mobility - anti-examples. | Exemplary providers are [[https://www.sistersoftheroad.org/|Sisters of the Road]], R2D2, and [[https://www.cascadiaclusters.org/|Cascadia Clusters]]. Like many shelters and "temperorary alternative shelters", Blanchet House gives a two-tier class system with no social mobility - anti-examples. |
| **Our Proposed Amendments will be added Bold, soon. For the reasons stated above, we find the ordinance to be inadequate and objectively unreasonable and unlikely to survive a legal challenge, which we may bring if the council legislates it.** | **Our Proposed Amendments will be added Bold, soon. For the reasons stated above, we find the ordinance to be inadequate and objectively unreasonable and unlikely to survive a legal challenge, which we may bring if the council legislates it.** |
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| | ======History and Present of Portland Houseless Policy===== |
| | * July 2024 [[https://www.opb.org/article/2024/07/30/multnomah-county-sheriff-nicole-morrisey-odonnell-says-wont-jail-homelessness/|Sherriff Morrisey-ODonnell refuses to book houseless persons for mere violation of municipal ordinance]]. “Arresting and booking our way out of the housing crisis is not a constructive solution,” Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell wrote, and we concur. [[https://www.wweek.com/news/2024/07/30/mayor-blames-sheriff-for-declining-to-book-man-arrested-for-violating-citys-camping-rules/|Mayor Wheeler and the whole city council are surprised by this]], but they shouldn't be. |
| | * [[wp>City of Grant's Pass v. Johnson]] overturns the precedent of [[wp>Martin v. Boise]], which had held that criminalization of sleeping bags, tents, and makeshift shelter constituted "cruel and unusual punishment", prohibited by the [[wp>Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution]] to the U.S. Constitution. |