Alex Banuelos remembers how the rules changed Nov. 1.
Banuelos, 42, said he’s been homeless for a year and a half and was living in an encampment in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood when police approached to begin enforcing the city’s ban on setting up tents or structures on public property.
He watched as officers homed in on one man for arrest on an outstanding warrant that was unrelated to the ban. Banuelos walked away without a citation for violating the ban and didn’t accept a bed in a congregate shelter. He headed to East Portland with his girlfriend…