A budget amendment cutting more than $4 million in funds for homeless camp sweeps goes to Portland City Council for a vote on Nov. 12. Introduced by Councilor Angelita Morillo, it has the support of District 4 Councilor Mitch Green.
“There’s nowhere for people to go, so you’re actually just moving the problem from place to place instead of addressing why people are unhoused in the first place,” Morillo told the Portland Mercury. “On top of that, sweeps cost millions and millions of dollars annually. So, we are wasting a lot of our resources for these short-term solutions.”
“It is a bad, cruel and failed policy when the Trump administration does it,” Green told the Mercury, “and it is a bad, cruel, and failed policy when the city of Portland does it.”…