Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler plans to create consolidated housing for the unhoused so that he can move to ban homeless camping around the city following widespread complaints.
As Oregon struggles with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the nation, a longtime drug counselor says Portland is using a Band-Aid approach on the crisis."sleeping pods,""Tents will work," Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said Tuesday at a virtual town hall."But if we can also find a quick way to fund and deliver pods — that would certainly be an improvement, from my perspective.
Wheeler has focused on a plan to create six large outdoor camps that will allow him to reduce and ultimatelyOregon Gov. Tina Kotek warned that the city’s camps would not qualify for any of the program funding available in the $200 million emergency homelessness and housing spending plan, as tents do not meet a number of habitability requirements the governor outlined. A spokesperson for the governor confirmed, though, that sleeping pods could qualify for county funding.
A view of housing units at the Tarzana Tiny Home Village, which offers temporary housing for homeless people, is seen in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles on July 9, 2021. The Portland City Council set aside $27 million to construct and operate three of the six tent sites for a year, including plans to hire homeless outreach workers and fund the city office that cleans the encampments. The city plans to build an additional three camps within the next two years.
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