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Portland Buys 100 Home Pods for Unsheltered People

Newly released data suggests that Safe Rest Villages are having some success in transitioning homeless people into other forms of housing.

Two more are scheduled to open in the coming months.

The Safe Rest Village model has been lauded as an alternative to street camping and congregate shelters, but its success is difficult to pinpoint, in part because of data collection methods.

Pearl District residents and business owners are continuing to push back against a Safe Rest Village planned for Northwest Naito Parkway.

Pearl District residents and business owners are continuing to push back against a Safe Rest Village planned for Northwest Naito Parkway.

Toilets were the topic of a community forum today as a way to support the growth of downtown. Community groups gathered at Universalist Church for a "Flush Forum” to talk about how public restrooms would serve all members of the community including those who are homeless.

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Like many programs that materialized in spring of 2020, the three city-sanctioned tent camps that appeared in central Portland in April of last year were born out of a crisis. Oregon’s COVID-19 pandemic social distancing rules had just fallen into place. The mandate forced homeless shelters to immediately reduce capacity, leaving hundreds of vulnerable Portlanders to shelter-in-place outdoors in the midst of a still-mysterious pandemic. At the same time, places that unhoused people relied ...