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Mayor Ted Wheeler is flexing his executive powers this week to restructure the city's labyrinthine network of homeless support services. In a Wednesday press conference, Wheeler unveiled plans for a new Street Services Coordination Center, a program that will act as a nucleus for the city's multi-faceted work with its homeless population. "We must step up and admit, that despite our best intentions, things just are not improving as quickly as we'd like for the.
Mayor Ted Wheeler unveiled the "first in a series" of executive orders Friday to address homeless camping in Portland. In an afternoon press conference, Wheeler announced an immediate order to ban camping from high crash streets and intersections to protect the lives of those living outside. "People are dying," Wheeler said. "Leaving people to camp in high crash corridors is unacceptable." The ban instructs Homeless and Urban Camping Impact Reduction Program (HUCIRP) to notify everyone.