City Council Passes $27 Million Budget Package to Fund Homeless Encampment Plan
Portland City Council voted 3-0 Wednesday morning to approve a controversial budget package that lays the groundwork for a plan to criminalize street camping and build mass encampments to hold unhoused Portlanders by 2024. Both city commissioners Carmen Rubio and Jo Ann Hardesty were absent for the morning's vote. (According to council staff, Hardesty is on a planned vacation and Rubio is out sick.) The bulk of the $27 million budget package—$17 million—goes toward building...
Source: portlandmercury.com
