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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 on. ....
City officials Thursday revealed the first three locations for the city's six planned "safe rest villages," or sanctioned outdoor shelters for unhoused Portlanders. The much-anticipated announcement comes months after the idea was first pitched by City Commissioner Dan Ryan as a way to address what he refers to as a "humanitarian crisis on our streets." "We need to meet our houseless neighbors where they are and provide the shelter and services they deserve," Ryan said. ....
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