Criminalized In a Pandemic
In a global pandemic and during a rainy winter, unhoused people don’t have many options for places to go. The continual clearing out of camps and ticketing by the city of Eugene hasn’t helped, either. After months of criticism about the ways Eugene addressed homelessness during COVID-19, the city restructured its policies to allow some urban camping. But a growing coalition of advocates say it isn’t enough. They instead call for wider and more drastic reform for the age-old story — to stop criminalizing the homeless. The camping rules were most recently adjusted in December 2020, acco...
Source: eugeneweekly.com