Along with being the longest night of the year, the winter solstice—December 21—is recognized as National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day. According to data collected by Multnomah County, at least 126 residents who died in 2020 were homeless at the time of their death. The data has yet to be compiled for 2021. This evening, city leaders and activist groups will hold memorial services for homeless individuals who died in the past year. One will be.
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.
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