As pushback to Safe Rest Villages lingers, Portland International School students extend neighborly welcome, with winter supply drive and hand made cards for unhoused neighbors
Portland homeless shelter providers were taken by surprise in October when Mayor Ted Wheeler and City Commissioner Dan Ryan unveiled a plan to open several large-scale outdoor homeless encampments across town. Many longtime organizations, several of which already ran outdoor shelters similar to the proposed camps, had expected the city to seek their input in the proposal. “But no local provider had been consulted,” recalled Andy Miller, director of homeless service nonprofit Our Just Future.
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