'Nothing happened'; City's promise to clear more homeless camps produces little results on first day
Monday, the city planned to clear 8 camps this week. Prior to the pandemic, crews cleared an average of 50 per week.
Author: Maggie Vespa
Updated: 7:35 PM PDT May 24, 2021
On Monday afternoon, the day pinpointed as the dawn of a new but familiar era in Portland’s handling of its housing crisis, Zackary Young felt stuck in an awkward limbo: he’d expected crews contracted by the city to force him and those around him to leave their camp in the city’s Old Town Chinatown neighborhood.