Mayor Ted Wheeler has outlined the preliminary costs of City Council’s plan to build sanctioned camping sites across the city in conjunction with a citywide ban on unsheltered homelessness. At a council work session Thursday, he put a $27 million price tag on the start-up costs of the sweeping proposal, which pledges to create up to six camps with a capacity for 250 individuals, alongside increasing homeless services and affordable housing options. Here’s how that.
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A program launched by the city of Portland and nonprofit "Trash for Peace" pays people experiencing homelessness $20 an hour to pick up trash in Portland