Todd BohannonFeb 19
“David Giffen, the executive director of Coalition for the Homeless, said his organization was “blindsided” by the announcement…he said, the efforts would fray trust between the city’s outreach workers and unsheltered residents” #StopTheSweeps
https://apnews.com/article/zohran-mamdani-homeless-encampments-sweeps-a5b9db43f8a1b8244c5b6c8d1ad19005
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani restarts homeless encampment sweeps

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has resumed the practice of clearing out homeless encampments, saying he has retooled the process. The Democratic mayor on Wednesday said the city’s homeless services department would lead the effort rather than having police handle the removal of encampments. The decision came as at least 19 people have died outside over several days of brutal cold in the city. The mayor's office says there's no evidence anyone who died had been living in encampments. Mamdani had paused the previous mayor’s encampment sweeping policy days after he took office, saying that approach didn't do enough to get people into housing.

AP News
Todd BohannonFeb 19
“New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the city will resume clearing makeshift homeless encampments, promising to take a more humane approach to a practice he previously criticized” #StopTheSweeps
https://apnews.com/article/zohran-mamdani-homeless-encampments-sweeps-a5b9db43f8a1b8244c5b6c8d1ad19005
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani restarts homeless encampment sweeps

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has resumed the practice of clearing out homeless encampments, saying he has retooled the process. The Democratic mayor on Wednesday said the city’s homeless services department would lead the effort rather than having police handle the removal of encampments. The decision came as at least 19 people have died outside over several days of brutal cold in the city. The mayor's office says there's no evidence anyone who died had been living in encampments. Mamdani had paused the previous mayor’s encampment sweeping policy days after he took office, saying that approach didn't do enough to get people into housing.

AP News
nullagentDec 5

Mamdani plans to END homeless sweeps in NYC, thank god.

I hope Seattle's new mayor Katie Willson is taking notes!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mamdani-breaks-adams-vows-nyc-055933855.html

#NYC #Mamdani #StopTheSweeps #Homeless #Housing #Seattle #ACAB

Mamdani breaks with Adams, vows NYC will stop clearing homeless encampments in January

NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani vows to end homeless encampment sweeps that Eric Adams started, citing failed results and lack of housing connections.

Yahoo News
Show threadJust BobNov 18

Video of what terrorism looks like in #AmeriKKKa

#StopTheSweeps #HouseKeysNotHandcuffs No more #Illegal2BHomless laws in #PDX #Portland

Just BobNov 18

A protest is illegal when a #homeless person is doing it in #AmeriKKKa

In 2 years in the US Army stationed in Germany for Desert Storm, i never met a foreign terrist but in 14 years on the streets of the this country, I've met A LOT of them with badges.

For the 3rd time, a tent protesting sweeps is taken without a search warrant. Videos following.

#StopTheSweeps #HouseKeysNotHandcuffs No more #Illegal2BHomless laws in #PDX #Portland

Links to other posts:
https://kolektiva.social/@justbob/115214609904161483
https://kolektiva.social/@justbob/115392825175452431
https://kolektiva.social/@justbob/115466890530276440
https://kolektiva.social/@justbob/115471040915253219
https://kolektiva.social/@justbob/115550502312557498

Show threadJust BobNov 5

2nd time I don't have a right to protest. A right to a search warrant... not one person is willing to stop these terrists.

Sweeps IS Terrorism.
#PDX #Portland #Oregon #StopTheSweeps #StopTheTerrorism
Get off your fucking ass and fight back against domestic terrorism.

llokiNov 5
What a use of our tax payers dollars, sweeping a veteran's protest against the constitutional violations of the sweeps (1st, 4th and 8th). Not even a sleeping bag or camping pad in there. Just a truck, class traitors and a garbage bag funded by We The People. They have a habbit of sweeping when people are at work as well. Shame on them! #Illegal2BHomeless #Sweeps #Stopthesweeps #Classtraitors #Ourtaxdollarsbeingwasted
Show threadDoomsdaysCWOct 31

@justbob It looks like the link got broken. Here's the full link and a description for folks.

Demand City of Portland and Multnomah County Focus Spending on Pathways to Housing and Support

Welcome Home Coalition is an alliance of over 100 individuals and organizations advancing housing justice in the Portland Metro region. On October 23rd, 2025, Welcome Home Coalition and Sisters of the Road released a groundbreaking report, Finding Home: Lasting Housing Solutions Rooted in Community Expertise, which systematically captures the perspectives of over 650 people experiencing homelessness in Portland Metro on the housing solutions they want and need. Advised by researchers from Portland State University and Oregon Health & Science University, the two-year study followed high ethical and academic standards and grounded in lived experience.

Finding Home clearly shows us what the people most impacted by housing instability and homelessness need — through their own voices. Their message is clear. When given the choice, people overwhelmingly want permanent housing they can afford, with the supports and freedoms that make it possible to stay housed. Finding Home survey respondents ranked shelter as equally undesirable as living outside. We can’t afford to keep investing in partial solutions.

We are asking the Portland City Council to stop funding mass shelter expansion and the harmful sweeps of tents and RVs. Instead, the council should listen to the perspectives of people most impacted and put funding towards long-term housing solutions. Budgets reflect our shared values. Choose housing and support, not more harm.

The signers of this petition urge the City of Portland and Multnomah County to enact the following proven solutions supported by Finding Home: Lasting Housing Solutions Rooted in Community

Expertise:

(1) Honor the self-identified needs of people with community expertise and shift funding used for encampment sweeps and RV removals to eviction prevention rent assistance to stop more people and families from falling into homelessness in our region.

(2) Reallocate any funding currently left for congregate shelter expansion into rent assistance and peer support, and prioritize all future investments to ensure existing 24-hour shelters and day centers have funds for rent assistance, peer support, and case management staff to create pathways to housing for current shelter guests.

(3) Increase the number of permanently affordable homes quickly by using public funds to purchase existing apartment buildings and hotels from the private sector and convert them to non-market housing. This strategy has already created hundreds of lower-cost rental homes, permanently protected from market speculation.

Short url:
shorturl.at/JWTuG

Copy and paste full link below:

https://actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QEdFSUk=?sourceid=1042773&emci=aa575338-78b3-f011-8e61-6045bded8ba4&emdi=219dda71-1db4-f011-8e61-6045bded8ba4&ceid=331681

#StopTheSweeps #PortlandOR #PDX

Just BobOct 31

Petition to #StopTheSweeps in #Portland #PDX
Note: I absolutely hate short URLs but it keeps braking here. Not only hiding it but someone tracking it. I am sorry.
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Demand City of Portland and Multnomah County Focus Spending on Pathways to Housing and Support

Welcome Home Coalition is an alliance of over 100 individuals and organizations advancing housing justice in the Portland Metro region. On October 23rd, 2025, Welcome Home Coalition and Sisters of the Road released a groundbreaking report, Finding Home: Lasting Housing Solutions Rooted in Community Expertise, which systematically captures the perspectives of over 650 people experiencing homelessness in Portland Metro on the housing solutions they want and need. Advised by researchers from Portland State University and Oregon Health & Science University, the two-year study followed high ethical and academic standards and grounded in lived experience.

Finding Home clearly shows us what the people most impacted by housing instability and homelessness need — through their own voices. Their message is clear. When given the choice, people overwhelmingly want permanent housing they can afford, with the supports and freedoms that make it possible to stay housed. Finding Home survey respondents ranked shelter as equally undesirable as living outside. We can’t afford to keep investing in partial solutions.

We are asking the Portland City Council to stop funding mass shelter expansion and the harmful sweeps of tents and RVs. Instead, the council should listen to the perspectives of people most impacted and put funding towards long-term housing solutions. Budgets reflect our shared values. Choose housing and support, not more harm.

The signers of this petition urge the City of Portland and Multnomah County to enact the following proven solutions supported by Finding Home: Lasting Housing Solutions Rooted in Community

Expertise:

(1) Honor the self-identified needs of people with community expertise and shift funding used for encampment sweeps and RV removals to eviction prevention rent assistance to stop more people and families from falling into homelessness in our region.

(2) Reallocate any funding currently left for congregate shelter expansion into rent assistance and peer support, and prioritize all future investments to ensure existing 24-hour shelters and day centers have funds for rent assistance, peer support, and case management staff to create pathways to housing for current shelter guests.

(3) Increase the number of permanently affordable homes quickly by using public funds to purchase existing apartment buildings and hotels from the private sector and convert them to non-market housing. This strategy has already created hundreds of lower-cost rental homes, permanently protected from market speculation.
https://shorturl.at/JWTuG

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#NewsBotOct 28

Welcome Home Coalition is an alliance of over 100 individuals and organizations advancing housing justice in the #Portland Metro region. On October 23rd, 2025, Welcome Home Coalition and Sisters of the Road released a groundbreaking report, Finding Home: Lasting Housing Solutions Rooted in Community Expertise, which systematically captures the perspectives of over 650 people experiencing homelessness in Portland Metro on the housing solutions they want and need. Advised by researchers from Portland State University and #Oregon Health & Science University, the two-year study followed high ethical and academic standards and grounded in lived experience.
Finding Home clearly shows us what the people most impacted by housing instability and #homelessness need — through their own voices. Their message is clear. When given the choice, people overwhelmingly want permanent housing they can afford, with the supports and freedoms that make it possible to stay housed. Finding Home survey respondents ranked shelter as equally undesirable as living outside. We can’t afford to keep investing in partial solutions.

We are asking the Portland City #Council to stop funding mass shelter expansion and the harmful sweeps of tents and RVs. Instead, the council should listen to the perspectives of people most impacted and put funding towards long-term housing solutions. Budgets reflect our shared values. Choose #housing and support, not more harm.

The signers of this petition urge the City of Portland and #Multnomah County to enact the following proven solutions supported by Finding Home: Lasting Housing Solutions Rooted in Community Expertise:

(1) Honor the self-identified needs of people with community expertise and shift funding used for encampment #sweeps and RV removals to eviction prevention rent assistance to stop more people and families from falling into homelessness in our region.

(2) Reallocate any funding currently left for congregate shelter expansion into rent assistance and peer support, and prioritize all future investments to ensure existing 24-hour shelters and day centers have funds for rent assistance, peer support, and case management staff to create pathways to housing for current shelter guests.

(3) Increase the number of permanently affordable homes quickly by using public funds to purchase existing apartment buildings and hotels from the private sector and convert them to non-market housing. This strategy has already created hundreds of lower-cost rental homes, permanently protected from market speculation.

https://actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QEdFSUk=?sourceid=1042773&emci=aa575338-78b3-f011-8e61-6045bded8ba4&emdi=219dda71-1db4-f011-8e61-6045bded8ba4&ceid=331681

#StopTheSweeps #PDX Portland