Category: Press
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Oregonian: Neighbors Organize to Halt Park Chaos
A big thank you to the Oregonian Editorial Board for the thoughtful essay on how the North Park Blocks organized in response to months of illegal and menacing activity in the park. Read the full editorial here (and be sure to continue on to the comments). Frustrated neighbors, park-area businesses, PNCA and Emerson School officials banded…
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NW Examiner: Civility Collapses on North Park Blocks
The September 2015 issue of the NW Examiner details this summer’s dramatic decline of the North Park Blocks. Click here for PDF of article Our lovely park has become home to vagrants who openly do drugs, have sex, fights and regularly urinate and defecate in public. … This is affecting my business and more importantly, Portland’s prosperity in the long run.”…
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Homeless camps growing in North Park Blocks
The homeless camps growing in North Park blocks have become so extensive that is has become a dangerous and life threatening. See the coverage on KGW News. http://www.kgw.com/videos/news/local/2015/07/13/homeless-camps-growing-in-north-park-blocks/30116919/
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Portland is Better Than This!
Members of City Council were elected to make difficult choices such as how to ensure limited resources go where there is a most critical need. If you are concerned about the safety, cleanliness and livability of the city, as well as the needs and safety of people living on the streets, please call or write…
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City of Portland Fails to Clean Up 405 Crime Nest
City Commissioner Nick Fish had been told about increasingly aggressive street people under the I-405 freeway, but seeing is believing. After a walking tour between Northwest Johnson and Lovejoy Saturday, Oct. 4, and talking to affected neighbors, he characterized the problem as “less about homelessness, and more about illegal behavior.” He called then Portland Police…