Tag: Amanda Fritz
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Wapato Beats Shanty Towns
This winter is has been cold, wet and cruel for those forced to live on the streets. One of Portland’s responses has been to authorize the creation of ad-hoc shanty towns. Unregulated homeless camps are growing all over Portland – most recently at North Greeley called Hazelnut Grove. City Commissioner Amanda Fritz recently told KGW “Every neighborhood in Portland will be…
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PDX Newest Homeless Camp “Bursting at the Seams”
Commissioner Amanda Fritz has already stated “Every neighborhood in Portland will be asked to find a spot to put a homeless camp.” She has yet to explain where the city plans on locating these camps, and has not expressed any concerns on impact camps will have on surrounding neighborhoods. Fritz’s and city council’s willingness to support these improvised camps ignores the…
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Fritz to PDX: Make Room for Homeless Camps
Portland Parks Commissioner Amanda Fritz startled us in this KGW interview when she stated that “Every neighborhood in Portland will be asked to find a spot to put a homeless camp.” Apparently she hasn’t noticed the utter failure of the homeless camp experiment just across the river in Vancouver. See Vancouver Allows Public Camping – Here’s What Happened…
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Do You Know The Difference Between Policy and Law?
One of the biggest questions we run into is “why isn’t law enforcement enforcing the law”. This is a great question but, also a complicated one. Herein lies the conundrum of law and policy. The State of Oregon’s legislature writes state laws. Local city government officials that “we” vote for and put into office set…
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NPB Presents To #PDX City Hall
The North Park Blocks group presented to Mayor Hales and other city and county officials at City Hall on Sept 29, 2015. Parks Commissioner Amanda Fritz was not in attendance. The North Park Blocks is made up of a proudly diverse community who chose to live and work here. We proudly continue to support many…