Portland Mayor Wheeler unveils a new public camping ban policy

@StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world

“What this does is it gives us now some reasonable tools for people who just don’t want to work with us,” Wheeler told OPB.

Multnomah County… has around 2,600 shelter beds — the majority of which are usually occupied — and an estimated population of 5,000 people living outside.

There’s only enough space for half of the homeless population yet he’s phrasing this as if they’re just not cooperative. Get fucked, Wheeler.

@NarrativeBear@lemmy.world

Cities should start hiring individuals that are homeless to pick up litter around town. Give them a minimum wage with some access to food and snacks (while on shift) and some priority to accommodations of some sorts for the nights.

If cities can’t do this maybe a non-profit or sorts, with help from city finding and maybe even have local businesses like the hardware stores or Walmart provide garbage bags, boots, jackets.

Two birds with one stone in a sense, clean cities and hopefully less encampments that seem to grow litter around them.

As with anything maybe it’s not a perfect solution, but every little bit helps. I suppose the goal is to help get as many individuals out of poverty as possible.