A place for us to share our experiences on outreach: what we see, what we do, who we interact with and how we feel. A place for us to reflect on good days and process hard ones. A place to share observations of a broken system.
Congregate Shelters are Not for Everyone.
“Offering” people shelter that is not appropriate for them or else face being given citations, going to jail, being moved without a destination or losing property and being harassed continually by EPD and City workers is not “offering shelter”, it’s coercive and it’s violence.
The Cycle of Sweeps
Many people think of the eviction of an encampment, a "sweep" as a straightforward process with very little impact on a person's life besides the inconvenience of having to relocate again & again. Sweeps have a devastating impact on a person’s already difficult life.
