By law, authorities will keep the collected property and objects for 60 days to see if anyone claims them.
… ha ha sure they will 
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Even they kept all the stuff, probably they will demand they show them the receipts, you know, people who live in the streets have all the receipts of the stuff they’ve bought…
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Homeless Portlanders report ongoing issues retrieving personal items after sweeps | Street Roots
Portland illegally discarding personal property during homeless sweeps, class-action suit alleges - OPB
City Contractor Ordered To Pay for Personal Items Confiscated During 2020 Homeless Camp Sweep - Portland Mercury
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These reporters actually talked to some of the homeless folks affected by this. An unusual feature in the reporting on the anti homeless policies.
It’s so clear their preferred policy is that the homeless all just leave, but they can’t just say that. Super disappointed in my city for passing this.
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How this cascade of failure happened would be interesting to dig into. Who is evicting the bus terminal, and why? It’s in an awkward corner of the west loop, tucked under a highway interchange. Not a very nice location for any residential use.
Also the lack of city planning and oversight in any way-didn’t anybody notice that this was a situation that needed to be addressed?
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I honestly don’t know why it’s taken NYC this long to figure it out:
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As the second Mayor Daley worked diligently to make Chicago a place where middle class families could ‘choose to raise their children’ by forcing a car-centric model on new construction, that same convenient spot for getting onto the highways might in fact now be considered a good place for families who drive everywhere but especially to work and school.
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See also Williamsburg Brooklyn. It went from a largely poor Haredi enclave straight to hipster haven without ever going into punks/artists colonizing.
Lomgtime landlords sold their buildings forcing an exodus of ultra religious Jews to Orange County NY and Central/South NJ.
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Do you think they intentionally came up with “THUD”?
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364 bills that have been introduced in Congress, ranked by acronym quality
Politicians love acronyms. Love them.
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But that’s how it goes with gentrification and capitalism. A group of outsiders form a community in a poor area and make the area safe, “respectable” people move in, then rents are increased so that the original community can no longer afford to live there. The community falls apart, local businesses are forced out and everything becomes bland and acceptable.
There are bonus “going to hell” points if the “respectable” people blame the outsiders for starting the problem, when all they did was find somewhere cheap to live and make it safe.
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Williamsburg was never an unsafe neighborhood. It was an insular, poor but safe area that was a minority enclave.
Landlords spent decades charging low rents to keep the community intact. They decided to move elsewhere. Where they have less conflict with local governments.
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I’m just confused at a conservative media person thinking bike theft isn’t simply just rewards for not driving a car like a real human being does.
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