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Private security guards hired to clear large homeless encampment known as 'The Pit' as Portland outlaws camping in public spaces
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A homeless encampment known as 'The Pit' in downtown Portland has been cleared out and private security guards are patrolling the area in the latest push to clean up the poverty-stricken metro. The tented neighborhood was a longstanding eyesore in the city, where huge crowds of homeless people were set up under the Steel Bridge by the Willamette River. But locals praised removal crews and biohazard teams that descended on the site this week, forcibly moving 19 people into a mass-sanctioned campsite in the southeast of the city on Monday. 'They finally got their eviction notice, thank God,' said resident Aaliyah Mays, who told KGW she had been reporting the camp to the city for two and a half years. The latest push to clear the area has seemingly stemmed from a fire that broke out in an under-bridge section of the encampment, with contractors working on the burned area hiring private guards to patrol the area and protect their equipment. Related: Downtown Portland: 2023-08-27 Portland's Predictable Doom Loop Downtown Portland: 2022-07-06 Antifa 4th of July attacks in Portland, FBI finally called in Downtown Portland: 2022-02-04 'We step over needles and people sleeping to get to work': Federal staff rage over homeless encampment outside their Portland office as 'defund the police' commissioner says it's just part of 'city's growth' Related: Homeless encampment: 2023-10-13 Denver mayor touts 'ambitious' plan to get homeless off streets, take back downtown for frustrated residents Homeless encampment: 2023-10-09 CA cops behaving badly Homeless encampment: 2023-09-27 The Supreme Court decision that could help us take back our cities Posted by: Skidmark 2023-10-15 |
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