Portland voters to decide on size of new homeless shelters
“‘A smaller shelter, scattered shelter approach would be a much better solution,’ Kim Cook, a former Portland City Councilor and volunteer with Smaller Shelters for Portland said. ‘The mega-shelter at Oxford Street hasn’t worked in the Bayside neighborhood, it’s not going to work in any neighborhood.’
Cook is one of the many Portland residents that argue small shelters provide better outcomes for residents experiencing homelessness by providing more space, and attention from space. Cook said by voting for option A, it doesn’t halt the proposed Homeless Services Center but would limit the number of people that can stay there overnight.”