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March 16, 2016
A storage unit for homeless people is placed under the Steel
Bridge.
City Opens Storage
for Homeless
Mayor Charlie Hales an-
nounced Monday that a six-
month Day Storage Pilot Pro-
gram is now underway, with two
sites for people sleeping outside
to store their belongings during
the day.
The specially outfitted con-
tainers, one on the west end of the
Steel Bridge, and the other at the
Hazelnut Grove campsite near
the intersection of North Gree-
ley and Interstate avenues, have
shelves, cart storage, garbage
disposal, needle disposal, toilets,
and information about services.
“Lack of secure storage is an
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enormous barrier for homeless
people who are seeking services,
treatment, job interviews or other
routine, daily tasks,” Hales said.
“The goal of this program is to re-
move a barrier for people trying
to connect with resources, and,
with the waste disposal features,
to clean up city streets.”
The Day Storage Pilot Pro-
gram is part of the State of Emer-
gency in Housing and Home-
lessness, which seeks to balance
the need for Portland’s homeless
population to have a safe place to
sleep with the health, safety and
livability of the whole city.
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