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Kaia Sand Profile picture
@mkaiasand
May 8, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
The phone calls started coming in this week: complaints about people in tents. I felt terrified. Defying public health needs, people antsy to open up business could infect unhoused people trying to shelter in place. So I wrote my column about this. 👇
news.streetroots.org/2020/05/08/has…
🤎 If people are in their tents, please don’t push for them to be moved. They need to shelter in place. Push instead for more options, such as opening up hotels and motels or opening up shelter-in-place camp villages like C3PO elsewhere in the region. news.streetroots.org/2020/04/10/3-t…
🤎 Insist that hotel and motel rooms be opened to unhoused folks — not just folks who are symptomatic. Join the Street Roots campaign to help make this happen: news.streetroots.org/2020/04/26/sr-…
🤎 Support the many organizations working at almost twice the rate we once were. It’s that hard. streetroots.org/donate
🤎 Advocate for revenue supporting unhoused people, which means voting yes on Measure 26-210.
🤎 Recognize that unhoused people are your neighbors in this pandemic. Lead with love.

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Apr 23, 2022
🧵The backlash is disheartening. 💔 As people emerge from devastations of the still-roiling pandemic (nearly a million deaths in the US, so many new heartbreaks), there’s too much backlash against the difficult, equitable work of a more just future.
Unhoused people are too often spoken about like a surplus population — as “other” rather than among. How can we rise to this moment in history with grace and grit? With a commitment to do the hard things, not the easy things?
It’s as if all the knowledge doesn’t exist in our community about the connection between arrests, incarceration, and further problems. When people call for *more* arrests of unhoused people, what exactly are they aiming for?
@sophiegreenleaf

wweek.com/news/city/2022…
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Apr 21, 2022
A tool can be transformed into a weapon. @StreetRoots helped found Dignity Village, championed Right 2 Dream Too, Hazelnut Grove, pushed for C3P0. But we are also watchful, too, lest "alternative shelters" are turned against people. streetroots.org/news/2022/04/1…
I'm grateful that @homelessnesspdx published this Village Guide based on 42 interviews with villagers. Recommended reading! 📖 pdx.edu/homelessness/e…
The @homelessnesspdx study points out key components: 1.) people have their own spaces to live; 2.) there's community; 3.) people have some role in governance/agency in what happens. These are good measures📏 to set next to plans you read about.
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Mar 24, 2022
(Thread). There are vacant apartments around our city, but they are mostly inaccessible to people experiencing homelessness. We can change that. streetroots.org/news/2022/03/1… #3000Challenge
There are two buildings on SE Gladstone that include a juice bar, a hair salon, a bakery — and apartments where people who exited homelessness live. It’s called Jolene’s First Cousin. streetroots.org/news/2022/03/1…
When Kevin Cavenaugh dreamed up this project, he expected neighborhood pushback. Instead: “these are going to be our neighbors and we’ll likely know their names.” streetroots.org/news/2022/03/1…
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Feb 17, 2022
🧵Okay. @SamAdamsPDX proposed mass shelters for 3000 people. Putting aside what's alarming (national guard, warehousing): he’s thinking big — but not big enough. Transform that into something positive: create/open up good livable spaces for 3000 people w/out criminalizing them.
How about we as a community take up the challenge of finding livable spaces for 3000 people more quickly than – but alongside –the slow build of affordable housing. A lot of housing, even deemed affordable, still is focused on middle incomes (that’s how unaffordable our city is)
How would we do it? Project Turkey on a statewide level turned 19 motels into livable spaces — shelters, transition housing, apartments) within about six months thanks to the able-steering of the @TheOregonCF. Could we have a *Portland Turnkey*?
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Aug 3, 2021
(thread) This is why I write / this is why I fight:
More than an hour ago, I was biking home from @StreetRoots, southward on 3rd Avenue through downtown. I saw a man lying in the middle of the street.
He was sobbing. Blue hair, bright paint smudged on his face, a children’s rainbow-keyed toy piano next to him – he was a man covered in rainbow colors.
I am so extraordinarily fortunate to work at @StreetRoots because I work among many teachers: People impart lessons that I carry in my heart. One vendor told me that when his brain “itches” he needs someone to speak to him in a soothing voice – not with a badge and a gun.
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Sep 23, 2020
Thread. I have two concerns I’d like to highlight regarding @tedwheeler's comments in this article by @EvertonBailey – (1.) public health during COVID-19; (2.) policy that might be motivated by concerns other than the wellbeing of unhoused people… oregonlive.com/portland/2020/…
First, though, in the context of the grievous inequity around housing, I'll start with the fact that housing must be a right.
Over the last several years, voters passed housing bonds at the city of Portland and @oregonmetro levels, as well as a Metro tax measure for services to support people in their housing that will kick into action next year. These are important steps.
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