This year, @ProPublica has been looking into the impacts of cities increasingly removing or “sweeping” encampments. We spoke with 135 people who had experienced sweeps. We also distributed notecards so people could write about it in their own words. 🧵 Many people told us that having possessions taken during sweeps is traumatizing, can exacerbate health issues and can be counterproductive to finding housing and getting a job. We spoke with Violette Loftis in Portland who avoids sweeps by sleeping in doorways without a tent.