Someone just wasn't ready to present by tomorrow's meeting. Calm down, sounds like it's still going forward.

What are our values when we care more about not making our low standards visible than the fact that 1600 people don't know where bed is tonight?

The Archbishop of Canterbury isn't my fav guy in the world, but he has a way of packing social messages in soundbites, and I think he had a pearl on New Year's. He said that this year he thought we should all strive to consider stories like this, as if it were happening to a member of our family.

This was a great compromise, for the moment.

We need to protest outside Fish's house, all night long, until this is resolved. If he has the character that would allow him to sleep well, knowing that 1600 people can't sleep without threat of police violence, then we should see to it that he doesn't sleep either!

@Zarathustra - See above.

Nick Fish is a cold-hearted man who does not deserve re-election. Fish has been very busy spending millions of federal housing dollars in ways that please big corporations and well-placed non-profits. But he has bent down and kissed the feet of the Portland Business Alliance and other heartless business interests - and has only grandstanded with false promises to implement a policy which would allow alternative places for homeless people to sleep. There would be a whole lot less suffering on Portland's streets if Fish gave a damn.

There isn't any BIG money involved in ... just allowing camping or another Dignity Village (or ten, as needed). So why would the so called "End Homelessness" Commissioner care?