I wonder how anti-sit-lie folks would feel if the sitting and lying were taking place on their front lawn? Or on the sidewalk in front of their house where their children are playing?

Goodfella,
And I'm sure that is your name.
Jobs and housing are created by someone's work. If you're homeless, then it's someone else's work. This is not a value judgment. It is a fact.
If people loiter, camp and sleep wherever they want, it causes the people who work to avoid those areas, thereby hurting the businesses and individuals who work. If the people who work don't make money, they can't pay for the jobs and housing.
There is no old guy sleeping outside my house. I have very BIG dogs.
P.S. I am a registered democrat who works in social services with low-income and disabled consumers.

It does not "criminalize homelessness". It creates an enforceable law for any person who seems to forget what "sidewalk" means. It is a walk way. For walking. Not sitting or lying or sleeping. There are benches and parks in downtown where sitting and lying are available for recreational use.

Before anyone starts blindly defending the "homeless" in Portland I would suggest finding out why many of them are in the situation they are in. Having worked with many of them they reasons are generally not because they lost their good job to layoffs and cannot find work. Generally the reasons are that they are selfish, lazy, entitled addicts who know a good story to tell to make them seem more like a victim and less of the cause of many of their own problems.

We are all selfish, lazy, and entitled addicts.

We are Americans.

I thought Comm. Fish couldn't complete the RAC center deal unless the city wins the court case brought by the Friends of Urban Renewal.