Now, that code violation has permeated neighboring city-owned land, teeing up the potential for a mass sweep of up to 200 homeless people. It would be one of the largest homeless encampment sweeps ...

After asking where the three men might be going due to the sweep, the "mayor" of Hunnell Road, named Smokey, told us, "They haven't given us a place! All they want to do is 24-hour push and shoves!" ...

The city of Bend is planning a third sweep in two years of a homeless camping site on Oct. 25, this time on 2nd Street, where dozens have pitched tents as a means of finding shelter.

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A Deschutes County commissioner called on Bend officials to postpone a planned removal of one of the city’s most populous camps of unhoused people. The city intends to begin clearing campsites ...

The sweep comes months after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ban on homeless residents sleeping outdoors in Grants Pass, a city located 200 miles south of the current encampment in Bend.