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Cities seek to control camping amid growing homelessness crisis
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in affordable and low income housing, ap state, ban-camps homeless-portland, camping, CC, Cities, control, crisis, General news, Government and politics, government policy, growing, homeless shelters, homelessness, housing policy, human well-being, local governments, municipal governments, poverty, roaming, seek, Social Affairs, Social problems, social services, thread, Travel, well-being of the mentally illWritten by thetravelplaybook.com @ thetravelplaybook.com By CLAIRE RUSH – Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The tents that proliferate on the sidewalks of downtown and residential neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon, are fueling a debate unfolding in cities across the country as the homelessness crisis in United States explodes: should camping be banned everywhere…