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APWA 2016 PWX 8/29/2016 1 Addressing Homelessness in Eugene and Public Works Craig Carnagey Eugene Public Works Parks and Open Space Director

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Addressing Homelessness in Eugene and Public Works

Craig Carnagey

Eugene Public Works

Parks and Open Space Director

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Homeless are negatively 

impacting parks and 

public right of ways

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Affecting the health and usability of public spaces

Costs to manage and cleanup after homeless are skyrocketing

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What is the right balance between protecting public use and having compassion for homeless people?

Overview of who the homeless are and reasons they’re out there

What the City of Eugene has done to address homelessness

How Public Works mitigates impacts

What other agencies are doing to mitigate impacts

Innovative strategies being used or considered

Audience Discussion

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Homeless during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl

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Camp Boondoggle

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Camp Sweeps Summer 2013

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Six fold increase in illegal camps from 2013 ‐ 2014

Steady increase in illegal camps since

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A. Enter Answer Text

Enter Question Text

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Has anyone in this room been homeless or had a friend or family member who has been?

A. Yes

B. No

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Homelessness has been occurring for a long time

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Modern Homelessness

1970s Deinstitutionalization of patients from psychiatric hospitals 

1980s less affordable housing, growing unemployment, and budget reductions for government 

assistance programs

1987 McKinney‐Vento Homeless Assistance Act

3.5 million likely to experience homelessness in a given year.  

National Law Center on Poverty

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Who are today’s homeless and why are they out there?

23% of homeless are families with children 

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Causes of Homelessness

Poverty – lost job, foreclosure, inability to pay rent

Declines in public assistance

Mental illness

Domestic violence

Sexual abuse

Addictions and substance abuse

Current Federal Programs to Address Homelessness

HUD Homeless Assistance Grants

Veteran Affairs homeless assistance programs

Health and Human Services 

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Rate how significant of a problem homelessness is in your community 

A. Minor Significance

B. Significant

C. Very Significant

D. Extremely Significant

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What the City of Eugene is doing to address homelessness

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Shelter services and rapid rehousing

Overnight emergency shelter

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Affordable housing programs

Veterans housing initiatives

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Car camping program

Micro Housing‐ Conestoga Huts

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4 Temporary rest stops

Transitional housing

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Opportunity Village

EMERALD VILLAGE

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Many people don’t want services or services they need aren’t available

Homeless Protest Camps

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1,500 chronically homeless people in Eugene

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How the homeless impact Eugene’s parks and public spaces

Deter park users

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Public and environmental health

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Divert resources from other needed services

Impacts on staff

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What Parks and Open Space is doing to mitigate impacts

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Park RulesPark hours

No CampingEnforcement

Exclusions

Monitoring parks for illegal camps

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Posting notices of illegal camps

Clean up of illegal camps

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Store personal belongings for 30 days

Impacts to Public Space Design

Almost no use of shrub beds at all in our designs.

Reluctant to put in picnic shelters even though they could be a long term source of revenue and it rains here a lot.

Added more lighting in some parks so people feel safer.

Removed trees and shrub beds and replacing them with lawns 

No playgrounds with solid decks – they are all mesh to provide drainage – but don’t create a dry and covered space either.

Sometimes we put in ‘short’ benches to discourage a lot of sleeping –e.g. 4’ or 6’ instead of 8’.

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Closed half of Scobert Garden Park

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What are other agencies doing to mitigate homeless?

Arizona State Parks jobs for homeless vets

Portland Park Rangers

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Park Activation – Downtown Seattle

Micro Housing

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Converted City Buses to Mobile Shelters

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Housing First Approach

Grade your agencies level of effectiveness at addressing homelessness 

A. Very good

B. Good

C. Above average

D. Need lots of work

E. Almost nothing0% 0% 0%0%0%

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