ASTORIA, Ore. – Homelessness isn’t just a big-city problem for places like Portland. Ask the people of Astoria. Monday night, Astoria’s city council will vote on closing a loophole in their camping ...

Oct. 18—The Astoria City Council advanced a camping ordinance that regulates where the homeless can and cannot sleep outdoors, but appeared to be in consensus that adding shelter beds is the ultimate ...

ASTORIA, Ore. — High in the dense, forest covered hills towering above Astoria’s iconic coastline, a growing number of homeless men, women and families are living life hidden. Their reasons vary, said ...

It’s an amount that could buy a night’s stay at a hotel, a used bike or about a month’s worth of groceries. It’s also the amount scrawled across tickets for city camping violations. Homeless camping ...

ASTORIA, Ore. — The city of Astoria is limiting the hours people can camp on public property in order to cut down the number of people sleeping outside local businesses and parks for long periods of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – As the homeless population in Astoria grows, city leaders are working to address concerns about homeless campsites. “We just had a number of cases where people were camping for ...

ASTORIA, Ore. (KPTV) - The City of Portland is now set to ban daytime camping but they’re not the first city in Oregon to do so. The Astoria City Council passed a similar ordinance in November to try ...

ASTORIA, Ore. — Facing a fast rising rate of homelessness, officials and police in Astoria on Friday moved forward with enforcing a new ban on camping in city-owned woods. “What we're going to do is ...

May 17—The Astoria City Council expects to move forward with a homeless camping ordinance in the coming weeks that would outline the time and manner for when someone can sleep on public property. A ...

Astoria and other cities on the North Coast have sought to regulate public camping in response to homelessness. Two-hundred fifty dollars. It’s an amount that could buy a night’s stay at a hotel, a ...

The City Council is moving closer to a new ordinance that will detail places the homeless can and cannot sleep outdoors. The Astoria City Council advanced a camping ordinance that regulates where the ...