Council: take the judge seriously
Rogue Retreat is not ready to take on an urban campground. Maybe the City should build a real solution for the homeless that will satisfy the federal judge that has put our city under an injunction to allow sleeping through the night in the parks because the city lacks low-barrier shelters that can handle all comers. You don’t need a non-profit to do this. None of the solutions you have considered is adequate to cover the problem, helping too few people and having too high of a barrier for most. Non-profits are not willing to do anything big, and they want to help only those who pass muster. We have a homeless population that is around a thousand. As long as we have too few shelter beds, or are too picky about who gets them, we will have people sleeping in our parks. Tiny houses and urban campgrounds take too much land per person. Warming and cooling shelters are nearly useless for those who need a place to sleep every night or day.