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[[File:HUCIRP FAIL.jpg|500px|thumb|Encampment by Portland State University in April 2021. Uncontrolled, crime riddled camps have been coming back here for years abatement after abatement due to the inability and lack of OMF-HUCIRP's competency to prevent recurrence at the same spot. ]]
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"Cities, suburban communities, and rural areas across the United States have seen in recent years the rise of groups of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness together. The term encampment is widely used by journalists and researchers to describe these groups, but other terms include tent cities, homeless settlements, and homeless camps. Although their existence is not unprecedented, media reports suggest that the number of encampments has increased sharply in recent years." - HUD 2019 report [Cohen et al 2019].
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=== HUCIRP - Homelessness and Urban Camping Impact Reduction Program ===
[[File:OMF-HUCIRP red toilet.jpeg|thumb|400px|right|Inside one of the portable toilets installed by HUCIRP in 2020 in neighborhoods throughout the city that has become a haven for homeless drug addict activity. ]]
[[File:Red toilet ceiling.jpg|thumb|right|Infectious blood splatter inside HUCIRP red toilet caused by homeless drug law offenders shooting up drugs. These toilets become neighborhood drug booths.]][[File:OMF FUCKUP.jpg|thumb|When the City of Portland OMF-HUCIRP install these, it becomes a shooting gallery and criminal offenses such as distribution of controlled substances see an uptick in the area. ]]
HUCIRP is a working unit of Office of Management and Finance within the municipal government of Portland, Oregon.<ref>https://www.portlandoregon.gov/cbo/article/743341</ref> It is a 3.0 FTE program that is staffed by Lucas Hillier, Katie Lindsay and Jonathan Lewis<ref>https://www.opb.org/article/2020/11/24/portland-program-aims-to-help-homeless-campers-and-reduce-impact-of-camps-on-neighborhoods/</ref> which had an expense to tax payers of $5.8 million in FY2019-2020 and is demanding $6.5 million for FY2021-22<ref>portlandoregon.gov/cbo/article/780711</ref>(p.208). Former aide to mayor Charles Hales, Lucas Hillier who mocked a Lents neighborhood community member publicly on Facebook calling them a "douchebag" after they voiced concerns about encampments<ref>https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/homeless/lents-resident-mocked-by-mayors-aide-his-verbal-attack-is-shameful/283-319437905</ref> was the manager appointed to be in charge of HUCIRP program<ref>https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/07/07/portland-to-resume-homeless-camp-sweeps/</ref>. The HUCIRP program in itself was questioned for lack of oversight.<ref>https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2019/06/06/26591451/oversight-questions-arise-as-portland-pays-to-clean-up-homeless-campsites</ref>
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