Supreme Court’s public camping ruling will have ‘little or no impact’ on Portland, city says

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that cities can enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside, even if they don’t have enough shelter space to accommodate them. That ruling, however, will have “little or no impact” on Portland, city officials say. That’s because a state law passed in 2021 requires that local rules that regulate where homeless individuals can sit, lie or sleep outdoors on public property must be “objectively reasonable” in their “time, place and manner.” No court has been asked to rule on what constitutes an “objectively reasonable”...