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At Street Level With Portland’s Homeless

“Most of the guys, and women too, who are holding up the signs? They’re not the ones who need help the most. The ones who really need it aren’t going to ask for it … and they’re sure not going to talk to you. They’re the guys you see wandering along the sidewalk, talking to themselves or just staring.”

Mike DesCamp paid a homeless man $10 just to sit and talk with him for half an hour. What he discovered made him uncomfortable.

Read the full Oregonian article “At Street Level With Portland’s Homeless“.

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