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Portland developers try to ease homeless crisis that they helped create

Developer Tom Cody lost all the ground-floor retail tenants of his building on the Northwest Park Blocks and he thinks he knows why.

Customers avoided the tents, tarps and backpacks that filled the leafy corridor north of Burnside. In turn, his tenants looked for shops without dozens of people sleeping or hanging out in front at all hours of the day.

It’s not the first time Cody saw his business jeopardized by the city’s 4,000-and-growing homeless population.

By Molly Harbarger, [email protected], The Oregonian/OregonLive

Full Story: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/07/business_community_takes_bigge.html#incart_river_index

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