Shelter in place | The Oregonian

For the more than 4,000 homeless people in Multnomah County, the mid-March stay-home order to curb the spread of COVID-19 prompted different anxieties. Not afforded the luxury of worrying about the virus’ spread, they focused their attention on securing basic needs with the dwindling of resources they’d relied on before — an open Starbucks to use the bathroom and wash their hands, a community kitchen offering a meal, community centers with computers and Wi-Fi, a place to charge a cellphone. In this short film, Raven Drake, 36, a homeless veteran who left her job and home in the Midwest for a freer life in Portland, says it has meant not only keeping herself and her immunocompromised partner safe but figuring out a way to keep the greater homeless community safe as well. "We have very resilient people out here."

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