What is it like to be kicked out of a designated sleeping site?

Cities across Oregon in July 2023 designated places where someone legally can sleep.

Police evicted Dusty Bryant after he couldn't fit his belongings in his tent at Marvin's Garden, a gravel-covered property near the county jail with room for 15 residents and the city of Albany's response to a state law that took effect in July.

Then Bryant overdosed.

Reporters at the Albany Democrat-Herald have explored the constitutional right to a night's rest across Oregon for A Place to Sleep.

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