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New Clark County-based organization pushes for homeless camping ban
Clark County Matters, a fresh nonprofit advocating for change in Vancouver and the rest of the county, is focusing its inaugural campaign on the homelessness issue in the county.
Amy Harris, executive director of Clark County Matters, sent out a petition on Tuesday, Sept. 3, urging residents to send a letter to elected officials in Clark County to implement and enforce a camping ban.
Harris based her nonprofit’s campaign from a research project poll conducted in August 2023. The poll surveyed 500 likely Clark County voters and cited the city of Portland as an example of the path Vancouver and the county as a whole are trending toward. On the Clark County Matters website, Harris believes Portland is a “cautionary tale of what happens when the moderate majority is too slow to make their voices heard,” she stated.
“The direction our elected leaders are going is different than what people would like in the county and Vancouver, overall,” Harris said, based on the findings in the August 2023 poll.
The poll found that 84% of the 500 surveyed are concerned that “Vancouver will become like Portland with increased homeless camps, open air drug use and crime.”