A creative plan to bring art-wrapped portable restrooms to Salem, Oregon, is proving to be an extremely useful and pleasant alternative to what residents were seeing ... large amounts of human waste in the city's downtown core.The "Arta Potties" – conceived by a group of five women from the art, business, homeless services and faith communities of Salem – fill a void created by a lack of city bathrooms, a growing homeless population, and the increasing unwillingness of businesses to allow houseless or unsheltered residents to enter their restrooms. Business owners have a right to be concerned; bathrooms are often the
