Mayor Drabkin is great at word salad but has done NOTHING to make any progress with the situation. They're good at efforts to raise property taxes though... wtg...
Can you imagine making the same choices over and over for what looks like about 2 or more decades and expecting people to feel bad everytime the same old story gets told
The liberals will say that being homeless is not illegal. True but living in violation of local and state housing and health codes is. Sanitation facilities are required in residences by codes at all levels. So what to do? Declare a statewide emergency then take action. Build a new community in a central location in Oregon far from any existing community. Establish a self supporting industry within it which will pay it's costs. Collect all of Oregon's homeless and move them there, involuntarily. In an emergency this can be done. Now they can have what they need and can be protected from drug dealers too while they learn new job skills and regain their dignity. Incorporate drug rehab into the plan. Illegal you say? Not if a statewide emergency is declared. In such a scheme who loses? Only the drug dealers. Yes... it's a form of socialism but isn't that what Oregon liberals espouse anyway? Socialism would never tolerate rampant homelessness. All it takes is the political will. Declaring an emergency will protect us all from predatory lawyers and meddeling judges too. What will fix this epidemic is the installation of a benign dictatorship... One that has compassion towards the unfortunate in our midst, one with the power to take positive action to permanently repair the damage to society. One free of self interested administrators. Build the new community. Fence it's perimeter with drug dealer proof material. The center will be an industry. Work is mandatory. Ban outsiders entry. Arrest drug dealers on sight. Get rid of those vermin. That's how we fix homelessness.
and no one cares that the cops let landlord investors commit crimes against paying tenants, harming them and making them homeless. ... Dont think for a second the same cant happen to your family.
When I saw her I immediately understood how McMinnville had let these very Portland style encampments blossom, it instantly made sense. Surprised McMinnville residents elected her in the first place
Make it a crime to discriminate against homeless people for being homeless and not having an address. You do not want them to fall further and be further victimized. ... Without an address there can be issues with insurance health and vehicle, bank, mobile phones, DMV and more. The simple basic things we all take for granted are sudenly denied to homeless people without an address. Even the State and County centers are unable to help with such simple things, they are alao unable to help house people or bring justice to bad landlords who commited crimes and made them homeless.
Where do you expect people to go when there IS NO affordable housing? The cops and authorities let bad landlord harm and steal from paying tenants, FORCING them into homelessness or worse.
Victim child mindset, you want handouts and free housing, if landlords are so bad why don’t you buy a house? Oh because people like you want to be bartenders their whole lives and complain they can’t get anywhere, houses in the Portland metro arnt even that expensive if you buck up and stop complaining and get a good job
Weak leadership causes this problem.
Good post…… i saw the same post with 2.6 views but just bots. Why do people use bots?
No leadership. Sad
Mayor Drabkin is great at word salad but has done NOTHING to make any progress with the situation. They're good at efforts to raise property taxes though... wtg...
Can you imagine making the same choices over and over for what looks like about 2 or more decades and expecting people to feel bad everytime the same old story gets told
Stop using the word LEADERS ! These people are not leaders !
The liberals will say that being homeless is not illegal. True but living in violation of local and state housing and health codes is. Sanitation facilities are required in residences by codes at all levels.
So what to do? Declare a statewide emergency then take action. Build a new community in a central location in Oregon far from any existing community. Establish a self supporting industry within it which will pay it's costs. Collect all of Oregon's homeless and move them there, involuntarily. In an emergency this can be done. Now they can have what they need and can be protected from drug dealers too while they learn new job skills and regain their dignity. Incorporate drug rehab into the plan.
Illegal you say? Not if a statewide emergency is declared. In such a scheme who loses? Only the drug dealers.
Yes... it's a form of socialism but isn't that what Oregon liberals espouse anyway? Socialism would never tolerate rampant homelessness. All it takes is the political will. Declaring an emergency will protect us all from predatory lawyers and meddeling judges too.
What will fix this epidemic is the installation of a benign dictatorship... One that has compassion towards the unfortunate in our midst, one with the power to take positive action to permanently repair the damage to society. One free of self interested administrators.
Build the new community. Fence it's perimeter with drug dealer proof material. The center will be an industry. Work is mandatory. Ban outsiders entry. Arrest drug dealers on sight. Get rid of those vermin.
That's how we fix homelessness.
I like that idea! So fed up with everything! I don't drive in Mac without locking the car doors. And I always carry pepper spray.
Take a look at that mayor…..there’s the problem right there.
I thought this story was from 5 yrs ago, not 5hrs. Same dang story. 🤦♀️
and no one cares that the cops let landlord investors commit crimes against paying tenants, harming them and making them homeless. ... Dont think for a second the same cant happen to your family.
Not the same. Worse.
lol Look at that mayors hair cut makes you wonder what type of fool she really is... And half of the states do know...
Lol she's a fool alright
When I saw her I immediately understood how McMinnville had let these very Portland style encampments blossom, it instantly made sense. Surprised McMinnville residents elected her in the first place
You are judging a person based on their hair? Does that seem rational?
Make it a crime to discriminate against homeless people for being homeless and not having an address. You do not want them to fall further and be further victimized. ... Without an address there can be issues with insurance health and vehicle, bank, mobile phones, DMV and more. The simple basic things we all take for granted are sudenly denied to homeless people without an address. Even the State and County centers are unable to help with such simple things, they are alao unable to help house people or bring justice to bad landlords who commited crimes and made them homeless.
Just send billions to some country that back channels millions back to your family and open the border, that should prob help america.
This look is all over Oregon.
You can say that drugs are the real issue.
Shut down the drugs and you fix most of the issues.
Being able to get some mental health services when needed, instead of months down the road would be very helpful.
Where do you expect people to go when there IS NO affordable housing? The cops and authorities let bad landlord harm and steal from paying tenants, FORCING them into homelessness or worse.
Oregon looks like this everywhere…nothing is ever done
It only seems to matter when it is in everyone's face, otherwise nobody seems to care at all.
PNW is a junkie's heaven
Don’t vote Bubba King in this spring or this will just get worse.
Another democrat success story.
Well dang, you shouldnt have let bad vile landlord trash threaten, harm and injure, lie and trick, and steal from paying tenants.
Victim child mindset, you want handouts and free housing, if landlords are so bad why don’t you buy a house? Oh because people like you want to be bartenders their whole lives and complain they can’t get anywhere, houses in the Portland metro arnt even that expensive if you buck up and stop complaining and get a good job
Pissing in the wind. They only care about getting high 24/7