After being cleared in the fall, homeless campers have returned to NE 33rd Drive
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2023
- The road west of the PDX airport is lined with RVs, trailers and vehicles. At the urging of the Portland of Portland, the city cleared one side of the street in November. With campers again lining both sides, Portland officials say they plan to clear it again soon.
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If you voted for the current city government, you voted for this to happen.
There was no alternative.
How can you resolve a problem you do not know or can't define? This is not a homeless problem but a drug addiction problem.
Exactly. You hit the nail on the head. Most homeless people are druggies...dopers. You ever notice they have no money for rent but always have money for drugs? Why is that? They do not want to work for a living. They do not want to live in shelters. They are perfectly fine to live on the streets and steal you blind while you sleep at night to support their drug habit. The fact is they are very lazy and just want to lay around all the time and get high as a kite.
Climate change bro.
@@bikboto-zx6my 😂
If you voted for the current city government, you voted for this to happen.
@@bikboto-zx6my Nah, toxic masculinity
Of course they are back! You gave the area a good cleaning up, just like a maid, and now it's fresh and clean for use! Thank you! Please bring us
fresh lawn chairs and tarps, okay??
And do, please, replace the tents that you took.
So they should have left it filthy? Where are you going with this?
@@olecamohatmcgilicudy4256 The point of moving the homeless was to clean the area. Kathleen is complaining that the area was cleaned. I can't follow that logic.
Hating the homeless gets easier everyday.
@@olecamohatmcgilicudy4256 I didn't say anything about that. I don't care about your rant. What can't you comprehend?
The point of moving the homeless was to clean the area. Kathleen is complaining that the area was cleaned. I can't follow that logic.
Imagine if I went to the city council and asked them to pay my mortgage, my garbage, my water and NOT pay any property tax…would that be fair?
Great questions! The City needs to get serious and clean up the homeless mess. I'm a homeowner looking to sell and Move my family to a different State. I'm tired of being surrounded by TRASH! We should get more out of the high property taxes paid.
Absolutely not!
Imagine if you went to city councel and demand that those bleeding heart liberals take in a few homeless.....
Are you a Bruce Gender? It might help.
At least we've created an alternative to your question: Be a bum.
When you expect nothing of or from people, this is what you get. These people are not victims, they're perpetrators. They're a crime menace and a health menace to everyone.
The public health menace are the NIMBYs who created this problem and most problems in America today with their endless communist regulations on everything.
and 'enabled' by Portland's leftists who proudly believe it's 'not' their fault but are merely victims...
I was homeless for almost two years at the end of the 1980s. There was nothing for homeless people back then, NOTHING. I had to figure a way out of my problem situation on my own. So many of the homeless now aren't even trying to help themselves from what I can tell. I did have a lot of empathy for them, but after watching this I am over it.
Seriously, you should be doing some sort of voluntary outreach. Your experience, integrity and resourcefulness counts for a lot. I was listening to this guy say, 'That's mine and that's mine and that's mine...." So many of these folks are bogged down by a crazy "gotta have my stuff" mentality.
You are an awesome human being. It's pointless to keep throwing a lifeline to folks who don't/can't be bothered to grab a hold and be gratefull for the assistance.
Some of those rv mobile homes look very cool vintage retro cool I’ma git me one too!! 👻🍻🍻🍻🏕️🤑
@Julie B I'd help of they can pass a drug test at least.... otherwise detox then help. No detox... should be put on a list to be asked again n again if they want detox but honestly in roseburg most of the homeless people I've seen are on something. Lived in kollhagen downtown roseburg n worried about violence walking to the mini mart.
@@marshallvannice Well put! And the newest drugs are making them walk around like zombies. They don't want help, they just want to get high.
How shocking, I watched a homeless guy burn cardboard on the sidewalk, the fire department showed up, told him no. After they left he started burning rubbish again. The homeless RVs don't leave because the RVs are broken down or illegal to drive. The registration on them are expired, no license plates because they are stolen. The city has to by law tow these wrecks.
I see what you mean
I watched fireman working as garbage workers picking up trash from homeless
When I was trucking a few yrs ago over in the Missoula MT area there was shat you could classify as a homeless guy, he had an old FLD modified so he could park his jeep on the back, towed trailer with a boat(cruiser) on it.
There were five truckstops in the area, he would change truckstops every few days, he kept his area clean, didn't leave trash everywhere like these DirtBags do!!!!!
Kudos to Jubitz for keeping out the RiffRaff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If YOU owned it they would.
@@olecamohatmcgilicudy4256 Ok Einstein, I'm not knocking him, I'm making a point that all of these RV homeless trash the place.
How do I know, well, as Missoula was a city that I ran thru frequently as OTR trucker I saw him quite often.
They don't want legitimate help. That would mean they would have to better themselves. They like getting state assistance and not having to pay bills. California and Oregon are the biggest enablers/recruiters of dregs!
And let's not forget Washington state too!
Where are they getting money from? There is no stimulus money anymore?
They are blocking the bike lanes so cyclists have to risk getting hit by drivers in the road. Instant ticket. It would take PD one hour to write tickets for both sides of the street. License, Registration, Insurance, don't have it, TOW IMMEDIATELY.
WoW you can't just take someone's home away. You voted for this deal with it! 🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
If you voted for the current city government, you voted for this to happen.
Yes simple to fix for healthy person. But Portlanders' brains infested w Whoke worms, they can't think straight
Tell me, what happens if you can't/won't pay that fine?
@@JanBruunAndersen after several violations jail or psych. W forced treatment likely
These folks always seem really out of it. Whenever a homeless person is interviewed, they always seem similarly impaired. You can’t get out of that trap if your brain is always scrambled.
Reopen institutions, they won’t help themselves
They need to start towing vehicles and rv's that aren't registered an no insurance!
Noooo. They need to start building more houses and more cheaply with fewer building regulations and fewer land use restrictions... like 20 years ago.
It would be absolutely horrible if I had to part with all my stolen stuff, that is of course someone else's property, as a condition of going into a shelter. Yet nobody ever offers me services. Funny how that works.
They just need to get back to how it use to be. If it isn't park legally tow that crap away. I'd bet anything you wouldn't see those vehicles reappear.
Yep. Tow trucks, state troopers. Tow the garbage away, check the human garbage for drugs, warrants, etc.
@@deebee4575 And yet I once received a fine from the township for having the two front tires off my car.....In my driveway......
@@FC-qe1wl Car up on blocks? You’re THAT neighbor? Oooof.
@@deebee4575 Nope It was on jack stands and covered up, while I was waiting for the parts...
No just the people who live there
Sadly this is part of why we never go to Portland anymore
Must be some real lamos then.
@@503punxoioioi9 Most people just love to visit areas filled with crackheads, amiright?
I work at a place that is trying to find 3 people to work a job that requires a 4th grade reading level and zero real skill...pays $17 per hour.
A job? The horror....The HORROR...
I'm sure there's a catch. If you tell me what the position is, I could help you identify it. I mean aside from the fact that $17 an hour is barely enough in Portland.
Yea bro.
Wow, great reporting. Actual information from the people. Thank you for caring about this KGW.
Well, DUH! Who didn't see this coming? The idiots who made it possible.
Those aren’t the same people from the Great Depression.
Soon
Just wait
It’s that or take the free gov money
You’ll see in the next years
Ubi in the form of cbdc
"Would you take a shelter bed if offered?"
"No."
"Why not?"
The next question very well may have been "why not"? Possible the station video editor cut it out.
Because there are rules. Have to be in by a certain time, NO DRUGS is the biggest one. Legalizing small amounts of drugs is part of this problem
@@therealrobinbullock No doubt about it.
@@josephmadpdx it just keeps them from clogging up the court system for possessing small amounts of drugs so it seems more like an advantage to the govt than anything else 🤷♂️ to me, the real problem is that many of them put drugs before domicile since they don't want to follow the rules for the shelters and for the Safe Space campgrounds coming up. My main complaint is the junk and trash; just clean up after yourselves for God's sake! 😣
There is no need to ask why not, who would rather stay in a shelter bed over a camper?
I would be embarrassed to say I live in Oregon.
The Intelligentsia in the faculty lounge at PSU are enablers
Uh...when you turn off the porch-light the moths quit showing up.
Flame throwers would be a deterrent.
The German ones Werf Flammen.
On the very first day that the first RV reappeared here it should have been immediately removed. Of course they all came back, because this dysfunctional city refuses to enforce the law. My God, what a screwed up place this is.
Portland politicians are doing wonders for the city,keep voting them in
open air, tent JAIL cities !
NO drugs, NO alcohol, NO FREEDOM !
I thought Seattle was bad.. Portland is worse.. it’s sad
Even Toronto is getting bad
Very sad to see, it’s getting bad here in Toronto day by day…
Why does the first reporter seem like he’s talking down to children? That’s strange commentary.
I have a Job, and held a job for 8 years. I can't afford an RV. Wish housing was cheaper.
Unsheltered street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and fentanyl destroys humans mentally and physically beyond the point of repair very quickly. They will destroy any housing we put them in because they are not mentally capable of living in an organized manner. Millions will die from fentanyl and other destructive synthetic chemicals in the states just in this decade. Fentanyl pills called blues/M30 contain fentanyl, rat poison, horse tranquilizer TRANQ, benzo, ISO, nitazene chemicals, etc.
Me too but that’s why if the quality of life is diminished too much due to the cost in a city that’s where it’s time to re-evaluate options and pick somewhere cheaper.
Maybe if we did some economic development instead of playing victim for leftist politics. Maybe if we cut taxes. But nah. We make it more and more expensive because we think an NPO staffed by $100k / year junkie enablers is going to fix this. Portland is a kleptocracy.
If you voted for the current city government, you voted for this to happen.
@@deebee4575 I'm in Arkansas, and I'm Mexican, so I can't vote. So it's not my fault.
What? No way! Who would have ever guessed. I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!
The solution is to get a majority of the residents to sign a petition that disallows overnight parking on your street. Then the judge signs an order for signs to block them. In Manzanita the elders did it and have a sign that blocks overnight idling. Just a trucker idling all night over time can vibrate a property into rubble. It's so annoying it causes extreme health problems like ear aches and migraines. Call the health department en masse to complain about the health problems it's causing you all. I got one now in my town driving around every few hours with extreme bass music nearly 24/7. They come by every few hours to waken everyone with the bass so loud it causes instant debilitating earaches and migraines. It really effects people with vascular disorders like extra veins or blockages.
Whatever way one may view this situation, I hope we can agree that this is a serious situation that needs a real solution. What, I am not sure; but I do believe that solutions will only come out of true compassion and respect for all included. Please take care and be kind to one another.
Put them in the DESERT THEY ARE GETTING TO MUCH MONEY FROM HARD WORKING TAXPAYERS ( WHY WORK ) STAY HIGH ALL DAY AND STEAL .
I am so glad I don’t live in Portland anymore. Where I live has a homeless problem but not as bad.
im laughing so hard, cant wait until the bill passes where you give them 1k every 2 weeks for 2 years, thatll REALLY destroy the entire state of oregan and itll be just more money for the drug dealers
I can't wait either, I could really use that money right now. Im totally clean and sober, I dont use tobacco or even coffee.. I just need to pay my bills.
“The city offered them shelter.” - “Shelter beds” don’t work. In shelters, you can’t show up until about 6pm, and you have to have everything you own with you, and then at 7am, you have to leave, and take all your stuff with you. So how are you supposed to go to job interviews, or try to find housing, when you have to carry all your stuff with you all day?
Shelters are REALLY unusable, and if you want them to ask, you should ask homeless people what they *need* from the shelters, instead of assuming for them.
shelters are supposed to be temporary until you can get a job and your own place. it's not your parents basement. these people collect tons of useless junk and use that as an excuse to live on the street as vagrants. we all know the reality, they don't want the shelter because they don't want the RULES and they want to do drugs and party all night.
Job interviews? LOL. Yeah, thats why the "unhoused" don't use shelters. Gotta look sharp for those "job interviews." Also, drug addiction juuuuust might play a small role.
These homeless do not want help !!! They can not even help themselves ! No one can help them.
Exactly we are failing them and the rest of the public
The homeless do not want to be homeless. If you provided them with PROPER stable housing, I'm sure they'd take it. I applaud them for making the best out of a bad situation. They don't have to justify their right to live and breathe to a goddamn soul.
Place concrete blocks there, so that they don’t park there
How about IMMEDIATELY tow any camper parked there?
thanks for using Homeless and not the dumb terms they keep coming up with like "houseless" lol.....When are they going to go after crime? Its amazing how they sent this city back to the stone age.... this once beautiful city
Torontos getting bad to
I call them NPA's..( no permanent address).
Hell, I'm starting a new business and opening an RV Parking/Storage lot and will use the streets of Portland as my land, all for free!!!! I get 100 percent of the profit.
I'm in!! Let's do it.
The guy with all the trailers and stuff is simply making money off the homeless. 👏🏿
All that stuff I stole is mine. Gotta love how thieves think.
You mean the grizzled old guy? Not likely. He probably used to fix vehicles up before he lost his house.
In part, homeless people do not take the offer for shelter for ironically good reasons, such as it's temporary and when they are required to leave, their community (encampment) have been removed they lose the shared resources, protection to be among many, and family plus most of what they own is thrown away, and with less than they had before going into a shelter, they are on the streets again with nothing and no one.
Exactly. They try to trick homeless people into taking vouchers for shelter that will leave them worse off then when they started.
California is now planning to spend millions to address their state's homeless problem. Oregon and local municipalities should do the same. If not, then rent a bus to take the homeless to California where they can at least get more help than here.
They already spent millions. The people live here also. You don't just kidnap people.
Lmao they spend more than that now. 😂 planning what a clown
Quit trying to help these people. Focus on prevention. Cures the problem.
Isn't there space at the Port of Portland terminal 4 where a space could be setup for these camper trailers to park?
At this point, with shelter beds available, the only sensible option is to go to the camps and arrest everyone violating the law. Offer them the choice of going to a shelter (with charges dropped after staying in the shelter for 6 months) or going to jail.
Being one of the 3 states with less medical mental health prevention treatment increases this, sad.
They don’t need a home. They need a place to park.
BURN every RV and vehicle to the GROUND !
JAIL the owners.
END of problem
Looks like all that decriminalization of drugs is working out well.
It's almost like there are zero consequences and zero accountability. Good for the tax-dodging, drug using, free loading and resource sucking people of the great city of Portland. This should end well once you run out all of the tax-paying and law abiding citizens (if there are any left).
Give them the option of staying in an approved shelter or staying in jail. The problem would be solved quite quickly with rational leadership.
No mercy for idiots that waste their money on drugs, refuse to live better life, when being handed to them. to me person that abuses drugs is waste of LIFE, they must have had very easy life being raised not to worry about anything but having good time, well there more to life than having good time, so time get over being happy take the help being offered get your lazy ass off the drugs become citizen of healthy society again.
The veteran has so much resources available. Disability money, going back to school and getting paid to do so, so much help from the va. How are you not trying harder
Plenty of money for Ukraine. Hundreds of billions.
DemoKKKrats love donating to Ukrainian Nazis.
It's not Ukraine fault Portland residents vote for this Madness.
@@elonmusk1407 What gave you the idea I blamed Ukraine?
Why do "homeless" people have so much stuff?!?!?!?!
Consumer society. My stuff is my self value. Been like that for 100's of years. Rich, poor, stuff is what we value.
Most of it is from free piles or stolen.
Why do all homeless people interviewed talk the same? Drugs causing permanent damage in speech?
help YOURSELVES and quit being wards of the STATE
Portland deserves itself!
His camper, his van. yes. on public property. not his property. Run him out. 72 hours notice
??? How dare he still own some property! He should be in a tent with the other bums. That what you want, tough guy?
What exactly do we expect people with absolutely nothing to do? All the wealth moving into the hands of a few hundred people has to have something to do with the creation of this homeless, helpless population we've created.
They don't want out of the cycle the problem business close to them can't afford to open their doors because of shop lifting
The city of Portland is a joke.
Used to love ❤️ visiting Portland and Seattle in the 1980s, wouldn’t visit either one of those sh-tholes in 2023
I always wanted to visit there up until a few years ago. Stopped wanting to after seeing all this on You Tube. Think of all the lost tourist money your politicians could have lined their pockets with?
Hey news channel ask where are the news jobs what company would move to PORTLAND after Teddy economic policy's.
Of course they are back. Where else are they going to go? You can chase them out, they’ll go somewhere else, they’ll get chased out of there, they’ll go back to where they were before.
Just chasing homeless people away isn’t going to fix it. They need HOMES.
Why people can't realize this simple fact is beyond me. Oh yeah, because it's easier to condemn the individual and feel superior.
As housing and rent continues to rise and more jobs are lost, we are going to see an increase in homelessness in every city and town across the nation, and sooner rather than later we're going to have to collectively come to terms with it and formulate real ways on how to solve it.
Housing should be treated as the basic necessity that it is and not a privatized commodity which can be stripped from an individual the moment that their bank account no longer matches their needs.
Nobody wants to live in a homeless shelter. There's a lot of violence and theft. Cant brink your dog or any property. And you have to be out at 7 and back before 8 or something like that. It's like a jail.
Zero homeless where I moved to in Idaho
We are glad to see them back. They should have never been kicked out in the first place!
What the hell is the solution for this??? Sooo many hard working people who pay for their dues and taxes are suffering from trauma - seeing THEM being drugged out, SEEING THEM PREPPING THEIR DRUG KITS NEXT TO FOOD CHAINS where families esp with KIDS see them do their sht, TRAUMATIZING those who just want to have a quick stroll - scared of being mugged or chased by the homeless druggies .. yet they DO NOTHING to contribute anything. This is getting out of hand somebody someone needs to do something.
Easy, if you don't have to live in Portland or visit it...don't.
I wonder how many $1,000's in back rent that guy stuck the RV park owner with. Oh wait, I forgot they're all good people that just can't find work.
Omfg, get a sense of reality, bro. Housing simply isn't affordable anymore. With the average home price now over 500k, this is not a bootstraps issue. They don't bootstraps that big.
@@telescopicS627 Ok bro.
Follow the money, it’s more profitable to let the homeless problem and crime run rampant. It’s always about the money not about the law abiding citizens.
Follow the money: Boomers like seeing their house is worth almost a million dollars, even though it's not real money, it makes them FEEL good. Thus, 20 years into this crisis there is literally no movement to relax land use restrictions and build more housing.
Plain and simple if they are park more than 48 hours just tow the crap,use force if is necessary to clean the areas.
Pass an occupancy tax on all areas where people abode. Just like they do for people who own homes. Tax them - problem solved. Watch the government get off its ass then, when they can collect money.
You voted for this and now you're getting it good and hard. Quit complaining 🤣
The regular people should leave Portland and move to St. Louis. It is illegal in Missouri to camp on public property. This includes sidewalks, parking spots, freeway entrances, parks, trails, streets, vacant lots, river banks, and green spaces. Guess what there are not people living like they are in Portland in St. Louis. What is wrong with the city officials in Portland?
20 years ago, Portland was among my favorite cities to visit. Since law enforcement was cancelled, I will no longer come to Portland. Same goes for Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, etc. "Defund the police!" How's that working for you?
You are not homeless in an RV or a car.......
They want to move these people out of the most desirable areas of Portland. This should be a crime.
What? I don't think that stretch of road to be the "most desirable" in Portland but besides that shouldn't people that can support themselves and have worked all there lives to live in the best parts of town. They earned it. Can't sit on your a** day after day and do all the drugs you want and expect to just pull up and park somewhere and decide this is my home now. Sounds ludacris.
@@pdxoneway "Sounds ludacris."
And ludicrous , too ...
How does he move all those vehicles around 🤷
The guy is obviously unstable but he calls himself a hustler. 🤦
Homeless in vehicles are different from the ones in tents camping in front of their drug dealers.
MY ? IS HOW IN THE HELL COULD THEY PURCHASE A M-Home Or A Trailer And Windup Here. I Just Don't Get It. Maybe Very Poor Choices .
Reopen the mental institutions give these people a place to stay until they can get well
Build more prisons and mandatory drug treatment centers. Reopen all the mental institutions we closed years ago so people who can’t live life on life’s terms have a place to be cared for rather then rot on the streets.
Call out a national guard, engineer unit and use bulldozers and craines to remove all this crap and take to a scrap yard. And if people are still in them,,,,oh well...
New definition of homeless: One who does not want a job, wants to lay about and sleep all day, and smoke pot or do drugs, and will not accept a permanent place to live because they might have to keep it clean and follow some rules. I have lost all sympathy.
You can not create a solution with the same thinking that created the problem. The City
They won't accept assistance when its offered so I have to conclude that they live like this by choice. Maybe its easier, maybe there's less responsibility, maybe its cheaper living. But they will always live like this regardless so the only solution I can think of is legislation to make homeless camps completely illegal.
Instead of wasting city resources, find unoccupied land us the resources to run a homeless village.
Because you didn't fix anything. You moved it. God damn.
Send 2 reporters to live on the streets with stringent budget and otherwise to beg and struggle like those you report on and the solutions will become evident at once
More jails are built than public housing; imagine turn some of those cells into free housing for all micro loft apartment mandates.
Those cells ARE "free housing": Just become an inmate.
@@daryllect6659 It defeats the purpose so no.
And just let criminals back on the streets. How short sighted, even for a communist.
Good the more criminals the more jails we need
@@lonesoldier5165 No need; with more housing less criminals.
As a home owner, I can't throw my trash in the street and expect someone from the city to take it away for free. The homeless can't even keep their surroundings clean and that's why taxpayers get sick and tired of it. Vote the politicians that won't deal with this out of office.
Most of the trash is left from home owners, they throw it in the camps to be spiteful
@@evognayr no I don't think so but nice at try at deflection.
@@evognayr Dude every comment I've seen from you leads me to believe you're the kind of pussy who called CPS when your dad beat your dumb ass😂 I hope you end up on the street
Like everyone else whining here, you fail to grasp the real issue: Housing simply isn't affordable anymore. Jeez, if only there were some way to bring down the cost of a commodity in a free market system... if only...
Blind consumers can do nothing else. Society has turned us to useless eaters
Boulders
BIG ones!
How about IMMEDIATELY tow any camper parked there instead?
I need to start a junk removal business
Or a Gay themed Bakery. Both would thrive in Portland 🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂