Despite Portland's camping ban near schools, homeless camps return or remain

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  • Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
  • The area near the Metropolitan Learning Center is one of many where Mayor Ted Wheeler banned homeless camps about two weeks ago, but the camps remain.
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  • @markr8796
    @markr8796 2 года назад +100

    It’s not what you’d “rather” do, it’s what you are mandated to do. It’s not your choice! Were these people raised without following rules? If so, shame on their parents for not teaching them. Why are those who follow the rules picking up the tab for those who don’t?

    • @rebeccakurtz7575
      @rebeccakurtz7575 2 года назад +11

      EXACTLY!!! There are NO consequences for anything.

    • @markr8796
      @markr8796 2 года назад +8

      @@CSPORTPDX Not really. Rules equal order, responsibility and respect for each other. There’s nothing wrong with having rules. There is something wrong with people doing whatever they feel like with no regard for anyone or anything else.

    • @barrysiegfried3019
      @barrysiegfried3019 2 года назад

      @@pnw_jordan why is that not correct please explain.

    • @MatthewJamesKent
      @MatthewJamesKent 2 года назад

      There's people were raised just like that woman sitting on the swing were raising her kid the kid was reaching for the microphone she said no and the kids started whining that's the kind of people and children that were raising that these people are raising they're raising kids with our boundaries they're raising kids with that rules this is freaking ridiculous I'm sick of the left wing radical le sbos

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz 2 года назад

      Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is.

  • @swampfox4489
    @swampfox4489 2 года назад +45

    Let’s cleanup the homeless camps near schools so the children don’t see just HOW irresponsible the adults are! Voting in the SAME people over and over again!

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад +1

      There literally needs to be "roving patrols" of police 24/7 to keep these homeless encampments away from schools. Portland is in a sorry state due to decades of coddling the homeless.

    • @swampfox4489
      @swampfox4489 2 года назад

      @@Scorch1028 Try voting in a government that protects Americans jobs! Instead of having everything made in foreign countries!

    • @skyisreallyhigh3333
      @skyisreallyhigh3333 2 года назад +1

      The irresponsible adults are those who hoard resources, not those who have nothing.

    • @skyisreallyhigh3333
      @skyisreallyhigh3333 2 года назад +1

      @@Scorch1028 So you want fascism?

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад +1

      @@skyisreallyhigh3333 The word fascism is "over-used" to describe maintaining a standard that works for the "tax-paying majority" of the U.S. population.

  • @Elongated_Muskrat
    @Elongated_Muskrat 2 года назад +38

    Can afford green hair dye but can’t afford anything else?

    • @rebeccakurtz7575
      @rebeccakurtz7575 2 года назад +4

      Exactly

    • @thebastardgift
      @thebastardgift 2 года назад

      One cannot assume she paid for it.

    • @memnem3787
      @memnem3787 2 года назад

      She is a groomer

    • @dreaminez472
      @dreaminez472 2 года назад +5

      You really comparing the cost of hair dye to the cost of housing?

    • @thebastardgift
      @thebastardgift 2 года назад

      @Duffelbag Drag, Really? I am not a holy rocker calling out to Jesus every five minutes, but the bible does speak of days when people will not be able to tell the difference between a male and female. Thank you for letting me know.

  • @aprils.r8418
    @aprils.r8418 2 года назад +39

    We need to force these people into rehab. I'd rather my taxes go to making them get help instead of cleaning up after them. Absolute bs.
    Protesting... She needs to get a job and better herself. Not camp where children play and learn.

    • @bluechex7881
      @bluechex7881 2 года назад

      Just telll the kids the homeless are MAGA fascists and it's their duty to beat them up everyday. It will make the kids tougher and the homeless wil eventually tire of having hundreds of kids kicking them in the shins. Win win.

    • @GoodGuy-wq4md
      @GoodGuy-wq4md 2 года назад +6

      I've been around some of these folks, they know how to work the system, stay clean long enough to get money, which they just put in their hand, and say good luck, then instead of housing, they use it for drugs, and get back in rehab, and do it all over again. They're not dumb, they know how to fool do-gooders, that's what they've done all their lives. And we foot the bill, we're paying them to do this, well, not me, I got the hell out.

    • @memnem3787
      @memnem3787 2 года назад

      @@CSPORTPDX ultramaga can only save America

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz 2 года назад

      Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and they reject shelters, rehab, and such programs. The only thing they really wanna is to be as close as possible to their fentanyl dealers.

    • @CandiceMMartinez
      @CandiceMMartinez 2 года назад +2

      @@GoodGuy-wq4md What about long-term rehab?
      I don't know how Oregon works but NJ only funds short-term rehabs. Addicts need a good year worth of rehab. I would be willing to pay more taxes to fund long-term rehabs for anyone who needs it.

  • @DG-oq8hj
    @DG-oq8hj 2 года назад +52

    It's time to start using tough love on these people. Give them the choice to get into shelters, move in with family/friends or get out of town. Letting people live like this is not helping them at all. It's unhealthy, unsanitary and unfair to taxpayers and businesses. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz 2 года назад

      Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and they reject shelters, rehab and such programs. The only thing they really wanna is to be as close as possible to their fentanyl dealers.

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад +4

      To add to your point, another thing that Portland could do is establish "residency requirements" for the services they provide struggling people within their city limits. In other words, only make subsidies available to people who can "prove" that they've lived in Portland for 5 years or longer. That would dramatically cut down on people from "outside of Portland" (other parts of Oregon and the rest of the U.S.) migrating to Portland to receive services that "should be" going to actual Portland residents who have fallen on hard times. Instead, what we've seen are the taxpayers of Portland sustaining the lives of people from all over the country, who "arrive in Portland" with no money, no job, and no place to live. That is a horrendously unfair burden on working Portland residents, and the city needs policies to curtail outsiders from adding to its homeless population.

    • @skyisreallyhigh3333
      @skyisreallyhigh3333 2 года назад

      So you're openly a fascist I see

    • @wonder7798
      @wonder7798 Год назад +2

      They can't stay in shelters for very long. I think unless you do your own research stating these biased remarks makes us a part of the problem. I would like to see any one of you attempt to get your basic needs met after a sudden disability or a domestic abuse situation. I would think your tone would change . 31 tenants are being evicted from one affordable housing and I just spoke to another property manager that stares they are no longer going to do business with Home Forward. So that means out of the dozen or so properties they own they will all be made to leave. So it will only get worse. Not to mention once 2023 comes rent will be increased another 14%. This year my rent increased $192 .00. 14% of $2200 is $308.00 more. You know people are already struggling with inflation. We all need to stop viewing reality from our little bubbles be abuse if we don't acknowledge reality for what it is then we may all be heading for the streets or shelters. Landlords are not going to hesitate to increase rent.

    • @wonder7798
      @wonder7798 Год назад

      @@Scorch1028 WOW😳🤔That is the most outlandish statement I've ever heard. Seriously, Oregon has immigrants, refugees, families, unaccompanied youth, women and men who fled abuse, children who fled sex abuse, our veterans, the ones that fought for all of us. This government received $3.32 billion in July, so instead of mouthing off about those who have no money, no water, no personal space take it up with your government. Ask aour legislation what the hell they are doing. Because these comments say more about what you avoid in yourself than it does our neighbors on the street. Btw, there are over 14,000 homeless in Oregon.

  • @sidviscus
    @sidviscus 2 года назад +80

    "I believe our city and our government should give us more resources" aka "I believe I shouldn't have to work for anything, I should get everything for free, and be able to be in everyone's way because the world revolves around me"

    • @galegrazutis964
      @galegrazutis964 2 года назад +2

      @@CSPORTPDX That's THERE PROBLEM!!!

    • @galegrazutis964
      @galegrazutis964 2 года назад +1

      BRILLIANTLY SAID!

    • @galegrazutis964
      @galegrazutis964 2 года назад +1

      @@CSPORTPDX Sorry about spelling error. But the government should find something fir them and not live of welfare!

    • @baitcrown9238
      @baitcrown9238 2 года назад +2

      @Flow you sound like you've never spoken to the street people, especially in the summer, lucky you.

    • @matthewstewart5113
      @matthewstewart5113 2 года назад +5

      I challenge you, walk outside your dwelling with the clothing on your back and live for 60days without returning. Call it an experience or whatever.

  • @pdxyadayada
    @pdxyadayada 2 года назад +69

    Ugh, why is it that most of us have spent our lives following the laws and rules. Throughout adversity, we’ve all struggled, but we never just put up a tent wherever we wanted to. Life can be a bitch, but it’s a choice to say, ‘screw you,’ and pop up a tent where ever you want. Our society is crumbling when we condone this behavior.

    • @markr8796
      @markr8796 2 года назад +1

      Amen

    • @rebeccakurtz7575
      @rebeccakurtz7575 2 года назад +2

      EXACTLY!!! The city is tolerating this.

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz 2 года назад

      Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and they are damaged mentally and physically beyond the point of repair by fentanyl.

    • @U.s-epa
      @U.s-epa 2 года назад +1

      This is a huge problem. Enforcing rules for some (tax payers) and ignoring rules for the "poor" or colored people creates distain and people start to ignore law.

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад +2

      That's true, and to build on your point, if you or I were to walk up to a school fence, and we stood there for more than 5 minutes staring at the school, we could expect a cop to approach us, question us, and tell us to "Move along." Yet, when the cops encounter a homeless person who's standing near a school fence, shooting up drugs, taking a dump, or soliciting prostitution, the cops handle this person with kid gloves. If they tell a vagrant to "Move along", that person returns, there are no consequences for them, like there would be for you or I. That is NOT "equal protection under the law", under the 14th Amendment. That is vagrants being treated differently, facing no punishment for their obvious criminal behavior on public property. I was recently at a local park after 11pm, and a cop told me I had to leave because the park closes at 11. Well, he completely ignored the homeless people who "stay in the park overnight". There again, is unequal protection under the law.

  • @bodyguard5879
    @bodyguard5879 2 года назад +17

    City government is not responsible for your housing. Poor decisions are creating homeless situations.

    • @matthewstewart5113
      @matthewstewart5113 2 года назад

      LMFAO, you know nothing . You are a very easily manipulated person and that is ok. You have been fooled into thinking these are not your people. These are Americans your brothers, sisters, mothers, Fathers, and our future. Their wellbeing is your responsibility and your duty. A.M.E.R.I.C.A.N'S All Mankind Equal Religion Individual Color Age Name Society.

    • @memnem3787
      @memnem3787 2 года назад +2

      Gender studies degrees

    • @matthewstewart5113
      @matthewstewart5113 2 года назад +3

      @@memnem3787

    • @memnem3787
      @memnem3787 2 года назад

      @@matthewstewart5113 yeah everyone who disagrees with you is a troll

  • @jessebaldwin2661
    @jessebaldwin2661 2 года назад +29

    It's interesting that they want everything free. That speaks volumes.

    • @U.s-epa
      @U.s-epa 2 года назад

      They have been brainwashed by the left to think you're owed things in life.

    • @richardg1426
      @richardg1426 Год назад +1

      Just waiting for someone to bring it to them and not picking themselves by their bootstraps !

  • @apllu17
    @apllu17 2 года назад +37

    So she and her partner won't go into a shelter bc the "other" people make them uncomfortable? Yet she is okay that kids walk by a homeless encampment feeling far more uncomfortable and vulnerable? Hmmm what a double standard she presents.

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz 2 года назад

      Her partner is very likely on fentanyl or meth.

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад +1

      While it's true that many homeless shelters have mentally unstable people living in them, most city blocks in Portland do not have a school on them. There is plenty of space for these people to set up living quarters away from school buildings. I suspect that this woman's mental illness and/or drug abuse makes her more unreasonable than the average person, who could just move their tent 500+ feet away from a school. That's not a lot to ask.

    • @Burrier82
      @Burrier82 2 года назад

      APL Lu Shelters are disgusting places where you can catch covid and they let anybody stay their low life criminals drug user's alcoholics with felony records and more i was homeless twice in my life i never felt safe staying in a shelter they need to have a separate shelter for normal people without criminal records that are just down on their luck

    • @apllu17
      @apllu17 2 года назад

      @@Burrier82 You can catch covid at the super market. Covid isn't the largest concern. Shelters at least have toilets, showers, where to wash up. On the street, the homeless delicate and urinate on the street and go weeks without a shower. Honeless leave theor drug needles, and there is a rampid spread of staph, TB, hepatitis.

    • @skyisreallyhigh3333
      @skyisreallyhigh3333 2 года назад +1

      Your child will be just fine.
      Lots of people have been raped and beaten in shelters.

  • @Intruc3
    @Intruc3 2 года назад +15

    The city literally allows this to happen. Time to actually make it illegal and reinforce the law.

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад +1

      The city ordinance is very reasonable. Just keep the encampments at least 500 feet from any city school. 500 feet is less than one-tenth of a mile. Unfortunately, when someone is mentally ill and/or baked from drug use, they cannot be reasoned with. So, they refuse to move their tent a few blocks down the road.

    • @stevethomas2094
      @stevethomas2094 2 года назад

      Most of these homeless scenarios are already illegal and have been for decades. In many/most cases these laws have NOT been formally repealed, they are still on the books. What is different now versus the past is that today’s city officials no longer have the will to ENFORCE the laws.

    • @catface3473
      @catface3473 2 года назад +1

      Isn.t it all ready illegal ?

  • @okboomer1340
    @okboomer1340 2 года назад +15

    Cop car at 1:07 just sitting there having a donut for the last two weeks apparently ignoring Wheeler's "order".....f'ing Portland. What a farce.

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz 2 года назад +1

      Police is instructed not to enforce any law on homeless unless they spill blood.

  • @kenweatherly6857
    @kenweatherly6857 2 года назад +6

    Give us more resources? Ridiculous

  • @kevingarcia5923
    @kevingarcia5923 2 года назад +6

    Lmao Portland where they listen to homeless needs more than hard working people.

  • @galegrazutis964
    @galegrazutis964 2 года назад +22

    I am not from America and this whole homeless situation ABSOLUTELY APPAULS me . Why are they not arrested and put in prison., why do they get away with EVERYTHING. Why are they above the law!?

    • @ryanhammond6688
      @ryanhammond6688 2 года назад

      White liberals. Is your answer.

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz 2 года назад

      Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and politicians in Portland are woke. Woke believes criminals are victims of capitalism, systemic racism, society failed them, and other vague ideas.

    • @brianeverett5560
      @brianeverett5560 2 года назад +5

      It’s not illegal to be broke?

    • @galegrazutis964
      @galegrazutis964 2 года назад

      @@brianeverett5560 No ABSOLUTELY correct its not illegal to be broke. However, it IS ILLEGAL to shootup on the streets, harrasspeople for money, deficate and urinate on the streets, steal , vandalise property, have sex on the streets to name just a few of their illegal acts!

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад +1

      There are a number of points to address in your question: 1) Being locked up in jail is actually an "improvement" for the homeless in many respects. In jail, they get "3 hots and a cot" (3 hot meals and a bed to sleep in). 2) No one can be held in jail for longer than 1 week for violating a city ordinance like camping in front of a school. In fact, some homeless people deliberately break the law, just to be given the stability that life behind bars provides them with. 3) The answer to this problem is to have the police move these homeless encampments the moment that they appear.

  • @MrBearcatjew
    @MrBearcatjew 2 года назад +5

    We have been dealing with this for years and its only getting worse and yet we try to hide the cause of it all. Say it with me, DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS.

  • @blueeyedwolf2205
    @blueeyedwolf2205 2 года назад +6

    Same thing happening here in LA. There is supposed to be a 500 foot no tent zone around city parks and GUESS WHAT!

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz 2 года назад

      Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and street encampments are open air drugs markets brewing all sorts of crime.

    • @chuckruckus3648
      @chuckruckus3648 2 года назад +1

      What

  • @idadelucia7779
    @idadelucia7779 2 года назад +18

    Why stay by schools or parks. That is ridiculous. It’s as if the don’t care because their situation is not good.
    Yes, there are people using public spots as restrooms. My neighbors had to chase away a homeless woman who tried to use our recycling area as a restroom.
    I moved to Portland in 2017. It’s only gotten worse. These homeless don’t want to be in shelters because they want what people go to work to earn or they want to use drugs. Either way something needs to be done.

    • @noahname6695
      @noahname6695 2 года назад +1

      Parks have restrooms and water. Plus it’s a public park.
      Perhaps setting up sites with facilities but the nimby principle comes in to play.

  • @tonybranton
    @tonybranton 2 года назад +5

    They’re not GIVING they need to GIVE US. The whole problem is people thinking they should be GIVEN things

    • @smithjoey1985
      @smithjoey1985 2 года назад +1

      It just comes down to laziness and entitlement

    • @keciaaskew5166
      @keciaaskew5166 Год назад

      @@smithjoey1985 I agree 💯 percent

  • @jakebreakstheinternet
    @jakebreakstheinternet 2 года назад +2

    Waiting around for handouts from the government instead of trying to figure things out for themselves...

  • @Kona_Blue
    @Kona_Blue 2 года назад +9

    Portland culture at its finest

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz 2 года назад +1

      Woke culture at it's finest. Criminals are victims, and victims are racist greedy supporters of capitalism.

  • @biglarge9418
    @biglarge9418 2 года назад +9

    Jobs create resources. Portland has plenty of open positions to get those resources.

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz 2 года назад

      Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is.

    • @U.s-epa
      @U.s-epa 2 года назад +3

      These people don't want work, she literally said "I need more free shit from the city"

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад

      How many of these homeless people "cannot work" due to mental illness, drug addiction, a criminal record, or all three? Maybe more than half.

    • @keciaaskew5166
      @keciaaskew5166 Год назад

      @@U.s-epa Lol 😂 😂😂😂

    • @keciaaskew5166
      @keciaaskew5166 Год назад

      @@U.s-epa They sure don’t. Basically she wants someone to feel sorry for her, and the situation she is in.

  • @vintagegal7376
    @vintagegal7376 2 года назад +3

    Easy fix...light the tents on fire. Then they have no tent. Problem solved.

  • @HarleyRiderMC
    @HarleyRiderMC 2 года назад +17

    Mayor Ted Wheeler's mandate seems to lack an enforcement protocol, LOL.

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад +1

      Given the lackluster way that Ted Wheeler handled the George Floyd riots in Portland, I'm not surprised that he has this much difficulty keeping homeless encampments 500 feet from the city's schools.

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад

      @Duffelbag Drag Yeah, Ted Wheeler is more concerned about the rights of rioters and “crack-head bums” than he is about school children or the working people of Portland.

  • @FarragutStCam
    @FarragutStCam 2 года назад +9

    They can get a job. Oh looks like it's not fashion to have a job. Right blue chex? Your life will suck.

    • @bluechex7881
      @bluechex7881 2 года назад

      Just because they are homeless does not make them dumb. Working is for suckers.

    • @jasmineescalante2794
      @jasmineescalante2794 2 года назад

      @@bluechex7881 why is working for suckers? Making your own money is terrible, why?

  • @jimbeam2705
    @jimbeam2705 2 года назад +5

    LOL, you don't even need to have a Circus come to town. You already live in one.

  • @Goldwelp
    @Goldwelp 2 года назад +22

    Give them tickets for littering, loitering and/or trespassing. Arrest the repeat offenders and dispose of all their stuff.
    Not dealing with them will be dangerous for them at some point. Residents will take matters into their own hands eventually.

    • @galegrazutis964
      @galegrazutis964 2 года назад

      I have been watch All this homeless BS from Australia why are decent people forced to put up with these cretins @?

    • @sarbantz
      @sarbantz 2 года назад

      Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is.

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад +2

      Ticketing only works on people who have the money to pay their fines. What Portland needs are "roving patrols" made up of citizens and police to continuously push these vagrants away from the streets and sidewalks near school buildings. The ordinance is very clear: "Encampments cannot be within 500 feet of any school property." 500 feet is less than one-tenth of a mile. That isn't too far of a distance for people to pack up their gear and move to. Many of these people have carts that roll, so 500 feet is even less of an issue.

    • @latoya1928
      @latoya1928 2 года назад +2

      I agree! If you are choosing to be a violator, then there should be consequences. Leave or we’ll trash your belongings. I’m not even from OR but I’m shocked that people let these encampments stand so long. Some people would set 🔥 to it (dark humor, not serious). They need to be relocated 100+ miles to the boonies.

  • @markmiddaugh9359
    @markmiddaugh9359 2 года назад +5

    Enjoy Portland!

  • @anitatucker3998
    @anitatucker3998 2 года назад +3

    Why doesn’t she get a job, not complain about handouts not being enough

  • @johnnyhawk27
    @johnnyhawk27 2 года назад +4

    This camping situation is unacceptable

  • @tmc1964
    @tmc1964 2 года назад +3

    Please stop handing out "Money out of the car window. You are not helping anyone!!!
    DRUGS is what it usally buys.

  • @you452tube
    @you452tube 2 года назад +2

    Make homelessness illegal. Place them in a designated area....by force if necessary. I don't care anymore.

  • @dragoonseye76
    @dragoonseye76 2 года назад +2

    That’s funny because a bunch of creeps camped out in front of my kids school makes me uncomfortable

  • @QWNSWORDS
    @QWNSWORDS 2 года назад +2

    I was just talking to my best friend who stull lives in Portland. It's a shit hole now

  • @richard3716
    @richard3716 2 года назад +4

    green haired devil

  • @luke4338
    @luke4338 2 года назад +3

    These people are not drug addicts or homeless, they are environmentally conscious campers.
    In these progressive times, it's so sickening to watch these over-privileged crybabies punch down on environmentalists.

    • @CandiceMMartinez
      @CandiceMMartinez 2 года назад +1

      @Dirty LettuceLol. How do you not recognize sarcasm?

    • @carsilk2492
      @carsilk2492 2 года назад

      @@CandiceMMartinez People who don't get sarcasm are my favorite people.

  • @SK-lt1so
    @SK-lt1so 2 года назад +2

    I can't afford to live in a NYC penthouse, so I don't live in one.
    If you can't afford to live somewhere, move.

  • @johnsonrepp
    @johnsonrepp 2 года назад +2

    Tent is being kept up in protest…. Lol, that’s a good one if I’ve ever heard it. City won’t do anything about it. Has the city done anything about it yet? Exactly.

  • @Carvin0
    @Carvin0 2 года назад +5

    "I just want a place to camp until I'm given free accomodation that's up to my standards."

  • @Validkris
    @Validkris 2 года назад +1

    More resources??? Did she just say she has a housing voucher

  • @pamelamorley0218
    @pamelamorley0218 2 года назад +2

    I wouldn’t let my kids walk that route to school. Period. Not if they’re are pooping and peeing everywhere, leaving garbage etc etc. But I bet they wouldn’t bus them either to avoid it. It’s not safe for them at all.

  • @amandad6782
    @amandad6782 2 года назад +1

    People shouldn't be allowed to block the sidewalk.

  • @meteor997
    @meteor997 2 года назад +6

    I'd be supportive if there was a shortage of jobs in Portland, but there's not. There are SO many jobs right now...we can't seem to hire anyone, nobody wants to work. Housing vouchers? Just no. There's plenty of affordable housing within a bus ride away once you have a job.

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад

      Unfortunately, many of these unemployed people have issues with mental illness and drug abuse -- which is WHY they're homeless to begin with. When I was a kid, we had D.A.R.E. programs in school, because back then our society "knew" what illegal drug use leads to -- "homelessness", and that's if you're lucky enough to not overdose or not get murdered by someone you owe money to, because you're hooked on drugs. Sadly, the Left in America got rid of D.A.R.E. programs because they said that D.A.R.E. was "offensive" to people who have made street drug use a part of their lifestyle. In other words, it's "insensitive" to criticize the most unproductive members of our society as "junkies, burn-outs, and losers." So, D.A.R.E. went away, and illicit drug use has been normalized as a part of our culture.

    • @amandad6782
      @amandad6782 2 года назад

      A lot of our homeless would probably not get hired. It can be rough even in portland to get hired. But doesn't mean if someone really wanted to they couldn't.

  • @standepain
    @standepain 2 года назад +3

    0:52 lol Sometimes you don't even have to point out stupid. You don't want to stay there because some of the people there make you uncomfortable? SMH Why do you think people don't want you nears schools, genius.

  • @sptrader9066
    @sptrader9066 Год назад

    This is my old school. Shame on you Portland, for allowing this to persist.

  • @Noname13773
    @Noname13773 Месяц назад

    Vote the people out of office that aren’t doing their jobs. They are sitting around collecting a check. People need to band together against these politicians.

  • @Kharkovkid
    @Kharkovkid 2 года назад +1

    I finally gave up, took the loss and sold out. But before I did, I would tell the vagrants, "It`s not your place and it`s not my place. Therefore< i have just as much right to move you along, as you do to stay..."

  • @nickanderson412
    @nickanderson412 2 года назад +1

    "Be profitable or suffer." - America

  • @perfectionbox
    @perfectionbox 2 года назад +3

    We could try having a "work or else" policy, but i suspect a lot of people would perish

  • @themasterrogerdelgado
    @themasterrogerdelgado Год назад +1

    Homeless never want to consider either the laws or how other non-homeless people feel about them squatting on the sidewalk.

  • @dm-iy9ft
    @dm-iy9ft 2 года назад +2

    What if we make these camps places of education and allow the homeless to be teachers? Two birds, one scone. Portland style.

    • @tarwater27
      @tarwater27 2 года назад

      Teach what? How to shoot up heroin and be a leech on society?

  • @magazineretriever9036
    @magazineretriever9036 2 года назад +5

    It isn't just the "government" telling these homeless people to stay 500 feet away from a school, it's the "will of the people" saying it. Parents and school faculty members don't want vagrants to be too close to school children throughout the day. Where I live, if I walk up to the school fence and I stand there for more than 5 minutes, I can expect the police to be called -- even though I'm not technically breaking any law. It rouses suspicion. I understand that dangerous individuals often stay in homeless shelters, but that doesn't mean that un-sheltered people can't move 500 feet away from a school. The city ordinance says: "Stay 500 feet away from any school." Period. 500 feet is less than one-tenth of a mile. It's a short f*cking walk for people with the "strength & energy" to haul 50 lbs. of gear around with them every time they move!

    • @jzen1455
      @jzen1455 Год назад

      Nothing is being done because Portlanders have gotten used to homelessness. Also, mental health services is lacking here and there's just an inordinate amount of people with all sorts of mental issues that would take a lot of resources and WILL to address.

  • @brutussmithers6341
    @brutussmithers6341 2 года назад +1

    Such a beautiful city, and Democrat leadership totally destroying it.

  • @vicentegumataotao5618
    @vicentegumataotao5618 2 года назад +4

    Try the Jim Jones’s summer recipe

  • @myrnaparjani1910
    @myrnaparjani1910 Год назад

    This is terrible for our children going to school. Why are all the homeless sitting in Portland and not using any part of Eastern Oregon ? Portland is ruined thanks to your horrible city leaders.

  • @kenanacampora
    @kenanacampora 2 года назад +1

    Camp on golf courses and school recess yards.

  • @Steveleanr
    @Steveleanr Год назад +1

    Homeless people feel so entitled because they just don't give a rat's arse about anyone or anything.......... Give me this, give me that.... maybe go out and EARN it!!!!!!!!! I have no compassion for these dregs of society.......

  • @richardg1426
    @richardg1426 Год назад

    Shelters would be safe if we could have rules and enforce laws ! and put criminals in prison and not in shelters !

  • @ncon5179
    @ncon5179 Год назад +4

    The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one’s own behavior

  • @djisback1622
    @djisback1622 2 года назад +6

    Be a real shame if a group of citizens came down and cleaned house. When our elected leaders fail to enforce the law or protect communities then it is time for vigilante justice.

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад +1

      In one Portland community, a group of citizens set up planters on the easements of their street, to prevent the homeless from setting up tents there. Well, of course, the city had these planters removed, because they don't give a rat's ass about what the taxpayers want.

    • @SMOKEY428
      @SMOKEY428 2 года назад +1

      “That’s racist “ lol

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад

      @@SMOKEY428 Yeah. Everything is "racist", even when the majority of the homeless people in Portland are "white". 😆

  • @rghydd1430
    @rghydd1430 2 года назад +1

    Tell the biden then he will give you whatever amount

    • @MrSpeoples1
      @MrSpeoples1 2 года назад

      These problems were exasperated by republican leadership, dipsh*t

  • @latoya1928
    @latoya1928 2 года назад +2

    Taxing us more and clearing out encampments every week clearly isn’t the answer. They don’t want to get positive, productive help, they want to be non abiding and get everything for nothing. Everywhere I go, there’s advertising for work. They don’t want to work, they don’t want to respect the property of law-abiding citizens. If they continue refusal to comply, then trash their encampments, close the benefits, relocate them to remote areas of the state where they can’t violate the space of others and disrupt their way of life. If that’s the extreme that is needed, then it should’ve been done years ago. That’s a major reason why Portland is declining and businesses and residents are leaving. Who wants to pay top dollar to live where the slums, drugs, violence and bodily fluids are outside of their doorstep? Paying to be afraid to walk in their neighborhoods, take their kids to school. For what? Non contributors who disregard the law and create unsafe environments? Get rid of them.

  • @dragoonseye76
    @dragoonseye76 2 года назад

    Get them away from the schools

  • @stevecook413
    @stevecook413 2 года назад +2

    Well y'all just keep voting for democrats

    • @MrSpeoples1
      @MrSpeoples1 2 года назад

      What would a republican do? You have no clue because you're an idiot, like most conservatives.

  • @AZCobraman
    @AZCobraman Год назад

    What a wonderland...

  • @Mrlongshot
    @Mrlongshot Год назад

    It must be OK to break the LAW in Portland. That is why there are so many homeless CAMPS. Trun about is fair play, if the city can't fix things then the homeowners need to do it.

  • @yank196101
    @yank196101 2 года назад

    How dare them show children how bad their City is doing.

  • @IMP3TIGO
    @IMP3TIGO 2 года назад

    The problem is they allowed it for so long that trying to change that now is even harder. Yet, obviously they need to do that but have neither the sense or political will to actually do something to improve the city. Portland is pathetic.

  • @YoMateo.
    @YoMateo. 2 года назад +4

    Whoever's reading this, i pray that whatever you're going through gets better and whatever you're struggling with or worrying about is going to be fine and that everyone has a fantastic day! Amen

    • @lovethyneighbor1955
      @lovethyneighbor1955 2 года назад +2

      My prayers will be answered when we get these foul Democrats out of office. Have a blessed day!

    • @cats5351
      @cats5351 2 года назад

      I watching becouse Blair is SUPER HOT. Please pray one day I can date her.

  • @linhaton4957
    @linhaton4957 Год назад +1

    The lady with the green hair looks able to work. Get a job and take care of yourself.

  • @thebastardgift
    @thebastardgift 2 года назад +1

    The woman who is going to sell her house and move will be taking one hell of a hit from a lowered price.

    • @Andrea22888
      @Andrea22888 2 года назад +1

      Ha! It’s funny because I doubt anyone will buy it.

    • @thebastardgift
      @thebastardgift 2 года назад

      @@Andrea22888, I don't think it's funny, but I agree she may not be able to sell.

    • @Andrea22888
      @Andrea22888 2 года назад +1

      @@thebastardgift I guess it’s funny to me that they think they’ll find a buyer. No one in their right mind would buy it. So I don’t see the point in trying to sell.

    • @thebastardgift
      @thebastardgift 2 года назад +2

      @@Andrea22888, they are desperate and every buyers know it. Now an investor might buy it, offering the very least, and then rent it out to people who would otherwise be homeless too, charging the most.

    • @Andrea22888
      @Andrea22888 2 года назад

      @@thebastardgift I can see this happening. It’s sad because these are nice neighborhoods. I moved to Oregon in 2008 and back then homelessness was surprising to me. But they didn’t have tents like they do now and there are SO many out on the streets now. I wonder where they come from honestly. Portland metro area has fallen since 2017.

  • @givemeahandle
    @givemeahandle Год назад +1

    The lady says she walks through there 5 times a day....hmm....so ya walk through the shit five times a day and I'm guessing you don't pick up ONE piece of trash that you're complaining about? Why is everyone expecting some magical "other person" to just come along and make everything just like you like it again??

  • @seattleflyboard3807
    @seattleflyboard3807 2 года назад

    Homeless advocates say "Housing First" is the answer. However, we don't seem to be able to provide units for less than half a million dollars per unit. There is no homeless junky on earth worth investing half a million dollars on when you can literally save a thousand starving children for that same money. Yet leaving them encamped on the streets and polluting our neighborhoods is not an acceptable alternative. Essentially, the homeless have a point when they say that they have to be allowed to go somewhere....you cant put someone in jail because they are too broke to pay rent. I believe the only solution are State owned safe camping sites...located in rural areas outside city limits. You could camp the entire homeless population of Portland on a 100 acre lot. The cost would be minimal and those who cause problems at the camp would go straight to jail. Peaceful clean campers would be able to stay pretty much forever. We could do this for a cost of less than 5-10k a year per camper. Right now we are spending 10 times that amount which is preposterous and unsustainable.

  • @talkingmoney4499
    @talkingmoney4499 Год назад

    It’s not even bad compared to Philly ….looks fine to me

  • @45s262
    @45s262 2 года назад

    If portland legalized drugs then that would help solve the problem

  • @garybowler5946
    @garybowler5946 2 года назад

    I am homeless, you can't tell me to do anything, I am queen of wherever I pitch my tent.

  • @mahayati2826
    @mahayati2826 2 года назад

    Rural vs capital... detained or being prisoner?

  • @christopherbernauer9419
    @christopherbernauer9419 Год назад

    Just raise taxes...

  • @snotbubbles3276
    @snotbubbles3276 2 года назад +1

    There is no profit in policing homeless drug addicts. Get out while you can.

  • @dianebach1301
    @dianebach1301 Год назад

    Maybe the kids will grow up and have solutions some of the adults can’t come up with regarding the homeless problem.

  • @davegutenech7188
    @davegutenech7188 2 года назад +1

    Citazens with baseball bats will get them to move out.

  • @JUNGLESTRIKEOFDOOM
    @JUNGLESTRIKEOFDOOM Год назад

    This is what happens when an entire generation disowns its kids.

  • @larrylmedina
    @larrylmedina 2 года назад +2

    How is this girl homeless? Instead of getting fat off EBT-funded cookies and soda and coloring her hair with precious welfare funds, she could get a job and an apartment instead.

  • @Nitronic99
    @Nitronic99 Год назад

    Sad state of affairs in Portland. Every single tax payer should leave that city as soon as possible.

  • @steveanimatrix3887
    @steveanimatrix3887 2 года назад

    What you need to do is place a new ban on the ban. That will get their attention.

  • @julieb7785
    @julieb7785 2 года назад +2

    Joseph's parents failed her; shame on them.

  • @margaretwest8557
    @margaretwest8557 Год назад

    The government is not responsible for you.

  • @thebastardgift
    @thebastardgift 2 года назад

    Either way, removing the camp or not removing it creates more camps in the same area.

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 2 года назад +1

      For over 30 years, Portland has been providing services to "any homeless person" who moves to the city, regardless of where they're from. Not only does Portland provide homeless services to people from all over the U.S., they also give these services to illegal aliens. Portland has no "residency requirements" for the services that they dole out. As a result, the city's homeless population has reached an unsustainable level. Now, tents spill out from the sidewalks into the streets. Some tents take up an entire lane of traffic. It's beyond ridiculous.

    • @thebastardgift
      @thebastardgift 2 года назад

      @@Scorch1028 I've seen some amazing videos reflecting what you said.

  • @ricardodsavant2965
    @ricardodsavant2965 Год назад

    Hardesty + Kotek = 👎

  • @SovereignTroll
    @SovereignTroll 2 года назад

    Canada has a solution.

  • @evergreens92
    @evergreens92 2 года назад +2

    How is it possible for every new reporter to sound exactly the same? Why not have a personality? Lmao

  • @billyyank5807
    @billyyank5807 2 года назад

    apparently the homeless villages are struggling to achieve capacity......how's that possible? just goes to show,people would Rather live on the streets. ok fine,but you can't do it here.....

  • @guesswho4327
    @guesswho4327 2 года назад

    Do as much as you want, officials. You can give these tickets to them all you want, how are they gonna pay off? They can't b/c they have nothing.

  • @norestforthewary
    @norestforthewary 2 года назад

    Just let it burn. Good plan.

  • @randyscott3386
    @randyscott3386 2 года назад

    Time for the federal government to start building new villages for the homeless where the services are all located . Outside of the major cities . Thats where the services need to be located outside of the major cities .

    • @essieessie5399
      @essieessie5399 2 года назад

      How about defunct cruise liner far out in the Pacific Ocean? OOOooops it sank!

    • @randyscott3386
      @randyscott3386 2 года назад

      @@essieessie5399 No just set em up out in the middle of no where to pioneer a new settlement in the true spirit of America . Get rich selling em stuff by the semitractor trailer load . Collect taxes and just keep on being America . It's very simple when you just start from the very beginning . How do you think America even made it this far ?

  • @billyyank5807
    @billyyank5807 2 года назад

    blocking sidewalks like no ones business. can't do that.
    hey,just start parking cars on sidewalks,why not?

  • @WhoDoUthinkUr
    @WhoDoUthinkUr 2 года назад

    Or you should go earn some resources. To be young healthy and want everyone else to support your life. 🤦‍♂️

  • @chitoon100
    @chitoon100 2 года назад

    this is Raciest.....they are discriminating against Black Neighborhoods......

  • @Idontcare-g1n
    @Idontcare-g1n 2 года назад +1

    Squidbillies in real life

  • @alpal87
    @alpal87 2 года назад

    Portland is over