Citizens of Portland should go check the areas where the politicians live, their neighborhoods,to see if homeless people are allowed to park in their residential streets.
Maybe their streets are privately owned. Why aren't homeless tents set up in the park next to their neighborhoods. As long as streets are public streets according to your public administrators, their hands are tied, UNLESS THE HOMELESS TENTS ARE SET UP NEXT TO THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. HOW CONVENIENT.
Homelessness has become an industry. The more homeless people are, the more money the homeless industry makes. The money given to the homeless doesn't go to the homeless, it goes into the industry’s paychecks and lavish conferences talking about what to do about the homeless. They don't want the homeless problem fixed because they would lose all the money (tens of billions per year) poured into the homeless issue. America is broken from all the greed permeating throughout local, state, and federal governments. We have a government problem causing the disparities throughout America...
Portland residents definitely voted to decriminalize public drug use before that law was finally overturned. You can’t create an environment that’s hospitable to 20,000 homeless drug addicts, and then expect that problem to go away when you _re-criminalize_ public drug use.
No, we voted for drug recovery programs. That never happened. And it was the Ninth Circuit Court that dictated that homeless camps couldn’t be illegal.
How dare you blame the mayor for doing what they hired him to do. Portlanders voted for this mayor, they just don't want to see it in their hoods. Left wing hypocrites.
Democracy in action. You get what you vote for. Zero sympathy for a city that re-elected Worm Wheeler. note to Portland... You can't out -California, California.
@@europe7249Ted wheeler was a Republican who pretends to be a democrat to get elected. He doesn’t care about anyone or anything but the money he makes from getting paid under the table for his property investments and real estate deals he gives out.
I am a paid staff member in the homeless shelters. Pays very well. If you actually think that ANY politician is going to save you than you don’t understand politicians. - Simply put, its mind over matter,- they don’t mind and you don’t matter…. Learn it. Enjoy the rest of your day.
@@Weshopwizardspoken like some one who understands how the system works. LOL you are the problem. You helped cause this by not understanding what he said... But keep screaming "defund the police". Eh, ya get what ya vote for huh... Enjoy it.
As usual, the middle class eviscerates the poor. That's why I love Right-to-work. When the rich get richer, I get my paycheck. I'm okay with that. Up next: make churches pay taxes and abolish unions. Jails and prisons don't have homeless people. Vote red!
@@Xanthro2 all these homeless advocacy groups don’t really do anything but suck up government money. Very little of that money goes to actually helping, rather it goes to pay salaries of people that don’t actually help. So, the OP is the problem.
@@PDogB I was calling attention to the lack of a comma (or a semicolon) after "shame." It's written to suggest that Oregon being beautiful is a shame. It's like "let's eat, Grandma" versus "let's eat Grandma."
@markkalb2737 This was as big an issue before they legalized drugs. You right wingers only throw out sound bites never solutions. You tear down but you never ever build.
follow the laws! things parked with no license is against the law. Littering, camping over night on the street, using the street as your bathroom. Why cant the city just enforce the laws?
@@KeikoFXDesignsYawn. Learn politics on Instagram? If it was communism they’d take Wheeler’s real estate empire and put homeless people in his buildings.
No, stay there! You democrats voted for this so accept it and stop complaining! Don’t move to republican areas and bring your socialist/communist ideas and beliefs with you!
"We want normal lives" but wont get a job... i dont buy it. My neighbor just got evicted then stayed right next door with his friend then THEY got evicted. He literally told me he doesnt want a job and was totally fine with "staying at the park". A lot of these people think that way then scoff when you tell them to get a job. He lives off free food and charges his phone anywhere theres an outlet outside. They really have it too easy. What we need is to bring back mental institutions and keep the crazies in there and give them goals to be released. That being said, i know that there are people who become homeless under bad circumstances but those people will find a way to get off the streets quick. All these other homeless people who have been homeless for months? They are the ones who set up camps and destroy the area with trash and do drugs and start fires. Put em in mental institutions.
I grew up in Portland. The democrats have annihilated the entire place. I went back last summer, will not be going back ever again. The graffiti, homeless, drug zombies, crime, filth is just too much to bare. I dont understand why people vote the way they do. Goodbye Portland!
As usual blame it on the Democrats - what are you doing to solve the situation in a positive kind compassionate Humane manner??? You seem to forget it could happen to you!!
@@janncoons7445he blames it on the democrats because it’s decades of democrat policies that caused this situation. What he did to solve the situation is move the hell out of Portland. Your problem is you voted for this and will continue to vote for democrats and you’ll wonder why your city is in ruins.
@janncoons7445 It's called law and order. We citizens should feel safe and secure in our communities. I don't hate anyone, I hate policies that are harmful and without any benefit. I could give a ton of reasons the democrat policies are hurting the community but I'd get writers cramp. If you don't believe me, just start looking around, you'll see it for yourself.
@@janncoons7445 I am sure you are in a safe area, you do not see homeless people in front of your house every day ruining your life. The humane and compassionate solution is for the city to manage and provide food and shelter, those who are wandering on the streets are their choice but they ruin my life every day.
@@haopham1102 Well, people are not always in a safe zone. We wake up every morning trying to cover food and shelter. We can't get lazy for a second or end up on the street.
As a previous employee that moved homeless camps for the city (4 years), it's a game, after 5 the workers don't move camps and the homeless know they got weekends and that they can move back after a week or 2 After the homeless get moved from one location they get moved from the next location, the employees call this job security and it makes the homeless move in a circle always going back to where they like the best probably lents neighborhood
Unreal. Homeless guy complaining about not being able to charge his cell phone. YOU ARE HOMELESS. STOP WITH THE CELL PHONE. YOU HAVE LARGER CONCERNS. This is why these people are homeless. They do not understand priorities.
I will save sympathy for when these resident take responsibility for those they vote into power. It is insanity voting the same way over and over and expecting different results.
@@jypseaspencer "Those people are your neighbors that lost their housing because they are addicted to drugs and because of globalist politics that robbed the few of them who are *not* addicts of the chance to work!" Fixed it fer ya.
Can you imagine saving your entire life to own a home and this is forced on you? Disgusting 🙏 😌 it would be different if the homeless gave a damn, tried harder to stay cleaner and increasing safety concerns. They are their own worst nightmares. 😮
@@scottcharney1091Spoken like an outsider!! Ha!! The blue states of the left coast walk in lock step together. What CA does, OR and WA are soon to follow. That’s how it is, I know because I live here unfortunately…
@@janicehenning4505 These issues are fixed at the Local government level. If you had any actual understanding of how this works you would know that but you don't so let the adults talk. Meanwhile just keep right on voting for the real source of the problem.
@@Oldshirt That's where all the services and free stuff are because Portland likes it that way. Don't blame these "unhoused" for travelling freely to make their situation better. 🤣
Are they even trying to get any of it, are they signing up for programs to get Un-homelessed?? No they fell into this life and have no interest in rejoining society because now they are FREE. This is litereally what my underpass-living sister told me.
How about lowering and capping rent? How about providing AFFORDABLE HOUSING! HOW ABOUT BEING GOOD CHRISTIANS AND ACTUALLY LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AND HELP THEM INSTEAD OF KICKING THEM WHILE THEY'RE DOWN!
@@jypseaspencerit’s not a rent cost problem. It’s a problem with mental health, addiction, and lack of family to fall back on. The state should offer housing and services, mental health, addiction, and support to get these folks into permanent work. If they are incapable of being part of society requiring steady work, then they might need facilities. Some need to either accept the help or be incarcerated or fined if they fiat out refuse it. We just aren’t doing what needs to be done.
@@jypseaspencer You cant lower rent when taxes are out of control. Thats why i sold my rentals in NY, over half the rent was going to taxes and whats left after maintenance and other fees you arent doing anything. My school taxes alone per house were literally ten times more than my friends total taxes in TN on a 100 acre house and land.
oh good, let’s pay more taxes to pay for their fentanyl. but seriously raising taxes is just going to cause people to leave the city, which will further harm the economy. why would anybody stay there when you could move to nevada for example?
I have a silly question, I have reported to the city many times about the fire hazard of burning down my house caused by homeless people but the city does not care, then if my house burns down can I sue them ? My house had a fire fence caused by homeless people last 7/4/24
Believe me as a homeowner in Portland.. that has lived here for decades.. the apartment dwellers.. and homeowners.. are much much more crazy than the homeless .
That's not the government's property. I'm disturbed how people say "there's so much empty space!" Forgetting that all those buildings are owned by someone. It's not up to others to "like" or "dislike" it. If you didn't pay for it through consensual exchange, it's not yours to do anything with. Period. Everyone wants "social housing" but no one (especially the people asking for it) want to pay for it. Instead, they want to steal from others. If you have an influx of bums encroaching on the property and rights of others, it's a guarantee your government is just as guilty of doing the same thing.
@@PenTheMighty If these landlord parasites are leaving all these buildings empty, then the people (no, not the state) should seize them. It's just like the Russian billionaires who have done so much to make London unaffordable.
@@scottcharney1091 close down the border, enforce federal drug laws, reform homelessness and drug intervention programs so that funding is directly related to outcomes. Provide better resources for veterans, send in national guard to keep order, close down the border, and close down the border. That last one is important. Where do you want your tax money going, to illegals brining the drugs in or citizens who need to get off them?
@@scottcharney1091 No one can fix a totally broken down society, especially if the other party actively blocks anything they do just because of politics.
@@scottcharney1091 Wow. You're SO ignorant. These people are NOT living in tents because they can't afford housing. 99% of them turn down free housing. The 1% that accept it spend their days hanging out with their street friends ON THE STREET. 99% of them are substance abusers. They WANT to live outside. They don't want to live in a shelter where they have to follow rules and stay clean. Republicans would criminalize this activity and clean up the streets, like they did in Florida.
Born and raised here and currently moving away. My city is broken. It’s become unsafe to leave your house or go out alone and companies pulling out. My beautiful city is utterly destroyed.
Oh please. It’s not YOUR city and you the people of the cities are the problem. Where is your housing programs ? Don’t tell me it’s the Dems and their open door policies. Not cutting it with the truth. Quit talking about homeless people like they’re objects disturbing your beautiful view. How entitled is that ???? What do Republicans want to do with these individuals but fine them ??? How ridiculous. If they could pay they wouldn’t be in the streets. This is a community problem and pointing fingers is bull. Entitled thinking is the problem. YOUR city is also home to other people. You’re not a victim of anyone. The streets are filled because of Republican GREED ! You want things your way but just get rid of the objects disturbing your beautiful view. Poor thing. Maybe get out there and do some good and help instead of blaming and whining.
I was born in Portland. It is such a shame that this has happened. So many talking of moving away due to out of control homelessness in Portland and officials seemingly unable to do much about it.
Yeah, I was born and raised in PDX. It’s heartbreaking to go back there now. I knew PDX was in serious trouble when Bud Clark was elected, and unfortunately I was not wrong. It’s been downhill ever since.
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If you're making this partisan (and I'm not saying that you are), what would Republicans do differently? They aren't known to support affordable housing.
"Excuses are the tools of incompetence who build bridges to nowhere and monuments to nothingness,and those who use them seldom specialize in anything else."
Somehow some type of jobs need to be created to help keep people off the streets. It's ridiculous. I'm in Texas and I've been having a rough time trying to find steady work and when I finally find one, the stupid hurricane put the power out at my job long enough to the point they couldn't afford to keep me on anymore and I got laid off. A lot of people especially me do not want to be homeless but it's not always our fault. Count your blessings if you had a supporting family, school and a job
@@chrisrodriguez7351 Nobody owes you a job. Maybe instead of demanding someone else create a job to give to you, 😂 you can earn a job by improving your skills and making yourself more valuable in the labor market.
All this started when Clinton sold all our industry overseas. Not enough jobs to go around and most of these people would rather live like these rather than do any form of manual labor. Liberals support them by giving them money and in some areas, drugs. This is despicable. Hunger is a great motivator and a lot of these people would get jobs if they did not have free money coming in. The Right tries to bring back jobs but the Libs and Environmentalists scream that we are "destroying the planet" so all the jobs are in China and Mexico, where they are polluting even worse than they would be here with legal oversight. We have given the fools the keys to the kingdom and they are driving it into a ditch.
Voting matters They do it every time Vote the Same Get the same results how hard is that to Understand Don't you dare Move away from YOUR OWN MESS change your views and vote Liberals out Say it with me F J B ONE MORE TIME F J B
Our city river park in CA was turned into a burned trash heap and toilet. You're not alone. The homeless dug up water pipes and electrical and made it their home.
If you can't afford the rent you live in the streets rents so expensive half the people can't afford to rent a place lower the damn rents and not make it so hard to get into a place
Even if that poor man wanted to move, who would buy any property in that area? They are paying crazy property taxes and I imagine that the value of their properties is negligible at this point.
Maybe Oregon should start lowering the property tax and maybe eliminate property tax for people 60 and older so that their money can be able to go to their children and grandchildren so that they can be able to make enough money to buy a house and inherit the property.
I think it's far too easy to get *Social Security Disability* too. More and more young people who are perfectly healthy, and able-bodied that just don't want to work. *LAZY.*
Unless you're making $30 plus an hour you would need to work nearly 90 hours a week to even qualify to rent in most places,. It''s not like it was even 12 years ago when you could just find a normal place to live for like $500-$600 a month. Wages haven't really changed much in that time so If the rent is $1,500 and the rental company wants you to make 3x or even 4x that amount a month to even move in then just do the math, not everyone has a mommy or daddy to co-sign for them. Then you have companies like Black Rock or even foreign investment firms that will slowly buy up the empty housing stock in an area, make them short term rentals while artificially inflating the market to then sell at a huge profit. How that is legal I don't know, it artificially inflates peoples property taxes as well so maybe that is why the politicians don't do anything about it because it allows them to artificially inflate their salary also. Exploitation at its finest. LoL mind you I am not talking about small private landlords here it's people that are treating housing like a commodity to be brought and sold like gold or oil and it's literally destroying people's lives.
@@tbecker97204First off, to qualify for SSDI, you have had to have paid into it via ‘earned income’ taxation.If you believe that SSDI is too ‘easy’ to get, it is obvious you have never been drug through it, and therefore are speaking on a topic you know nothing about. These young, lazy people may be collecting state welfare or SSI benefits, but I assure you it is not Social Security Disability.
@Bonserak23 No you don’t, most people I know make around $20 to $25 an hour or less and many have their own apartments. Almost all jobs offer differential pay (more pay) for working nights or weekends, plus overtime. For instance in make 18% more for working nights. Most jobs in the city pay at least $18 and there are still cheap apartments for $700 to $800 so being able to get an apartment is not a problem, not working and or spending your money on drugs is the problem. People make excuses not to work and do drugs and people like you encourage their life styles by blaming everyone else.
Know what your real problem is is that people don't have to pay taxes because they don't have homes and cars but you do because you choose to have them
I feel so bad for the taxpayers. Those homeless are not victims. That dude with the burned boat had a healthy body. He could work. American homeless choose not to work.
Vote Kamala for defunding the police, legalising all crimes and open borders for all migrants. Make the world safe, clean and full of jobs like Portland. Vote Kamala.
Left that cesspool of an area 1.5 years ago now, and couldn't be happier. Most people in the area are amazing, and I don't blame the homeless for the actions of stupid leadership. When you give people opportunity, they take it. Our rent was 3000 a month, with other bills we were looking at 5500, with no car payments. Many of these homeless people have no housing options when the state allows rent to get this insane. Ask yourself how you'd take living the worst day of your life, and then imagine thats every day for years. I want to strongly emphasize again that most people in Portland are amazing folk. I lived 15 minutes from the city in a small town and it couldn't be more different.
@@gregbedford9706 Why do we have to care? These are adults. We're not their mommy or daddy. Why don't the homeless look at the causes of their own problems instead of being nothing but a burden on society?
City of Portland purchases 30 giant incinerator trucks. City of Portland takes trucks to homeless camps and loads unauthorized debris into incinerators. Eventually homeless people get the message.
The fact that none of these tools mentioned about needing legislation to expand subsidized and affordable housing makes me happy that the homeless people chose to camp in their neighborhoods. These shmoes implied, "I don't want the homeless camping in my neighborhood. I WANT them to camp in YOUR neighborhood. They need to move somewhere, just not near ENTITLED me." 🙄
A big part of the problem here grew much larger with the *"Occupy Wall Street"* several years ago. Most of those people who came to Portland just stayed and started mooching off of government resources. There was already a large population of homeless prior to that "movement", but then it got out of control and the local government just threw up their hands and said, *"F it!"* And now, here we are.
@@scottcharney1091 *most* of the 'homeless' are homeless by bad choices THEY made, drugs, criminality, pure laziness, moving to Portland just for better freebies, not maintaining a rental in habital condition (easily seen why), non graduation or poor choice in job skills (burger flipping is a TRANSITION job, NOT a career), alcoholics, etc. One does not reward bad choices. Few are TRULY homeless by conditions beyond their control, THESE I would support (a) program(s) for.
That street should be labeled as “No Parking” and patrolled regularly. The adjacent nature area should be fenced and locked up at night, so that it’s not coated in poop each AM when people try to walk its trails.
I was talking to a deputy sheriff from Clackamas county and he told me they make those people move out. They have a good sheriff and a DA who backs them up.
What do you mean? Folks are turning a nature preserve into a health hazard with a sprinkling of junkyard and garbage dump. Of course the people who live nearby would be against the homeless “camp” being there. In the end they seem to just want to be able to live safely in the homes they have paid and worked for. The people in charge are the ones that should be worried about helping the individuals to be independent and productive again while cleaning up this giant health and safety crisis. I can only imagine the sickness that could be passed from the camp if their waste were to contaminate ground water or something. Are the nearby homes on wells??
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Citizens of Portland should go check the areas where the politicians live, their neighborhoods,to see if homeless people are allowed to park in their residential streets.
Amen
I typed the same thing, no vulgarity nor profanity and it got erased!
They are not on a residential street It's next to a park- Not same laws
Maybe their streets are privately owned. Why aren't homeless tents set up in the park next to their neighborhoods. As long as streets are public streets according to your public administrators, their hands are tied, UNLESS THE HOMELESS TENTS ARE SET UP NEXT TO THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. HOW CONVENIENT.
Why not figure out why so many are falling into this?
Homelessness has become an industry. The more homeless people are, the more money the homeless industry makes. The money given to the homeless doesn't go to the homeless, it goes into the industry’s paychecks and lavish conferences talking about what to do about the homeless. They don't want the homeless problem fixed because they would lose all the money (tens of billions per year) poured into the homeless issue. America is broken from all the greed permeating throughout local, state, and federal governments. We have a government problem causing the disparities throughout America...
The industry donates pretty well to Democrat campaigns too so they can keep the tax payer grift cycle going.
👏🏻 Agree with your statement 💯‼️🏅🥇🏆 THIS IS SADLY TRUE. That is why it is BEST to just go out and offer to help these individuals ourselves. 😤
So true
Yes and immigrants get put up in mega hotels that they destroy
Everything is getting worse..
Born there and would not move back if you PAID Me. 74 years of going backward.
In your opinion, what are the top reasons that has happened?
@@randallsmerna384 Dude, its liberal policies. Look at California, Oregon, Washington, NYC, Detroit....
@@randallsmerna384Amazing that you even ask that question!
@randallsmerna384. Turn on AM radio, and listen to a few different talk shows, they discuss many subjects.
Look at Red States. Trailer parks are the only difference. That's where they put their druggies@@youtubesucks1499
YOU voted for this!
Someone needs to take out a billboard in downtown Portland with the message “Unhappy? Shut up. You voted for this.”
They probably didn't. All you have to do to win an election is print up some ballots and stuff them in the mailbox.
No politicians care anything about people. They only care about money.
yep
Now that's the absolute truth, IF he was one of them that voted Democrat
Portland residents definitely voted to decriminalize public drug use before that law was finally overturned. You can’t create an environment that’s hospitable to 20,000 homeless drug addicts, and then expect that problem to go away when you _re-criminalize_ public drug use.
The Homeless Industrial Complex.
The people of Portland got exactly what they voted for.
ur right. im sure cities runned by republicans are WAY better
I live in Portland and I didn’t vote blue. Portland is the determining vote but everyone else outside of the city is conservative.
FACT!
No, we voted for drug recovery programs. That never happened. And it was the Ninth Circuit Court that dictated that homeless camps couldn’t be illegal.
Dummmycrats 😂
Your local government is receiving $$$ to help homeless... it's the new money-making schemes throughout the country. Good luck!
This isn’t a “ new” scheme. As sad as that is to say.
Yep- that money goes towards temporarily plopping down around 10 to 15 micro-sheds on a paved lot and calling it "tiny houses for the homeless".
Actions have consequences. Vote differently next time.
What laws allows this? I’m so confused why people always say this.
@@j.w456not real bright are you, they all vote democrat, democrats allow this, democrats make the laws
It's a lot worse than just Southeast... the entire Portland metro area is full of homeless encampments.
Worst Mayor and city council in America
"Hold my beer." - Seattle
Stop voting Democrat
How dare you blame the mayor for doing what they hired him to do. Portlanders voted for this mayor, they just don't want to see it in their hoods. Left wing hypocrites.
Yup. And now we can’t even vote Republican as they are above law and order.
that's why we voted in a new form of government with lnieborhood representation. and yes. wheeler is a hack
If these voters keep voting in there favorite political leaders then that really shouldn't complain! This is what they voted for .
I didn’t vote blue and the majority doesn’t. It’s the city of Portland that determines the vote, like Chicago or Atlanta.
_"their"_
@@littleburps didnt work for stacey abrams, maybe the left coast cheats better
It’s Portland and you’re saying the majority doesn’t vote blue?? You’re nuts
THEIR! THEIR! THEIR!
Ted Wheeler. What an awful waste of time.
That fruitcake has ruined Portland.
Democracy in action. You get what you vote for. Zero sympathy for a city that re-elected Worm Wheeler. note to Portland... You can't out -California, California.
He's the epitome of today's Democratic male, a white beta male who hates himself because he is white and a man.
Portland has been horrible since I started coming here in 2008. The West Coast is horrendous when it comes to homelessness.
@@europe7249Ted wheeler was a Republican who pretends to be a democrat to get elected. He doesn’t care about anyone or anything but the money he makes from getting paid under the table for his property investments and real estate deals he gives out.
I am a paid staff member in the homeless shelters. Pays very well. If you actually think that ANY politician is going to save you than you don’t understand politicians. - Simply put, its mind over matter,- they don’t mind and you don’t matter…. Learn it. Enjoy the rest of your day.
So you’re the problem.
@@Weshopwizardspoken like some one who understands how the system works.
LOL you are the problem.
You helped cause this by not understanding what he said... But keep screaming "defund the police".
Eh, ya get what ya vote for huh... Enjoy it.
As usual, the middle class eviscerates the poor. That's why I love Right-to-work. When the rich get richer, I get my paycheck. I'm okay with that. Up next: make churches pay taxes and abolish unions. Jails and prisons don't have homeless people. Vote red!
@@Xanthro2 all these homeless advocacy groups don’t really do anything but suck up government money. Very little of that money goes to actually helping, rather it goes to pay salaries of people that don’t actually help. So, the OP is the problem.
Do you like placebo?
What's repulsive is walking past the RV's..is the $hit on the sidewalks right outside their doors
Now rivaling San Francisco, the polished turd by the bay.
Vote RED then
The city should place Porta potties and then they wouldn't drop $urds on the street
Yes I stepped on their sewage one day on my way to blockbuster to rent American beauty. I'm tired of what Portland has turned into
Where do you expect people with no homes to go to the bathroom
Ted Wheeler doesn't care about Lents
He was ask to leave from HOA...security problem...people showing up threatening.
Wheeler doesn't care about Oregon.
You get what you vote for.
What a shame Oregon is so beautiful. 😕
Why is it a shame for Oregon to be beautiful?
was
@@scottcharney1091 Because people go there and trash it.
@@PDogB I was calling attention to the lack of a comma (or a semicolon) after "shame." It's written to suggest that Oregon being beautiful is a shame. It's like "let's eat, Grandma" versus "let's eat Grandma."
@@scottcharney1091 lol !!
Portland people wanted liberal and they got liberal
And what would conservatives do?
@@scottcharney1091 not legalized drugs
@markkalb2737 This was as big an issue before they legalized drugs. You right wingers only throw out sound bites never solutions. You tear down but you never ever build.
@@scottcharney1091What they always do: nothing.
@@markkalb2737 they are not legal any more....nothing has changed,
Limited resources? Sounds like the city officials need to take a pay cut and find a solution! 💔🙏🏻
I guess that explains why Carmen Rubio, city commissioner and mayoral candidate doesn't pay her 150+ parking violations. 🤣🤣🤣😠😠😠
Wake up! Time to vote differently. I’m tired of being a drop of red in a sea of blue.
And what exactly would republicans do any different? You don’t know because republicans don’t have policies anymore, just word salad gibberish.
With you!
I was so down on California till I actually seen how many people voted for Trump there . The tide is turning
follow the laws! things parked with no license is against the law. Littering, camping over night on the street, using the street as your bathroom. Why cant the city just enforce the laws?
You ever had to struggle to exist?
Communism.
@@KeikoFXDesignsYawn. Learn politics on Instagram?
If it was communism they’d take Wheeler’s real estate empire and put homeless people in his buildings.
And where do you think these people should go? Do you think they wanna be homeless?
Can’t enforce laws against the poor or the rich now.. only the normal people. The wealthy have teams of lawyers and the poor can’t pay.
Leave Portland, leave LA. Tax payers leaving is the only thing the governments who run these places understand.
Dummmycrats
No, stay there! You democrats voted for this so accept it and stop complaining! Don’t move to republican areas and bring your socialist/communist ideas and beliefs with you!
Move to Texas where everything is unregulated and you lose power for a month when you get a storm.
I left the Bay area and took my business and 5 of 83 people I employed moved to Ohio with me. We will finally feel safe at our workplace now.
You can’t run forever.
Put the meth down
Maybe shut down the proud boy bikers in the area that have had a history of making and dealing meth around here since the early 1970's?...
@@therealMJT your goofy
@@MutethatBozothe meth comes from Mexico.
@@brianackerman2226 exactly
@@therealMJT your source for this? Maybe a lost laptop? Or are you just running your mouth?
"We want normal lives" but wont get a job... i dont buy it. My neighbor just got evicted then stayed right next door with his friend then THEY got evicted. He literally told me he doesnt want a job and was totally fine with "staying at the park". A lot of these people think that way then scoff when you tell them to get a job. He lives off free food and charges his phone anywhere theres an outlet outside. They really have it too easy. What we need is to bring back mental institutions and keep the crazies in there and give them goals to be released.
That being said, i know that there are people who become homeless under bad circumstances but those people will find a way to get off the streets quick. All these other homeless people who have been homeless for months? They are the ones who set up camps and destroy the area with trash and do drugs and start fires. Put em in mental institutions.
Better yet, give them bud tickets to California and they can have that nice weather they always brag about, and more free stuff!
They live near to your drug dealers, otherwise they would leave
@danasmith858 that's not a valid excuse, drugs are everywhere. Make it happen. They don't want to. Nobody changes until they actually want to.
I grew up in Portland. The democrats have annihilated the entire place. I went back last summer, will not be going back ever again. The graffiti, homeless, drug zombies, crime, filth is just too much to bare. I dont understand why people vote the way they do. Goodbye Portland!
As usual blame it on the Democrats - what are you doing to solve the situation in a positive kind compassionate Humane manner??? You seem to forget it could happen to you!!
@@janncoons7445he blames it on the democrats because it’s decades of democrat policies that caused this situation. What he did to solve the situation is move the hell out of Portland. Your problem is you voted for this and will continue to vote for democrats and you’ll wonder why your city is in ruins.
@janncoons7445 It's called law and order. We citizens should feel safe and secure in our communities. I don't hate anyone, I hate policies that are harmful and without any benefit. I could give a ton of reasons the democrat policies are hurting the community but I'd get writers cramp. If you don't believe me, just start looking around, you'll see it for yourself.
@@janncoons7445 I am sure you are in a safe area, you do not see homeless people in front of your house every day ruining your life. The humane and compassionate solution is for the city to manage and provide food and shelter, those who are wandering on the streets are their choice but they ruin my life every day.
@@haopham1102 Well, people are not always in a safe zone. We wake up every morning trying to cover food and shelter. We can't get lazy for a second or end up on the street.
Mental health, unemployment, and the drug epidemic
AND stupid high rents!
The drug epidemic has led to mental health issues and unemployment.
Lazy drug addicts
It’s almost like they made drugs legal and all hell broke loose.
@@snowwhite5842an open border bringing in drugs like it’s candy. 8 million people need homes. Drive up prices.
Stop paying prop tax and sue the city for breach of contract
There's no way that's going to work.
Absolutely😊
Only going to screw yourself with that strategy. Big mistake.
Yeah, it sounds nice till you realize the court is definitely going to side with the city no matter how eloquently you argue the case.
@@sagatuppercut2960 Only if everyone does it.
As a previous employee that moved homeless camps for the city (4 years), it's a game, after 5 the workers don't move camps and the homeless know they got weekends and that they can move back after a week or 2
After the homeless get moved from one location they get moved from the next location, the employees call this job security and it makes the homeless move in a circle always going back to where they like the best probably lents neighborhood
Now they have changed , they moved to other spot on the same street and waiting city staff leave , they set up their tents after that
Unreal. Homeless guy complaining about not being able to charge his cell phone. YOU ARE HOMELESS. STOP WITH THE CELL PHONE. YOU HAVE LARGER CONCERNS. This is why these people are homeless. They do not understand priorities.
They understand them...they just think they're entitled.
It's illegal to live on the surface of this planet, if you're not paying someone to do so.
That sounds suspiciously sacracstic…..
Pay to live, absolutely. Empathy is in short supply.
I will save sympathy for when these resident take responsibility for those they vote into power. It is insanity voting the same way over and over and expecting different results.
And what would Republicans do?
That just happens to be the definition of insanity.
I thought that was crazy too, But then I saw 2020 election it's who counts the votes folks
~FJB~
@@n.wealand-pasttime The election was fine. Trump knew that he lost, and he said so.
It's a criminal matter, city leaders need to be held responsible for allowing these people and the criminals to continue to operate.
Those people are your neighbors that lost their housing because of GREED!
Where are they supposed to go?
@@jypseaspencer LMAO most of them are on drugs stfu
@@jypseaspencer They have mobile homes... they lost their home bc of their stupidity. ef em
@@jypseaspencer "Those people are your neighbors that lost their housing because they are addicted to drugs and because of globalist politics that robbed the few of them who are *not* addicts of the chance to work!"
Fixed it fer ya.
City of Portland
Total employees: 8500
Total salaries: $700,000,000 (look it up)
😮
And?
The police and fire fighters abuse overtime.
For example, "Mark PXXXX Portland Police Officer, $149,237 overtime payment, $285,966 total pay in 2022".
@@DrPhill96dummy
@@mattdelany6799 - Glad you are admitting it. You’ll be fine though, squirt.
Never thought I’d live to this day that Homeless is the synonym word for America!
Can you imagine saving your entire life to own a home and this is forced on you? Disgusting 🙏 😌 it would be different if the homeless gave a damn, tried harder to stay cleaner and increasing safety concerns. They are their own worst nightmares. 😮
Looks like Gavin Newsom is the governor or Oregon too.
How so?
@@scottcharney1091 Oregon looks as bad as California and Ca is bad. Extremely poor conditions.
@@scottcharney1091Spoken like an outsider!! Ha!! The blue states of the left coast walk in lock step together. What CA does, OR and WA are soon to follow. That’s how it is, I know because I live here unfortunately…
Nothing will change until you vote differently.
Yeah , like dump's gonna do anything about that. You are dilliusional
@@janicehenning4505dumps not local except actually you’ve got your own dump. Silly lefty
the alternative to Wheeler was way, way worse
I live in a red state, completely controlled by republicans. We don't have any of these problems. It does matter who you vote for.
@@janicehenning4505 These issues are fixed at the Local government level. If you had any actual understanding of how this works you would know that but you don't so let the adults talk. Meanwhile just keep right on voting for the real source of the problem.
You get what you vote for
Amen
Red cities all over Oregon send homeless people to Portland, I was a police dispatcher in one of those towns and saw it happen all the time.
@@Oldshirt You tried to type "red cities didn't allow what blue cities do" but it came out like you were blaming the wise ones.
@@Oldshirt That's where all the services and free stuff are because Portland likes it that way. Don't blame these "unhoused" for travelling freely to make their situation better. 🤣
The best part is they pay property taxes for services they never receive.
In the private world, this is called "fraud".
To those who are voting for Trump please vote RED down ballot. Otherwise nothing can change and nothing will get better for America 🙏🙏
Billions spent on homelessness… I guess… these homeless folks never see a dime of it.
Are they even trying to get any of it, are they signing up for programs to get Un-homelessed?? No they fell into this life and have no interest in rejoining society because now they are FREE. This is litereally what my underpass-living sister told me.
"Not much they can do" , but raise taxes....................
They can vote Republican and see major changes, but they will NEVER do that.
How about lowering and capping rent? How about providing AFFORDABLE HOUSING! HOW ABOUT BEING GOOD CHRISTIANS AND ACTUALLY LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AND HELP THEM INSTEAD OF KICKING THEM WHILE THEY'RE DOWN!
@@jypseaspencerit’s not a rent cost problem. It’s a problem with mental health, addiction, and lack of family to fall back on. The state should offer housing and services, mental health, addiction, and support to get these folks into permanent work. If they are incapable of being part of society requiring steady work, then they might need facilities. Some need to either accept the help or be incarcerated or fined if they fiat out refuse it. We just aren’t doing what needs to be done.
@@jypseaspencer You cant lower rent when taxes are out of control. Thats why i sold my rentals in NY, over half the rent was going to taxes and whats left after maintenance and other fees you arent doing anything. My school taxes alone per house were literally ten times more than my friends total taxes in TN on a 100 acre house and land.
oh good, let’s pay more taxes to pay for their fentanyl. but seriously raising taxes is just going to cause people to leave the city, which will further harm the economy. why would anybody stay there when you could move to nevada for example?
Almost moved to Portland in the early 1980’s. But my husband didn’t get the city job he had applied for, so we didn’t relocate to Portland. Thank God!
Maybe Portland would be better if he had gotten the job?
@@jypseaspencer Maybe. The job would have been police officer.
We checked out Portland in 1992. Even back then, it seemed creepy and weird. There was just something off about it. Didn't want to live there.
I lived there in the 90's. It was a beautiful city.
I’m just confused how homeless people can accumulate so much trash/property.
Well they probably weren't homeless their whole lives. How much crap would you have if you lost your home right now with no place to go?
Because people who are evicted often don't have money to take stuff to the drump
Shoplifting
A lot of hoarders it looks like.
I guess that's what it looks like if you're in survival mode with no shelter
I have a silly question, I have reported to the city many times about the fire hazard of burning down my house caused by homeless people but the city does not care, then if my house burns down can I sue them ? My house had a fire fence caused by homeless people last 7/4/24
Believe me as a homeowner in Portland.. that has lived here for decades.. the apartment dwellers.. and homeowners.. are much much more crazy than the homeless .
Seattle is the same 🤦♂️
And, San Franfecal
San Francisco is find was on vacation there for two weeks it was fun place!
There are deserted and empty buildings everywhere, WHY isn't there low income housing?
Why the money into homeless management, instead of housing?
That's not the government's property. I'm disturbed how people say "there's so much empty space!" Forgetting that all those buildings are owned by someone. It's not up to others to "like" or "dislike" it.
If you didn't pay for it through consensual exchange, it's not yours to do anything with. Period.
Everyone wants "social housing" but no one (especially the people asking for it) want to pay for it. Instead, they want to steal from others.
If you have an influx of bums encroaching on the property and rights of others, it's a guarantee your government is just as guilty of doing the same thing.
@@PenTheMighty If these landlord parasites are leaving all these buildings empty, then the people (no, not the state) should seize them. It's just like the Russian billionaires who have done so much to make London unaffordable.
The money doesn't make it past the administration pockets
@@PenTheMighty The solution is obvious ! Import millions more bums from Mexico !
You voted for your political party.
What would Republicans do differently? They've not been supporters of affordable housing.
@@scottcharney1091 close down the border, enforce federal drug laws, reform homelessness and drug intervention programs so that funding is directly related to outcomes. Provide better resources for veterans, send in national guard to keep order, close down the border, and close down the border. That last one is important. Where do you want your tax money going, to illegals brining the drugs in or citizens who need to get off them?
@@scottcharney1091 No one can fix a totally broken down society, especially if the other party actively blocks anything they do just because of politics.
Maybe a audit to make sure the money for homeless goes to homeless.
@@scottcharney1091 Wow. You're SO ignorant. These people are NOT living in tents because they can't afford housing. 99% of them turn down free housing. The 1% that accept it spend their days hanging out with their street friends ON THE STREET. 99% of them are substance abusers. They WANT to live outside. They don't want to live in a shelter where they have to follow rules and stay clean.
Republicans would criminalize this activity and clean up the streets, like they did in Florida.
In the '80s I read so many stores about people setting the homeless camps on fire whether or not they were inhabited.
That sounds cool, we need to do that again.
Moved away from Portland for almost 3 years now. Portland is not even close to getting back to normal.
The first spending priority is drugs, the second is food, the third is the phone and internet. Rent is way down the list and medical bills are last.
Born and raised here and currently moving away. My city is broken. It’s become unsafe to leave your house or go out alone and companies pulling out. My beautiful city is utterly destroyed.
Oh please. It’s not YOUR city and you the people of the cities are the problem. Where is your housing programs ? Don’t tell me it’s the Dems and their open door policies. Not cutting it with the truth. Quit talking about homeless people like they’re objects disturbing your beautiful view. How entitled is that ???? What do Republicans want to do with these individuals but fine them ??? How ridiculous. If they could pay they wouldn’t be in the streets. This is a community problem and pointing fingers is bull. Entitled thinking is the problem. YOUR city is also home to other people. You’re not a victim of anyone. The streets are filled because of Republican GREED ! You want things your way but just get rid of the objects disturbing your beautiful view. Poor thing. Maybe get out there and do some good and help instead of blaming and whining.
So your answer is to run away? This is a NATIONWIDE CRISIS caused be GREED! Pull up your sleeves and work on a solution!
Sad! Voting for the WRONG people has consequences!!❤
So sad, it's the natives and long term residents who are leaving. Outnumbered in a cesspool of incompetence and enabling. Wishing you the best.
Voting, has consequences !
True, but what would the Republicans do differently? They're just as devoted to 40+ years of neoliberal capitalism as the Democrats are.
Every once in a while change excuses for being a crook.
You voted for this. Live with it.
Want to know how to fix this ? Stop allowing homes to become investments
No rentals? Yeah hell great idea i'm sure they all can get a mortgage instead.
I was born in Portland. It is such a shame that this has happened. So many talking of moving away due to out of control homelessness in Portland and officials seemingly unable to do much about it.
Unable to do much about it or intentionally not doing anything about it?
You gonna keep on voting Democrat? If so.. STFU.
Yeah, I was born and raised in PDX. It’s heartbreaking to go back there now. I knew PDX was in serious trouble when Bud Clark was elected, and unfortunately I was not wrong. It’s been downhill ever since.
Get/elect better city management.
You get what you tolerate!
Isn't progressive life-style nice?
It's better than regressive life-style.
Yes we all voted for this as it is the best progressive life style !! Our progressive life style is the best progressive life style ever!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@scottcharney1091 Blue cities are a mess because of 'progressive' politicians.
Progressives are working hard all over the country to make life worse for everyone!
Hello from Florida.. you voted for this. Always glad to return home after visiting my sister in Portland.
*Florida* maybe isn't quite the flex you think it is? 🤣
How to fix the problem?
City official: "what problem"?
You people voted that way.
Feelings over facts. Meanwhile demonrats getting richer.smdh
If you're making this partisan (and I'm not saying that you are), what would Republicans do differently? They aren't known to support affordable housing.
What do you mean “you people”
Democrats fed up with their own policies ❤
And still they will vote Democrat
What would Republicans do differently? It would be quite a change for them to support affordable housing.
@@60something4 Yes, because the Republicans are intellectually debauched theocrats. Regarding municipal government, what would they do differently?
@@scottcharney1091 Yes affordable public housing would solve ruclips.net/video/hi9TtkmHGJE/видео.htmlsi=6cxsF6xjFz9MVkLo
@@60something4- Good.
60 percent of Americans report having less then 500 in their bank account, we are all a paycheck away now
@@PushSteady I'm one paycheck away from getting OFF the street, but I don't have ten kids to feed. Oh,well!
Got to love Bidenomics; people voted for it!
@@flashnmb1 This is the result of over 40 years of neoliberal capitalism, not 1 Biden term!
That's the result of 40 years of neoliberal capitalism!
Don’t speak for me. Since 2021, I’m doing VERY well.
"Excuses are the tools of incompetence who build bridges to nowhere and monuments to nothingness,and those who use them seldom specialize in anything else."
Those trailers are all full of drug addicts and they're horrible
Somehow some type of jobs need to be created to help keep people off the streets. It's ridiculous. I'm in Texas and I've been having a rough time trying to find steady work and when I finally find one, the stupid hurricane put the power out at my job long enough to the point they couldn't afford to keep me on anymore and I got laid off. A lot of people especially me do not want to be homeless but it's not always our fault. Count your blessings if you had a supporting family, school and a job
They do not want to work
@@chrisrodriguez7351 Nobody owes you a job. Maybe instead of demanding someone else create a job to give to you, 😂 you can earn a job by improving your skills and making yourself more valuable in the labor market.
You want to work at it; they don’t.
@@CatWhiskering Naive.
@@annamarielewis7078 Look up how many homeless people have jobs, some of them full-time. You'll be surprised.
I'm glad I left Portland...
Glad I’ve never been.
Glad I will never go
@@P2Feener305 I've been, and I liked it.
@@duanesealy3592 Don't be so sure.
We are glad you left too...
What a mess..shame on Portland
Congratulations Obama and Erika
All this started when Clinton sold all our industry overseas. Not enough jobs to go around and most of these people would rather live like these rather than do any form of manual labor. Liberals support them by giving them money and in some areas, drugs. This is despicable. Hunger is a great motivator and a lot of these people would get jobs if they did not have free money coming in. The Right tries to bring back jobs but the Libs and Environmentalists scream that we are "destroying the planet" so all the jobs are in China and Mexico, where they are polluting even worse than they would be here with legal oversight. We have given the fools the keys to the kingdom and they are driving it into a ditch.
@@Odin33356 Obama? Seriously?
@@scottcharney1091 congrats on the footballs, fentanyl and Elons new airplane design
Voting matters
They do it every time Vote the Same Get the same results
how hard is that to Understand
Don't you dare Move away from YOUR OWN MESS
change your views and vote Liberals out
Say it with me
F J B
ONE MORE TIME
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Our city river park in CA was turned into a burned trash heap and toilet. You're not alone. The homeless dug up water pipes and electrical and made it their home.
Happines in Portland. Thank you Mayor Walker.
Unfortunately they will be in his yard in 7 months.
They are prob using his hedges as cover as they relieve themselves around his property
@@MissysDomain Such modesty .
@@johnteets2921 I try
Thank Biden!! 🤬🥲
Biden? Seriously? This problem has been building for years, thanks to 40+ years of neoliberal capitalism.
If you can't afford the rent you live in the streets rents so expensive half the people can't afford to rent a place lower the damn rents and not make it so hard to get into a place
🎉❤thank you so true.
Yeah, no. Not going to happen abd I don't blame them. Can't get them out once they start making trouble.
Citizens of Portland, you get what you voted for.
Even if that poor man wanted to move, who would buy any property in that area? They are paying crazy property taxes and I imagine that the value of their properties is negligible at this point.
Property tax is a CRIME.
1000000 percent.
Maybe Oregon should start lowering the property tax and maybe eliminate property tax for people 60 and older so that their money can be able to go to their children and grandchildren so that they can be able to make enough money to buy a house and inherit the property.
This guy who is complaining about losing everything in a fire should just get a job!
I think it's far too easy to get *Social Security Disability* too. More and more young people who are perfectly healthy, and able-bodied that just don't want to work.
*LAZY.*
A lot of homeless people have jobs.
Unless you're making $30 plus an hour you would need to work nearly 90 hours a week to even qualify to rent in most places,. It''s not like it was even 12 years ago when you could just find a normal place to live for like $500-$600 a month. Wages haven't really changed much in that time so If the rent is $1,500 and the rental company wants you to make 3x or even 4x that amount a month to even move in then just do the math, not everyone has a mommy or daddy to co-sign for them. Then you have companies like Black Rock or even foreign investment firms that will slowly buy up the empty housing stock in an area, make them short term rentals while artificially inflating the market to then sell at a huge profit.
How that is legal I don't know, it artificially inflates peoples property taxes as well so maybe that is why the politicians don't do anything about it because it allows them to artificially inflate their salary also. Exploitation at its finest. LoL mind you I am not talking about small private landlords here it's people that are treating housing like a commodity to be brought and sold like gold or oil and it's literally destroying people's lives.
@@tbecker97204First off, to qualify for SSDI, you have had to have paid into it via ‘earned income’ taxation.If you believe that SSDI is too ‘easy’ to get, it is obvious you have never been drug through it, and therefore are speaking on a topic you know nothing about. These young, lazy people may be collecting state welfare or SSI benefits, but I assure you it is not Social Security Disability.
@Bonserak23 No you don’t, most people I know make around $20 to $25 an hour or less and many have their own apartments. Almost all jobs offer differential pay (more pay) for working nights or weekends, plus overtime. For instance in make 18% more for working nights. Most jobs in the city pay at least $18 and there are still cheap apartments for $700 to $800 so being able to get an apartment is not a problem, not working and or spending your money on drugs is the problem. People make excuses not to work and do drugs and people like you encourage their life styles by blaming everyone else.
This is so sad. At every level.
Blame the politician's, the WEF, the Corporation's and the banking cartels.
These pitiful people need help……. Please be kind to the homeless😭😭😭😭😭😭
Deal breaker. This is wrong to do to tax paying citizens. The state is fostering dependence with these folks in campers.
Know what your real problem is is that people don't have to pay taxes because they don't have homes and cars but you do because you choose to have them
I feel so bad for the taxpayers. Those homeless are not victims. That dude with the burned boat had a healthy body. He could work. American homeless choose not to work.
Look up how many homeless people have jobs.
Your ignorance is astonishing
If you got a job I'm sure you could charge your phone there.
A lot of homeless have jobs. But they don't pay enough to afford rent.
Yep, got a job, that's the point.
@@janicehenning4505 no ,most homeless folks do not have jobs get out of here with that nonsense and get a job.
would you hire that guy?
@@ianpatrickclarksr4074 nope lol that's the problem too most these folks could not hold a job
Vote Kamala for defunding the police, legalising all crimes and open borders for all migrants. Make the world safe, clean and full of jobs like Portland. Vote Kamala.
Left that cesspool of an area 1.5 years ago now, and couldn't be happier. Most people in the area are amazing, and I don't blame the homeless for the actions of stupid leadership. When you give people opportunity, they take it.
Our rent was 3000 a month, with other bills we were looking at 5500, with no car payments. Many of these homeless people have no housing options when the state allows rent to get this insane. Ask yourself how you'd take living the worst day of your life, and then imagine thats every day for years.
I want to strongly emphasize again that most people in Portland are amazing folk. I lived 15 minutes from the city in a small town and it couldn't be more different.
Yeah, it's so hard to pay rent when you're high on meth and don't want to work. That's a big bummer.
How bad does this have to get before the self-proclaimed highly educated portion of the population figures out votes have consequences.
With what Universities are turning out now; don’t hold your breath.
If they voted differently, what would happen? Affordable housing?
Why doesn't anyone ever try to look at the causes instead of the results?
@@gregbedford9706 Why do we have to care? These are adults. We're not their mommy or daddy. Why don't the homeless look at the causes of their own problems instead of being nothing but a burden on society?
@@CatWhiskering Are you a social worker? Do you know any?
That would require a hard look at 40+ years of neoliberal capitalism.
@@CatWhiskeringpeople like you are the problem 🙄
We know the cause, it's GREEDY LANDLORDS! The solution is AFFORDABLE HOUSING!
crime camp
City of Portland purchases 30 giant incinerator trucks. City of Portland takes trucks to homeless camps and loads unauthorized debris into incinerators. Eventually homeless people get the message.
Vote Republican for change.
How will they make housing less expensive?
@@scottcharney1091 Lower property taxes ? You don't really want housing to be less expensive, do you ?
@@johnteets2921 Of course I do. What will they cut to account for the lowered property taxes?
@@scottcharney1091 Deport illegal immigrants and save money, or print less.
The fact that none of these tools mentioned about needing legislation to expand subsidized and affordable housing makes me happy that the homeless people chose to camp in their neighborhoods. These shmoes implied, "I don't want the homeless camping in my neighborhood. I WANT them to camp in YOUR neighborhood. They need to move somewhere, just not near ENTITLED me." 🙄
The city of Porrland let it start. The city enabled it. Now it's a cesspool and it'll be very hard to stop it and clear it up/out... vote red.
A big part of the problem here grew much larger with the *"Occupy Wall Street"* several years ago. Most of those people who came to Portland just stayed and started mooching off of government resources.
There was already a large population of homeless prior to that "movement", but then it got out of control and the local government just threw up their hands and said, *"F it!"*
And now, here we are.
What would Republicans do differently? They're not known to support affordable housing.
@@tbecker97204 You don't know what you're talking about.
@@scottcharney1091 *most* of the 'homeless' are homeless by bad choices THEY made, drugs, criminality, pure laziness, moving to Portland just for better freebies, not maintaining a rental in habital condition (easily seen why), non graduation or poor choice in job skills (burger flipping is a TRANSITION job, NOT a career), alcoholics, etc. One does not reward bad choices. Few are TRULY homeless by conditions beyond their control, THESE I would support (a) program(s) for.
Man poor guy lost all his meth in his trailer fire
2:28 He sure had the money for that dope, though.
Where???? are they to go???
This is whats happens when rent goes from 1200 to 3000
Also property taxes keep going up and landlords get hit with the bill.
Who cares where they go. We need to start caring about the rights of the housed and f#@! the unhoused.
Yeah, hard to pay rent when your priority is meth. :(
2 possible solutions:
1. Stop paying property taxes en masse
2. Direct the homeless campers to the neighborhoods where city officals live
Thats how BLM got shut down there. Remember how fast the "peaceful protest" got shut down the literall minute they hit Ted Wheelers street?
That street should be labeled as “No Parking” and patrolled regularly. The adjacent nature area should be fenced and locked up at night, so that it’s not coated in poop each AM when people try to walk its trails.
I was talking to a deputy sheriff from Clackamas county and he told me they make those people move out. They have a good sheriff and a DA who backs them up.
A few hours with a 988 and a dozen dump trucks......
Home owners telling a millionaire they need help, not for, but against the homeless camp. Such a dystopian feel.
What do you mean? Folks are turning a nature preserve into a health hazard with a sprinkling of junkyard and garbage dump. Of course the people who live nearby would be against the homeless “camp” being there. In the end they seem to just want to be able to live safely in the homes they have paid and worked for. The people in charge are the ones that should be worried about helping the individuals to be independent and productive again while cleaning up this giant health and safety crisis. I can only imagine the sickness that could be passed from the camp if their waste were to contaminate ground water or something. Are the nearby homes on wells??
You go live next door.
@@sadjaxx I already live next door to a homeless camp. I have offered them food on occasion. Nice try though lol.
@@eringallagher9381
Great to see at least one compassionate heart on this feed. 💙