After brief housing, man's drug use results in him back on Portland streets
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2024
- A man named Kevin Hays is sleeping under a blanket, right on the corner of Southeast 122nd and Burnside.
His wheelchair is parked next to him. Traffic is bustling around him.
But to describe how he ended up here, we need to take you back to last October and a couple of blocks away at the end of a street. That's where KATU News first met Hays while on a tour of the neighborhood with City Commissioner Rene Gonzalez.
At the time, Hays was heating up his pizza with a blowtorch. He told us he'd been shot in 2016, leaving him paralyzed. Eventually, both legs were amputated.
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90% of these homeless, just serious drug users.
Very true. And we shouldn’t reward them with free government apartments.
Don't fool yourself drugs are expensive, and why a lot of drug users are very rich. Homeless people can only afford cheap drugs.
@@blackops844 yep. say you have a bicycle and you leave outside to rust. why should I care about your stuff when you don't care. same with your life
@@jerseykevin27 So what? Cheap or expensive doesn't matter. They're still drug addicts.
@@blackops844 Golden rule? Go ahead and apply your golden rule to the homeless addicts. They'll rob you blind.
I hear the same old excuse its always everybody's else's fault never blame themselves.
It's not always true these places get fed $. They can't force people to at least go to rehab.I'm in recovery but can't afford rent anymore.
I'm 36, never married, homeless since the pandemic, and living in an old Toyota Sienna minivan now, despite working, and not addicted to drugs. Rents and cost of living have skyrocketed.
Look, you can only help those who want the help. So he blamed everybody else first before admitting that most likely they kicked them out because he couldn’t follow the rules. They’re not gonna set you up with an apartment when you’re already proving yourself as messy and on drugs. Taxpayers are not going to pay for you to destroy property and just live in a house while we feed you.
Then he complained about the tiny housing because he was there for five months, but he was sleeping on the concrete before. It’s the entitlement.
We’ll said. This is the truth.
@blackops , nah they won't. They aren't losers like you and your socialist pantifa chums
I think Kevin is failing Kevin.
Sorry but Kevin is a lost cause . Let’s be honest .
@blackops , somewhere else where leftist idiots haven't bled us dry
Drug addiction IS NOT A DISEASE. ITS A SELF INFLICTED CHOICE TO BE A SCUM BUCKET.
And you are what Keeps people down. . . Pick up an actual book. . . It’s a brain disease hence it being in medical journals and such. . . 🤬🤬🤬
Your hate is a disease. Calm down.
I got over 5 years sober and turned my life around. Now work as a software engineer making 230k. It's 100% a disease, and id be happy to explain my recovery process in detail if you need some more information.
Tattoos all over his hands and face? He's been making bad decisions for a long time. Three quarters of the "homeless" are there because they prefer living like that over following a few simple rules. Rules that make a society work. Billions of dollars are spent on help for the homeless and drug addicted. The help is there IF they want it.
@@blackops844 And help was offered and given. I've been there, I know.
Makes you wonder how many infections are actually poisonous spider bites. I lather on vaporub myself.
The same rules that had me grow up in 16 foster homes in 1960's and 1970's,
I'm sorry. I'm not feeling it. I will work until I'm at least 70 so I have more money saved and have a decent social security. "Kevin" is inconvenienced because his FREE tiny-home has rules, and upset that he won't get an apartment in Mara Lago overlooking the ocean. These homeless people are out of control.
You can’t count on working until 70. Plan as if you won’t be able to work past 55. That way you can retire comfortably if you have to on your way to 70.
Friend of mine had to retire at 56 when he wanted to get to 65.
No shit . Maybe i should just act how i feel..half of you look at me like I'm a serial killer anyway because I'm not a 4 eyed gay Portlander. You'd never leave your house . But im a human. I have accountability
No body is failing keven. Kevin is failing himself..
All the local news. They’re exactly like the guy that steals your wallet and then helps you look for it.
Give the housing to someone who wants to try!
Exactly.
Great point..dudes a lost cause
@@terenceflanagan1225 I don’t believe anyone is a lost cause. But he doesn’t want help, so give the resources to people ready for help.
Help is a two-way street. No one can help you if you won't help yourself / won't do your part.
I have an old classmate like this. When you try to help him he always sabotages it. Some people can’t be helped.
I’m not saying attack the person. He just doesn’t deserve a free government apartment being a fentanyl junky. He lost his free apartment fair and square. You won’t understand that.
@blackops , I have ptsd , etc. I chose not to be a drug addict. That hasn't solved all my problems. But this guy made his
@@blackops844so people don't want help. Why can't people understand that since the beginning of humans there are many lazy, selfish adults that don't want to serve anyone which leads to homelessness.
Homelessness is a result of not serving anybody else other than your own ego through drugs..
@@blackops844 I was very lucky to have immigrated here from a third world African country so for me this is very simple. By serving other people's wants needs and desires you're able to get your own wants needs and desires met.
There is literally no other way to have anything unless you serve other human beings. It's good that the creator created life like that if you want a lot, serve a lot but if you're homeless it is the exact proportion to the fact that you are not serving anybody else.
People should be free to serve or not serve no one is poor because they can wake up tomorrow and start serving others.
It's OK for us to disagree on this. I think God that I'm in the USA and I have the opportunity to serve people safely. I wish you a good rest of your day!
@@blackops844 Yes CE o's are proportionately serving. Taking on millions of dollars of shareholders investments that are used for people in retirement is not easy and not everyone can do it which is why they are paid the amount that they get.
Most individuals with no experience could not run a multimillion-dollar company.
Again let's agree to disagree I understand your thoughts and you understand mine I wish you a great rest of the day and I wish you luck!
The focus needs to be on people who are not on drugs. So many seniors, working families, and people who are ill and broke are homeless and underemployed, yet have a better chance of getting back on their feet. Help them first. As for the Kevins of the world, please let them come to you when they are ready to kick.
Some people are so sick they might be better with living in a med housing facility for life.
@@blackops844 We do indeed as we used to do it up until the 80s.
@@blackops844 Who told you about not enough places?
@duvune hes a troll antifa apologist. Don't believe anything he says
@@blackops844they're called asylums, residential sanatariums, JAIL. Enough coddling these druggie failures
You shouldn't assume nothing yet here we are.
Nice Pendleton blanket
That’s the first thing I thought!😂 that’s like a 400 dollar wool blanket.
Really?? They didn't find him an apartment RIGHT AWAY?? The inhumanity!! BTW Kevin failed himself. No one did this to him
Wish I had a blanket like that. Well , hope you don't die a junkie dude. I feel for you but choices are choices
Hudson Bay wool blanket. Very nice.
Oh poor guy… sorry your FREE place to stay off the street was not upgraded in your timeline and that using illegal drugs was a no no for being a contributing member to society.. so glad I work hard so my taxes ca pay for this crap.
@blackops844 They did give him housing, it wasn't good enough for him. He obviously didn't follow the rules for said housing.
He is his own worst enemy. Had a chance to do better but did not. His entitlement and selfishness have no limits. To say this is our problem, it is not. It is kevin's problem and he's a failure.
Stop saving them with Narcan.
Well do research on 'housing first'. In my town, Con Am owns building. I m sober 23 years, work bagging groceries.
I forgive you.
@@hopemanley4358 I don’t need your forgiveness but thanks anyway. I know what I’ve said is hard but it’s also needed. As it is now, Narcan has become a safety net that is being actively relied on as another form of justification to continue using.
@@hopemanley4358 I don’t need that.
I don’t carry it here in Seattle because I wouldn’t use it. They made their choices. And for every addict you see, that’s someone causing a ton of grief and problems in the lives of those around them.
Their parents and their kids and the stealing and lying…I’m not saving that, they can save themselves.
I don't buy Kevin's excuse for moving back to the streets. When asked why he went back to the streets, he first attempted to blame the homeless agency by claiming that he was promised an apt. But that didn't make sense since living in a tiny home is better than living on the street. So he claimed that he may have been kicked out because his room was messy. Then finally, he admitted he was kicked out due to his drug use but made yet another excuse by claiming he does drugs to relieve back pain. Sure Kevin, sure.
How'd he afford that $350 Pendleton blanket?
@blackops , the only black op you've done is bending over for o diddy
@@blackops844 'kindhearted' equates to 'stupid'....it's why Portland is a dumpster...
Can’t have it both ways with “harm reduction” and “housing first” mixing with no transition with their addiction as well. Aren’t all drugs legal in Portland now?
He fucked up BIG time...
Kevin is there because Kevin chooses to be there. You do you Kevin and stop expecting the rest of society to pick up your tab. We all have our own bills and responsibilities. It’s not mine or anyone I know fault he is there. Choices have consequences. Best of luck. Get off the fetty
It's like a revolving door. Just keeps going on a circle
the state cannot fix this
He gets housing, and can't even meet the helping hand halfway. My sympathy cup runneth dry on this one.
There are some folks not on drugs alcohol yet end up homeless again from housing renovation of their residence not relocated
Rent is not affordable and because I'm a crime victim life hurts for me. I'm sober, working at Vons pushing carts and bagging groceries at age 64. Im praying for a heart attack or something so I don't have this endless bad life. Growing in 16 foster homes, etc I so bitter just recently. I forgive you.
Be careful what you pray for. I'm 62 and cannot make it to my mailbox.
Mental healthcare is imperative for success.
'Invisibility cloak' could hide homeless tents.
It should hide trolls like you
I live in 'housing first'. It's like I'm supposed to go to the doc it makes the city money. Con Am owns building here in San Diego.
sorry to say this but in my opinion, you can't help someone who don't want to help themselves... never ever successes
I have the right to live life on my terms. But if I keep living here in this 'housing first' building im going have to move out. There's no sobriety requirement and I don't want to see people suffering, drunk, high, etc. We are senior citizens and I need housing okay
But its too weird, p
Commissioner must be up for election
Led the horse to the water…didn’t drink….couldn’t drink.
People fail themselves
It would be cheaper to give people subsidies to house these people from the government like if they have an extra room in their house it would be cheaper to just give them $500 a month to house the person but the dude is missing his legs and does have back pain he is straight up disabled
He’s a fentanyl addict. Who would welcome that into their home?. Sounds like a recipe for a disaster.
Well, no shit!
gee, there's a shocker....
No one gets a free ride; everyone must contribute to the benefit and prosperity of American society they are a part of. That means work, pay taxes, don't do drugs/violence, minimize alcohol dependency , and don't cause trouble for others. If homeless accept housing, they must live under the rules of whoever owns, maintains, or runs the place.
It's sad in his case the housing help offered didn't work for him; maybe it will work for someone else.
it appears the illegals are getting a free ride.
explain that one.
"...the end" usually is just that, the end.
The city just needs to make it a law that you can only own one property. If we confiscated extra properties we could give Kevin a home regardless of his addiction.
Vote for measures that will help, not harm others.
Housing is a human right, property ownership is not.
Vote blue 2024!!💙💙💙
Have Kevy Bear move in with you or your family
@3ckell3 perhaps if you vote blue none of us will need to. I can tell you are a fascist.
Kevin deserves more help, and seems grateful despite his traumatic life. He communicates his needs well and I hope he is listened to. Please help this dear human.
Be low me
Can't help those who refuse to help themselves. Can't force him to change his bad behavior and give up his drug habit.
these housing places are so full of rules a sober person without issues couldn't keep themselves in line and out of trouble
? Maybe an adult who actually wanted to live differently. But not junkies who just want more of your stuff and mine to sell or trade for fentanyl.
You cannot expect anyone on this substance to do anything other than serve their habit.
This is an exaggerated lie. This man is a Fentanyl junky. He lost this free apartment fair and square.
That isn’t really true - check the UCMJ - the military is worse and people deal with that. It is a convenient excuse mechanism, though.
@@maxmotors9497 I bet you could be kicked out within a few months... you have never lived it, you have no idea how to live according to the rules...free people have no idea what it is like to be government dependent ... imagine the worst of the worst governing your daily life with petty rules like you may only have a guest in your home twelve times a year with advanced permission
@@jimk8520 people get kicked out of the military for chicken shit reasons every day ... nobody with options joins the military
Tiny homes are shelter NOT housing!
People everywhere are being failed, every minute of every day
Kevin was given chances but he kept failing. There are other people who deserve the same chances that were given to him. It's time to move on.