I work for a mental health agency in California. Many of my clients are homeless. Most of them CHOOSE to be homeless. You heard that right. Choose to be homeless. I’ve had clients get angry at me for offering them housing services.
Offering someone shelter for a week and housing them are entirely too different concepts. Maybe you should focus your efforts on all of the skyrocketing rent that are forcing the working poor to become homeless.
Not all homeless people are mental, sure some are, some are just lazy, some are there because of financial crisis, there is no one problem why people become homeless.
I live downtown in San Francisco. Can confirm things are worse than what people see on TV. Sickening, disparaging, heart breaking, dangerous for everyone. LA, SF, Portland, Seattle. Top 10 richest cites in the states and prob top 50 in the world. There is clearly misappropriation of funds and most likely corruption preventing the problem from getting better. Hell I this point I would settle for it not getting worse.
Pelosi says " don't f@#% with my money". If "expense report Pelosi" gave up her insider trading profits and other Ill-gotten funds, we could solve the national debt. When she croaks, we'll see tons of extra funds appear in Cali and say " how come we have so much more in our budget funds now"
A lot of people are making a lot of money from the homeless crisis. Aside from the rampant corruption, there’s the first rule of nonprofits: pay yourself first. And the pay is really great! I know several people who’ve been climbing the nonprofit ladder, and for what they do, they are living extremely high off the hog.
To let you know .. I decided to help these people instead of starving them !! I help those who need help !! I am nothing but a boring house wife .. but that is what I have decided to do .. and so I have two in rehab and are doing great .. I will keep it up because I know they are worth it !!
@@mikeprice5838 it's not that they WANT to be an addict It's.whether or not they DONT want to be a drug addict to begin with. They wanted the drugs & to be high to party to have fun. Or to self medicate. They just don't want to pay the price. They want the fun and freedom to get high. But you can't get high without the cost to your body mind & spirit. That payment is bitter. That's reality. Not anybody's fault just REALITY. People know drugs are bad for them they do it anyway thinking they are different. They think they can abuse their body & get away with it. But they never can. Not all homeless are on drugs but a lot of them are. It's a large part of the problem.
With a tear in my eye I hate to say it but have no choice I accept a US Government disability check monthly... I while serving as a US Army Soldier Parratrooper served over 18 years had an accident that broke my jaw knocked out many teeth and injured vertebrae in my back.I guess jumping out of an airplane with lots of gear can be dangerous..I now collect every month a VA disability check.. I am sorry and have no reason to call new migrants welfare leaches.. For I am now a leech.. But I must say if I can find a maintenance/Security job hopefully live in. I would take it, must take ferby.. My cat with me..
City of Portland receives massive funds to solve the homeless issue. Seems like someone or various people within Portlands big office is managing the funds(greedy and corrupt).
The first thing that has to be done is stop the drug use . Offer these people help not money . Find out where the money for drugs is coming from first and try to get it stopped . All this makes me wonder how many drug dealers have been arrested this year in this area . Where's the drug handoff take place . I don't think it would be hard to find out .
Why don't you ever ask where these homeless people are coming from? I have not heard ONE news story that asks this question. Is it possible that more tolerant cities like Portland are absorbing the people with these issues? Could it be that other communities are running them out of town to the more "liberal" areas? If so are we being forced to address what is really a national problem? I suspect that this may be the case but no one seems to want to get to the bottom of it.
What is your answer, so far I have heard how it is everyone's fault but no answers, it is everyone's fault but the homeless, there was times when drug addicted people were not in one place and encouraged so well that they hit bottom and got help
Hundreds of peoples day on average moved in. Apartments were bought up, rent like tripled. Some crooked lying landlords took to cruel illegal methods to open up spots, this included harassment of tenants, property damage, no cause eviction, illegal eviction, illegal move in forms used to control and manipulate renters. Some caused physical and mental injury, some contributing to the death of renters. Many held bias towards the local libs, others only care about money and power. If a life is worth nothing to them, people need to hunt them down.
@@wordsunheard2383 of course, landlords would be trying to recoup some of their losses by being forced to provide free rent, what would you expect to happen with this fiasco, am sure no one will rent to the people who so merrily screwed the landlords, what goes around comes around, lol
@@kathylarson8876 maybe you will be next. If illegally evicting disabled people paying rent doesn’t bother you. Why would you and your family ever be safe? Especially if you haven’t paid rent for so long.
Great idea. Too bad almost no one would want to go there, even if it was free. You can't legally force someone into therapy or take their medication, even if it's the one thing that they desperately need. Most on the streets don't want that sort of help.
Same applies to doing drugs. Handing-out needles, providing free methadone to overdosing addicts with no questions asked, providing shelter, food and money to anyone and everyone who wants it, along with no legal consequences for any illegal activity they commit . . . all contribute and exacerbate the homeless problem. Therein, the homeless have absolutely no incentive to help themselves.
I haven’t been downtown in years. I used to walk around downtown at all hours of the day and night and felt, and was, perfectly safe. Sunrise by the river was particularly beautiful. The homeless problem is now global. But look how Finland dealt with it. There are solutions, but to many people are making to much money off it here. The first rule of nonprofits is “pay yourself first” and the pay is fantastic! Then there’s the out right, straight up embezzlement. The whole situation is insane.
These people get paid very well to “help” these people. Yet nothing they do helps at all and they know it. Just a free and easy paycheck for all those “agencies “. Think about how much the people in charge of homelessness get paid, that’s really free money for them.
Anyone making less than 40k a year can experience honelessness. I cut grass & plow snow in Minneapolis 17-22$ hourly, You think it’s enough with the current prices of private property? Sick of the illness or addiction.
People are completely ignoring one of the biggest problems here. He mentioned more and more extreme cases of mental illness. That is not just coming out of nowhere. The meth being flooded into the country now is stronger than ever and is deteriorating the ever growing base of users so rapidly they’re becoming schizophrenic and deranged. Drug prohibition in the US has caused this disaster, and a multitude of others. And at this point things may very well be too far gone to fix.
no liberal solution will fix these problems, unless they make peace with the reality that cities are in no position to fix homeless peoples lives. a cities job is to make a comfortable living situation for its tax base, and its businesses. The police should arrest, or stop camps from opening, homeless should be directed to social services, or shelters, and it pretty much ends there as far as the city is concerned. You cannot entrust a city to address homelessness, they cant even get parking lots right, what business do they have directing other peoples life directions. all you can do with homeless is point them in the right place, and make the support available, its up to them to take advantage of the support. what you cannot do is allow them to operate as they wish, because it invariably goes wrong every time without exception. it might be good for a month, or a year, but sooner or later it WILL go bad. a city lives because of its tax base, they are its first & most important consideration.
It seems like you can't make major life mistakes these days and still recover like before. If you waste years partying and neglecting school and getting in trouble with legal issues you may very well end up homeless and bouncing back may be very very hard.
Facilities with staff must be built to house and treat these homeless people. If they are violent they are in a special facility. Mental health in another. Addicts in another. Programs that truly treat them so they can eventually be self sufficient. If not, they can stay there. There should be zero tolerance in laws to allow people to sleep in the street. Don’t hand out tents etc. The local government enables and ignores and now it’s at a level where people are begging for help and they do nothing but sit on money while this inhumane situation for everyone continues to grow and escalate. I was a native and I left, I couldn’t take it anymore. I have been chased, followed, screamed at and it’s just depressing to see every day. The garbage, the theft, the violence costs the city so much money too. I’m in Europe now and guess what, no homeless. I leave my windows open ground floor at night. People leave their bicycles outside and no one steals them. This government should be prosecuted for the state of things. Try building facilities for a solution. Or is that too logical.
I can't feel SORRY 4 the homeless....Down on your luck, lost your job, spouse left your lazy ask?.....GET with the program...MILLIONS of people do it EVERYDAY!!!!!! That's a nice place being wrecked by DEADBEATS!!!!!
This city cannot nor should not be tasked with solving the social problems of this country. In another segment featured a woman who moved from Las Vegas, and became homeless. She is emblematic of people moving to this area without the resources to find housing in this city.
I agree. I was just commenting about this as well. No one wants to ask the question "where did you come from?". I suspect that the more conservative communities where people are more "Christian" are just rousting the homeless out of town. Then they want to turn and say "see what happens when you're liberal". It disgusts me to no end.
@@flailinginhalers Yeah.. let the working "liberal" concentration camp tax slaves pay for the failures of 'murican society without any glimmer of hope for themselves.. worked all my life here, haven't been laid in the last few.. can our government prostitutes put out at least?!@?!?!?!?
tough love is the only solution, incarcerate when laws are broken, every time they try to put up a tent take it down. stop feeding them if they will not work. not employable ? BS, pay them by the bag to clean up the trash. it takes no skill to paint over graffiti. soft solutions do not work. the bigotry of low expectations is what is making this problem worse.
@@genxray951 I guess this explains their pollicies against the homeless.. Hey, we just had a Sheriff "chief" shoot his buddy over beer and killing ground critters.. Hey.. let's let him have an early retirement @230k a year last I heard.. thinly veiled racket.. Porkland, Whoregone, represent..)/*
@@mattallen9448 typical conservative - let’s not ‘solve’ the issue, let’s just move it. Liberal cities = cities of opportunity, cities with lots of intelligent people, and cities with high incomes. This will lead to homelessness unfortunately as rents rise because of supply/demand. Either you spend money to lock people up needlessly or you spend money to rehabilitate people.
Our politicians are guilty of treason but we are a weak, cowardly, overly tolerant society which allows politicians to serve their own political interests not ours. There are no solutions because we are spineless. This doesnt happen in some cities or countries because they are tough. What does a homeowner do when he has a rat infestation in his house?
The media will drive a madd man crazy.......an hour from now y’all will put out a story saying Portland is on the up and up take in a timber’s game and have a ice cold brew at your local pub
Hell no! I don't go to bars unless a great local band is playing, and there's few of those..) Waste of money anyway.. not like anybody's getting laid in this town unless they're not straight.. or perhaps government parasites.. hey.. let's pay to put their fat whelps through college with every beer, joint, and cigarette.. open air labor camp... f' this place.. may it BURN like that Deep Purple song..)
The only way to solve the problem of homeless. Find out where Portland mayor, Portland city police chief, Portland representatives and so on live. Then we tent some homeless by their door. Let’s see how quick they will respond the the homeless problem.
Man what a pitiful “solution”. Permanent UBI would be much more impactful without the needless waste in these charities. So much money is used elsewhere instead of benefiting the people it’s intended to
How government works from definitely a governor and higher up in power. the governor can borrow any money in the state with just a promise to pay it back. It may be lower than a governor to borrow money. Of course they never pay the money back this is how it all works and been going on since politics started not including all these other dirty deals. California over 100 years of homelessness. more homeless more money, less homeless less money given to California from federal government. That is why the tiny home builder was shut down in California. Jail is a better place than on the street doing meth, crack, disease, begging for money, begging for food, unsanitary, homeless stealing from each other, assault, rape, robbing, stealing from public, prostitution or death. A few years ago after many public service announcements in Columbia South Carolina on TV in city warning public if you see homeless call the police they will help them. They did alright police took homeless to FEMA camps to never be seen from again! This will happen again that's why I say jail is far better the only hope for the addicts commiting crimes every day. The good homeless working or retired and not on drugs should be given the help. The addict has to want to help their self giving them free food is enabling and more money for meth. For an average person we can't stop eating food, for a person on drugs like meth their first food is drugs food is later if at all that day. That is why most addict's are so thin. No ID most smaller farms, restaurant and lawn care places are always hiring, fellons too. For a single homeless person with no bills earning minimum wage they can save thousands of dollars if they work full or part time even at minimum wage.
Collect them from the streets/ no ACLU…., sort drug addiction, mental illness etc. and reopen sanitariums where they get treated. Once treated some of them will be able get skills and be productive members of society. The rest of them that are just lost/caught up,in the situation or lazy force them in federal labor projects throughout the nation, where they can receive training and a future.
Can we all finally admit that in the late 70's and early 80's when liberal organizations like NAMI sued states to close long term mental health facilities that it just might not have been a great long term idea? Sure, Mental Health agencies needed reform but by closing the facilities they became (1) in operable, (2) in disrepair and (3) unusable. Fact is 72 hours isn't enough to help everyone and there's a population that now is smart enough to know which communities are most welcoming (and they go there) but they're unable to function (long term) and become homeless, criminal and violent. The irony that Portland is now "wondering" what they should do is stunning. Maybe they should look to the past and figure out why we're in the position to begin with.
Mental illness ain't everything I have mental illness I know how to work and I know right from wrong but my problem holds me back because I have HIV that's my problem I can't keep a job I can go to a temp service and pay for a dorm to stay there me and my spouse with my service dog by my bed I'd pay for a room $100 a week to stay there if they would let me but that's not going to happen y'all don't have those options for us but I'm sick with HIV I don't want to deal with everybody looking at me in Portland I heard they had a daytime shelter for people with HIV I wanted to go there but it's so bad in there in the shelters and they don't want me in the shelters at daytime shelter would take me but a nice shelter will not take me that's not fair for people being sick like me
Its frustrating to misrepresent measure 110 as the solution to the drug epidemic and homelessness crisis we are facing. it was presented as if decriminalization would allow these people to move out of criminal court into healthcare. but healthcare in Oregon is not ready to service this population. the lack of resources and facilities is staggering. we compared this measure and people voted because it was represented as something that works in Belgium. well Belgium has it figured out and resources in place. rather then a criminal court, people with addiction and mental health are presented to a court of doctors and social workers who formulate an action plan to rehab these people. Oregon cant even get police to write a citation . in 2021 Oregon issues only 1500 citations, and none of them were mandated to show up to any court of medical staff. rather they call an automated system that prompts them to dismiss the ticket without accountability. also who decided to set a measure on appropriate amount of drugs someone could have ? the answer is zero. everyone in possession should be cited and pushed into recovery court. but our gov is not ready to hear all this. instead they are talking about increasing the limit on amount one could have. 10 million dollars invested in helping them and we do what with this money? we feed them, give them tents needles alcohol wipes and condoms. this is not treating them humanely. were putting on a very expensive band aid on a much deeper rooted problem and not addressing the core issues here.
I live in the Midwest but I can empathize with both the surrounding businesses and the unhoused… the business owners and employees deserve safety and a decent working environment. However, it’s just mental illness and addiction that drive homelessness- it’s falling wages and rising housing costs. I myself am considering living in a camper on a small parcel of land I inherited when my mother passed last year. My housing costs are rising and eat up 40% of my net income. My house now feels like a liability with its needed hvac improvements, siding issues and old decks. I’d much prefer an affordable tiny home but my community and most of the cities won’t alllow them.
Question: would you rather be homeless in a tent or rv on the streets OR pay rent for a rv spot that shakes nonstop? If the choice is to be harmed in your own “home” many will flee after they can’t take enough. The cheapest of the cheap type places that disabled and poor folks are left with have unkept hazardous hazards and dishonest landlords.
Not enough land other than the desert with no water to build for all the homeless and thousands upon thousands coming over the border, supply and demand and you think the landlords should give give give free to the poor,
@@kathylarson8876 learn to read moron, cut back on the meth. That is unless you are ok with crooked lying landlords contributing to the death of renters. If they are hurting your son or daughter, about to kill him, what would you do? Still gonna bitch at poor people ?
Almost 6 minutes of what now? Continuity of resources… How about y’all need to invest in policed villages with tiny homes and wrap around support programs for drug addiction and mental health? How about security services and mental health support at the shelters? Make a program they can apply for to get these wrap around services added to the shelters.. Come on, solutions are not hard to come by. It’s motivation and a desire to help your fellow man that’s needed. People have so much hate towards the homeless. These are traumatized desperate people who for various reasons that don’t matter need help and without it can’t overcome this. Grow some compassion and do more.
And make it mandatory for homeless people to stay at those sites, and not on the street. If local taxpayers are to foot the bill for this, they should be get clean and safe streets, sidewalks and parks in return.
You are or too bright, most drug addicted people won't take the help but they sure will fleece fools like you, the drug is stronger than your silly liberal garbage, they are traumatized by there own drugs, some are probably mentally ill without drugs but when they give out free needles fools like you encourage drug use doesn't help, a lot of people are traumatized in life, God didn't give us a rose garden
Compassion causes this problem. 90% of people want to continue doing the "medication" to make life go by in bliss all their problems aren't problems no more. Then they're in a vicious cycle that they cannot get out. I feel there needs to be a place where people could sign their rights away to be locked away in a drug-free environment for a year minimum to reset the people who want out which is most of them.
i disagree... bad people will take as much as we allow... i was a bum in san fran and this guys in fantasy land... get dealers and watch what happens... druggies go where they don't get heat.. dealers are the problem
Please watch Soft White Underbelly here on RUclips. It centers around the homeless, mental illness and drug addiction in talking directly with people on the streets. It is very raw and incredibly insightful. Thank you KGW News for continuing to shed light on this incredibly complicated issue
Hey KGW, I want to echo the appreciation that many people out there feel for all your hard work. Thanks for laying out the facts in spite of all the abuse. You make the world a better place by shinning a light on the good people do, the help people need, and the evil people try to hide. Keep on shinning.
the "good" people do have good intentions, but they are only making the problem worse by giving them access to resources without the expectation of an effort to clean up, and become productive citizens.
How do we get people off drugs? This isn’t just a substance abuse problem, it’s a mental health problem because well adjusted happy people don’t look for happiness in a glass pipe or a syringe. Drug abuse seems to be a huge part of many if not most of the homeless. Can we seal up the borders so drugs aren’t flowing. Can our mail and cargo industries become secure to stop drugs being smuggled in?
In Florida we used to have that problem then we realize if you burn the camps down they have nowhere to camp if you do not allow them to live on your property they won't live on your property but I guess it's a different part of the world out there , high taxes so people who don't pay taxes make the rules
We have to have multi faceted shelters for the homeless that have all the elements to help them get back on their feet. Why don’t we take old hotels and turn them into homeless shelters so that individuals and families could have shelter, access to bathrooms, heat, privacy etc. of course there would be many aspects that would need to be addressed that goes without saying. We need to find win/win solutions for both the homeless and the residents. Ignoring it is not an option unless you want to live in continual fear .
Vaunnie Thayer dream on girl you live in a fantasy land. This is the world. People are not basic nor good nor do most even care. If you find people who care then know that they are a precious commodity. . Not tv land where all problems are solved by the end of the movie. It takes hard work to solve problems like homeless. Some people are sick or disabled. Poverty is in all countries.In all ages and cultures there's poverty .. You can't count on government to fix it. Government or programs or funding only helps the few who really want and are able to do their programs. 99% will take advantage of any free handout but will still be homeless. What is the answer??
My girl was sexual assaulted in Houston and she's been sick 4 years with HIV and she can't get in the shelter she with some bed I would love to stay in the shelter me and her she has nightmare she wakes up screaming at night she can't make friends and she's never happy and she cries a lot no shelter would take us it's not the mental illness she's not a bad person it's just she she with some bed at night but she's asleep I have to wake her up to see if she's okay I know it's hard being a woman being homeless people abuse the homeless all the time you know I try to get a job and to go to work but I'm so sick at time I take care of the best I can and I love her with all my heart I just wish some people would understand what I'm going through to help me with food and blankets and a clean tent and stuff for my dog that's all I have is my emotional support pet is my best friend I wanted to go to Portland because the HIV program the daytime shelter but it's so bad important I didn't want to go at all I hear y'all help a lot but I wish y'all had a job program to take people to work and I come back and give me a ride and help me with three meals and I help pay for my place to stay but that's never happened before for me I wish you would make a HIV shelter so my girl can get counseling
IF the homeless were considered as internally displaced refugees, would solutions be used?? What does that say about our economic systems & those who fall between the cracks??
They're letting some people stay in shelters like a couple shelters and where they can have a little space they can stay at with a locker and to have their service pets and start doing dorms for a couple so they can stay together to separation and a work program a job program that picks you up takes you to work and brings you back to the shelter
The REAL problem, is providing services to the Truly mentally ill. Many are taking advantage of the giving and don't care at all that the Truly needy are being ignored. I am homeless, have been since my home burned down, not my fault. I have watched MANY choose to do nothing because enough services Are provided, that "they" don't need to. "They" are smart enough to get them before the ones who Really Need it. Sadly, it is difficult to figure out which ones "they" are. I choose to work. I have food stamps, I live in my van. State parks provide showers, most of the time. I am odd though. Many have said so.
I work for a mental health agency in California. Many of my clients are homeless. Most of them CHOOSE to be homeless. You heard that right. Choose to be homeless. I’ve had clients get angry at me for offering them housing services.
Offering someone shelter for a week and housing them are entirely too different concepts. Maybe you should focus your efforts on all of the skyrocketing rent that are forcing the working poor to become homeless.
Not all homeless people are mental, sure some are, some are just lazy, some are there because of financial crisis, there is no one problem why people become homeless.
I live downtown in San Francisco. Can confirm things are worse than what people see on TV. Sickening, disparaging, heart breaking, dangerous for everyone. LA, SF, Portland, Seattle. Top 10 richest cites in the states and prob top 50 in the world. There is clearly misappropriation of funds and most likely corruption preventing the problem from getting better. Hell I this point I would settle for it not getting worse.
Pelosi says " don't f@#% with my money". If "expense report Pelosi" gave up her insider trading profits and other Ill-gotten funds, we could solve the national debt. When she croaks, we'll see tons of extra funds appear in Cali and say " how come we have so much more in our budget funds now"
A lot of people are making a lot of money from the homeless crisis. Aside from the rampant corruption, there’s the first rule of nonprofits: pay yourself first. And the pay is really great! I know several people who’ve been climbing the nonprofit ladder, and for what they do, they are living extremely high off the hog.
Homeless and drug addicts will not leave as long as you feed them and not enforce drug laws. The Only Solution
To let you know .. I decided to help these people instead of starving them !! I help those who need help !! I am nothing but a boring house wife .. but that is what I have decided to do .. and so I have two in rehab and are doing great .. I will keep it up because I know they are worth it !!
I don't think anybody wants to be a drug addict.
@@mikeprice5838 The drugs did not come to them. They came to the drugs.
@@mikeprice5838 it's not that they WANT to be an addict It's.whether or not they DONT want to be a drug addict to begin with. They wanted the drugs & to be high to party to have fun. Or to self medicate. They just don't want to pay the price. They want the fun and freedom to get high. But you can't get high without the cost to your body mind & spirit. That payment is bitter. That's reality. Not anybody's fault just REALITY. People know drugs are bad for them they do it anyway thinking they are different. They think they can abuse their body & get away with it. But they never can. Not all homeless are on drugs but a lot of them are. It's a large part of the problem.
The only thing government cares is to get their paycheck on time. At least it's true in Portland, and at least for the mayor.
I'ts about pushing their progressive agenda down our throats, so that they can continue getting paychecks and much more.
With a tear in my eye I hate to say it but have no choice I accept a US Government disability check monthly... I while serving as a US Army Soldier Parratrooper served over 18 years had an accident that broke my jaw knocked out many teeth and injured vertebrae in my back.I guess jumping out of an airplane with lots of gear can be dangerous..I now collect every month a VA disability check.. I am sorry and have no reason to call new migrants welfare leaches.. For I am now a leech.. But I must say if I can find a maintenance/Security job hopefully live in. I would take it, must take ferby.. My cat with me..
It’s a one political party city run by one party. There is your problem.
Joseph Sokoloski military veterans should get priority housing - period
We have to turn it around right now: ruclips.net/video/xmXMF4mzGEw/видео.html
City of Portland receives massive funds to solve the homeless issue. Seems like someone or various people within Portlands big office is managing the funds(greedy and corrupt).
Recriminalize crack
The first thing that has to be done is stop the drug use . Offer these people help not money . Find out where the money for drugs is coming from first and try to get it stopped . All this makes me wonder how many drug dealers have been arrested this year in this area . Where's the drug handoff take place . I don't think it would be hard to find out .
Why don't you ever ask where these homeless people are coming from? I have not heard ONE news story that asks this question. Is it possible that more tolerant cities like Portland are absorbing the people with these issues? Could it be that other communities are running them out of town to the more "liberal" areas? If so are we being forced to address what is really a national problem? I suspect that this may be the case but no one seems to want to get to the bottom of it.
Most logical comment I've read all day..) Thanks, B !)
What is your answer, so far I have heard how it is everyone's fault but no answers, it is everyone's fault but the homeless, there was times when drug addicted people were not in one place and encouraged so well that they hit bottom and got help
Hundreds of peoples day on average moved in. Apartments were bought up, rent like tripled. Some crooked lying landlords took to cruel illegal methods to open up spots, this included harassment of tenants, property damage, no cause eviction, illegal eviction, illegal move in forms used to control and manipulate renters. Some caused physical and mental injury, some contributing to the death of renters.
Many held bias towards the local libs, others only care about money and power. If a life is worth nothing to them, people need to hunt them down.
@@wordsunheard2383 of course, landlords would be trying to recoup some of their losses by being forced to provide free rent, what would you expect to happen with this fiasco, am sure no one will rent to the people who so merrily screwed the landlords, what goes around comes around, lol
@@kathylarson8876 maybe you will be next. If illegally evicting disabled people paying rent doesn’t bother you. Why would you and your family ever be safe? Especially if you haven’t paid rent for so long.
Remember when we had mental heath facilities ??? Remember when they closed them down and released all the patients into our neighborhoods ?? I do...
All that for one solution that seemed like it would get lost in committees. Here's mine: build a mental hospital.
Great idea. Too bad almost no one would want to go there, even if it was free.
You can't legally force someone into therapy or take their medication, even if it's the one thing that they desperately need. Most on the streets don't want that sort of help.
Couldn't agree more.
If you make life easy for people to live on the streets, they will live on the streets. Weird.
Na they need to start killing the crooked landlord investors who destroyed their life.
@@asuhdude6668 no u
Heads will roll to inequalities! Wait for it!
Same applies to doing drugs. Handing-out needles, providing free methadone to overdosing addicts with no questions asked, providing shelter, food and money to anyone and everyone who wants it, along with no legal consequences for any illegal activity they commit . . . all contribute and exacerbate the homeless problem. Therein, the homeless have absolutely no incentive to help themselves.
The city government needs an attitude readjustment. They work for us, they answer to us, we pay their salaries.
Problem is, many think they have the answer until they learn about the problems their ideas cause. What would you have the city government do?
Heads will roll to inequalities
I haven’t been downtown in years. I used to walk around downtown at all hours of the day and night and felt, and was, perfectly safe. Sunrise by the river was particularly beautiful. The homeless problem is now global. But look how Finland dealt with it. There are solutions, but to many people are making to much money off it here. The first rule of nonprofits is “pay yourself first” and the pay is fantastic! Then there’s the out right, straight up embezzlement. The whole situation is insane.
Hold the money until they do something
These people get paid very well to “help” these people. Yet nothing they do helps at all and they know it. Just a free and easy paycheck for all those “agencies “. Think about how much the people in charge of homelessness get paid, that’s really free money for them.
You have no idea what you're speaking about. I work for one of those "agencies" and let me tell you I don't get paid well at all!
Maybe the upper ups but not us at the bottom who are the ones actually on the ground, in the shelters, working with those who need it!
I agree, the workers don't get the money, but as with any government program someone in the upper area is pocketing a lot,
@@kathylarson8876 that's any corporation in the world
@@prestonpowers7376 the CEO of salvation At,y makes bank look it up! Ads and other pay means these organizations fail Americans failyy
Bottom line if people genuinely cared it would be solved... They don't care, only wish the visual could be tamped down a bit.
Perhaps first step would be replacing liberal officials with conservative ones.
The first thing you got to do is give a lead/copper injection to the people dealing drugs. Until then you’re just pissing in the wind.
Anyone making less than 40k a year can experience honelessness. I cut grass & plow snow in Minneapolis 17-22$ hourly, You think it’s enough with the current prices of private property?
Sick of the illness or addiction.
I like how the Executive Director of the Chinese garden is an old blue eyed white woman. Because Portland.
Hey Dan, how many years have you been playing variations of this same story?
It makes for endless source of dark humor.
People are completely ignoring one of the biggest problems here. He mentioned more and more extreme cases of mental illness. That is not just coming out of nowhere. The meth being flooded into the country now is stronger than ever and is deteriorating the ever growing base of users so rapidly they’re becoming schizophrenic and deranged. Drug prohibition in the US has caused this disaster, and a multitude of others. And at this point things may very well be too far gone to fix.
The definition of stupid is doing the same thing but expecting the different results.
It is actually insanity
no liberal solution will fix these problems, unless they make peace with the reality that cities are in no position to fix homeless peoples lives. a cities job is to make a comfortable living situation for its tax base, and its businesses. The police should arrest, or stop camps from opening, homeless should be directed to social services, or shelters, and it pretty much ends there as far as the city is concerned. You cannot entrust a city to address homelessness, they cant even get parking lots right, what business do they have directing other peoples life directions. all you can do with homeless is point them in the right place, and make the support available, its up to them to take advantage of the support. what you cannot do is allow them to operate as they wish, because it invariably goes wrong every time without exception. it might be good for a month, or a year, but sooner or later it WILL go bad. a city lives because of its tax base, they are its first & most important consideration.
Watch out for shady business people trying to get their hand on money for the homeless. Ain’t that America
Here’s a solution, vote differently
It seems like you can't make major life mistakes these days and still recover like before. If you waste years partying and neglecting school and getting in trouble with legal issues you may very well end up homeless and bouncing back may be very very hard.
Facilities with staff must be built to house and treat these homeless people. If they are violent they are in a special facility. Mental health in another. Addicts in another. Programs that truly treat them so they can eventually be self sufficient. If not, they can stay there. There should be zero tolerance in laws to allow people to sleep in the street. Don’t hand out tents etc. The local government enables and ignores and now it’s at a level where people are begging for help and they do nothing but sit on money while this inhumane situation for everyone continues to grow and escalate. I was a native and I left, I couldn’t take it anymore. I have been chased, followed, screamed at and it’s just depressing to see every day. The garbage, the theft, the violence costs the city so much money too. I’m in Europe now and guess what, no homeless. I leave my windows open ground floor at night. People leave their bicycles outside and no one steals them. This government should be prosecuted for the state of things. Try building facilities for a solution. Or is that too logical.
I can't feel SORRY 4 the homeless....Down on your luck, lost your job, spouse left your lazy ask?.....GET with the program...MILLIONS of people do it EVERYDAY!!!!!! That's a nice place being wrecked by DEADBEATS!!!!!
This city cannot nor should not be tasked with solving the social problems of this country.
In another segment featured a woman who moved from Las Vegas, and became homeless. She is emblematic of people moving to this area without the resources to find housing in this city.
I agree. I was just commenting about this as well. No one wants to ask the question "where did you come from?". I suspect that the more conservative communities where people are more "Christian" are just rousting the homeless out of town. Then they want to turn and say "see what happens when you're liberal". It disgusts me to no end.
@@flailinginhalers Yeah.. let the working "liberal" concentration camp tax slaves pay for the failures of 'murican society without any glimmer of hope for themselves.. worked all my life here, haven't been laid in the last few.. can our government prostitutes put out at least?!@?!?!?!?
tough love is the only solution, incarcerate when laws are broken, every time they try to put up a tent take it down. stop feeding them if they will not work. not employable ? BS, pay them by the bag to clean up the trash. it takes no skill to paint over graffiti. soft solutions do not work. the bigotry of low expectations is what is making this problem worse.
@@genxray951 I guess this explains their pollicies against the homeless.. Hey, we just had a Sheriff "chief" shoot his buddy over beer and killing ground critters.. Hey.. let's let him have an early retirement @230k a year last I heard.. thinly veiled racket.. Porkland, Whoregone, represent..)/*
@@mattallen9448 typical conservative - let’s not ‘solve’ the issue, let’s just move it. Liberal cities = cities of opportunity, cities with lots of intelligent people, and cities with high incomes. This will lead to homelessness unfortunately as rents rise because of supply/demand.
Either you spend money to lock people up needlessly or you spend money to rehabilitate people.
First action would be to get the democrats out then address the crime then stiffer drug laws stop blaming everything on mental illness
Not enough police and they legalized drugs!!!! THAT WAS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER!!!!!
Our politicians are guilty of treason but we are a weak, cowardly, overly tolerant society which allows politicians to serve their own political interests not ours. There are no solutions because we are spineless. This doesnt happen in some cities or countries because they are tough. What does a homeowner do when he has a rat infestation in his house?
The media will drive a madd man crazy.......an hour from now y’all will put out a story saying Portland is on the up and up take in a timber’s game and have a ice cold brew at your local pub
Hell no! I don't go to bars unless a great local band is playing, and there's few of those..) Waste of money anyway.. not like anybody's getting laid in this town unless they're not straight.. or perhaps government parasites.. hey.. let's pay to put their fat whelps through college with every beer, joint, and cigarette.. open air labor camp... f' this place.. may it BURN like that Deep Purple song..)
The only way to solve the problem of homeless. Find out where Portland mayor, Portland city police chief, Portland representatives and so on live. Then we tent some homeless by their door. Let’s see how quick they will respond the the homeless problem.
You defund and limit the police you get what you get, stop complaining. Hold those responsible accountable get your heads out of your buts
Plenty of empty army camps
down portland is dead we can go elsewehere
Same problem at city of Los Angeles and San Diego everywhere we have this
Not everywhere. Only is leftist progressive run cities.
Have the police come and take care of it...oh wait...
Rats only live where there's food.
Why do they insist on living amongst their own filth ?
Man what a pitiful “solution”. Permanent UBI would be much more impactful without the needless waste in these charities. So much money is used elsewhere instead of benefiting the people it’s intended to
How government works from definitely a governor and higher up in power. the governor can borrow any money in the state with just a promise to pay it back. It may be lower than a governor to borrow money. Of course they never pay the money back this is how it all works and been going on since politics started not including all these other dirty deals. California over 100 years of homelessness. more homeless more money, less homeless less money given to California from federal government. That is why the tiny home builder was shut down in California. Jail is a better place than on the street doing meth, crack, disease, begging for money, begging for food, unsanitary, homeless stealing from each other, assault, rape, robbing, stealing from public, prostitution or death. A few years ago after many public service announcements in Columbia South Carolina on TV in city warning public if you see homeless call the police they will help them. They did alright police took homeless to FEMA camps to never be seen from again! This will happen again that's why I say jail is far better the only hope for the addicts commiting crimes every day. The good homeless working or retired and not on drugs should be given the help. The addict has to want to help their self giving them free food is enabling and more money for meth. For an average person we can't stop eating food, for a person on drugs like meth their first food is drugs food is later if at all that day. That is why most addict's are so thin. No ID most smaller farms, restaurant and lawn care places are always hiring, fellons too. For a single homeless person with no bills earning minimum wage they can save thousands of dollars if they work full or part time even at minimum wage.
UBI is a ridiculous solution. People need to EARN their money, not receive it for free.
@@walkerb1734 Tell that to the govt
Hello? Mcfly?!? This ain't new it's worsening. Time for NEW leaders with NEW ideas.
The gate keepers won't let anyone through that doesn't support their corrupt ponzi scheme
Collect them from the streets/ no ACLU…., sort drug addiction, mental illness etc. and reopen sanitariums where they get treated. Once treated some of them will be able get skills and be productive members of society. The rest of them that are just lost/caught up,in the situation or lazy force them in federal labor projects throughout the nation, where they can receive training and a future.
Can we all finally admit that in the late 70's and early 80's when liberal organizations like NAMI sued states to close long term mental health facilities that it just might not have been a great long term idea? Sure, Mental Health agencies needed reform but by closing the facilities they became (1) in operable, (2) in disrepair and (3) unusable. Fact is 72 hours isn't enough to help everyone and there's a population that now is smart enough to know which communities are most welcoming (and they go there) but they're unable to function (long term) and become homeless, criminal and violent. The irony that Portland is now "wondering" what they should do is stunning. Maybe they should look to the past and figure out why we're in the position to begin with.
Absolutely!!!
Regan closed the mental hospitals and chose to let them onto the streets
The victims need love tough love.
No those facilities were barbaric. I had friends that worked in them. That was the best thing that ever happened when they closed them down.
Mental illness ain't everything I have mental illness I know how to work and I know right from wrong but my problem holds me back because I have HIV that's my problem I can't keep a job I can go to a temp service and pay for a dorm to stay there me and my spouse with my service dog by my bed I'd pay for a room $100 a week to stay there if they would let me but that's not going to happen y'all don't have those options for us but I'm sick with HIV I don't want to deal with everybody looking at me in Portland I heard they had a daytime shelter for people with HIV I wanted to go there but it's so bad in there in the shelters and they don't want me in the shelters at daytime shelter would take me but a nice shelter will not take me that's not fair for people being sick like me
Its frustrating to misrepresent measure 110 as the solution to the drug epidemic and homelessness crisis we are facing. it was presented as if decriminalization would allow these people to move out of criminal court into healthcare. but healthcare in Oregon is not ready to service this population. the lack of resources and facilities is staggering. we compared this measure and people voted because it was represented as something that works in Belgium. well Belgium has it figured out and resources in place. rather then a criminal court, people with addiction and mental health are presented to a court of doctors and social workers who formulate an action plan to rehab these people. Oregon cant even get police to write a citation . in 2021 Oregon issues only 1500 citations, and none of them were mandated to show up to any court of medical staff. rather they call an automated system that prompts them to dismiss the ticket without accountability. also who decided to set a measure on appropriate amount of drugs someone could have ? the answer is zero. everyone in possession should be cited and pushed into recovery court. but our gov is not ready to hear all this. instead they are talking about increasing the limit on amount one could have. 10 million dollars invested in helping them and we do what with this money? we feed them, give them tents needles alcohol wipes and condoms. this is not treating them humanely. were putting on a very expensive band aid on a much deeper rooted problem and not addressing the core issues here.
I live in the Midwest but I can empathize with both the surrounding businesses and the unhoused… the business owners and employees deserve safety and a decent working environment. However, it’s just mental illness and addiction that drive homelessness- it’s falling wages and rising housing costs. I myself am considering living in a camper on a small parcel of land I inherited when my mother passed last year. My housing costs are rising and eat up 40% of my net income. My house now feels like a liability with its needed hvac improvements, siding issues and old decks. I’d much prefer an affordable tiny home but my community and most of the cities won’t alllow them.
Question: would you rather be homeless in a tent or rv on the streets OR pay rent for a rv spot that shakes nonstop?
If the choice is to be harmed in your own “home” many will flee after they can’t take enough. The cheapest of the cheap type places that disabled and poor folks are left with have unkept hazardous hazards and dishonest landlords.
Not enough land other than the desert with no water to build for all the homeless and thousands upon thousands coming over the border, supply and demand and you think the landlords should give give give free to the poor,
@@kathylarson8876 learn to read moron, cut back on the meth. That is unless you are ok with crooked lying landlords contributing to the death of renters.
If they are hurting your son or daughter, about to kill him, what would you do? Still gonna bitch at poor people ?
Just give them a good bye dose.
Someone should sue the county for not enforcing the law !!!! Need new leaders !!! SUE THERE ASS ! LOL LOL LOL
Almost 6 minutes of what now? Continuity of resources… How about y’all need to invest in policed villages with tiny homes and wrap around support programs for drug addiction and mental health? How about security services and mental health support at the shelters? Make a program they can apply for to get these wrap around services added to the shelters.. Come on, solutions are not hard to come by. It’s motivation and a desire to help your fellow man that’s needed. People have so much hate towards the homeless. These are traumatized desperate people who for various reasons that don’t matter need help and without it can’t overcome this. Grow some compassion and do more.
And make it mandatory for homeless people to stay at those sites, and not on the street. If local taxpayers are to foot the bill for this, they should be get clean and safe streets, sidewalks and parks in return.
The government is ran by democrats. This is ya people. Let them all go to Mexico and bring in some real workers
I’m glad to see that two days later they were all talking about the real solutions I spoke of.
You are or too bright, most drug addicted people won't take the help but they sure will fleece fools like you, the drug is stronger than your silly liberal garbage, they are traumatized by there own drugs, some are probably mentally ill without drugs but when they give out free needles fools like you encourage drug use doesn't help, a lot of people are traumatized in life, God didn't give us a rose garden
They have no compassion
the solution is simple. Pass and enforce laws prohibiting this behavior - living on the streets, drug use, etc. Arrest violators and put them in jail.
Compassion causes this problem. 90% of people want to continue doing the "medication" to make life go by in bliss all their problems aren't problems no more. Then they're in a vicious cycle that they cannot get out. I feel there needs to be a place where people could sign their rights away to be locked away in a drug-free environment for a year minimum to reset the people who want out which is most of them.
i disagree... bad people will take as much as we allow... i was a bum in san fran and this guys in fantasy land... get dealers and watch what happens... druggies go where they don't get heat.. dealers are the problem
Please watch Soft White Underbelly here on RUclips. It centers around the homeless, mental illness and drug addiction in talking directly with people on the streets. It is very raw and incredibly insightful. Thank you KGW News for continuing to shed light on this incredibly complicated issue
How come all these "liberal" cities are falling apart???
Because of your fucked up kids you keep sending to them, why don't you call your idiots home?
drug addition is the REASON for most of the mental illness.
This is their new spin
This was a poor excuse for addressing the issues.
2 million spent on tents? We could have built a multi-Trama building with that money
Hey KGW, I want to echo the appreciation that many people out there feel for all your hard work.
Thanks for laying out the facts in spite of all the abuse.
You make the world a better place by shinning a light on the good people do, the help people need, and the evil people try to hide.
Keep on shinning.
the "good" people do have good intentions, but they are only making the problem worse by giving them access to resources without the expectation of an effort to clean up, and become productive citizens.
Give them job. Picking up trash for the city. Make money and keep the city clean …
Agree. Clean up parks, wash off graffiti, sweep streets
Solent Green is the answer/build the factory and start the feeding program downtown. !!
How do we get people off drugs? This isn’t just a substance abuse problem, it’s a mental health problem because well adjusted happy people don’t look for happiness in a glass pipe or a syringe. Drug abuse seems to be a huge part of many if not most of the homeless. Can we seal up the borders so drugs aren’t flowing. Can our mail and cargo industries become secure to stop drugs being smuggled in?
What the fuck
Too many homeless people
When is the last time a drug dealer was arrested and sent to...dare I say it...prison?
Legalizing certain medication will help alot
Portland needs to start charging for the open air insane asylum it has become and maybe a Portland zoo package for $45
Lol
Key's to home's are the only way.
Portland voted for this!
Nothing new for Portland it has been this way for decades. Portland's normal.
Clueless.
Poor reporting. No statistics on the causes.
Hahaha....keep voting Democrat..You deserve this
I just watched this entire clip, didn't hear any 'solutions', maybe I missed them...
The state mental hospitals need to come back. City low income housing ( affordable) need to be available. Criminals need to go to jail.
This is to any police officers in Portland. Come to Georgia. We need you an will pay very well.
People know what the homeless go through they don’t care.
In Florida we used to have that problem then we realize if you burn the camps down they have nowhere to camp if you do not allow them to live on your property they won't live on your property but I guess it's a different part of the world out there , high taxes so people who don't pay taxes make the rules
Yeah because that’s arson and potentially murder
@@All-due-respect-I-disagree yes
We have to have multi faceted shelters for the homeless that have all the elements to help them get back on their feet. Why don’t we take old hotels and turn them into homeless shelters so that individuals and families could have shelter, access to bathrooms, heat, privacy etc. of course there would be many aspects that would need to be addressed that goes without saying. We need to find win/win solutions for both the homeless and the residents. Ignoring it is not an option unless you want to live in continual fear .
Vaunnie Thayer dream on girl you live in a fantasy land. This is the world. People are not basic nor good nor do most even care. If you find people who care then know that they are a precious commodity. . Not tv land where all problems are solved by the end of the movie. It takes hard work to solve problems like homeless. Some people are sick or disabled. Poverty is in all countries.In all ages and cultures there's poverty .. You can't count on government to fix it. Government or programs or funding only helps the few who really want and are able to do their programs. 99% will take advantage of any free handout but will still be homeless. What is the answer??
My girl was sexual assaulted in Houston and she's been sick 4 years with HIV and she can't get in the shelter she with some bed I would love to stay in the shelter me and her she has nightmare she wakes up screaming at night she can't make friends and she's never happy and she cries a lot no shelter would take us it's not the mental illness she's not a bad person it's just she she with some bed at night but she's asleep I have to wake her up to see if she's okay I know it's hard being a woman being homeless people abuse the homeless all the time you know I try to get a job and to go to work but I'm so sick at time I take care of the best I can and I love her with all my heart I just wish some people would understand what I'm going through to help me with food and blankets and a clean tent and stuff for my dog that's all I have is my emotional support pet is my best friend I wanted to go to Portland because the HIV program the daytime shelter but it's so bad important I didn't want to go at all I hear y'all help a lot but I wish y'all had a job program to take people to work and I come back and give me a ride and help me with three meals and I help pay for my place to stay but that's never happened before for me I wish you would make a HIV shelter so my girl can get counseling
Lol
see what happens kids when you vote democrat
All blue states have this problem hmmm 🤔
Afordable housing might solved this issue. Just a thought
Stop offering service and they will leave
IF the homeless were considered as internally displaced refugees, would solutions be used??
What does that say about our economic systems & those who fall between the cracks??
Vote Republican. Get more cops out there. Protect your businesses and innocent people. That’s how you fix it!!!!!!!!
To change, you would need to do a tax strike!
Homeless folks are trying to get out into jail, the only folks out into jail, and stay given their life circumstances
They're letting some people stay in shelters like a couple shelters and where they can have a little space they can stay at with a locker and to have their service pets and start doing dorms for a couple so they can stay together to separation and a work program a job program that picks you up takes you to work and brings you back to the shelter
I have known a few people that just fell on hard times and were not drug addicted so the shelters did help them get on there feet
Where?? Because basic help like that for just a few months would save the half of our homeless population from an early death.
no one wants to increase their taxes to develope the alternatives! and around the corner climate change will be hitting us hard.
The REAL problem, is providing services to the Truly mentally ill. Many are taking advantage of the giving and don't care at all that the Truly needy are being ignored. I am homeless, have been since my home burned down, not my fault. I have watched MANY choose to do nothing because enough services Are provided, that "they" don't need to. "They" are smart enough to get them before the ones who Really Need it. Sadly, it is difficult to figure out which ones "they" are. I choose to work. I have food stamps, I live in my van. State parks provide showers, most of the time. I am odd though. Many have said so.
Kimber pepper blaster,carry two
Kinda tired of hearing this as a mental problem. This is a drug problem that sooner or later mentally it becomes a problem
I have a solution: feed the homeless to the hungry
Welcome to America