Texas and Florida, RED STATES, are 3 and 4 on the list of states with the most homeless. I see people comment all the time that Democrat states have all the homeless. Well that's not true is it?
California, a decidedly blue state, has by far the most homeless. 28% of the USA's homeless are in California. New York, also very democrat, is second with 16% of the homeless. Texas & Florida each have less than 5%.
Florida, Texas, and California are the best place to be homelessness camping out on the public street for their warmer climates. Homelessness have no border. They don't give a damn where is red and where is blue, they pick the warm climate to camp. On other hand, Oregon homelessness problem is quite a surprise to me. It is cold up there, unlike Texas, Florida, and California.
As a Australian looking in I find it all mind blowing, we have our own problems here, including homelessness, but what you candidly show seems entrenched and intractable. And on a scale we don’t see here, I sure hope it’s not. It’s not the America of the glossy travel brochures or what Hollywood pumps out for sure. Friends who visited Hawaii and Southern California in 2018 were also blown away by the scale of homeless crisis and mentioned it several times when they came home. By the way: parts of the drive from San Francisco to Portland reminded me of rural southeastern Australia - I am originally from Sydney and so know it fairly well. Thanks and take care.
It’s not like that everywhere, Peter. Portland is generally regarded as the worst run city in the U.S. as regards to its downtown. Weak city leadership there has allowed this behavior. You really don’t see it anywhere else, and in Texas cities this behavior is absolutely not allowed.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip That’s good to hear, down here we hear on occasion about Detroit or Flint as the examples of urban decay in the US, but as said Portland as shown blew my mind. Thanks again.
Omg! It is real and it's much worse than this all over America. Please let ppl know. There is an element now that is crushing ppl who tell. Ppl in other countries think this is the America of the 1950s. It isn't. Govt keeps pretending all the homeless ppl are mentally ill and addicts. I've done volunteerism for decades including homeless shelters. Most homeless are just average ppl who were suddenly hit w rent increases of hundreds more dollars or more per month. Ppl who applied for disability pensions and had to wait yrs to get processed then another few yrs to get Medicare to treat their problem, by wh time the injury or illness has increased substantially and they may no longer be able to qualify for housing. There are waiting lists for govt subsidized housing for many years and ppl will be on the streets while waiting. Older ppl, especially, are dying alone on the streets, turned away from shelters or temp housing bc they may appear fragile or owners think they may be a burden, so they die unnoticed or are killed due to their vulnerabilities, especially women,, but many children live like this too, hungry and neglected. All homeless ppl are blamed for their situation then ignored. The real scandal of the US is not just ppl now being homeless but the millions of migrants, undiagnosed of diseases, unknown as criminals, unvetted in any manner, un vaccinated for covid, but being sheltered in hotels around america, paid for by the taxpayers, including the homeless workers who cannot ever earn enough to rent anywhere but feel blessed to have some income and a little hope. This is so unconscionable as to be likened to a Nazi state. We aren't just outraged, we are stunned. We can't even help our ppl get to Mexico anymore where Social Security even in small amts would ensure shelter, food, and medicine, bc Mexico has changed its laws for immigrants tremendously, I expect due to the costs they incurred w the stay in mexico policy of the US while millions of migrants traveled through and lingered at their border when attempting to invade the US. In short. It's a disgrace and advocates don't know how to fix this despite decades of trying.😲😖❤
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip omg! That's not true! Ive traveled all over the country documenting this. Why are you lying to the ppl who may know some ways of helping? Covering up disasters this large and widespread just to make things look good to others isn't helping anyone. You cannot eliminate problems by pretending they don't exist. And btw, these are your own ppl. Why are you okay w putting illegals in hotels and letting your brothers and sisters die in this danger and filth, a situation that hasn't been seen since the Nazi concentration camps? Maybe the SS won't come and shoot them, they will just let the elements and street criminals eliminate them. Is that your plan? And you are ok with it, huh?
I was homeless for a lot of my twenties in Seattle. I learned all about the homeless industrial complex. There are a lot of programs that exploit the homeless for free labor and sell goods they receive for free. The biggest money made off the homeless are programs that receive massive private donations. I could name some of them but would rather not. They do help people, but first and foremost they make $$$.
Can confirm from personal experience being homeless in the northeast. A lot of local programs and services are in place to help people, but they don't help many, or very quickly. But they justify their own salary and keep the lights on and the AC running in the offices day in and day out, regardless of how many people are actually being housed, getting work training/job placement, etc.
You should release those names so that the public n the government concern should know that there are peoples out there in pretending to help the needles yet they are actually taking advantages of problems of others to enrich their pockets. What a shameless human beings like that! No moral n no religious believe!!
That's what it's all about. Political patronage at taxpayer expense. Throw money at NGOs run by suits who are cronies of the City Council. No one is being helped except the suits running the NGOs.
We lived in Portland in the 1980s. It was a beautiful city with lots of life and vibrancy. There was a significant homeless population then, but NOTHING like this. And downtown was busy and full of businesses and people, day and nights. This is heartbreaking.
So did my husband and I. He is a native of Portland , joined the Navy When jobs were scarce and when we would go back to visit his family, we would notice changes little by little. He's now retired after twenty years of service and while we saw a good part of our great nation in our various duty stations, Portland kept going downhill.😢
This footage was taken AFTER the city had tried to clean up that area around Delta Park. You should have seen it before that. There were dozens of stolen cars and Rv’s with graffiti all over everything. I’ve lived here all my life and have never seen it this bad. No respect for what used to be such a gorgeous city.
That building at 25:39 used to be a bank. And the Kelly's Olympian across the street is more of a bar/live music venue and not as much a Cafe. It's crazy to see parks that I used to eat lunch at on my lunch break completely boarded up and unusable. Left Portland back in November of 2021, it was sad to leave but staying was even sadder. Living in that was just too much on my psyche.
I remember the early nineties how clean and how much fun Portland was. My wife and I would spend the night in Portland then head off to My Hood for a day at the slopes. I had to work in Portland a few years ago it has become realy terrible.
Absolutely surreal like an end world apocalyptic city. Glad I still remember Portland from a visit in 1998, charming, modern, clean, upbeat city. Truly sad state and a scene replicating thru other major cities in our great Nation.
Same thing is happening here in Philadelphia Pa it’s like these politicians are being paid off or something to destroy us here .. Injust can’t get my head around why they don’t do anything they have ro😊😊
I used to deliver to restaurants in downtown Seattle as early as 4 in the morning and its just the same there too. Was often uncomfortable out there with just homeless and mentally unstable folks being the only others out at that time. Once even had a crazy lady with a neon ATM sign try to climb in the back of my truck once during business hours while I was just trying to do my job. So glad I moved back to Tucson even though I'm not there often since now I drive long haul across the US. See this in a lot of big cities with Seattle, Portland and LA being the worst.
I was born in Portland in 1956 and lived there until nearly 30 years ago, moving to Helsinki Finland because my wife is from Finland. I’m REALLY thankful that she’s not from Portland, or I might still be there. Just the thought of that gives me the creeps.
I lived in Portland for 27 years. In 2017 I literally saw the writing on the wall and husband and I got out. My friends are all complaining about the city but they won't leave even though they have the means to do so.
At least we kept the downtown from flooding during the winter of 1996. We scrounged together anything that we could patch together and built a retaining wall along Waterfront Park to keep the Willamette River back. By that time i had graduated to trying to live aboard a boat on highway 30. Flooding forced me into the hills where i slept in my van. The Great Depression brought worse than you see here. Study about Sullivan's Gulch, just East of LLoyd's Center where a huge Hobo Camp existed. Life doesn't change much, i'm afraid.
Thank you for these videos. It's a huge eye opener to American claiming to be so wealthy, but our major cities look like this. I'm forever entranced by your videos and the areas you film. It's very sad.
That first homeless camp used to be a busy dog park but the homeless activity pushed them out. The homeless activity forced the Elmer's to close that's on the other side of the park.
La la you meant mean sprit left wing lol. They rise the prices of homes and leave people put out in the streets. The ingredients are in the pudding. Be blind all you want. But there's the sign
@@_5_675 Real left has programs for free crack pipes, it has nothing to do with losing a job it's drugs, alcohol and criminal records. I used to work in Portland mabe you don't realise this but Portland at one time was a gem, the cleanest, most fun city in the US an example of what could be accomplished. Sorry it's not right wing conservative Christian's that have done this.
He mentioned Antifa. If he was worried about politics, he wouldn't have. Not sure if he has mentioned the proud boys that were there destroying stuff, though. Hmm.
Ages ago, when I lived in Olympia, I loved Portland-always thought it was much more fun than Seattle or Vancouver. The city has really befouled itself, though. My hometown of Austin is going the same way: no humanity, just sleeping bags and Teslas. The west in general is in the grips of some sort of cultlike fever right now. I hope the fever breaks, but I’m not optimistic.
I lived in Seattle back in 92 to 93, North Gate, it was beautiful, crystal clean, friendly folks,and a ton to do. Now days,no way I would even visit. Back in 92, it was the place to be.
I left Portland in July of 2021, had lived there 10 years. It's true what is happening in the city. It used to be a vibrant place to live, walkable city, and safe to roam and visit the many beautiful arts districts, parks and local eateries in the city. Around 2016 that began to change and by the time I left it had taken a significant downturn. Ignore the problem is very much the reality there. Even bringing the issues up in conversation would get you shamed and snubbed. Denial at its worst. I watched front and center what was once an amazing city turn into a zombie land of violence and destruction. The beauty is still there but something needs to change for the better very soon or that will be gone too.
*Well, commercial real estate has to be lowered in both Portland and San Francisco. Downtown buildings are empty in both cities. They are asking for a small suite $30k monthly. No small business can afford it.*
My son lived in Portland for 17 years, I went as often as I could and found Portland to be so beautiful, 8 years ago he moved back to Co. now I am so sad to see what has happened to Portland 😥
You're doing a great job! This is as real as real can get! No Hollywood, no CGI, just real life. Be safe! Thank you for the education and entertainment!👍
I moved away from Portland end of 2021. It was a beautiful place with parks and small businesses everywhere. Walkable and bikeable. Now it is expensive, dangerous, and completely wrong what has happened to Portland.
@@fardrives yeah all those videos you saw took place literally inside a 3 square block area. The media on that was incredibly overblown. 95% of portland is the same as its ever been. More tents though from the pandemic.
@@fardrives They didn't riot in a vacuum... Trump made sure they were given plenty to keep them interested. It was a very small area - and they were protesting the "Federal Thugs" more than BLM. (hint, there are more black people in any big southern CITY than in the entire STATE of Oregon)
I have lived in Portland since 1980 and have watched it grow into a major attraction to tourists for its cleanliness, beauty, and wonderful nationally recognized restaurants. Now I feel as if I'm living in Calcutta as the city has fallen prey to mismanagement, city/county/regional governmental breakdowns and infighting, and a homeless situation that seemingly grows exponentially daily. The stench, amount of trash, and encampments of homeless is incredible and maddening. There seems to be no one in leadership that can come up with a solution to help. Camps are broken up, cleaned up, and the homeless are back within days, sometimes hours. It is sometimes impossible to walk on the sidewalks due to tents and trash. Side streets are sometimes impassable due to camps and huge amounts of trash. Last week the city swept a camp in my neighborhood, removing several abandoned and disassembled vehicles, broken down RV's, trailers full of trash, only to have homeless return within a day. Downtown Portland has many businesses boarded up due to crime and vandalism, and the public is avoiding the area. One day the city will recover, but it is going to take years. I would love to leave Portland, and Oregon, as they have become so expensive and unattractive, but the other half won't budge.
In the early 2000's I had friends go on vacation up there and I just loved the vibe, nature, and everything. Good god it has become an absolute display of leadership failure and bad policies. This is the heaven the woke mob created, as trite as that sounds. Get rid of police, let crime and homelessness run rampant.. yeah, this is what happens. I hear the surrounding cities are still fine though.
I realize that lack of affordable housing has much to do with this, but what is not discussed enough is that a majority of these people are mentally ill, addicts or alchoholics, or disabled in some way. Without an infrastructure to deal with that as well as housing, the problem just multiplies - and one has to ask, what kind of society are we to let the mentally ill and otherwise disabled live and die on the streets? Equally, it seems inappropriate that people who are unable to function in society are allowed to disrupt so much the functioning of society.
You're assuming city councils _want_ to solve the homeless problem. The clearly don't. They need to justify their jobs and so they'll let the problem fester and then wring their hands over how big the problem is and how they need more and more taxpayer money to hand over to NGOs to fix -- who, by the way, are operated by well-compensated suits who by and large are cronies of those same politicians and are effectively feeding at the public trough without offering anything even remotely resembling a solution. They're tinkering around the edges, trying to treat the symptom while ignoring the disease.
I left Portland in February 2022 after 25 years moving from Phoenix. Portland was such a beautiful, eclectic, diverse city till around 2010. Then it nose dived into chaos with the Meth & Heroin addicts. Then the anti- everything group's started to protest. Antifa, proud boys... Then covid-19 hit and Portland and the entire downtown Portland STOP functioning. You dare not to go out at night time!!! I had enough and left. I really loved this city. I only hope THEY clean it up, from inside city & state gov. and gets back to the beautiful city it once was...
It's easy to see how beautiful this city has always been. I never knew. I always immediately think of cities with tons of traffic and trash, but this, you can tell, had flare and charm. It's really a sad, sad deal what they have allowed to happen to it.
@@morten1 I haven't ever, for one second, believed a leftist dream. They are insane. That doesn't mean the city wasn't designed and put together with beauty in mind when it was birthed however many years ago. The sad part comes in that lefty extremists have shredded it. No doubt they are in desperate need of leadership and order. I didn't feel the need to make it political. People need to learn how to interpret what they see in front of them because they tend not to believe anyone they perceive as not on their side without hesitation.
We moved from the Portland area about 9 years ago. It wasn't near this bad when we left, & it's heartbreaking to see what's happened to such a beautiful city.
There are shelters all over the city but they have rules that homeless don't want to follow such as not being under the influence of drugs or alcohol and not in possession of drugs or alcohol
VERY WELL SAID! Alot of this CRAP! Is folks who DO NOT! Want to be Self Supporting! THEY Have Choosen to be a bum! and DO Drugs! And Drink! And NOT WORK! They want everything Free! A friend of mine Works at one of the Homeless Helping Places. And she said! There is FREE HELP! To get off the Drugs! And Help to be Self Supporting! And to find a JOB! BUT Most of these folks! DONT EAN TO WORK
A friend of mine Helps with the Homeless at a Downtown Shelter Area. She said! Most of these Homeless folks WILL NOT WORK! And Will NOT! Get help to get off DRUGS and Drinking! They just want Free Handouts!! And there is FREE HELP to get off DRUGS! They Offer It! They do not want to work and get help to be Self Supporting! She said Very Few!! Want to get Clean! That's what's Disgusting! These are Adults! That Need To Grow Up! 👹
Denver started to make it illegal to camp in the parks, arrested a bunch of the homeless and remove them to different areas. They are now advancing upon the suburbs in droves with their tents, trash, and loitering. I can't help but think all the abandoned boarded up buildings should have some purpose other than sitting there empty. Have a great day and safe travels
I lived here in Portland for 25 years now and visitors from another state comes to visit here, and comment on the homelesssness. I say I feel embarrassed by the condition of our city. Hey Governor, don’t you feel embarrassed by this at all? When will you help us solve and end homelessness??
My husband, kids and I moved form portland (i was bored and raised there, born in the 80s), in 2013. We went to visit in August 2020 and i felt so sad to see my city like this. It's horrible.
I left Portland after 12 years in 2019, right before the pandemic hit, and moved to St Louis. I used to brag about how nice Portland was. I used to tell them all these great things, including how safe it was. I took my girlfriend to Portland for her first visit in 2021, and I was so embarrassed, and I was worried she thought I had been lying. It was nothing like that in 2019 when I left. Sure there were homeless, there has always been homeless, but downtown used to be awesome. Now I see news about murders weekly, sometimes daily. It looks like a war zone, or a zombie movie. Hell some of the people look like zombies. I'm glad we got out of town to see the rest of Oregon, which she loved, but I can't believe what has happened to Portland. I can't believe they let it happen. This might sound crazy to some, but I actually feel safer in St Louis.
I have explored downtown St Louis. I felt perfectly safe there, and it's a much cleaner, better organized, even more beautiful (with all the great old buildings) downtown than Portland.
It does sound crazy. worked as a nurse in St. Louis. Barnes hospital, SLU hospital. Every night we would have shootings and stabbings none of which were reported on TV or the post dispatch. The crime is far far worse there than reported every day.
I was surprised that Jackson Mississippi had no homeless encampment or tents on the streets. With all the poverty there, how do the residents maintain their homes and stay in them?!! Amazing!
Maybe the LAWS are obeyed and prosecutor's prosecute criminals. And maybe they enforce the DRUG laws, and maybe they don't have Democrat administrations running the city.
Because 1) Mississippi is the cheapest state in the nation, so when it is easier for more people to afford their own home, they are less likely to homeless; they may not have the best homes or live in the best neighborhood, but they do have a legit roof over their heads instead of living on the streets, and 2) they have among the least, if not the least amount of homeless subsidization, as evidenced by Mississippi having the lowest homeless rate per capita in the nation too, whereas Oregon spends a lot like every Pacific Coast state and has the 4th highest homelessness per capita, only behind New York, Hawai'i and California. Granted, Miss. is not helping the problem either by simply kicking some of them out to other states, namely blue ones who are more willing to take them, but still, like with -socoalzt indoktrination- public education and law enforcement, the more you subsidize something, the more of that something you will have.
I have been planning a trip to Portland for years and now that I am retired I can take my time and drive across the country to visit. This video has opened my eyes and now realize it is too late to go and see the once wonderful city I always heard about. I assume it may not be worthwhile to revisit Seattle either. At least I have fond memories going there during the late 60s as a child.
You should still come. This shows just a small fraction of the city and there is still plenty to see and experience. Also keep in mind that some of those chained off or boarded up places were due to construction or overall structural issues. This was a small section of downtown and part of what makes Portland interesting is that the real places to visit are in the neighborhood which have their own individual personalities.
You guys are doing very important work by opening the eyes of others most of us are so caught up in our jobs and our own little worlds to realize what is really going on in other parts of the country and how bad people are suffering its so sickening to me how our government rakes in so much money in taxes and people are living like this while the politicians who collect that money live in multi million dollar mansions
The State of Oregon is Allowing all of this Crap!! They need to make it Against The Law! To camp and do Drugs whereever!! Oregon has turned into a Big DUMP SITE!! 👹
@@haydonditchburn2194 ALL WARS! Have been FUNDED! By Governments! They were all Man-made! To keep the Fights and the Divide of man kind. Anyone can do the research. IT is all so Disgusting! And it's all about MONEY! 👹
Stop your lies! The homeless are degenerate drug addicts who refuse all rehabilitation. There is a labor shortage in America with jobs all over the country in communities with affordable housing.
@@curtisowen3233 Yeah, and didn't spend 10 minutes videoing 10 concrete blockades as though they are representative of the city. He clearly only visited the worst areas and did so at the worst time of the year. Why not be honest and come during the Rose festival or video around the Pearl? Oh yes, because it's about him getting his clicks.
Mind blown. I visited Portland in 1999 or 2000, spent a night in a downtown hotel and the following day walking around a very clean, pretty city. I don't recall seeing even one homeless person. My host, a city native, tried to have me steer clear of one particular area as "unsafe" when all I encountered were a few teens sitting together. What happened to create what it is now is beyond my comprehension.
Bought my first house in Portland in 1992, back when it was a fabulous place to live. Things changed around the 9-11 crisis when the entire world changed. Portland will never be the same, glad I moved away before the massive destruction.
No, the city is what it is. Not being destroyed, it's being lived in the way society allows. People will live you morons, if you don't let them live one way they will STILL LIVE. Continue to adore your politicians fools, hate the poor you fools, believe in your superiority fools. It's defaced because YOU DON'T DESERVE IT NOT TO BE, YOU MORONS.
I visited Portland about 6 years ago, came in on the Train. Right across from the train station, tents were set up right across on the bridge sidewalk, both sides of the street. What a way for the city to welcome visitors into town.
I live in Pittsburgh and I recently walked over on the trail on the North Shore and was shocked by all the tents! They've only seemed to pop up within the last year or so. And downtown Pittsburgh has gotten bad too. It's like zombie land.
About to get worse with the new senator you guys voted in. As an outsider just so disappointing to see what kind of people Pennsylvania choose to vote for
I just saw this video and got so angry that the city fathers allowed this lawlessness to exist in this fine city. You city fathers should be ashamed of yourself for destroying this city. This is just disgusting.
Same plague is drifting south to medford, where I live. The city has tried to control it, only to be beaten back by advocacy groups. One party rule for decades and this is the result. The current governor has said white supremacy is oregon's biggest problem.
If the mayor and city council didn't tie they police hands it might be a different story.. How many people do you expect the taxpayers to fund? When they can barely Pay their own bills? I get tired of steeping over garbage including people. You can be homeless and still have respect and common sense,
So unbelievably sad...we drove through Portland on our way to the coast for a vacation 2 years ago when all the riots, protesting, and looting was happening there. Didn't go into the epicenter of the city but saw encampments as well as vandalized objects from the freeway. Doesn't look like anything has changed at all since then.
funny thing, Portland has a mostly "white" but multicultural community. And a TON of "activists" while the eastern part of the state has a very active "white supremacism movement" because the Eastern part is pretty much all white. The issue has always been that the liberal "big cities" of the Willamette Valley have ended up hiring the conservatives as cops (that is who usually applies) -- but a lot of the actual racists are mixed in. Then you get the unholy mess where Trump, in the only town he REALLY played the card in... did everything to pour gas on the protestors and keep it going for MONTHS. All for the excuse of "protecting" the Federal buildings that the protestors didn't REALLY CARE about. They only wanted to spray paint the building because all the goons DIDN'T want them to. As long as they kept firing volleys of tear gas, and running around in goon squads -- they made good "invaders" for the locals to fight against. So Portland had protestors months and months after everyone else. Every attempt at "escalation" was taken. I spent a year in Portland. The "hippie" type of Liberal is everywhere. Its a point of pride, and Eugene (arguably the home of the hippee movement) is just down the road.
@@soprotivleniye7620 Opportunists and gangs. The small number of people looting in Dallas (one night) was definitely economically driven and boogaloo supported. The person in the footage who tossed a rock through the glass at Neiman Marcus (in a hoodie with black gloves) then strolls away casually like he wasn't involved. While others looted he strolled off. Maybe 20 people? -- I certainly did not "riot" and neither did any other of the huge number of protestors who gathered at City Hall in the daytime here. City hall is, in fact, still there and nobody set it on fire. "BLM as Rioters" just plays so well into the "blacks do all the crime" or "13%er" or whatever the racists are saying this week. The fact was, there were MORE WHITE PEOPLE at most protests than blacks so that "myth" sorta breaks down. The mass WHITE support for BLM seems to have terrified the true racists though. Just like most of the "economic looting" in LA was Latino gangs... the Police were busy...
18:55 An elderly homeless black man pushes his cart past graffiti that reads, "Black Lives are Sacred" & "We Are Rising"... That gentleman's life is certainly sacred, but I question the city's willpower. And its integrity. Portland's residents and its government seem far more preoccupied with performative acts that satisfy trendy politics. May the city's inhabitants find common ground so that they may work together and provide food and shelter and love for those in need ❤ - Sincerely, a former resident
My wife and I started traveling in 2013 then more permanently in 16, and got a motorhome in 2019. Giving away Bibles the whole time. We're from west of Portland, Hillsboro/Forest Grove. Thanks for the videos
There are people who are genuinely Homeless and out of work and then there are the homeless with addiction who cannot or will not live anywhere but the streets.
I saw a video (not the same as Nic) in California, which explained that many of the tents are empty: the residents have homes but go there to take drugs. Amazing.
Tough problems require tough solutions. Time to bring back work camps and mental hospitals for these chronically ill people. Allowing this level of squalor and degeneracy is unacceptable
Every time someone wants to build affordable housing, the people already living in an area say, "not in my backyard". Everyone wants someone to provide housing to people who are houseless to get them off the streets, as long as its somewhere else. So there's never enough, there are too many exclusions, and this is the disaster we have in this city now. Many of these people would've worked side by side with people just like the folks in the comments just a few years ago, but now they're scary and other because they fell on hard times.
Portland is one of many cities that has homeless and the underpasses lined with tents and it's both the West Coast and East Coast and all in between and it's not just in the big cities either it's in small towns as well even in some rural areas especially in Oklahoma my state and Texas.
Start from Vancouver BC...down I-5...Bellingham....Everett....Seattle....Tacoma....Olympia....Centralia....Kelso/Longview...Vancouver, WA...Portland,OR...this is what you see! It's sad.....
Figure the same thing. Won’t ever have to go there. Almost took a promotion to go there in the late 90s and I am sure I chose the correct path. Hate to see the destruction to businesses.
3.5 in my opinion, as a long time resident is too generous. This city has gone downhill very fast in the last 15yrs. I've been here 52yrs and am moving out portland as of February 2023......never to return. With crime very bad here, I'm extremely surprised your vehicle didn't get stolen and end up in a homeless camp. That's VERY common and a daily norm here. You were lucky! 😉 The homeless problem here increases a minimum of 30% every year. Once ya been here, you don't wanna come back. 😖😩
I lived in Portland for 10 years. Left in early 2017. It was nowhere nearly this bad 6 years ago. The Occupy Wall Street movement had just happened and we had homeless encampments popping up in one of the parks by the riverfront but the homeless population was small relative to the regular people who walked around downtown. I've only visited a few times since I left and it's been a shock each time. Eugene is still the way I left it, that will always be my favorite NW city.
Yeah, it's really nothing like he makes it out to be. It's like walking into a mansion and doing a 40 minute video about bathroom # 8's clogged toilet. What about the foyer? What about the breakfast nook?
It is exactly what he made it out to be. I was there last year at all the same places he was walking. I still liked it the city overall but was in disbelief that a so called progressive liberal city treated its citizens so poorly and refuses to care for its poorest citizens. Incredibly sad! @@HikingWithCooper
You can call a Monet garbage if you're only looking at the frame. He intentionally visited ONLY the crap parts of town because it gets him clicks. Every large city has crap parts in their town but not for some hack to come around and represent those parts as being the whole. Why did he make the choice to not visit and air footage from the Rose gardens? From the arboretum? From the Pearl? Why did he not bother to mention our world-class food scene? Our many art and science museums? Our country-best airport? It's because he has a narrative and he is dividing us so that he can make money. No city "treats" its citizens in any particular way. A city will do what it can afford to do. We are suffering greatly from the opioid epidemic but we did not cause or perpetuate the epidemic. We are victims of it. Meanwhile, the court system (entirely independent of Portland) is shielding the pharmaceutical companies and cities across the country will continue to suffer. So don't blame Portland for being liberal and not being able to single handedly solve our country's problems.@@jefftomasello3258
We watched this video the other night and was just blown away by all the tents and homeless people. We just can’t understand how it is allowed to go on. These people need help. Very very sad.
The cause is the unacknowledged acceptance of hard drugs (not pot or alcohol) as recreational by too many in mainstream America. It’s never discussed in media, but cocaine and even heroin are too common among the rich, middle class and poor.
j & N- Joe, you are a pretty dang good HH shooter, intuitive, street-photography style- I like your voice over commentary. I like the fact you just put up these nice long takes, I am looking forward to seeing more of your work, also to seeing if I can detect any political growth hor part - it is not that 'somebody is doing a bad job' in my view, but the bad job is being done (or not done) in all of our names. muchas gracias. Blaine Dunlap
This looks worse than I imagined. I get news feeds from Portland regularly with community leaders urging people to reopen businesses downtown, while berating residents for abandoning downtown.
There should be a center where all homeless are brought. Separate the druggies from the actual homeless and begin anew, grant no favors, give them opportunity but administer the thought that returning to a corner to park your ass isn't permissable. These people are stuck in a hole, allowed freedom to do any drug without prosecution is ludicrous, as well as shoplifting and defacating on the street. It's a city without laws and quickly becoming a cesspool.
I was born and raised in Portland but moved to Seattle 12 years ago. Seeing this breaks my heart. The blame for this is 100% at the feet of the politicians and the choices they have made over the last ten years. The woke Dem policies are destroying the entire west coast and the voters who put them there should be made to stay put and live with the consequences. I can't wait to leave this area of the country and move where people still have traditional, family values. Thank you very much for sharing these videos so people can see the reality of what is happening in the US.
When I left Frisco on new year's eve in '91 my thought was to stop in Portland. There wasn't much going on there so I continued on to Seattle. I'm truly amazed at the downward spiral. Drug and mental illnesses play a huge part in this demise. Seattle has become another magnet for such activity.
I am a resident of Portland Oregon. The mayor has no interest in helping those who truly want to be helped. It's extremely sad to live in this city. I want to be able to help these folks. There are people who desire to be housed/helped but others desire to stay outside. It is an extremely sad site to behold 😭
Hey Luara, I've got a couple questions for you. What do you want the mayor to do? Why is it the Mayor's responsibility to get these people off drugs? Shouldn't every adult pull his/her own weight? Why can't these drug addicts find free treatment in Portland for the bad habit they created for themselves? Why can't these people get a job like other civilized people and rent a room? Why do you feel it's OK for bums to camp on the street just because they "desire" as you put it? Is it OK if I desire to walk around naked? Why not? Do you feel that your ( and millions of other Portland residents) bleeding heart ❤ woke liberal policies and attitudes are why you're in the predicament you're in? Portland is an absolute festering shithole. You and all woke Libtards are getting exactly what you wanted and asked for! I hope the entire rat infested city falls to ruins and gets bull dozed. No one who works and pays taxes is going to want anything to do with this Democratic dystopian experiment. People unable to care for themselves need to rounded up and institutionalized! How can you possibly live in a city where you're afraid of getting stabbed to death by a crazed homeless panhandling drug addict every time you walk down a street?
Where will the money come from to help so many drug addicts from out of state who have flocked to Portland, and largely want to stay on drugs anyway, I was not willing to pay for, so I sold my Portland home and moved away.
I do not see a solution. You get housing for 1,000 homeless and in one week 1,000 more show up. People are migrating from cities that enfoce the rules and laws to cities that provide benifits.
In the old days we had skid rows, flophouses ,the Bowery, west Madison st. in Chicago, every city had a area where the bums were. Plus cheap rooming houses , YMCA hotels . I stayed in a lot of these when I was young, 60s,70s. They don't exist anymore.
no, they don't. That's because they get bowled down by wealthy "developers" to create cookie-cutter apartment living for people who can afford it. Cheap accommodation in a city like Portland simply doesn't exist, or when it does, there isn't enough of it.
It boggles the mind to think some, if not many, homeless folks would refuse help to get off the streets, but, from what I've heard, it's true. If you offer them free food or money, no strings attached, they'll all come running. However, if you offer them food and shelter--with the agreement they participate in programs to clean-up (get off drugs and alcohol), use good hygiene, learn how to secure a job and handle finances...leading to eventual independence, they scatter like leaves in the wind. Apparently, for many of these folks, the thought of sobering up, getting a job and having their own place terrifies them the same way the thought of living in a tent on the sidewalk terrifies us.
As someone from England, UK, who has visited the USA many times, but quite some time ago, I found your video of Portland to be truly shocking. It is incomprehensible how the city government has let matters deteriorate so much, including the litter and dirt. It is not surprising that there are so many boarded up and closed shops, as they are targeted by thieves and damaged, so very bad for business and to run a profitable company. It might help to have regular police patrols of these neighbourhoods and regular clean ups of the homeless encampments and the downtown area. There are a few wonderful nineteenth century buildings with fabulous details - I hope they are all on the list of historic buildings, so get statutory protection from inappropriate change that would be damaging to either the building fabric or character.
You missed the big encampments in Portland. The Greely/Going street areas, Lombard/33rd St, Delta Park along I-5 and Jantzen Beach; those camps are also chop shops for bikes and stolen cars so LOTS of stripped vehicles. Drove to a friend's house close to Laurelhust Park, just WOW! In a residential neighborhood there were tents lining the sidewalks with piles of junk, it was surreal watching a home owner trying to mow his lawn while watching his back at folks outside their tents acting squirrelly. Portland used to be vibrant now it's a wasteland.
It WAS so beautiful and livable. Back in the '70's a brother of mine and his wife came to visit for a vacation and decided to leave N.J. and move to the "most livable city in the U.S." He is a Vietnam vet, a widower now. All he has now is memories of a better life .😢😢😢
The real story is how smaller cities buy bus tickets for homeless to larger cities. In essence the smaller towns are forcing larger cities to take over the problems.
its truly disgusting to see a once beautiful city like Portland now been turned into a toilet. This is what happens when politics and votes are more important then Law. The last thing Portland needs is to De Fund the Police. The west coast has become an embarrassment.
Blessed to own my home. And yet, past couple years, new Tax Collector has tried to put me out, after 30 years. And, always have folks needing place to stay, to get back on feet. Good video.
Texas and Florida, RED STATES, are 3 and 4 on the list of states with the most homeless. I see people comment all the time that Democrat states have all the homeless. Well that's not true is it?
California, a decidedly blue state, has by far the most homeless. 28% of the USA's homeless are in California. New York, also very democrat, is second with 16% of the homeless. Texas & Florida each have less than 5%.
Nice try, Texas and Florida aren't even close to leading in homelessness. Check out Portland, another democratic disaster.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip But they are still top of the list meaning that conservative ideology isn't the holy grail like they claim.
Florida, Texas, and California are the best place to be homelessness camping out on the public street for their warmer climates. Homelessness have no border. They don't give a damn where is red and where is blue, they pick the warm climate to camp. On other hand, Oregon homelessness problem is quite a surprise to me. It is cold up there, unlike Texas, Florida, and California.
@@soybean7312 I agree. If I'm homeless, I want to be in one of those three states.
Big shoutout to Purdue pharmaceuticals for making this all possible.
Don’t forget the democrats in charge for decriminalizing almost everything and keeping the border open for easy access to fentanyl.
Don't forget China, the Mexican cartels, and open southern border.
Perfectly said
Don't forget good ol' Bayer, inventor of heroin.
@@MC-ht6lw They supply it because America demands it. This is a homegrown problem.
As a Australian looking in I find it all mind blowing, we have our own problems here, including homelessness, but what you candidly show seems entrenched and intractable. And on a scale we don’t see here, I sure hope it’s not. It’s not the America of the glossy travel brochures or what Hollywood pumps out for sure. Friends who visited Hawaii and Southern California in 2018 were also blown away by the scale of homeless crisis and mentioned it several times when they came home. By the way: parts of the drive from San Francisco to Portland reminded me of rural southeastern Australia - I am originally from Sydney and so know it fairly well. Thanks and take care.
It’s not like that everywhere, Peter. Portland is generally regarded as the worst run city in the U.S. as regards to its downtown. Weak city leadership there has allowed this behavior. You really don’t see it anywhere else, and in Texas cities this behavior is absolutely not allowed.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip That’s good to hear, down here we hear on occasion about Detroit or Flint as the examples of urban decay in the US, but as said Portland as shown blew my mind. Thanks again.
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip it's allowed in Austin
Omg! It is real and it's much worse than this all over America. Please let ppl know. There is an element now that is crushing ppl who tell. Ppl in other countries think this is the America of the 1950s. It isn't. Govt keeps pretending all the homeless ppl are mentally ill and addicts. I've done volunteerism for decades including homeless shelters. Most homeless are just average ppl who were suddenly hit w rent increases of hundreds more dollars or more per month. Ppl who applied for disability pensions and had to wait yrs to get processed then another few yrs to get Medicare to treat their problem, by wh time the injury or illness has increased substantially and they may no longer be able to qualify for housing. There are waiting lists for govt subsidized housing for many years
and ppl will be on the streets while waiting. Older ppl, especially, are dying alone on the streets, turned away from shelters or temp housing bc they may appear fragile or owners think they may be a burden, so they die unnoticed or are killed due to their vulnerabilities, especially women,, but many children live like this too, hungry and neglected.
All homeless ppl are blamed for their situation then ignored. The real scandal of the US is not just ppl now being homeless but the millions of migrants, undiagnosed of diseases, unknown as criminals, unvetted in any manner, un vaccinated for covid, but being sheltered in hotels around america, paid for by the taxpayers, including the homeless workers who cannot ever earn enough to rent anywhere but feel blessed to have some income and a little hope. This is so unconscionable as to be likened to a Nazi state.
We aren't just outraged, we are stunned. We can't even help our ppl get to Mexico anymore where Social Security even in small amts would ensure shelter, food, and medicine, bc Mexico has changed its laws for immigrants tremendously, I expect due to the costs they incurred w the stay in mexico policy of the US while millions of migrants traveled through and lingered at their border when attempting to invade the US.
In short. It's a disgrace and advocates don't know how to fix this despite decades of trying.😲😖❤
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip omg! That's not true! Ive traveled all over the country documenting this. Why are you lying to the ppl who may know some ways of helping?
Covering up disasters this large and widespread just to make things look good to others isn't helping anyone. You cannot eliminate problems by pretending they don't exist. And btw, these are your own ppl. Why are you okay w putting illegals in hotels and letting your brothers and sisters die in this danger and filth, a situation that hasn't been seen since the Nazi concentration camps? Maybe the SS won't come and shoot them, they will just let the elements and street criminals eliminate them.
Is that your plan? And you are ok with it, huh?
I was homeless for a lot of my twenties in Seattle. I learned all about the homeless industrial complex. There are a lot of programs that exploit the homeless for free labor and sell goods they receive for free. The biggest money made off the homeless are programs that receive massive private donations. I could name some of them but would rather not. They do help people, but first and foremost they make $$$.
Can confirm from personal experience being homeless in the northeast. A lot of local programs and services are in place to help people, but they don't help many, or very quickly. But they justify their own salary and keep the lights on and the AC running in the offices day in and day out, regardless of how many people are actually being housed, getting work training/job placement, etc.
I'm guessing those are the "not for profit" organized crime err uhh ummm organizations.
Ditto California
You should release those names so that the public n the government concern should know that there are peoples out there in pretending to help the needles yet they are actually taking advantages of problems of others to enrich their pockets. What a shameless human beings like that! No moral n no religious believe!!
That's what it's all about. Political patronage at taxpayer expense. Throw money at NGOs run by suits who are cronies of the City Council. No one is being helped except the suits running the NGOs.
We lived in Portland in the 1980s. It was a beautiful city with lots of life and vibrancy. There was a significant homeless population then, but NOTHING like this. And downtown was busy and full of businesses and people, day and nights. This is heartbreaking.
Richmond CA 1958 changed when I saw it in 1975. Sad, sad, sad.
So did my husband and I. He is a native of Portland , joined the Navy
When jobs were scarce and when we would go back to visit his family, we would notice changes little by little. He's now retired after twenty years of service and while we saw a good part of our great nation in our various duty stations, Portland kept going downhill.😢
This footage was taken AFTER the city had tried to clean up that area around Delta Park. You should have seen it before that. There were dozens of stolen cars and Rv’s with graffiti all over everything. I’ve lived here all my life and have never seen it this bad. No respect for what used to be such a gorgeous city.
DMTBKA
It’s worse now 3/23
That's what Voting Democrat gets you
San Francisco Seattle Portland
That building at 25:39 used to be a bank. And the Kelly's Olympian across the street is more of a bar/live music venue and not as much a Cafe. It's crazy to see parks that I used to eat lunch at on my lunch break completely boarded up and unusable. Left Portland back in November of 2021, it was sad to leave but staying was even sadder. Living in that was just too much on my psyche.
I remember the early nineties how clean and how much fun Portland was. My wife and I would spend the night in Portland then head off to My Hood for a day at the slopes. I had to work in Portland a few years ago it has become realy terrible.
Can’t blame you at all. Best of luck!
It is still a bank.
@@karlabritfeld7104 what bank is it now? Just curious.
@@faithatieno461 Do yourself a favor and go someplace else.
Absolutely surreal like an end world apocalyptic city. Glad I still remember Portland from a visit in 1998, charming, modern, clean, upbeat city. Truly sad state and a scene replicating thru other major cities in our great Nation.
Exactly what democrat politicians want
Yes it was a great place!
It was great. A really clean city. It deserved every accolade it got. All good things...
Who will write the epitaph of the USA and what will it say?
Its still the same, just more tents.
Wow. Thanks for showing downtown. That was crazy seeing that Apple Store and all of the homeless. Don’t think I’ll visit anytime soon.
Thank you for your videos. It's heartbreaking what's happened to a once fine city.
Thank you governor Brown for legalizing all drugs and muzzleing the police. When the rule of law is abolished, this is what happens.
It's not the influx of drugs it's the influx of degrading, low minded, deviant "leadership" lacking any decency of character
Well blm and antifa rule Oregon. Not the tax payers. The two communist senators in organ make you want to hurl. Worthless sorry and low down.
Same thing is happening here in Philadelphia Pa it’s like these politicians are being paid off or something to destroy us here .. Injust can’t get my head around why they don’t do anything they have ro😊😊
Like January 6?
Decriminalizing Drugs is Different
I used to deliver to restaurants in downtown Seattle as early as 4 in the morning and its just the same there too. Was often uncomfortable out there with just homeless and mentally unstable folks being the only others out at that time. Once even had a crazy lady with a neon ATM sign try to climb in the back of my truck once during business hours while I was just trying to do my job. So glad I moved back to Tucson even though I'm not there often since now I drive long haul across the US. See this in a lot of big cities with Seattle, Portland and LA being the worst.
Tucson, heroin capital of Arizona
I was born in Portland in 1956 and lived there until nearly 30 years ago, moving to Helsinki Finland because my wife is from Finland. I’m REALLY thankful that she’s not from Portland, or I might still be there. Just the thought of that gives me the creeps.
I was born there in 1952 and left in 1968. My grandparents must be rolling in their graves to see what’s happened to their beautiful city.
I just moved away from Portland end of 2021 it was as bad as it looks. So very sad for once such a beautiful place.
I lived in Portland for 27 years. In 2017 I literally saw the writing on the wall and husband and I got out. My friends are all complaining about the city but they won't leave even though they have the means to do so.
@@karlabritfeld7104 So, so, sad 😢
At least we kept the downtown from flooding during the winter of 1996. We scrounged together anything that we could patch together and built a retaining wall along Waterfront Park to keep the Willamette River back. By that time i had graduated to trying to live aboard a boat on highway 30. Flooding forced me into the hills where i slept in my van. The Great Depression brought worse than you see here. Study about Sullivan's Gulch, just East of LLoyd's Center where a huge Hobo Camp existed. Life doesn't change much, i'm afraid.
I’m so happy to have found your channel, so informative
You and Nicole are so nice and patient
Thank you for these videos. It's a huge eye opener to American claiming to be so wealthy, but our major cities look like this. I'm forever entranced by your videos and the areas you film. It's very sad.
And we are the richest country in the world!
But hey, lets hang a Ukraine Flag and send them some money…
That first homeless camp used to be a busy dog park but the homeless activity pushed them out. The homeless activity forced the Elmer's to close that's on the other side of the park.
Good video, thanks. Sad to see so many people lacking a home there. I'm from UK and I like the way you avoid political commentary in your tours.
Thank you for the kind words, la la. BTW, I went to the UK several years ago. Loved it there!
Why? Is it because you don’t want to hear how the left has destroyed It with there policies? Need to wake up…
La la you meant mean sprit left wing lol. They rise the prices of homes and leave people put out in the streets. The ingredients are in the pudding. Be blind all you want. But there's the sign
@@_5_675 Real left has programs for free crack pipes, it has nothing to do with losing a job it's drugs, alcohol and criminal records. I used to work in Portland mabe you don't realise this but Portland at one time was a gem, the cleanest, most fun city in the US an example of what could be accomplished. Sorry it's not right wing conservative Christian's that have done this.
He mentioned Antifa. If he was worried about politics, he wouldn't have. Not sure if he has mentioned the proud boys that were there destroying stuff, though. Hmm.
Ages ago, when I lived in Olympia, I loved Portland-always thought it was much more fun than Seattle or Vancouver. The city has really befouled itself, though. My hometown of Austin is going the same way: no humanity, just sleeping bags and Teslas. The west in general is in the grips of some sort of cultlike fever right now. I hope the fever breaks, but I’m not optimistic.
Yep it’s called the decline of Christianity and the worship of socialism.
Austin has been ruined by an overpopulation of hipster and Dell wannabes.
Austin is so, so bad. Entire homeless CITIES there rather than camps.
That’s sad to hear about Austin. There’s nowhere different to go now. I’ll stay in NYC, we will always recover.
Come join me in Cleveland brother
I lived in Seattle back in 92 to 93, North Gate, it was beautiful, crystal clean, friendly folks,and a ton to do. Now days,no way I would even visit. Back in 92, it was the place to be.
Portland was the same at 93
I left Portland in July of 2021, had lived there 10 years. It's true what is happening in the city. It used to be a vibrant place to live, walkable city, and safe to roam and visit the many beautiful arts districts, parks and local eateries in the city. Around 2016 that began to change and by the time I left it had taken a significant downturn. Ignore the problem is very much the reality there. Even bringing the issues up in conversation would get you shamed and snubbed. Denial at its worst. I watched front and center what was once an amazing city turn into a zombie land of violence and destruction. The beauty is still there but something needs to change for the better very soon or that will be gone too.
as soon as trump came into office, democrats went crazy just to spite him
*Well, commercial real estate has to be lowered in both Portland and San Francisco. Downtown buildings are empty in both cities. They are asking for a small suite $30k monthly. No small business can afford it.*
Yeah, it's crazy!!
Almost all of the homeless are on drugs. It doesn't matter that the rental costs are so high. That impacts people who work.
Billionaire buyouts, etc
The Rose City. It was once gorgeous
Shuddap
My son lived in Portland for 17 years, I went as often as I could and found Portland to be so beautiful, 8 years ago he moved back to Co. now I am so sad to see what has happened to Portland 😥
Visited Portland back in 2018 and fell in love with it. Sad to see it go fall so far so quickly.
Yup, Thank's to insane WOKE policies.
You're doing a great job! This is as real as real can get! No Hollywood, no CGI, just real life. Be safe! Thank you for the education and entertainment!👍
Wow, thank you!
Thank you for taking us places from our past, or those of our kin decades ago. It is sad, sometimes beautiful and always eye opening.
I moved away from Portland end of 2021. It was a beautiful place with parks and small businesses everywhere. Walkable and bikeable. Now it is expensive, dangerous, and completely wrong what has happened to Portland.
Didn't BLM riots occur there for around 120 days in the summer of 2020? I witnessed a lot of video's of destruction in that city during that time.
👍 Great government leadership there! NOT!
@@fardrives yeah all those videos you saw took place literally inside a 3 square block area. The media on that was incredibly overblown. 95% of portland is the same as its ever been. More tents though from the pandemic.
@@curtisowen3233 was it overblown? There were multiple murders/assaults/rapes/robberies reported within CHAZ
@@fardrives They didn't riot in a vacuum... Trump made sure they were given plenty to keep them interested. It was a very small area - and they were protesting the "Federal Thugs" more than BLM. (hint, there are more black people in any big southern CITY than in the entire STATE of Oregon)
I have lived in Portland since 1980 and have watched it grow into a major attraction to tourists for its cleanliness, beauty, and wonderful nationally recognized restaurants. Now I feel as if I'm living in Calcutta as the city has fallen prey to mismanagement, city/county/regional governmental breakdowns and infighting, and a homeless situation that seemingly grows exponentially daily. The stench, amount of trash, and encampments of homeless is incredible and maddening. There seems to be no one in leadership that can come up with a solution to help. Camps are broken up, cleaned up, and the homeless are back within days, sometimes hours. It is sometimes impossible to walk on the sidewalks due to tents and trash. Side streets are sometimes impassable due to camps and huge amounts of trash. Last week the city swept a camp in my neighborhood, removing several abandoned and disassembled vehicles, broken down RV's, trailers full of trash, only to have homeless return within a day. Downtown Portland has many businesses boarded up due to crime and vandalism, and the public is avoiding the area. One day the city will recover, but it is going to take years. I would love to leave Portland, and Oregon, as they have become so expensive and unattractive, but the other half won't budge.
Thanks for posting this expedition. I will never visit this mess, so your posting is very informative!
Thank you for watching, Stephen!
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip Maybe someday we can visit your mess !
@@floydrasmussen255 Cope, mald and seethe more that your leftist, quasi-communist politics ruin literally everything they touch. Boo, hoo, hoo. 😢
I went to university in Oregon. 2007 Portland was great. It was an affordable, quirky, hidden gem of a city. Now, you couldn't pay me to live there.
Go DUCKS!
In the early 2000's I had friends go on vacation up there and I just loved the vibe, nature, and everything. Good god it has become an absolute display of leadership failure and bad policies. This is the heaven the woke mob created, as trite as that sounds. Get rid of police, let crime and homelessness run rampant.. yeah, this is what happens. I hear the surrounding cities are still fine though.
Same. I went to UofO and the one time I was in Portland it was wonderful and I didn't see one homeless person. This was in 1999
I realize that lack of affordable housing has much to do with this, but what is not discussed enough is that a majority of these people are mentally ill, addicts or alchoholics, or disabled in some way. Without an infrastructure to deal with that as well as housing, the problem just multiplies - and one has to ask, what kind of society are we to let the mentally ill and otherwise disabled live and die on the streets? Equally, it seems inappropriate that people who are unable to function in society are allowed to disrupt so much the functioning of society.
You're assuming city councils _want_ to solve the homeless problem. The clearly don't. They need to justify their jobs and so they'll let the problem fester and then wring their hands over how big the problem is and how they need more and more taxpayer money to hand over to NGOs to fix -- who, by the way, are operated by well-compensated suits who by and large are cronies of those same politicians and are effectively feeding at the public trough without offering anything even remotely resembling a solution. They're tinkering around the edges, trying to treat the symptom while ignoring the disease.
Liberal Democrats are responsible for
I left Portland in February 2022 after 25 years moving from Phoenix. Portland was such a beautiful, eclectic, diverse city till around 2010. Then it nose dived into chaos with the Meth & Heroin addicts. Then the anti- everything group's started to protest. Antifa, proud boys... Then covid-19 hit and Portland and the entire downtown Portland STOP functioning. You dare not to go out at night time!!! I had enough and left. I really loved this city. I only hope THEY clean it up, from inside city & state gov. and gets back to the beautiful city it once was...
It's easy to see how beautiful this city has always been. I never knew. I always immediately think of cities with tons of traffic and trash, but this, you can tell, had flare and charm. It's really a sad, sad deal what they have allowed to happen to it.
Stop believing the leftist dream. Leadership and order is needed
@@morten1 I haven't ever, for one second, believed a leftist dream. They are insane. That doesn't mean the city wasn't designed and put together with beauty in mind when it was birthed however many years ago. The sad part comes in that lefty extremists have shredded it. No doubt they are in desperate need of leadership and order. I didn't feel the need to make it political. People need to learn how to interpret what they see in front of them because they tend not to believe anyone they perceive as not on their side without hesitation.
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We moved from the Portland area about 9 years ago. It wasn't near this bad when we left, & it's heartbreaking to see what's happened to such a beautiful city.
There are shelters all over the city but they have rules that homeless don't want to follow such as not being under the influence of drugs or alcohol and not in possession of drugs or alcohol
Or a weapons even if you have a concealed carry permit it is ridiculous
Not homeless, they are called "Bums"!
VERY WELL SAID! Alot of this CRAP! Is folks who DO NOT! Want to be Self Supporting! THEY Have Choosen to be a bum! and DO Drugs! And Drink! And NOT WORK! They want everything Free! A friend of mine Works at one of the Homeless Helping Places. And she said! There is FREE HELP! To get off the Drugs! And Help to be Self Supporting! And to find a JOB! BUT Most of these folks! DONT EAN TO WORK
A friend of mine Helps with the Homeless at a Downtown Shelter Area. She said! Most of these Homeless folks WILL NOT WORK! And Will NOT! Get help to get off DRUGS and Drinking! They just want Free Handouts!! And there is FREE HELP to get off DRUGS! They Offer It! They do not want to work and get help to be Self Supporting! She said Very Few!! Want to get Clean! That's what's Disgusting! These are Adults! That Need To Grow Up! 👹
@@debrabuckley7963 The homeless evidently like being trash.
Denver started to make it illegal to camp in the parks, arrested a bunch of the homeless and remove them to different areas. They are now advancing upon the suburbs in droves with their tents, trash, and loitering. I can't help but think all the abandoned boarded up buildings should have some purpose other than sitting there empty. Have a great day and safe travels
I lived here in Portland for 25 years now and visitors from another state comes to visit here, and comment on the homelesssness. I say I feel embarrassed by the condition of our city. Hey Governor, don’t you feel embarrassed by this at all? When will you help us solve and end homelessness??
My husband, kids and I moved form portland (i was bored and raised there, born in the 80s), in 2013. We went to visit in August 2020 and i felt so sad to see my city like this. It's horrible.
Yeah thank you for the videos and may God bless you for sharing them with us
I left Portland after 12 years in 2019, right before the pandemic hit, and moved to St Louis. I used to brag about how nice Portland was. I used to tell them all these great things, including how safe it was. I took my girlfriend to Portland for her first visit in 2021, and I was so embarrassed, and I was worried she thought I had been lying. It was nothing like that in 2019 when I left. Sure there were homeless, there has always been homeless, but downtown used to be awesome. Now I see news about murders weekly, sometimes daily. It looks like a war zone, or a zombie movie. Hell some of the people look like zombies. I'm glad we got out of town to see the rest of Oregon, which she loved, but I can't believe what has happened to Portland. I can't believe they let it happen. This might sound crazy to some, but I actually feel safer in St Louis.
I have explored downtown St Louis. I felt perfectly safe there, and it's a much cleaner, better organized, even more beautiful (with all the great old buildings) downtown than Portland.
The "news" you see is just right wing propaganda. Portland is still just fine.
@@lopoa126 I was there myself... I didn't need the media to show me anything. Downtown was a disaster....
It does sound crazy. worked as a nurse in St. Louis. Barnes hospital, SLU hospital. Every night we would have shootings and stabbings none of which were reported on TV or the post dispatch. The crime is far far worse there than reported every day.
What do you expect: it became a liberal utopia!
I was surprised that Jackson Mississippi had no homeless encampment or tents on the streets. With all the poverty there, how do the residents maintain their homes and stay in them?!! Amazing!
Homeless aren't in poor neighborhoods because there's no money to be handed out. The very poor can't exist without the very rich.
They send all their homeless to liberal cities where there are resources to keep them alive.
Jackson has its own problems. No water
Maybe the LAWS are obeyed and prosecutor's prosecute criminals. And maybe they enforce the DRUG laws, and maybe they don't have Democrat administrations running the city.
Because 1) Mississippi is the cheapest state in the nation, so when it is easier for more people to afford their own home, they are less likely to homeless; they may not have the best homes or live in the best neighborhood, but they do have a legit roof over their heads instead of living on the streets, and 2) they have among the least, if not the least amount of homeless subsidization, as evidenced by Mississippi having the lowest homeless rate per capita in the nation too, whereas Oregon spends a lot like every Pacific Coast state and has the 4th highest homelessness per capita, only behind New York, Hawai'i and California. Granted, Miss. is not helping the problem either by simply kicking some of them out to other states, namely blue ones who are more willing to take them, but still, like with -socoalzt indoktrination- public education and law enforcement, the more you subsidize something, the more of that something you will have.
I have been planning a trip to Portland for years and now that I am retired I can take my time and drive across the country to visit. This video has opened my eyes and now realize it is too late to go and see the once wonderful city I always heard about. I assume it may not be worthwhile to revisit Seattle either. At least I have fond memories going there during the late 60s as a child.
You should still come. This shows just a small fraction of the city and there is still plenty to see and experience. Also keep in mind that some of those chained off or boarded up places were due to construction or overall structural issues. This was a small section of downtown and part of what makes Portland interesting is that the real places to visit are in the neighborhood which have their own individual personalities.
You guys are doing very important work by opening the eyes of others most of us are so caught up in our jobs and our own little worlds to realize what is really going on in other parts of the country and how bad people are suffering its so sickening to me how our government rakes in so much money in taxes and people are living like this while the politicians who collect that money live in multi million dollar mansions
That’s a Natural Fact..
The State of Oregon is Allowing all of this Crap!! They need to make it Against The Law! To camp and do Drugs whereever!! Oregon has turned into a Big DUMP SITE!! 👹
Govt has to focus on funding someone else's wars to have anything left for the taxpayers.
@@haydonditchburn2194 ALL WARS! Have been FUNDED! By Governments! They were all Man-made! To keep the Fights and the Divide of man kind. Anyone can do the research. IT is all so Disgusting! And it's all about MONEY! 👹
Stop your lies! The homeless are degenerate drug addicts who refuse all rehabilitation. There is a labor shortage in America with jobs all over the country in communities with affordable housing.
We visited Portland ages ago loved Oregon and stayed in Portland such a lovely place , so sad too see it like this
I live in scotland...........I have been watching your videos the past couple of weeks and they are absolutely fascinating.
Thank you for the kind words, jojo. :)
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip I'm enjoying them too and I live in Australia.
The whole city isn’t like this just certain areas that had space to camp
Better hope he doesn't visit Easterhouse
@@kathudelaney7978 It is the downtown district, the main part of the City so yes, Lord Spoda is showing the true Portland.
Yes Portland and Seattle used to be vibrant beautiful cities. No longer…very sad…
They still are, very different picture if he shot this on a Saturday in the summer, and not during a pandemic.
@@curtisowen3233 you work at slurping milk out of a saucer and rubbing up against strangers legs in the metaverse aren't you boy?
@@johnbrichler6535 only your leg sweetcheeks 😜
@@curtisowen3233 Yeah, and didn't spend 10 minutes videoing 10 concrete blockades as though they are representative of the city. He clearly only visited the worst areas and did so at the worst time of the year. Why not be honest and come during the Rose festival or video around the Pearl? Oh yes, because it's about him getting his clicks.
*goes downtown for 30 mins*......."alright ive had enough of downtown"
Mind blown. I visited Portland in 1999 or 2000, spent a night in a downtown hotel and the following day walking around a very clean, pretty city. I don't recall seeing even one homeless person. My host, a city native, tried to have me steer clear of one particular area as "unsafe" when all I encountered were a few teens sitting together. What happened to create what it is now is beyond my comprehension.
Bought my first house in Portland in 1992, back when it was a fabulous place to live. Things changed around the 9-11 crisis when the entire world changed. Portland will never be the same, glad I moved away before the massive destruction.
Adjusted Portland median home value in 1992 was under $125k. Today it's about $550k. Oops.
This is a human tragedy in a beautiful city being destroyed🙏
No, the city is what it is. Not being destroyed, it's being lived in the way society allows. People will live you morons, if you don't let them live one way they will STILL LIVE. Continue to adore your politicians fools, hate the poor you fools, believe in your superiority fools. It's defaced because YOU DON'T DESERVE IT NOT TO BE, YOU MORONS.
I visited Portland about 6 years ago, came in on the Train. Right across from the train station, tents were set up right across on the bridge sidewalk, both sides of the street. What a way for the city to welcome visitors into town.
I've been watching videos like yours from Portland, LA, etc about homeless and am now starting to see the same thing in Pittsburgh
I live in Pittsburgh and I recently walked over on the trail on the North Shore and was shocked by all the tents! They've only seemed to pop up within the last year or so. And downtown Pittsburgh has gotten bad too. It's like zombie land.
Denver joins the chat
About to get worse with the new senator you guys voted in. As an outsider just so disappointing to see what kind of people Pennsylvania choose to vote for
@@jameswesterman9283 Sloth from the Goonies got voted in. Pennsylvania gets what they vote for.
I just saw this video and got so angry that the city fathers allowed this lawlessness to exist in this fine city. You city fathers should be ashamed of yourself for destroying this city. This is just disgusting.
Some people like being homeless, my friend was forced to get a flat he sleeps in the garden it was pointless.
Lived in ORegon all my life and avoid portland like the plague. Totally disgusting now. Used to be a nice city,
Same plague is drifting south to medford, where I live. The city has tried to control it, only to be beaten back by advocacy groups. One party rule for decades and this is the result. The current governor has said white supremacy is oregon's biggest problem.
Yes who would have ever seen this 20 year's ago. " Were is this going "
If the mayor and city council didn't tie they police hands it might be a different story..
How many people do you expect the taxpayers to fund?
When they can barely
Pay their own bills?
I get tired of steeping over garbage including people.
You can be homeless and still have respect and common sense,
So unbelievably sad...we drove through Portland on our way to the coast for a vacation 2 years ago when all the riots, protesting, and looting was happening there. Didn't go into the epicenter of the city but saw encampments as well as vandalized objects from the freeway. Doesn't look like anything has changed at all since then.
funny thing, Portland has a mostly "white" but multicultural community. And a TON of "activists" while the eastern part of the state has a very active "white supremacism movement" because the Eastern part is pretty much all white. The issue has always been that the liberal "big cities" of the Willamette Valley have ended up hiring the conservatives as cops (that is who usually applies) -- but a lot of the actual racists are mixed in.
Then you get the unholy mess where Trump, in the only town he REALLY played the card in... did everything to pour gas on the protestors and keep it going for MONTHS. All for the excuse of "protecting" the Federal buildings that the protestors didn't REALLY CARE about. They only wanted to spray paint the building because all the goons DIDN'T want them to. As long as they kept firing volleys of tear gas, and running around in goon squads -- they made good "invaders" for the locals to fight against.
So Portland had protestors months and months after everyone else. Every attempt at "escalation" was taken.
I spent a year in Portland. The "hippie" type of Liberal is everywhere. Its a point of pride, and Eugene (arguably the home of the hippee movement) is just down the road.
Who did the looting?
@@soprotivleniye7620 Opportunists and gangs. The small number of people looting in Dallas (one night) was definitely economically driven and boogaloo supported. The person in the footage who tossed a rock through the glass at Neiman Marcus (in a hoodie with black gloves) then strolls away casually like he wasn't involved. While others looted he strolled off. Maybe 20 people?
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I certainly did not "riot" and neither did any other of the huge number of protestors who gathered at City Hall in the daytime here.
City hall is, in fact, still there and nobody set it on fire.
"BLM as Rioters" just plays so well into the "blacks do all the crime" or "13%er" or whatever the racists are saying this week.
The fact was, there were MORE WHITE PEOPLE at most protests than blacks so that "myth" sorta breaks down. The mass WHITE support for BLM seems to have terrified the true racists though.
Just like most of the "economic looting" in LA was Latino gangs... the Police were busy...
18:55 An elderly homeless black man pushes his cart past graffiti that reads, "Black Lives are Sacred" & "We Are Rising"... That gentleman's life is certainly sacred, but I question the city's willpower. And its integrity. Portland's residents and its government seem far more preoccupied with performative acts that satisfy trendy politics. May the city's inhabitants find common ground so that they may work together and provide food and shelter and love for those in need ❤
- Sincerely, a former resident
My wife and I started traveling in 2013 then more permanently in 16, and got a motorhome in 2019.
Giving away Bibles the whole time.
We're from west of Portland, Hillsboro/Forest Grove.
Thanks for the videos
Billions and billions for Ukraine's munitions, but nothing for our displaced citizens at home. This country is collapsing.😎
A monument to failure.
A refugee camp to the war on drugs.
How this could be ignored is beyond me we don't live in a third world country
There are people who are genuinely Homeless and out of work and then there are the homeless with addiction who cannot or will not live anywhere but the streets.
I saw a video (not the same as Nic) in California, which explained that many of the tents are empty: the residents have homes but go there to take drugs. Amazing.
This was a year ago. There are now tents on every sidewalk you walked down. Large rats in and out of the garbages especially at the bus stops.
I am surprised the city government does not do more clean ups on account of the rodent infestation, which is a serious health and safety risk.
Tough problems require tough solutions. Time to bring back work camps and mental hospitals for these chronically ill people. Allowing this level of squalor and degeneracy is unacceptable
Every time someone wants to build affordable housing, the people already living in an area say, "not in my backyard". Everyone wants someone to provide housing to people who are houseless to get them off the streets, as long as its somewhere else. So there's never enough, there are too many exclusions, and this is the disaster we have in this city now. Many of these people would've worked side by side with people just like the folks in the comments just a few years ago, but now they're scary and other because they fell on hard times.
Portland is one of many cities that has homeless and the underpasses
lined with tents and it's both the West Coast and East Coast and all in
between and it's not just in the big cities either it's in small towns as well
even in some rural areas especially in Oklahoma my state and Texas.
they are bums and drug addicts
Yup. Homelessness exists everywhere. Despite, Far-right boomers who insist that it exists only in Portland, Detroit, or LA.
Whatever you enable, you'll get more of. Whatever you punish, you'll get less of. It's not too complex.
Start from Vancouver BC...down I-5...Bellingham....Everett....Seattle....Tacoma....Olympia....Centralia....Kelso/Longview...Vancouver, WA...Portland,OR...this is what you see! It's sad.....
Very well done …. Sure saves me from ever going there! Such decay.
im sure the city of Portland and its inhabitants will greatly miss your divine presence
Figure the same thing. Won’t ever have to go there. Almost took a promotion to go there in the late 90s and I am sure I chose the correct path. Hate to see the destruction to businesses.
I will never visit this place
3.5 in my opinion, as a long time resident is too generous. This city has gone downhill very fast in the last 15yrs. I've been here 52yrs and am moving out portland as of February 2023......never to return. With crime very bad here, I'm extremely surprised your vehicle didn't get stolen and end up in a homeless camp. That's VERY common and a daily norm here. You were lucky! 😉 The homeless problem here increases a minimum of 30% every year. Once ya been here, you don't wanna come back. 😖😩
Little baby February can't come fast enough, can it?
@@hashpling NO it can't. (Whats with the "Little baby" thing anyway?) 😕?
I lived in Portland for 10 years. Left in early 2017. It was nowhere nearly this bad 6 years ago. The Occupy Wall Street movement had just happened and we had homeless encampments popping up in one of the parks by the riverfront but the homeless population was small relative to the regular people who walked around downtown. I've only visited a few times since I left and it's been a shock each time. Eugene is still the way I left it, that will always be my favorite NW city.
Love your informative vedio guys, and showcasing reality on the grounds...
Lived in Hotels, all around the Country, for 17 years for my job. Best Western has been going down hill for a LONG time. Really like your videos.
Thank you, Dave!
I couldn't imagine driving to work every day thru such a dangerous environment. Unbelievable !
Yeah, it's really nothing like he makes it out to be. It's like walking into a mansion and doing a 40 minute video about bathroom # 8's clogged toilet. What about the foyer? What about the breakfast nook?
It is exactly what he made it out to be. I was there last year at all the same places he was walking. I still liked it the city overall but was in disbelief that a so called progressive liberal city treated its citizens so poorly and refuses to care for its poorest citizens. Incredibly sad! @@HikingWithCooper
You can call a Monet garbage if you're only looking at the frame. He intentionally visited ONLY the crap parts of town because it gets him clicks. Every large city has crap parts in their town but not for some hack to come around and represent those parts as being the whole. Why did he make the choice to not visit and air footage from the Rose gardens? From the arboretum? From the Pearl? Why did he not bother to mention our world-class food scene? Our many art and science museums? Our country-best airport? It's because he has a narrative and he is dividing us so that he can make money.
No city "treats" its citizens in any particular way. A city will do what it can afford to do. We are suffering greatly from the opioid epidemic but we did not cause or perpetuate the epidemic. We are victims of it. Meanwhile, the court system (entirely independent of Portland) is shielding the pharmaceutical companies and cities across the country will continue to suffer. So don't blame Portland for being liberal and not being able to single handedly solve our country's problems.@@jefftomasello3258
We watched this video the other night and was just blown away by all the tents and homeless people. We just can’t understand how it is allowed to go on. These people need help. Very very sad.
The cause is the unacknowledged acceptance of hard drugs (not pot or alcohol) as recreational by too many in mainstream America. It’s never discussed in media, but cocaine and even heroin are too common among the rich, middle class and poor.
Doctors cause addictions
j & N- Joe, you are a pretty dang good HH shooter, intuitive, street-photography style- I like your voice over commentary. I like the fact you just put up these nice long takes, I am looking forward to seeing more of your work, also to seeing if I can detect any political growth hor part - it is not that 'somebody is doing a bad job' in my view, but the bad job is being done (or not done) in all of our names. muchas gracias. Blaine Dunlap
Thank you for sharing !
Happy New Year !
Thank you, DJ! Happy New Year to you as well.
Good grief, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco et al are the LAST places I'd ever want to visit let alone live!!
This looks worse than I imagined. I get news feeds from Portland regularly with community leaders urging people to reopen businesses downtown, while berating residents for abandoning downtown.
My understanding is that it looks even worse now. I need to make a return trip there.
More than homeless shelters, we need residential mental health facilities that help to treat people without abuse.
There should be a center where all homeless are brought. Separate the druggies from the actual homeless and begin anew, grant no favors, give them opportunity but administer the thought that returning to a corner to park your ass isn't permissable. These people are stuck in a hole, allowed freedom to do any drug without prosecution is ludicrous, as well as shoplifting and defacating on the street. It's a city without laws and quickly becoming a cesspool.
I was born and raised in Portland but moved to Seattle 12 years ago. Seeing this breaks my heart. The blame for this is 100% at the feet of the politicians and the choices they have made over the last ten years. The woke Dem policies are destroying the entire west coast and the voters who put them there should be made to stay put and live with the consequences. I can't wait to leave this area of the country and move where people still have traditional, family values. Thank you very much for sharing these videos so people can see the reality of what is happening in the US.
When I left Frisco on new year's eve in '91 my thought was to stop in Portland. There wasn't much going on there so I continued on to Seattle. I'm truly amazed at the downward spiral. Drug and mental illnesses play a huge part in this demise. Seattle has become another magnet for such activity.
I am a resident of Portland Oregon. The mayor has no interest in helping those who truly want to be helped. It's extremely sad to live in this city. I want to be able to help these folks. There are people who desire to be housed/helped but others desire to stay outside. It is an extremely sad site to behold 😭
Hey Luara, I've got a couple questions for you. What do you want the mayor to do?
Why is it the Mayor's responsibility to get these people off drugs? Shouldn't every adult pull his/her own weight? Why can't these drug addicts find free treatment in Portland for the bad habit they created for themselves? Why can't these people get a job like other civilized people and rent a room? Why do you feel it's OK for bums to camp on the street just because they "desire" as you put it? Is it OK if I desire to walk around naked? Why not?
Do you feel that your ( and millions of other Portland residents) bleeding heart ❤ woke liberal policies and attitudes are why you're in the predicament you're in?
Portland is an absolute festering shithole. You and all woke Libtards are getting exactly what you wanted and asked for! I hope the entire rat infested city falls to ruins and gets bull dozed.
No one who works and pays taxes is going to want anything to do with this Democratic dystopian experiment.
People unable to care for themselves need to rounded up and institutionalized!
How can you possibly live in a city where you're afraid of getting stabbed to death by a crazed homeless panhandling drug addict every time you walk down a street?
I moved away in December of 2021. Miss old Portland pre 2018 so much. 🥺
Where will the money come from to help so many drug addicts from out of state who have flocked to Portland, and largely want to stay on drugs anyway, I was not willing to pay for, so I sold my Portland home and moved away.
I do not see a solution. You get housing for 1,000 homeless and in one week 1,000 more show up. People are migrating from cities that enfoce the rules and laws to cities that provide benifits.
Laura I need your contact i want us to talk
In the old days we had skid rows, flophouses ,the Bowery, west Madison st. in Chicago, every city had a area where the bums were. Plus cheap rooming houses , YMCA hotels . I stayed in a lot of these when I was young, 60s,70s. They don't exist anymore.
no, they don't. That's because they get bowled down by wealthy "developers" to create cookie-cutter apartment living for people who can afford it. Cheap accommodation in a city like Portland simply doesn't exist, or when it does, there isn't enough of it.
well said
It boggles the mind to think some, if not many, homeless folks would refuse help to get off the streets, but, from what I've heard, it's true. If you offer them free food or money, no strings attached, they'll all come running. However, if you offer them food and shelter--with the agreement they participate in programs to clean-up (get off drugs and alcohol), use good hygiene, learn how to secure a job and handle finances...leading to eventual independence, they scatter like leaves in the wind. Apparently, for many of these folks, the thought of sobering up, getting a job and having their own place terrifies them the same way the thought of living in a tent on the sidewalk terrifies us.
I appreciate your visits everywhere. This one surprised me! Shocked.
As someone from England, UK, who has visited the USA many times, but quite some time ago, I found your video of Portland to be truly shocking. It is incomprehensible how the city government has let matters deteriorate so much, including the litter and dirt. It is not surprising that there are so many boarded up and closed shops, as they are targeted by thieves and damaged, so very bad for business and to run a profitable company. It might help to have regular police patrols of these neighbourhoods and regular clean ups of the homeless encampments and the downtown area. There are a few wonderful nineteenth century buildings with fabulous details - I hope they are all on the list of historic buildings, so get statutory protection from inappropriate change that would be damaging to either the building fabric or character.
You missed the big encampments in Portland. The Greely/Going street areas, Lombard/33rd St, Delta Park along I-5 and Jantzen Beach; those camps are also chop shops for bikes and stolen cars so LOTS of stripped vehicles.
Drove to a friend's house close to Laurelhust Park, just WOW! In a residential neighborhood there were tents lining the sidewalks with piles of junk, it was surreal watching a home owner trying to mow his lawn while watching his back at folks outside their tents acting squirrelly. Portland used to be vibrant now it's a wasteland.
Wow, that's crazy.
Portland is just fine
@@lopoa126 😂
@@lopoa126 😂😂
Yep, Portland is doing pretty good. Just more tents and homeless sent in from the conservative rural communities.
I was in Portland recently and the homeless and drugs were EVERYWHERE! It was horrible!
Come to Seattle and check out the 7000 volt electric fences set up around various lots to protect against catalytic converter thieves.
7000 volt fences are now being used in Portland too.
It WAS so beautiful and livable. Back in the '70's a brother of mine and his wife came to visit for a vacation and decided to leave N.J. and move to the "most livable city in the U.S." He is a Vietnam vet, a widower now. All he has now is memories of a better life .😢😢😢
Welcome to beautiful Portland. Hope you enjoyed your stay! Safe travels
The real story is how smaller cities buy bus tickets for homeless to larger cities. In essence the smaller towns are forcing larger cities to take over the problems.
its truly disgusting to see a once beautiful city like Portland now been turned into a toilet. This is what happens when politics and votes are more important then Law. The last thing Portland needs is to De Fund the Police. The west coast has become an embarrassment.
Blessed to own my home. And yet, past couple years, new Tax Collector has tried to put me out, after 30 years. And, always have folks needing place to stay, to get back on feet. Good video.
Making me homesick with that drive. Born and raised in napa, living in Columbus Ms now vor 25 yrs.
Standing by while the derelict destroy your city