Homeless campsite in SE Portland inconveniencing neighbors and pushing them out of city 

The audacity of these people thinking that they deserve free housing while they drink and smoke meth all day.

Except at the end, she said the homeless are offered free transportation to a shelter, so they have a place to go and even transportation to get there, but they're not going.

I know, right?!?

If they are broke and homeless . How do they get drugs ?

@@santosmadrigal3702 Givin hand jobs to rich conservatives.

To Portland's detriment, Wheeler's opponent was another super freak progressive leftist. That is what seeks office these days in big city America. The GOP want no part of it.

make sure you drive them out of your town by any means. these are not americans. they dont care about democracy or rule of law. they will come in with their progressive socialism and destroy your town.

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YOUR EXACTLY RIGHT

THIS IS WHAT THE OFFICIALS WANTED, THE PEOPLE OF PORTLAND NEED TO STOP CRYING AND LEARN TO LIVE IN THE CHAOS THEY CREATED, WHAT DID THEY THINK WAS GONNA HAPPEN WHEN YOU DEFUND THE POLICE, AND IT WAS ALL OVER A CRACK HEAD NAMED GEORGE FLOYD, SO YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT MY FRIEND

VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!! VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!! VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!

Mayor Wheeler seems oblivious to the Detroitification of Portland

But REAL socialism has never been tried

@@gabrielsandoval7331 LMFAO

The difference between liberalism and conservatism………….

Its not really cruelty. Some times you have to restrain peope to keep them alive. It may not feel good but it keeps them alive until they see they are their own biggest problem. Been there done that, sober 17 yrs after hiding in addiction for over 25

Cruelty was decriminalization of hard drugs. It has brought in tweekers from far and abroad. Pile welfare on top of that and it's a twacker Jack's paradise

Actually you can fix it without cruelty, evidenced by the fact that some countries have nearly eliminated homelessness.

@@andrewkuebler4335 It's true. I'm a big fan of the way Israel handled their homeless problem. Shipping all their brown residents to Canada.

Stop paying taxes. They can't arrest 5 million people

Like what?

@@Ck-zk3we …..enforce the laws already in place that are being violated by the inhabitants of these illegal makeshift homeless camps. Put into place solutions to help the homeless who want help and are willing to participate in their own rehabilitation and socioeconomic advancement.

So what they should go shoot all the homeless people?

@@Naswaca are you suggesting the two options are 1) do nothing or 2) murder them? Use your head man.

We basically enabled stupid millennial liberals the trust of managing a society, then they did the double dip sin of being unpractical idealists. Their voting made stupid people thrive without a hierarchy of competence.

Honest question. How can politicians solve mental health issues and homelessness?

@@Whitehorse_crimefighter Two more honest questions for you. How did American society get to this point, where drug addictions and homelessness run rampant in our cities. And, what came first, the mental health issue, or the drug addiction?

@Dave Dawe drug abuse isn't a one kind of person fits all scenario. Some people are abused their whole lives and just fall into it. Some people get into medical problems and prescriptions took them down that road by drug pushing doctors. Some people just make the wrong choices no matter what.

@Dave Dawe another part of homelessness is the raising costs and some people get left outside. Sure some people will say that minimum wage is supposed to be used for cheap child labor and wasn't supposed to be a reliable income for anyone and they should have had better work ethics and worked harder to educate themselves. Maybe that's right, but sometimes when people fall behind they never catch up. Do they deserve to starve and die in the streets? Is homelessness a punishment? And if it is then why are people asking why there is homelessness?? Are we going to take care of these people or do they deserve to live and die in the streets and do what they need to cope and survive??

My wife and i were planning on moving to SE Portland after we retired. Sure glad we didn't. Daughter in law got pregnant so we decided to stay where we were. It had so much promise back then..... (16 years ago)

@@CurtisDrew1 I lived in Portland 1996-1998. It was amazing. Such a shame the voters ruined it.

You created this environment. I truly hope you and other carpetbaggers learned a lesson.

No. No it’s not. If you cannot understand the basic human right of existence, you’ll never understand. People deserve housing/shelter, food, work, transportation, and health insurance simply because they are alive. These people who end up homeless are part of generations of people that get discarded by society. If they are not provided for, sheltered and cared for, the cycle will never stop.

Right.. You want us gone "Give" us a place to go or shut up.

Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and they are damaged mentally and physically by fentanyl beyond the point of repair. Camping outside can be a good mental therapy especially in nice weather.

@@sarbantz 😂😂😂

Lol I just renewed my plate last week.

@@sarbantz Illegal fentanyl just happens to comes from wuhan china. Not kidding.

Exactly haha.

Put your daughter in a different school. Why are you leaving her there?

Which political party do you girls vote for every single time?

@@jemase7931 We did, she only did one semester there. Brought her home and now she goes to UNR.

@@bosshog8844 I don't really vote for one political party every time. Sometimes I feel better about Republican candidate, sometimes the Democratic candidate.

it smacks of sexism. OREGON espec Portland is VERY sexist.

Seems to me the issues are boundless - and those who have the resources are bailing on the mess they helped create.

While you move out?! Looks like your understanding leads to the same conclusion - leave 😂

How are you going to get rid of the homeless? You can't. Their are those who don't want housing. Why? So They can use their money for drugs and not having to pay rent or bills like utilities. Now if you can give them rent free housing for ever, and paying no utilities forever and allow them maid service free to clean up after themselves maybe you might solve the homeless issue. Oh and give them free access to their drug of choice. Free free free the only thing they would have to pay for is food. No? Also provide free food. Oh yes another thing is free public transportation or perhaps a free car with insurance and gas provided free. All they have to do is wash the car. No? get free car washes too. Don't have to work at all. Maybe then we would get rid of the homeless. Give them everything for free. No? Still not satisfied.

You hit the nail on head

I agree with you 100%, but all of these unicorns and rainbows followers want those Dems in office. I hope they lose their asses trying to sell their homes because they voted for this $hit. Good Luck, dumb asses!!!

But that would mean voting Republican and they won't do that. They'll just move to a red state and start voting for Democrats there and then move to another red state and vote for Democrats there and so on and so on and so on turning all of America into a fucking hell hole! They are parasites!

good luck

OMG , YOU THINK?!!!!

If "everyone voted for this" and nobody around you "voted for this" then who are the people who voted ??? shits rigged bud, none of us wanted this except the people getting the $$$$ in the office

I think the biggest reason we aren't seeing any progress in terms of the homeless situation is all the stupid homeless "advocates" who bully our city and state leaders. It's time for state and federal governments to criminalize urban camping (aka homelessness) and form forced labor camps for these people where they have no access to drugs, and they're monitored 24/7. But people always whine and say, "Boo-hoo! That's just like prison!" 😪. I always come back with, "Yep, you're right. It's just like a prison. And institutional structure (that is forced) is exactly what they need."

Oh shut up. You don’t know who the people living on that block voted for, so don’t give me that knee-jerk crap “I want them to get much more”. You screwballs try to turn everything into black and white politics.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY VOTED FOR! The Ignorant people of Portland just voted. Look who just got re-elected...THE SAME ONE"S! The House passed a 25 Million dollar bill to build homes. Got that! You just elected officials to go into the business of Home building. I ask you, what could possible go wrong with that plan? The Governor and Mayor are accountable to nobody because the Portland citizen will keep voting for them no matter how much worse it gets. That is a statistical fact.

That's right! You asked for this!

Yep. I'm living in Mexico and thinking of returning to the US after 14 years in South America and Mexico. And Portland DOES have a LOT going for it--for a guy like me. But, MAN--the homelessness problem raises 1,000 red flags. The last time I saw the city, first-hand, was 15-16 years ago. Seems as though so much has changed.

Okay so let's say a homeless drug addict gets rehabilitated. So now you have a non-addicted homeless person. Now what? I think it's reasonable to assume they don't have the specialist skills required for a job in trades, so they're probably going to pull down little if any more than minimum wage, which I very sincerely doubt is enough money for them to rent even the least expensive apartment. If they can get a job at all that is, because homeless people don't usually have clean clothes or a place to shower so they can look and smell nice to get even a basic service job. But let's still assume they get the leg up needed to land a job. Now they're going to very quickly hit the point where they're not eligible for government assistance, and combined with taxes they are now working much harder for an even lower quality of life than when they were unemployed. And the opportunities for advancement from that position are basically nonexistent. No service industry job's gonna promote them to a higher paid position, those jobs are complete and utter dead ends designed to pay just enough to keep desperate people working without the possibility of aspiring to be more than a wage slave. They could save money to learn a trade perhaps, if 100% of their money wasn't going to rent, food, insurance, taxes and the inevitable chain of monetary setbacks that comes from being poor and having crappy things that break down and wear out very quickly. So now what? Sure, we could say, from our privileged positions, that they should do those things and live that working poor lifestyle that's even worse than being homeless because that's what society expects of them, but why would they? What the hell has society done for them that they would feel obligated to take on that burden for no reward? They were allowed to slip through the cracks and land at the very bottom, they almost certainly never had opportunities to be anything more than wage slaves, so why should they give a shit? May as well keep panhandling/relying on charity, it's what society is pushing them toward by dumping so many barriers between them and a decent life.

@@ArgonwolfprojectIt’s much easier to just disappear them one by one.

@@Argonwolfproject Lot of Depression era folks survived on a lot less and rose above. It's called self-determination, something these people lack.

@@schimmel724 Yeah let's ignore the economic boost of WWII, and Franklin Roosevelt's extensive social programs that would get called socialism by people like you nowadays. Things like the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Tennessee Valley Authority. An open hand outstretched from the very highest office in the land, as opposed to nowadays where it's either a wishy-washy spineless democrat or a fuck-the-poor-they-deserve-to-starve republican.

@@schimmel724 These people are not victims of anything but their own poor choices. They are what's wrong with their lives.

I had to move to St. Louis. “Murder capitol” of the country is honestly safer. I got jumped by a Mexican gang there downtown by Target and the Mayan restaurant and no one did a thing. I have a bleeding disorder and they pulled a knife on me. Safer in St. Louis tbh

The residents need to wake up and stop voting for democrats who couldn’t care less.

I said the same damn thing. It’s your life, shits hard enough, and this didn’t just happen by accident. The only people who would refer to it as just an “inconvenience” don’t have to deal with it. A very elitist mind set

WHY are people still asking "what has happened to our cities?" THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION...You know, these criminals that occupy the White House, the ones who take your tax dollars and use them to wipe their asses? You are paying for their food and for their drugs. I understand that people who continue to vote for this garbage (Democrat) must hate America..I get it..but remember, YOU live in America, and if you help these monsters destroy this country YOU will also suffer...For those who don't believe the goal of the Biden Administration is to destroy America, so they can "build it back better..." Look at them celebrating on the White House lawn; celebrating the Stock Market plummeting 1200 points...Don't you wonder why they are celebrating THAT? Hmmm...maybe something is going on...What do you Liberals think? Am I paranoid?

​@david chapman every single economical model has issues. Stop parroting bs. Do you have free camping signs on your property or let folks cycle in and out of your dwelling? If I've learned anything from being in this city for four years, the amount of good feeling grandstanding while humans rot inhumanely is f'n appalling. The rhetoric that gets echoed by "advocates" here is because they grift just as hard as those who want everything without doing anything for it.

We proud the grifter is gone 😂

@@mattiga1358 who is the grifter that you speak of?

@@Digimonisbetterthanpokemon 😂

Just sayin'... Oregon is 100% universal mail in voting....

Couldn’t agree more, my family and I are gone. Not getting my money for absolutely nothing anymore.

We took our family, 2 business with all the jobs out of Oregon. Good luck to everyone left.

I hope that slippert slope is soon...

Born and raised in Detroit...been in Portland for 6 years now. It's certainly declining, however the level of corruption and misappropriation in the Detroit government cannot be understated. It was like that for decades, and never approached improving. Too many people care about Portland I don't see it going full Detroit. It is, however, declining. We're moving back east in a month, good luck to you all...

I think it’s already too late. Handing out free stuff, over taxing those who still work and remain productive citizens, giving a green light to drug use and not enforcing the existing laws are coming to ahead.

I guess that places like these are now housing illegals ...

I keep saying, bring back the Poor Farms. I’d also argue that prisons should use that model, stop making inmates work for private companies and have institutions become self supporting. It’s entirely possible.

ILLEGALS, HOMELESS, GANGSTERS, WELFARE SUCKING LEECHES! All need to live on the governors property (IT belongs to the PEOPLE, not the politico).

Yes indeed. However, those politicians will do exactly as those in Martha's Vineyard have done, and move the homeless elsewhere. that's what happens when elitists rule!

If the citizens stopped voting for these corrupt leaders, maybe things could change for the better. Any politician who becomes a multi millionare after being elected is fully corrupt,for sure.

you voted for them

You are right

Cherish the good times. It was nice but it's over.

What has it become that isnt happening to every city in USA currently?

@@skyisreallyhigh3333 Well I don't see hundreds of tents lined up on the sidewalks and streets in my city yet. But our weather isn't as nice as it is in Portland.

@@crand20033 I dont see tents lining the vast majority of portland streets. Now why dont you tell us what city you live in so I can easily prove you wrong. Good for you being able to avoid the homeless in your area I guess, but you ignoring them and avoiding them doesnt mean they arent there. Homelessness is a major problem everywhere in USA. There is data to back it up. Who to believe, the data or someone who barely leaves their house?

I used to live on 34th and Hawthorne Street! I would walk my dog, Coco, all around the neighborhood. 🤩😛

So sad they need to move from the house in what they born. Even the state

@@gonzaloarvietti4920 Freedom isnt free, American exceptionalism wasnt a birthright, like some of you seem to assume, people died so you can whine and moan, only to give up without a fight to move and spread your ideas that caused all this in the first place.

They vote for this

They voted for it in Portland and they’ll vote for it again wherever they go. West coast liberals are the biggest idiots in America.

Why? They voted for this. They continue to vote for this. People are liberal because they're stupid, it's not mysterious, except to liberals. They continue to support the idiot politicians that support this train wreck. And you "feel bad". Uhmm!

Good luck brother it'd not easy digging your way out of a hole that deep.

I was locked up as a teen into my early 20s, in the late 90s/early 00s. Life was miserable when I got out, no one would give me a job, a place to live, and I was also dealing with depression issues that I have to this day. I used the available resources such as Oregon health plan, food stamps and busted my ass doing day labor and donating plasma until I was able to land a decent job. The overwhelming majority of these people have no one to blame but themselves, they are lazy and don't want to give up their drugs or be responsible with their life

Well done man. Keep coming back

Would have been better if they just gave you housing in the first place...

@@skyisreallyhigh3333 He didn't need anyone to give him housing. He's strong and fit for survival. He got his own housing. Not everyone is too weak to get their own shit.

Why would someone go out of their way to move out of portland just to vote for the same policies that resulted in Portland being the way it is today? How tf does that make any sense?

Wherever you live now don't vote trash leaders into office. I'm concerned when y'all move to better areas and states y'all are gonna run it into the ground as well.

Yeah Portland started getting bad after occupy Wall Street.

Call something paradise.... Kiss it goodbye... Try handing out maps to the richest neighborhoods to every homeless person... The 1% created this mess....

Liberal leaders led to this, not the 1%

Good, we dont want you here And feel free to pretend every city in USA iant having the same problems during a recession...

They sure did that's what happens when liberals (libtards) vote for Demoncrats 😈 ha ha ha

I wish I could vote for all of these stuck up yuppies to leave. I'd rather be around broke drug users any day.

Exactly. It's these, ironically enough, privileged college educated white lefties who come out in droves in support of these policies like defunding police, eliminate bail for repeat offenders, decriminalize drug use and free housing for street people that has caused this in every single left wing city. They all vote these politicians in and when the end result finally ends up on their door step they balk and blame the people they voted in. The same thing is happening in LA, NYC, Seattle... Poo on the streets and massive increases in crime. Enjoy. This is the problem with socialism, society cannot help these people, they have to help themselves. By making it easier to just live on the streets and do dope, live off property crime it's pretty clear the outcome. You need to force them to make a choice between living in misery and facing the consequences or try to improve while offering opportunities to do so while still enforcing rules. Society coddli g them like infants hasn't helped anyone.

Americans don't get anything we vote for. Have a nice nap?

Hopefully she watches the 2019 documentary “Seattle is dying.”

That is almost every city atm. The opiod epidemic got overshadowed by covid and may have made it worse.

The "Greatest country on earth" has a huge wealth gap. The 1% Rich have more money than the poorest 50%. Military spending is insane. Health care costs are insane. US is not a society, it's a big corporation

@@redwhite_040 yea, and getting hooked on drugs just makes everything so much better.

Not in Vancouver. Not yet, at least. That’s probably where she is moving.

Police won’t solve your poverty issues

Good. Well deserved.

Yup! Defund the police, they say! Where are all the police, they say!

exactly. which is why i have 0 sympathy for portland

let's be honest, police aren't going to help you in this. It's a political problem with your leaders and a problem with the people who vote like idiots for 'progressives' Police have nothing to offer to help this....

Rapid response is a private company not government

Its the response teams that is the problem, they stand in the way of any solution, rearguard-less of whom it comes from. They cry inhumane, heartless and cruel when ever any attempt from the Mayor, city officials do something, they hand out free tampons, free food, free gas vouchers, free tents and sleeping bags, demand tax payers pay for clean porta-pottys, water. But offer very little in progress to community's but have big hands when it comes to donations. Community are up in arms about how little resource teams do, they defend the homeless in hopes nothing gets done so they won't run out of way to line their own pockets. They are not really helping the homeless problem. Some of us in Portland see right through the Rapid Response Teams public agenda.

What money? The service is massively underfunded. And that's how they get people like you. They purposefully underfunded it so it fails and then say "I told you so".

@@GemStoneDecals They defend the homeless because they are human beings. Simple as that. The response team is massively underfunded to make it fail. Same with Portlands housing first policy, a policy that's proven to work when funded properly, a solution that's cheaper than all the policing and sweeps we do.

good obersevation. Or how about Portland motto: A City that Works. Now for the crackheads.

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Yes

It's not the government. It's the increasing number of drug addicts. There is no solution.

I think that is a little unfair. "It is the homeless's decision to accept/not accept help." Yes, the govt would be the ones to organize clean-up. Tbf, who wants to do that job? It is mostly volunteer. It probably takes months to get enough people who are willing to do a cleanup. This guy is thinking that there are people available and willing to do this job swiftly. You couldn't pay me to do that job. You can't force city workers to do that kinda stuff. It is dangerous for the people cleaning it up. It is ultimately people who do things, not Govt. You cannot blame "Govt" for inaction or slow response because you still need people do implement and execute whatever. Ultimately these are two-sided problems where people (citizenry) are as much to blame as any govt agency or program. *I guess we will get those "sanctuary districts" soon. Where is Gabriel Bell when you need him?

@@vorpal120 I work for the local public works. I (we) do not tolerate what is happening in Portland, Seattle, SF ect. I work at night. I run these vermin around and don't let them settle in one area more than 24 to 48 hours. We clean up with a JD 544H and a couple dump trucks. We don't want to get bed bugs or needle poked. We don't hold trash as "possessions" for 90 days, everything gets crushed and hauled to the landfill. These are not people down on their luck. Those people stay with friends and family or in a shelter for a very short time. These people have already driven away family and friends, stealing and lying. It has nothing to do with low cost housing. Nothing. If housing was $500 bucks a month, they still couldn't afford it. Virtually all of them are on fentanyl. The numbers grow because about everything has fentanyl in it. Cocaine, Vicodin, meth, all laced with fentanyl. The only safe drugs are from a pharmacy. People get hooked on fentanyl after a couple doses. They do what they have to, to get more so they can hold off withdrawal. It's bad. Treatment or rehab is virtually impossible. The numbers are not promising. I can tell you how the whole thing began. I can tell you how to slow it down. Until we realize what it happening, it's going to keep getting worse. As long as the news channels keep calling it homelessness or a housing issue, it will keep getting worse.

The tampons and booty juice really sent me lol. What’s insane is she’s literally saying we are ill and on drugs and people representing the homeless are still out here making it 100% about housing ignoring these main issues 🤦🏻‍♀️

Omg that was SO funny

"Booty juice" They really should eat less, beans 🫘.

she looks like she has been using crack for the past 20 years

That “hazard clean up team” did not have the correct gear at all…some cleaning up with no protective clothing or masks. Hepatitis anyone?

That's right, keep running away, but you won't get away. We're living in a Fascist country. We have been colonized by our own government. Soon our choices will be a Fascist dictator or a Socialist revolution. Just like Fascist Nazi Germany, except now it's U.S. Fascists. The Russians will liberate America and we will greet them with flowers. History repeats itself and the struggle of the People against Fascism is the "endless war".

I left in 2017 after that measure 97 or whatever to raise taxes on Corporations to address the homeless problems was voted down. I saw this coming a mile away. Pay for corporate fascism or lose your city. That's how its always worked. You pay eventually anyways.

Lol imagine moving instead of not voting Dem

@@frankk1512 or republican. Oregon is extremely conservative.

@@bmanagement4657 Oregon has voted dem 10/12 times for pres since the 70s. Portland has had a dem mayor FOR 42 years. This issue is in Portland not the country side. You are delusional. The brainwashing is unreal Dem cites are on a death watch

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Voting? Seriously, VOTING?! Is that why the Presidents come and go but the bombs NEVER stop? We're voting as hard as we can, choosing between two war criminals selected by the Deep State. Voting, right.

Measure 97 refusing to tax corporations is why this is all happening.

Why doesn’t anyone in this town get that?

@@bmanagement4657 You are one lost human being. Failure to enforce the law is why this is happening. Has nothing to do with corporate taxation. The liberal voters in Portland are to blame. Liberalism is a disease.

I’ll tell ya, it sure doesn’t look like this up in NW hills and Lake Oswego. Weird right?

The voters who elected the local govt in are to blame...enjoy.

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

@@johntruxal432 American cons are to blamed. We don’t have this problem in progressive Norway

That city is liberal run

They can do hard drugs openly in the streets, drive cars without license plates, defecate on the sidewalk and the worst that happens to them is a cleanup crew comes out to pick up their mess.

Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and they are damaged mentally and physically by fentanyl beyond the point of repair. Camping outside can be a good mental therapy especially in nice weather.

​@@sarbantz Why are you spamming this comment? I've seen at least 5 other comment threads on this video where you copied and pasted it. Your comment makes no sense, you think homeless drug addicts with mental illness should be able to camp for free and do hard drugs next to elementary schools and houses because it's good "mental therapy" for them? That's insane. What about how it mentally affects the children who have to step over needles on their way to school and families who look out their window seeing drug addicts roaming right outside?

@@user-uy3eq5hg1s sometimes, truth has to be repeated.

@@sarbantz truth of homelessness is a disease and should be treated as such

"Allow them to exist". Although some places are different than others. No one is sanctifying camps on private property. Public property it depends.

@david chapman send them to your house

@david chapman Make street camping strictly illegal and start a new war on drugs. Repeal the legalization of possessing hard drugs in Oregon. There are vacancies right now in multiple homeless shelters. The homeless don't go to the shelters because they can't do their hard drugs there. This is really a nationwide homeless crisis and I believe that hard drugs are the root cause.

Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and they are damaged mentally and physically by fentanyl beyond the point of repair. Camping outside can be a good mental therapy especially in nice weather.

Even if they were banned they'd still exist. You take down one camp another forms somewhere else in hours.

Thank your local democrat/liberal

the same happens in my country, Belgium, with criminals you have to have compassion. I'm raised the other way and I'm treated accordingly, so no compassion with those people

Build back better at work.

Where's a crazed gunman when you need him?Asking for a friend,lol.

They'll vote in democratic again. Tweeters have their bad habits so do democratic voters. Like they said old habits to hard to break until a catastrophe happen then it's too late.

Democrats cheat. If vote fraud was eliminated there would be no blue cities.

Measure 97. Portland made its choice.

@@jersmith1486 laughable

@@jersmith1486 How could you possibly think that? Without the five largest democrat cities the us is the second safest country on earth. Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, LA, New Orleans, San Francisco, etc etc All these shit holes have democrats to thank for destroying them. You don’t see homeless shitting in the streets or shooting up( guns or needles ) in red cities.

maybe she just doesn't like you

@@methus57 She might be jealous of my lifestyle! I guess that would make a person dislike another person🤷🏾‍♀️ Do you live in Portland? Such a vitriolic comment! I must have touched a nerve🤫

@@Soul_Education someone sounds a little defensive. therapy helps

@@methus57 I hope you get therapy yourself! It must be hard seeing your city turned to crap!

I've been around drug addicts all my life. The only thing that gets them to change their lifestyle is looking at prison time. My brother has been clean and sober since he got arrested with drugs and the judge mandated drug tests. If he passed them and cleaned himself up she offered to drop all the charges. It's been 8 years now and he has a bachelor's degree and is a successful salesman now for state farm. These people need tough love for sure. Drug addicts will just take advantage of other people's kindness. That's the issue with Portland. Everyone in the city is too woke and just wants to be kind and inclusive or whatever, but drug addicts don't play that game.

@@manjon217 Some people can break the hold with enough willpower or fear of consequences, but many are too tightly in the grips of their addiction to quit. Obviously law breaking should be met with a fair judicial response, but the law also needs to consider that drugs are basically a form of mind control, the most severely affected sufferers of which literally have no free will when it comes to quitting. For many people, it's just one bad choice (that doesn't even seem particularly bad at the time) that ends up enslaving them to a mind-altering molecule. At any rate, I'm glad to hear your brother was strong enough to defeat his addiction, and I hope he has a happy life in which they never afflict him again.

Shit had me rollin! 😂

What are you so scared of them for? Lmfao

@@isaacbacka8731 Needles, diseases, theft, drug use and the results on their brains, random acts of violence, stepping in their poop, rape and/or sexual violence...shall I continue?

@@isaacbacka8731 people on drugs are dangerous, they'll do crazy things. Anyone with a brain would fear to have themselves or their family around those people.

maybe they do want somebody to tell them what to do. Maybe the need to be re-parented in a firm but nurturing environment. Maybe they need someone to teach them a skill and forge a new path. Yes, God has to be included.

Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and they are damaged mentally and physically by fentanyl beyond the point of repair. Camping outside can be a good mental therapy especially in nice weather.

@@sarbantz yep, once a fentanyl addict there is no return, they are among the walking dead. There needs to be easily accessible lethal doses to put them and us out of their misery. That is the only solution.

@@roryteal5940 "Trust in God, but row away from the rocks. " - Spanish Proverb

How weird that a social species will rely on community...

EXACTLY!

Whatever they come up with it wouldn't be good enough for them.

You force the solution.

Your right

There’s an easy solution: offer these people all the drugs they want for free. Problem solved.

Putting hundreds of homeless in already over crowded jails is not feasible. The only real solution is humane euthanization, but nobody wants to make the hard decisions to solve this.

The help would be giving JOBS , EVERYONE CAN DO!

@@ursulasmith6402 what jobs can drug addicts stick to and do? I've talked to quite a few homeless people over the years, as has my husband and our pastor and friends...the majority of these people have flat-out said they don't want to be tied down to a job or the responsibility of bills, etc. They don't want jobs or help finding a job-- they want hand outs. Can lead a horse to water but you can't make'em drink!

I understand feeling that way but one of the problems with jail is that it costs tax payers about $45,000 per year per person.

And what have you done to help homeless people?

Fact, you are correct. Joan Hardesty wants to take eminent domain on buildings to put them in! Talk about making crack dens.

Joe Shomoe you're an AZZ, that's not true.. there's always, people like you heck regular people destroys places more check facts or strep back one day it'll be you homeless then you'll learn azz

This is the unfortunate truth about it.

So because they have problems they deserve to exist. Entitled American .

We used to stay in A holiday Inn Express in Henderson, NV. The state started paying the hotel to let homeless people stay there. The rooms were trashed and the place is now a dump. We no longer stay there.

Work, prison, or commitment to a mental institution. Choose wisely.

@@Kyle-sr6jm be useful and contribute to society, be a degenerate lowlife and drag society down, or be completely useless and make society drag you.

Yes! Exactly they have tiny houses now and also the bybee facility

I agree

Why can't we hunt them like deer?

Work Will Set You Free

State paid cleaning lady.

Just by reading these comments, I can tell it's only going to get worse.

You are right. In Columbia South Carolina a few years ago the city and people was sick of the homeless encampments. So FEMA rounded up the homeless and took them away forever. First Columbia South Carolina had public service announcements on TV if you see the homeless down town call us we will help them!!! Eventually this will happen in these Lawless Homeless Addicted Tent Encampment Nasty Uninhabitable Cities.

You can't fight a plague of locusts. If these derelicts are catered to they will just want more. Either they are stomped or OR you have to give up and move away. Through their own stupidity the coast from Canada down to Mexico is going to turn into Detroit. It will look like something from Solyent Green.

Yes, and I am noticing so many homeless criminals leaching out all over Medford now unlike ever before. America is again too late. They should all have locked them up in homeless jail. They dropped out of society and now shit on our properties. This is not right for all the hardworking citizens who don't deserve this suffering that the homeless cause them.

@Autumn Leaves people own homes because they worked and saved money for years and years. Give it a try before you tell us who should own rental properties 🤷‍♂

@@davidmassey9243 You didn't "save money for years", you begged a Bank for a $400K-$600K loan or you moved out of the city & found a house under $200K. Try actually saving

@@wizkaqueefa9003 i’m house shopping right now … because I save 😘

Yup, and who wants some asshole living in their state that ruined the state they just came from and won't have the spine to stick around and fix things once everything is screwed up?

What a stupid statement. Nobody voted to have homeless people living all over the place. That's just an absurd and ignorant statement. As the black lady said - it's the drugs. Drugs are the main problem all over this country. Yes, that includes red and blue states, republican and democratic locations/cities. There is homelessness due to drug use everywhere and it's not due to voting. It's due to people getting hooked on drugs. Pushing people around is no different than spraying for insects in your home. Sure you are free of them for a while, but all you've really done is send them to your neighbors before the poison wears off and they come back. I see a lot of attempts at cleaning up homelessness, but I've yet to see any real solutions or progress. If the city were run by the right (Republicans) please explain how they would do things differently. What methods would they use that haven't already been tried and failed? I don't think either "side" has an answer - especially when the homeless themselves don't want the help - only to stay on the street and do more drugs.

Except that no one's really voting for anything. If you think we've had honest elections for the last few decades you aren't nearly as "aware" as you think.

Bingo!

@david chapman No, that's exactly correct. I saw it happen in California. I saw it happen in Oregon. I saw it happen in Washington. Loose drug laws and people that want loose drug laws cause homeless problems.

@Nona Byizness You absolutely can, we do it all the time in other contexts. What you mean to say is you don't think they're worth the effort.

Poor decision making seldom has anything to do with the cause of homelessness. How very entitled of you to think you're above job loss, medical problems, natural disaster, etc.

​@@21mushroomcupcakes33 Sorry but you haven't done your research on rehabilitation success rates, Its super low even for those who want the help. Those who don't, just end up right back on the streets again. You CAN help those who don't want help, but its almost never successful. Take Olympia for example, the homeless were put into hotels and few gained housing, the majority ended up back on the streets because they would rather do their drugs instead of get the help they asked for.

@Nona Byizness True, so you know what, you have to force them to leave or they go to jail just like they did at Venice Beach in LA. They don't even pay taxes and they want to have their way....????? Soft mayor, soft city council, soft public officials.

@@21mushroomcupcakes33 Yeah? You'll need to share those tactics to not be as you accuse others of being, y'know.

But they still don’t get it??

And they reelected Wheeler after he let ANTIFA burn down the city.

Absolutely!. "It's up to them to decide." How can you let that decision be made a drug addicted mentally ill individual? Are they the ones making the laws as well? Sure seems that way!

They won't stay there.

Street homeless are fentanyl addicts, and they are damaged mentally and physically by fentanyl beyond the point of repair. Camping outside can be a good mental therapy especially in nice weather.

@@JS-rk7es yep then u have these idiot advocates saying "don't criminalize someone for being poor." OK what about the drug use, prostitution, drug sales, theft, trespassing and all the other laws the homeless break on a daily basis? Why do they have more rights than law abiding taxpayers? Disgusting.

@@sarbantz 😂😂😂

the more uncomfortable they are, the more likely they are to make a change. People respond to incentives. Currently, the incentives are causing them to stay on the street.

Amen; I hope you've found a better life. Hard work pays off (most of the time). I was only homeless for a week and it eye opening. I was very fortunate to own a vehicle where others aren't. I sadly don't have as much sympathy for drug addicts, but I have never walked in their shoes.

Only poor people work. Hard work is for the poor.

@david chapman Not Austin's problem then. Send the drug addicts to Portland. Many places have done this "free one way ticket to a nicer climate". Not solving the problem but it isn't their problem anymore.

@@evognayr some of the hardest workers I've seen in my life are not poor.