Homelessness in Grants Pass Parks 

Travis, thank you for the time, effort and thoughtfulness you put into this short film. I have been following the Supreme Court case closely as I am looking to relocate to GP hopefully in the next year or so. To the casual outside observer, one may draw the conclusion that GP s filled with heartless people. You did a fantastic job of showing the heart in your city, the people giving voice to the voiceless. Again, great job.

Lets start they were not resting in the park they were camping in the park (fighting over drugs). The parks are for the community to use and enjoy and leave not live and do there drugs. Grants pass has plenty of jobs available these people don't want a hand up they just want hand outs. I see you didn't go check out the programs that are available to the street people. As a citizen of Grants pass and a business owner I am tired of the destruction that these people have brought to our community. I have lived her over 40 years and yes it was a safe , clean town before the street people have started destroying it along with the woke agenda. Oregon policy's are not about helping the community. The lady in the end is not telling the full truth go look into the gospel center. They don't go because they don't want to stop using.

People look on the homeless like they're not even human they are they're from all walks of life.homelessness does not discriminate.there are good people who are homeless

Excellent video, thank you for covering this and giving a voice to the homeless, like my brother. Not sure how this has only 30 👍s as of right now, but great job.

In order for there to be a solution you can't put a lot of homeless in the same spot or it freaks out the neighboring home owners. They need to put in tiny homes at no more than a couple here and there. Every giant affordable housing apartment complex has been met with fear of the people that will occupy them as well as their property values going down. But if tiny homes and mobiles were put in every naighborhood in every town in 2 per lot blocks apart it would give them a way to start blending back into society. When you put up a fenced encampment that their not allowed to come and go at will from, it seems more like a prison camp and they won't use them, the locals hate it and nothing permanent is fixed. In finland they stay in an apartment till their clean and can move on into regular housing but its not mandatory they dont just throw them out the minute their off drugs or alcohol. At that point would be the time to give them a trailer or mobile home if its a family or a tiny home if single or a couple. If they have a stake in it like painting it, building it, fixing the yard ect... Then they'll start to feel pride in their surroundings and home. This was the whole point behind habitat for humanity, Jimmy Carters idea. It works. And the naighbors dont have problems with them. But it can't be many in one spot, it creates the desperate and hopeless fellowship mentality that is so very hard to shake for these people and that shows in their faces and that look of desparation scares the locals. Anyway its an idea. Thanks for not just trying to ban and drive them out. I'm glad your actually trying to find a solution but remember small groups not big ones.

The entitlement is baffling. Im so angry at what's happened to my town

Oh, and some people might say that the elderly senile people living in the park WANT to be free and live there instead of in elderly low income housing or in a nursing home! Well, their families need to do what is needed and place them into homes, if they themselves are unable to house them. Sometimes, a child has to become the parent to an elderly parent. I’m getting older, and we don’t have children, but I hope to God that one of my relatives would put me in a nursing home rather than let me sleep in a park, in the middle of winter, because I was old and senile and stubborn!!😮😮😮😮

I blame inflation and drugs.. When I first visited Grants Pass I found a motel for 4 dollars a night, and everything cost far less. If you can balance your bank account, you're far more intelligent than the people who got us into this mess.

I watched your video. I do not have an answer. Oregon makes it hard for someone to gain residency. County services must do something about unemployment and food for residents. I don’t have an answer but I appreciate your video. Nicely done.

If i were homeless i definitely would be out in the hills,not in a city...and Never on drugs..but id never let someone else be the solution let alone the government...and ultimtely,id never be homeless anyway...you have to convince them to help themselves....(Obviously not the disabled or Elderly or kids)

Ugh! This is horrible on so many levels! The thing that stands out the most to me most, is that EVERY town that I know of has LOW INCOME housing for seniors! What the hell? Being an elderly person and senile, and camping out in the middle of winter in the snow is deadly for the elderly! 😮😮 Does Grant’s Pass have any social workers?? That big guy, Yar, is in his 70s and qualifies for Social Security, as well as low income housing for the elderly. I guess he is choosing this lifestyle, but I feel very bad for the elderly with dementia there. Was that older woman, with the walker, homeless? If so, that’s ridiculous. A nursing home would be better for her than likely dying of pneumonia out there in the middle of winter. As for the younger people, it sounds like mental illness as well as drugs, could be on board. It’s ridiculous that Medford only has 10 beds for rehab! The best way to handle the problem is to get the elderly into low income housing, for the elderly, and possibly housed in nursing homes. It’s not safe for them out there. Then you can sort the other people out. Aren’t there any other facilities that people needing rehab can be sent to, besides Medford? Oregon, for years, has had a problem with young unhoused people, roaming or hitchhiking up and down the West coast. It has just gotten worse over the years, especially with the high price of housing! Oregon is not a good place for a poor person to live. It’s been that way in most of California for years! Look at the housing costs in San Francisco! Look at the homeless problem there now! I understand that people are responsible for their own poor decisions, like not keeping a steady job or staying off drugs, but having housing prices out of reach, for almost all Americans sure doesn’t help!😮😮😮😮😮 !

Well done Travis.

I lived on Grants Pass for 8 years. I moved to Oklahoma City in 2019.. best move I've ever made!

Inflation made it worst ! ...

I'm related to "Yar". His problems run deep. Primary among them is the end of his marriage. He was not blameless in that. As far as "providing" the homeless with "a home", have you all actually forgotten "the projects" of the "War on Poverty"? Are we actually going to go back there? The reason why those structures no longer exist is because they had to be demolished. My beautiful home is older than the earliest such projects because I didn't destroy it and I actually maintained it. Communism (including "free housing") simply doesn't work. Period. It doesn't matter what you call it, how you frame it, how you color it, or how you convince the providers that i5 has to happen. You will end up with just another mess. And so we tumble forward, constantly repeating the same mistakes, and repeating the errors that will always be. "...........The poor you will always have with you; but you will not always have me..........." Matthew 26: 11

There are a few that want help, but more dont want help other then to buy their next fix. You cant help the ones that dont want to help themself

I lived in Glendale Oregon and worked in Grants pass, it was beautiful and safe back then, 1989 before the liberals that moved from California got there and changed the laws, they ruined everything they touch 😢😢

ohhhh the secret YOU craves to freestyle a song or two.....You may not even realize it....but it true. Good for you bro! I hope you do it. It WILL change your life brotha.

Grants pass is an awesome town I liked it there

If you are homeless and have a housing shortage, why are a few people allowed to own so many rentals and charge exorbitant rents?😊😊😊

The smart people used the last of their money and flew to Hawaii before they were homeless. But actually the government is now looking for one-way tickets to there. Hawaii is probably in the same category as international flights. No one-way.

hey neighbor

People need to take accountability for their actions. It is not everyone else job to take care of adults. You like to give the voice to the homeless but never put a word in of all the people fighting for our community to be taken back from all of this destruction. A good portion of these street people are not even from grants pass they have been shipped in her from Portland. They steal , squat on peoples yard there businesses treating the parking- lot like it is a toilet and doing their drugs in the open. All the while leaving their needles and trash behind. Next time you do a video go talk to the residents and business owners who have had to deal with the fall out. It is not some kind of rhyme it is life and the death and destruction of woke policy's on a beautiful town. GO watch Seattle is dying if you want to truth to this homeless issue. Measure 110 just got nailed for what it always was a ploy to destroy towns and the people they use to do it with. Measure 110 is being reversed so the homeless druggies don't get to rule are parks anymore. By the way Portland is the one who pushes for all the stupid destructive laws and destroy the rest of Oregon who do not like the way are state is ran by the Portland woke.

We call it grants passed out😂

I have family in Crescent City, Calif. Sence 1974 I have driven through Grants Pass and always had lunch or Breakfast there. The small charm and the beauty of the town has always been so nice. Now to the video. Why has the state of Oregon so afraid of making homeless people (mental ill) Follow the rules of each city or town ?? I use to live in Cottage Grove, Oregon for 30 years. I've seen the social norms shattered and have seen the small towns cater to theses people time and time again. When will the Mayors and police either help these people or run them off. Yes you heard me run them off with city wide volitions, Maby a few days in jail to come down or sober up will make them see how serious we can be, Want to see a real problem thanks to that liberal Gay mayor back in 2013 it was as if he gave them the keys to the city, Portland is a sidewalk Motel now!! Want to really feel sick I visited San Fransico 2 Years its now a homeless zoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The taxpayers come first.

In GrantsPass org.its now iegals for anyone homeless too sleep ok.yes just sleep ING ok.this is un-American ok.and this city of GrantsPass or.must be Russia ok.wow.how nasty a American city can be.mean.note all tourists do not stop here at all ,why this city ant for America's at all.by preacher.