Citizens of Portland should go check the areas where the politicians live, their neighborhoods,to see if homeless people are allowed to park in their residential streets.
Maybe their streets are privately owned. Why aren't homeless tents set up in the park next to their neighborhoods. As long as streets are public streets according to your public administrators, their hands are tied, UNLESS THE HOMELESS TENTS ARE SET UP NEXT TO THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. HOW CONVENIENT.
Homelessness has become an industry. The more homeless people are, the more money the homeless industry makes. The money given to the homeless doesn't go to the homeless, it goes into the industry’s paychecks and lavish conferences talking about what to do about the homeless. They don't want the homeless problem fixed because they would lose all the money (tens of billions per year) poured into the homeless issue. America is broken from all the greed permeating throughout local, state, and federal governments. We have a government problem causing the disparities throughout America...
Democracy in action. You get what you vote for. Zero sympathy for a city that re-elected Worm Wheeler. note to Portland... You can't out -California, California.
I am a paid staff member in the homeless shelters. Pays very well. If you actually think that ANY politician is going to save you than you don’t understand politicians. - Simply put, its mind over matter,- they don’t mind and you don’t matter…. Learn it. Enjoy the rest of your day.
@@Weshopwizardspoken like some one who understands how the system works. LOL you are the problem. You helped cause this by not understanding what he said... But keep screaming "defund the police". Eh, ya get what ya vote for huh... Enjoy it.
As usual, the middle class eviscerates the poor. That's why I love Right-to-work. When the rich get richer, I get my paycheck. I'm okay with that. Up next: make churches pay taxes and abolish unions. Jails and prisons don't have homeless people. Vote red!
@@Xanthro2 all these homeless advocacy groups don’t really do anything but suck up government money. Very little of that money goes to actually helping, rather it goes to pay salaries of people that don’t actually help. So, the OP is the problem.
@@PDogB I was calling attention to the lack of a comma (or a semicolon) after "shame." It's written to suggest that Oregon being beautiful is a shame. It's like "let's eat, Grandma" versus "let's eat Grandma."
How dare you blame the mayor for doing what they hired him to do. Portlanders voted for this mayor, they just don't want to see it in their hoods. Left wing hypocrites.
No, we voted for drug recovery programs. That never happened. And it was the Ninth Circuit Court that dictated that homeless camps couldn’t be illegal.
I will save sympathy for when these resident take responsibility for those they vote into power. It is insanity voting the same way over and over and expecting different results.
I grew up in Portland. The democrats have annihilated the entire place. I went back last summer, will not be going back ever again. The graffiti, homeless, drug zombies, crime, filth is just too much to bare. I dont understand why people vote the way they do. Goodbye Portland!
As usual blame it on the Democrats - what are you doing to solve the situation in a positive kind compassionate Humane manner??? You seem to forget it could happen to you!!
@@janncoons7445he blames it on the democrats because it’s decades of democrat policies that caused this situation. What he did to solve the situation is move the hell out of Portland. Your problem is you voted for this and will continue to vote for democrats and you’ll wonder why your city is in ruins.
@janncoons7445 It's called law and order. We citizens should feel safe and secure in our communities. I don't hate anyone, I hate policies that are harmful and without any benefit. I could give a ton of reasons the democrat policies are hurting the community but I'd get writers cramp. If you don't believe me, just start looking around, you'll see it for yourself.
Are they even trying to get any of it, are they signing up for programs to get Un-homelessed?? No they fell into this life and have no interest in rejoining society because now they are FREE. This is litereally what my underpass-living sister told me.
@markkalb2737 This was as big an issue before they legalized drugs. You right wingers only throw out sound bites never solutions. You tear down but you never ever build.
Can you imagine saving your entire life to own a home and this is forced on you? Disgusting 🙏 😌 it would be different if the homeless gave a damn, tried harder to stay cleaner and increasing safety concerns. They are their own worst nightmares. 😮
@@scottcharney1091Spoken like an outsider!! Ha!! The blue states of the left coast walk in lock step together. What CA does, OR and WA are soon to follow. That’s how it is, I know because I live here unfortunately…
follow the laws! things parked with no license is against the law. Littering, camping over night on the street, using the street as your bathroom. Why cant the city just enforce the laws?
@@KeikoFXDesignsYawn. Learn politics on Instagram? If it was communism they’d take Wheeler’s real estate empire and put homeless people in his buildings.
"We want normal lives" but wont get a job... i dont buy it. My neighbor just got evicted then stayed right next door with his friend then THEY got evicted. He literally told me he doesnt want a job and was totally fine with "staying at the park". A lot of these people think that way then scoff when you tell them to get a job. He lives off free food and charges his phone anywhere theres an outlet outside. They really have it too easy. What we need is to bring back mental institutions and keep the crazies in there and give them goals to be released. That being said, i know that there are people who become homeless under bad circumstances but those people will find a way to get off the streets quick. All these other homeless people who have been homeless for months? They are the ones who set up camps and destroy the area with trash and do drugs and start fires. Put em in mental institutions.
As a previous employee that moved homeless camps for the city (4 years), it's a game, after 5 the workers don't move camps and the homeless know they got weekends and that they can move back after a week or 2 After the homeless get moved from one location they get moved from the next location, the employees call this job security and it makes the homeless move in a circle always going back to where they like the best probably lents neighborhood
What do you mean? Folks are turning a nature preserve into a health hazard with a sprinkling of junkyard and garbage dump. Of course the people who live nearby would be against the homeless “camp” being there. In the end they seem to just want to be able to live safely in the homes they have paid and worked for. The people in charge are the ones that should be worried about helping the individuals to be independent and productive again while cleaning up this giant health and safety crisis. I can only imagine the sickness that could be passed from the camp if their waste were to contaminate ground water or something. Are the nearby homes on wells??
No, stay there! You democrats voted for this so accept it and stop complaining! Don’t move to republican areas and bring your socialist/communist ideas and beliefs with you!
Born and raised here and currently moving away. My city is broken. It’s become unsafe to leave your house or go out alone and companies pulling out. My beautiful city is utterly destroyed.
Oh please. It’s not YOUR city and you the people of the cities are the problem. Where is your housing programs ? Don’t tell me it’s the Dems and their open door policies. Not cutting it with the truth. Quit talking about homeless people like they’re objects disturbing your beautiful view. How entitled is that ???? What do Republicans want to do with these individuals but fine them ??? How ridiculous. If they could pay they wouldn’t be in the streets. This is a community problem and pointing fingers is bull. Entitled thinking is the problem. YOUR city is also home to other people. You’re not a victim of anyone. The streets are filled because of Republican GREED ! You want things your way but just get rid of the objects disturbing your beautiful view. Poor thing. Maybe get out there and do some good and help instead of blaming and whining.
How about lowering and capping rent? How about providing AFFORDABLE HOUSING! HOW ABOUT BEING GOOD CHRISTIANS AND ACTUALLY LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AND HELP THEM INSTEAD OF KICKING THEM WHILE THEY'RE DOWN!
@@jypseaspencerit’s not a rent cost problem. It’s a problem with mental health, addiction, and lack of family to fall back on. The state should offer housing and services, mental health, addiction, and support to get these folks into permanent work. If they are incapable of being part of society requiring steady work, then they might need facilities. Some need to either accept the help or be incarcerated or fined if they fiat out refuse it. We just aren’t doing what needs to be done.
@@jypseaspencer You cant lower rent when taxes are out of control. Thats why i sold my rentals in NY, over half the rent was going to taxes and whats left after maintenance and other fees you arent doing anything. My school taxes alone per house were literally ten times more than my friends total taxes in TN on a 100 acre house and land.
"Excuses are the tools of incompetence who build bridges to nowhere and monuments to nothingness,and those who use them seldom specialize in anything else."
Left that cesspool of an area 1.5 years ago now, and couldn't be happier. Most people in the area are amazing, and I don't blame the homeless for the actions of stupid leadership. When you give people opportunity, they take it. Our rent was 3000 a month, with other bills we were looking at 5500, with no car payments. Many of these homeless people have no housing options when the state allows rent to get this insane. Ask yourself how you'd take living the worst day of your life, and then imagine thats every day for years. I want to strongly emphasize again that most people in Portland are amazing folk. I lived 15 minutes from the city in a small town and it couldn't be more different.
@@janicehenning4505 These issues are fixed at the Local government level. If you had any actual understanding of how this works you would know that but you don't so let the adults talk. Meanwhile just keep right on voting for the real source of the problem.
Our city river park in CA was turned into a burned trash heap and toilet. You're not alone. The homeless dug up water pipes and electrical and made it their home.
@@Oldshirt That's where all the services and free stuff are because Portland likes it that way. Don't blame these "unhoused" for travelling freely to make their situation better. 🤣
Believe me as a homeowner in Portland.. that has lived here for decades.. the apartment dwellers.. and homeowners.. are much much more crazy than the homeless .
Unreal. Homeless guy complaining about not being able to charge his cell phone. YOU ARE HOMELESS. STOP WITH THE CELL PHONE. YOU HAVE LARGER CONCERNS. This is why these people are homeless. They do not understand priorities.
Maybe Oregon should start lowering the property tax and maybe eliminate property tax for people 60 and older so that their money can be able to go to their children and grandchildren so that they can be able to make enough money to buy a house and inherit the property.
Somehow some type of jobs need to be created to help keep people off the streets. It's ridiculous. I'm in Texas and I've been having a rough time trying to find steady work and when I finally find one, the stupid hurricane put the power out at my job long enough to the point they couldn't afford to keep me on anymore and I got laid off. A lot of people especially me do not want to be homeless but it's not always our fault. Count your blessings if you had a supporting family, school and a job
@@chrisrodriguez7351 Nobody owes you a job. Maybe instead of demanding someone else create a job to give to you, 😂 you can earn a job by improving your skills and making yourself more valuable in the labor market.
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I was born in Portland. It is such a shame that this has happened. So many talking of moving away due to out of control homelessness in Portland and officials seemingly unable to do much about it.
Yeah, I was born and raised in PDX. It’s heartbreaking to go back there now. I knew PDX was in serious trouble when Bud Clark was elected, and unfortunately I was not wrong. It’s been downhill ever since.
That's not the government's property. I'm disturbed how people say "there's so much empty space!" Forgetting that all those buildings are owned by someone. It's not up to others to "like" or "dislike" it. If you didn't pay for it through consensual exchange, it's not yours to do anything with. Period. Everyone wants "social housing" but no one (especially the people asking for it) want to pay for it. Instead, they want to steal from others. If you have an influx of bums encroaching on the property and rights of others, it's a guarantee your government is just as guilty of doing the same thing.
@@PenTheMighty If these landlord parasites are leaving all these buildings empty, then the people (no, not the state) should seize them. It's just like the Russian billionaires who have done so much to make London unaffordable.
City of Portland purchases 30 giant incinerator trucks. City of Portland takes trucks to homeless camps and loads unauthorized debris into incinerators. Eventually homeless people get the message.
If you're making this partisan (and I'm not saying that you are), what would Republicans do differently? They aren't known to support affordable housing.
I feel so bad for the taxpayers. Those homeless are not victims. That dude with the burned boat had a healthy body. He could work. American homeless choose not to work.
If the people in charge of the homeless situation weren't getting paid for it, the problem would get solved. The money needs to go to projects that will help them. Not the politicians bank accounts.
The answer isn't to remove the homeless, but to provide somewhere for them to go. Like the man said, homeless don't WANT to be homeless, but they each have a story as to why they are stuck in their situation.
@@scottcharney1091 close down the border, enforce federal drug laws, reform homelessness and drug intervention programs so that funding is directly related to outcomes. Provide better resources for veterans, send in national guard to keep order, close down the border, and close down the border. That last one is important. Where do you want your tax money going, to illegals brining the drugs in or citizens who need to get off them?
@@scottcharney1091 No one can fix a totally broken down society, especially if the other party actively blocks anything they do just because of politics.
@@scottcharney1091 Wow. You're SO ignorant. These people are NOT living in tents because they can't afford housing. 99% of them turn down free housing. The 1% that accept it spend their days hanging out with their street friends ON THE STREET. 99% of them are substance abusers. They WANT to live outside. They don't want to live in a shelter where they have to follow rules and stay clean. Republicans would criminalize this activity and clean up the streets, like they did in Florida.
If you can't afford the rent you live in the streets rents so expensive half the people can't afford to rent a place lower the damn rents and not make it so hard to get into a place
Even if that poor man wanted to move, who would buy any property in that area? They are paying crazy property taxes and I imagine that the value of their properties is negligible at this point.
I and my son natives to Oregon left in 2019 because they wouldn't help us with the rent increases that were burying us. We are disabled and all they wanted and were right there to get it done is take us off all the Oregon help we had. Made sure that was done in 30 days from our departure to Washington. Been here 5 years now and it's No Better. Infact Worse! Seattle is crazy and I will never venture back there again.
That street should be labeled as “No Parking” and patrolled regularly. The adjacent nature area should be fenced and locked up at night, so that it’s not coated in poop each AM when people try to walk its trails.
@@gregbedford9706 Why do we have to care? These are adults. We're not their mommy or daddy. Why don't the homeless look at the causes of their own problems instead of being nothing but a burden on society?
The fact that none of these tools mentioned about needing legislation to expand subsidized and affordable housing makes me happy that the homeless people chose to camp in their neighborhoods. These shmoes implied, "I don't want the homeless camping in my neighborhood. I WANT them to camp in YOUR neighborhood. They need to move somewhere, just not near ENTITLED me." 🙄
All this started when Clinton sold all our industry overseas. Not enough jobs to go around and most of these people would rather live like these rather than do any form of manual labor. Liberals support them by giving them money and in some areas, drugs. This is despicable. Hunger is a great motivator and a lot of these people would get jobs if they did not have free money coming in. The Right tries to bring back jobs but the Libs and Environmentalists scream that we are "destroying the planet" so all the jobs are in China and Mexico, where they are polluting even worse than they would be here with legal oversight. We have given the fools the keys to the kingdom and they are driving it into a ditch.
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Know what your real problem is is that people don't have to pay taxes because they don't have homes and cars but you do because you choose to have them
Homelessness is an epidemic of thia society where people and corporations can hoard land and money. Where do they expect people to live?? Do they want them executed???
Everybody just need to stop paying their property taxes and car license tabs so that state and local government don't have all that money to put into their pockets.
I think it's far too easy to get *Social Security Disability* too. More and more young people who are perfectly healthy, and able-bodied that just don't want to work. *LAZY.*
Unless you're making $30 plus an hour you would need to work nearly 90 hours a week to even qualify to rent in most places,. It''s not like it was even 12 years ago when you could just find a normal place to live for like $500-$600 a month. Wages haven't really changed much in that time so If the rent is $1,500 and the rental company wants you to make 3x or even 4x that amount a month to even move in then just do the math, not everyone has a mommy or daddy to co-sign for them. Then you have companies like Black Rock or even foreign investment firms that will slowly buy up the empty housing stock in an area, make them short term rentals while artificially inflating the market to then sell at a huge profit. How that is legal I don't know, it artificially inflates peoples property taxes as well so maybe that is why the politicians don't do anything about it because it allows them to artificially inflate their salary also. Exploitation at its finest. LoL mind you I am not talking about small private landlords here it's people that are treating housing like a commodity to be brought and sold like gold or oil and it's literally destroying people's lives.
@@tbecker97204First off, to qualify for SSDI, you have had to have paid into it via ‘earned income’ taxation.If you believe that SSDI is too ‘easy’ to get, it is obvious you have never been drug through it, and therefore are speaking on a topic you know nothing about. These young, lazy people may be collecting state welfare or SSI benefits, but I assure you it is not Social Security Disability.
@Bonserak23 No you don’t, most people I know make around $20 to $25 an hour or less and many have their own apartments. Almost all jobs offer differential pay (more pay) for working nights or weekends, plus overtime. For instance in make 18% more for working nights. Most jobs in the city pay at least $18 and there are still cheap apartments for $700 to $800 so being able to get an apartment is not a problem, not working and or spending your money on drugs is the problem. People make excuses not to work and do drugs and people like you encourage their life styles by blaming everyone else.
A big part of the problem here grew much larger with the *"Occupy Wall Street"* several years ago. Most of those people who came to Portland just stayed and started mooching off of government resources. There was already a large population of homeless prior to that "movement", but then it got out of control and the local government just threw up their hands and said, *"F it!"* And now, here we are.
@@scottcharney1091 *most* of the 'homeless' are homeless by bad choices THEY made, drugs, criminality, pure laziness, moving to Portland just for better freebies, not maintaining a rental in habital condition (easily seen why), non graduation or poor choice in job skills (burger flipping is a TRANSITION job, NOT a career), alcoholics, etc. One does not reward bad choices. Few are TRULY homeless by conditions beyond their control, THESE I would support (a) program(s) for.
Instead of being fed-up with homeless camps, why don't you work together to build a park for them. Encourage tiny home communities. Here's a idea... SKIP A BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE, OR ONE OF YOUR MANY LUXERIES, AND DONATE TO A HOMELESS TO HOUSING CHARITY. Oh, and sleep tight in your nice safe house.
It’s a crime with these cities and counties are putting these homeowners through and they’re paying such high property taxes to live with this nonsense
