“We don’t have a place to live, we’re on drugs, and that’s just the way that it is.” Sums it up perfectly.

@aw4591

Жыл бұрын

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

@MarigoldSundays

Жыл бұрын

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.

@jayhumphreys2030

Жыл бұрын

I know, right?!?

@santosmadrigal3702

Жыл бұрын

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

@stehfreejesseah7893

Жыл бұрын

@@santosmadrigal3702 Givin hand jobs to rich conservatives.

It’s funny how these homeless can break countless laws, but boy, if we law abiding citizens stop paying taxes, pay for plate renewals, the government is right at your doorstep. This is ridiculous and needs to be taken care of. Officials, stop sitting on your hands and do something.

@eligebrown8998

Жыл бұрын

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

@Ck-zk3we

Жыл бұрын

Like what?

@mercoid

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Naswaca

Жыл бұрын

So what they should go shoot all the homeless people?

@granthancock3622

Жыл бұрын

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

I don’t understand why anyone in Portland is complaining or moving out. This is exactly what they wanted and voted for.

@gabrielsandoval7331

Жыл бұрын

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

@nohopeequalsnofear3242

Жыл бұрын

Mayor Wheeler seems oblivious to the Detroitification of Portland

@arnauservaux3936

Жыл бұрын

But REAL socialism has never been tried

@LordofDarknessX

Жыл бұрын

@@gabrielsandoval7331 LMFAO

@prmath

11 ай бұрын

The difference between liberalism and conservatism………….

There's no fixing this without cruelty, but it must be fixed. It was cruel to let it get to this point.

@jacksek12

11 ай бұрын

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

@spcpitts

8 ай бұрын

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

@andrewkuebler4335

8 ай бұрын

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

@holzmann8443

8 ай бұрын

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

Hey Portland. YOU put Wheeler back in the Mayor’s office. YOU put the City Council back in office. YOU asked for this. YOU DESERVE THIS. Don’t move to my town, I don’t want your filthy politics contaminating my town. I don’t want the homeless in my town, but I REALLY don’t want the people who ALLOWED this in my town.

@whyyeseyec

Жыл бұрын

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.

@BobRooney290

11 ай бұрын

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.

@vel230

10 ай бұрын

💯🎯

@robertdavis6157

10 ай бұрын

YOUR EXACTLY RIGHT

@robertdavis6157

10 ай бұрын

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

This is pathetic. However, who did these people in Portland vote for to allow this to happen. That is what I want to know.

@drchilapastrosodrlasmacas438

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Whitehorse_crimefighter

Жыл бұрын

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

@davedawe2420

Жыл бұрын

@@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?

@Whitehorse_crimefighter

Жыл бұрын

@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.

@Whitehorse_crimefighter

Жыл бұрын

@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??

I lived in Portland from 1996-2006. I lived on the SE side. I'm so glad I moved! It's just disgusting in Portland now.

@CurtisDrew1

Жыл бұрын

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)

@Jetsetfastfood

Жыл бұрын

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

@michaellynch1159

Жыл бұрын

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

My Wife and I live in downtown Portland and we are moving to Vancouver Washington. Most of these people are not homeless… they are panhandlers who are not willing to change no matter what solutions are given to them. If you do not live here then you really do not understand the issues.

@robertshepherd99

Жыл бұрын

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

@randallkohn6089

7 ай бұрын

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

A year ago I drove my daughter to Portland State University. It was awful, I hated leaving her there. Sure enough, she got chased down the sidewalk by a guy trying to burn her with a cigarette. She had another beg for food so she gave him a pizza and he threw it at her and smashed it on her face, another one tried to grab her phone. One came up to the window naked and kept giving her the bird and throwing stuff. She called the police and they informed her that they weren't taking calls right now. WTF? Then one came into the school cafeteria and was trying to get student's food cards. Reported it to campus police and they never came. Needless to say, we decided after 1 semester that PSU is a sh$% school and nobody gives a fig there about the safety of the students so she came home and is still paying that crappy school for that one semester. They call her every month for more money and couldn't be bothered to take her call when she was in danger on campus.

@jemase7931

Жыл бұрын

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

@bosshog8844

Жыл бұрын

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

@amandagill6372

Жыл бұрын

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

@amandagill6372

Жыл бұрын

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

@thelonemaiden

Жыл бұрын

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

It’s a lawless society! But please don’t forget to renew your license plate, you’ll be in deep trouble !

@sarbantz

Жыл бұрын

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.

@pdxtom

Жыл бұрын

@@sarbantz 😂😂😂

@jcout25

Жыл бұрын

Lol I just renewed my plate last week.

@sidehustletips

Жыл бұрын

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

@Editnamehere

Жыл бұрын

Exactly haha.

2:18 is everything. It isn't about personal responsibility. It's about "others need to give us..."

@cggg490

Жыл бұрын

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.

@angieh4534

5 ай бұрын

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

This happens because the city massively enables this and law enforcement has been forced to take a mostly "hands off" policy to the homeless's bad behavior.

@tonibutts8828

9 ай бұрын

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.

Sounds like the campers that _really_ need to be removed are the ones in city hall.

@robertwhittaker4459

Жыл бұрын

You hit the nail on head

@bags4930

Жыл бұрын

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!!!

@MamaMOB

Жыл бұрын

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!

@Chrisuperfly1

Жыл бұрын

good luck

@chaswood1517

Жыл бұрын

OMG , YOU THINK?!!!!

Isn't this what the people of Portland voted for? I want them to get more, much more of what they voted for.

@Flourbased

Жыл бұрын

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

@beauanderson7762

Жыл бұрын

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."

@NemeanLion-

Жыл бұрын

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.

@stevereed8786

Жыл бұрын

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.

@dianabeurman364

Жыл бұрын

That's right! You asked for this!

To the homeless lady, " that sounds like a you problem. Who made the choice to do drugs knowing the effects?"

Visited Portland in 2017 from Chicago. Thought it was one of the most beautiful cities I had ever seen. Could easily relocate if it wasn't for this. A city with so much potential.

@michaelm.3210

Ай бұрын

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.

"It's up to the homeless to decide if they want the help or not." That's the problem. Once you have become a nuisance to property owners and society you should no longer have a choice. Unless that choice is between a shelter, rehab, or jail.

@secrets.295

Жыл бұрын

Shelter should be out of the question. The more shelter you built the more homeless you will breed.

@timothyexner

Жыл бұрын

@@secrets.295 That makes zero sense.

@Peterbluebird

Жыл бұрын

@@timothyexner that makes perfect

@Peterbluebird

Жыл бұрын

Ugly ass nigger would be dead if you’re on my property you will fie

@bubbaj6929

Жыл бұрын

Once we decide that humans are a nuisance is when we start to f up.

I think it's sad that the woman they interviewed said basically they are just waiting for the government to provide a solution. No you need to get in rehab, and be your own solution. It's the victim mentality that will keep u down forever!

@Argonwolfproject

Жыл бұрын

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.

@horacecomegna335

Жыл бұрын

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

@schimmel724

Жыл бұрын

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

@Argonwolfproject

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@rrbbb1180

11 ай бұрын

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

One of the reasons I left too. Loved Portland for 50 years. I now live in Reno, Nevada. Great city and community. Join me in the "Greatest Little City in the World."

When the consequences of misplaced empathy hit you right in the face.

Very disingenuous to title this piece suggesting the residents are simply "inconvenienced." It's not an inconvenience, it's dangerous. Residents are not being elitist, they are expecting their governing body - for which they pay taxes for representation - to do their job and keep the neighborhood safe and livable. What has happened to cities - even moderately sized cities - on both coasts has been a true tragedy for all involved.

@myrddinterwilliger4762

Жыл бұрын

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

@lks6248

Жыл бұрын

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

@cl20v87

Жыл бұрын

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

@Dementia_Joe

Жыл бұрын

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?

@PlayinWithGhosts

Жыл бұрын

​@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.

I lived in Portland from 1977 - 1995. It was such a nice place then. What a shame to see what it's become.

@crand20033

Жыл бұрын

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

@skyisreallyhigh3333

Жыл бұрын

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

@crand20033

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@skyisreallyhigh3333

Жыл бұрын

@@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?

@digby_dooright

Жыл бұрын

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

The Los Angeles County Poor Farm was a solution for homelessness back before the great depression, it's located in the city of Downey. At it's peak is was more than 500 acres and this allowed the poorest to have a roof over their heads and a chance to work on the farm to build self respect. This is still there but in disrepair. Years ago there were many poor farms across the country, these should be tried again.

@lynncarden

Жыл бұрын

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

@r8chlletters

10 ай бұрын

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.

inconveniencing????? Imagine trying to raise your family around drugs, human waist, violance, and theift and some news station called it a "inconvenience" 🤣🤣🤣

It is still a long way off, but Portland should take a hard, cold look at the history of the decline and fall of Detroit. When the normal residents who pay the outrageous taxes which pay to run the city start moving out, the tax base collapses, and the tax income falls. Once that starts happening, the city better have a serious solution soon, because it's a slippery slope which they will not be able to stop once it starts.

@dirtluverluveruvdirt7009

Жыл бұрын

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

@ericschwarz5392

Жыл бұрын

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

@johntruxal432

Жыл бұрын

I hope that slippert slope is soon...

@joshualloyd4275

Жыл бұрын

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...

@AnAmericanPatriot1555

Жыл бұрын

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.

Move the encampments across the street from the Governor's mansion, Mayor's house as well as City Council and you'll see swift action taken

@50buttfish

Жыл бұрын

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

@gwillis2230

Жыл бұрын

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!

@cayminlast

Жыл бұрын

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.

@zarb88

Жыл бұрын

you voted for them

@tomtee4442

Жыл бұрын

You are right

Mayor Sam Adams was booted out of office, and then denied another City Council post. HE caused all this with his policy of "eviction without cause" policy. So property owners could raise the rents 250%. They would kick out renters without ANY explanation. At any time. 90% of leases were month/month in SE/NE Portland. Only recently has low income housing been addressed. Portland WILL bounce back.

Another thing- if the city stopped all trash service and nobody could haul their bulk garbage off easily, how long would it be before every home in Portland was drowning in a sea of garbage. It's lunacy to Remove 1/3 of all public trash cans, keep dumpsters locked, fail to provide regular or centralized sanitation service for the homeless - and then cry about all the trash. Not to mention how many people see only what they expect to. They see a tent and a few covered boxes for storing things that can't fit, something that's not neat and organized like their own yards, and immediately associate clutter with trash. I've had several ppl over time scream at me to Clean up my mess- yet there's not a scrap in sight and my place is squared away. The media needs to focus more on the Actual Problems rather than pluck low hanging fruit of the sensationalist tabloid variety. Fix the Mental Health System and %80 of the complaints against the poor will fade away

I was incarcerated too and left to fend for myself on these streets when I got out! Did I go straight to back to being shyt again?! No!! I chose to stay sober and now I’ve got an apartment because I chose to be sober(in fear of getting locked up again and again) enough to get a cooking job and I’ve got an incredible life far better than what I could have ever dreamed Of and I have a girlfriend who accepts me for who Iam and loves me. I worked extremely hard to get at this point! And I’m still working hard to maintain and improve my life. You can’t get that from a fucking handout or law that’s passed.. you get that from getting your shyt together at whatever cost no matter how uncomfortable it is!

@christianterrill3503

Жыл бұрын

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

@grumpywolfgaming

Жыл бұрын

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

@jbranum3087

Жыл бұрын

Well done man. Keep coming back

@skyisreallyhigh3333

Жыл бұрын

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

@CandiceMMartinez

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

I feel so bad for the decent homeowners.

@gonzaloarvietti4920

Жыл бұрын

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

@tymobyrne4451

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@prague7706

Жыл бұрын

They vote for this

@esoxaddict2197

Жыл бұрын

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.

@RedEngin33r

Жыл бұрын

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!

She doesn't want a solution, she wants THE solution that she wants.

"Keep Portland un-livable" Thanks Tina & thanks, Ted!

You voted for this, you live with it.

@mattiga1358

Жыл бұрын

We proud the grifter is gone 😂

@Digimonisbetterthanpokemon

Жыл бұрын

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

@mattiga1358

Жыл бұрын

@@Digimonisbetterthanpokemon 😂

@Ami_Decristo

Жыл бұрын

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

I got news for Rebecca who's moving to WA. next month. its just as bad. The homeless are everywhere here, leaving filth and drug paraphernalia everywhere. Garbage all over the place and crime has really increased.

@Steveforisrael

Жыл бұрын

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

@stehfreejesseah7893

Жыл бұрын

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

@redwhite_040

Жыл бұрын

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

@vallee7966

Жыл бұрын

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

@darthtubius9184

Жыл бұрын

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

After 49 years living in Portland; I moved to Vancouver a 2 years ago because of this and only regret not moving sooner! If Vancouver ends up like Portland I guess I will move again.

I live is South Florida. We have part of a public park that’s called tent city. Plus we have all the boats that can’t move, anchored up in shallower waters. You can see people every day. We gotta find a way to get these people back in society.

@lindanorris2455

6 ай бұрын

HOW IS A LONG TERM DRUG ADDICT EVER GOING RE-ENTER SOCIETY ARE YOU INSANE?

The homeless population, street racing culture, and absolutely insane housing costs convinced my family to abandon the area last year. It’s a shame because 10 years ago Portland was one of the most awesome cities in the world.

@megachad69420

Жыл бұрын

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.

@cheesypoofs6256

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Portland started getting bad after occupy Wall Street.

@olyokie

Жыл бұрын

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

@benjaminbritt7862

Жыл бұрын

Liberal leaders led to this, not the 1%

@skyisreallyhigh3333

Жыл бұрын

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

The politicians, who allow those bums to freely roam and camp around city's resident should house them all in their own mansions.

@dirtluverluveruvdirt7009

Жыл бұрын

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

@johntruxal432

Жыл бұрын

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

@sarbantz

Жыл бұрын

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

@estherpovaletti2716

Жыл бұрын

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

@brendawiener2630

Жыл бұрын

That city is liberal run

Visited Portland in 2003. Was such a beautiful city and area. It is sad to see this has happened so fast. Unfortunately, these people who are moving out will go to new cities and vote for the same policies and types of leaders who allow this to take place in PDX until their new city/town is also ruined. Already happening in CO and AZ.

@steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeeee9803

Жыл бұрын

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?

If people aren’t accepting the help, maybe the help that’s offered isn’t the help they need

Been exactly one year since I moved out of Portland. Best thing I ever did , and wished I had done it sooner.

@buttercuptaylor7135

Жыл бұрын

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".

@bmanagement4657

Жыл бұрын

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.

@frankk1512

Жыл бұрын

Lol imagine moving instead of not voting Dem

@bmanagement4657

Жыл бұрын

@@frankk1512 or republican. Oregon is extremely conservative.

@frankk1512

Жыл бұрын

@@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

These are the same people who not more than two years ago were demanding police be disbanded and defunded.

@estherpovaletti2716

Жыл бұрын

Police won’t solve your poverty issues

@lHurtYourFeeIings

Жыл бұрын

Good. Well deserved.

@jcout25

Жыл бұрын

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

@XJ9sodypop

Жыл бұрын

exactly. which is why i have 0 sympathy for portland

@blackrocks8413

Жыл бұрын

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....

Anyone found living outside should be forcibly relocated to a gated homeless resource center, complete with shelter, food, and treatment. It should be located away from city limits.

You make me happy that all I have is one bi polar neighbor. She talks to herself but doesn’t cause to many problems.

She said thanks for cleaning up the booty juice! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 At least she was honest. Please revisit this location in a month and see what this intervention has accomplished. My bet is absolutely nothing. Too bad for the tax payers on the street. Taxation without representation is alive and well in Portland.

@mariev2342

Жыл бұрын

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 🤦🏻‍♀️

@prima-madalina

Жыл бұрын

Omg that was SO funny

@JulsLittleBeirutAnarchy

Жыл бұрын

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

@WarriorVinyard

Жыл бұрын

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

@r8chlletters

Жыл бұрын

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

"I'm happy that their cleaning up the tampons and booty juice..." She kept it all the way real! 😂😂😂😂

@rustyshackleford4801

Жыл бұрын

Shit had me rollin! 😂

The woman being interviewed was honest and transparent about her situation without a home and on drugs.

Keep Portland Feared! Keep it going guys you are doing awesome!

I do like how it's called "RAPID Response team" and it takes them a few months to get around to your neighborhood. Typical government program. Quick to take your money, slow to deliver service.

@mylois62

Жыл бұрын

Rapid response is a private company not government

@GemStoneDecals

Жыл бұрын

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.

@skyisreallyhigh3333

Жыл бұрын

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".

@skyisreallyhigh3333

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@huyduong7202

Жыл бұрын

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

Rewarded for doing wrong, criminalized and scolded for doing right. That’s the world we live in today.

@dutchman063

Жыл бұрын

Thank your local democrat/liberal

@leavandenbosch9090

Жыл бұрын

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

@rudy_2299

Жыл бұрын

Build back better at work.

@deliveryguyrx

Жыл бұрын

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

3 years in Portland was enough for me. Never saw the good side so the bad issues were overwhelming. I do miss Powell’s Books though.

Portland used to be a wonderful city to live in and visit but not anymore. Those in power have allowed anarchy in the city and streets and thus, what we see in this video is only the tip of the endless problems in the "City of Roses."

Not a day goes by in which my contempt for our government is not reinforced.

@8188jlpc

Жыл бұрын

🎯

@evegreenification

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@TheBandit7613

Жыл бұрын

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

@vorpal120

Жыл бұрын

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?

@TheBandit7613

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

This may be the real reason why my cousin refuses to invite me to visit her in Portland. She's obviously ashamed of her city.

@methus57

Жыл бұрын

maybe she just doesn't like you

@Soul_Education

Жыл бұрын

@@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🤫

@methus57

Жыл бұрын

@@Soul_Education someone sounds a little defensive. therapy helps

@Soul_Education

Жыл бұрын

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

Just what you need in the neighborhood. Thanks Mayor Wheeler.

I heard on another youtube report that they are not offered a ride to a shelter, they are given a phone number to call for shelter help. What phone are they supposed to use? How are they supposed to get there? What if no beds are available? People can only take so much before someone gets hurt. Both sides.

When you allow these camps to exist, you are facilitating their misery and are culpable in their suffering. Homeless camps serve nobody's interest.

@bman6065

Жыл бұрын

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

@deeznutz3958

Жыл бұрын

@david chapman send them to your house

@user-uy3eq5hg1s

Жыл бұрын

@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.

@sarbantz

Жыл бұрын

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.

@heyheytaytay

Жыл бұрын

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

I noticed the last couple of trips to the Oregon coast had a lot of homeless as well. Some living on the beach, most hanging around the grocery stores. Portland is a cess pool, Salem is not far behind and Eugene just passed some truly horrible and stupid rental laws which caused multiple people to immediately put their rentals up for sale. Good people are just giving up.

@izifaddag8221

Жыл бұрын

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.

@birdlynn417

Жыл бұрын

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.

@davidmassey9243

Жыл бұрын

@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 🤷‍♂

@wizkaqueefa9003

Жыл бұрын

@@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

@davidmassey9243

Жыл бұрын

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

I wonder how many of those irate residents voted the very people in who let this happen.

Homelessness is a problem spanning the entire country, not just Portland, and one with roots deeper than most people sitting comfortably behind a computer can understand. Even if homeless rehabilitation in PDX wasn't run by opportunistic bureaucrats it would still take years to clean up.

"inconveniencing neighbors"...you mean posing a very real threat to life and property, right?

@isaacbacka8731

Жыл бұрын

What are you so scared of them for? Lmfao

@drageogaming4304

Жыл бұрын

@@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?

@u3u36

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

“You gotta give them a solution” maybe the solution is to stop doing drugs😳, doubt what’s left of her brain can comprehend that though

@Kyle-sr6jm

Жыл бұрын

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

@elnero6875

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

There is no way that i would buy a house near a neighborhood with a homeless infestation.

Build a labor camp where they can earn their keep and possibly go to school at night to better themselves. Freeloading off of tax paying citizens must stop. That said, the citizens of Portland have the government they deserve.

Even if you give these people housing, they destroy the place, just because you get them off the streets doesn't make them anymore responsible.

@chadl1876

Жыл бұрын

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

@jannett4333

Жыл бұрын

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

@jmbisme

Жыл бұрын

This is the unfortunate truth about it.

@Obscure462

Жыл бұрын

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

@jonedmondo8806

Жыл бұрын

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.

We've given them literal decades it's time for tough love make it illegal to camp in the city limits

@manjon217

Жыл бұрын

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.

@Argonwolfproject

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

Thank god I live in harsh winters. This BS wouldn’t fly around here. My snowblower would be aimed at their tent in no time!! “Try an igloo!!!”

Feel sorry for the Portlanders who do the right thing! They shouldn't have to be dealing with this crap!

The guy said it all, they have more rights than us homeowners. Nice job Wheeler and all.

@user-uy3eq5hg1s

Жыл бұрын

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.

@sarbantz

Жыл бұрын

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.

@user-uy3eq5hg1s

Жыл бұрын

​@@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?

@sarbantz

Жыл бұрын

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

@carriebremet2086

Жыл бұрын

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

The funny part is 10 years from now you will think this was a picnic...

@evognayr

Жыл бұрын

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

@tomtee4442

Жыл бұрын

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.

When I came to Portland in 1971 it was eerily empty downtown. I found out it was because the timber industry was down. Wa. and Or. had lost Asian lumber contracts to Canada. In the following years Intel and Nike came and Portland was rebuilt by the 90s. Only a quarter of a century later it's down again, only for different reasons. This time the town was sabotaged by politicians.

Shocking, who would have thought cutting the police budget and making all drugs legal would have any negative effects?

Keep Ted Wheeler and Kate Brown in office. Portland made their choices, live with it.

@huyduong7202

Жыл бұрын

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.

@EndFreemasonry

Жыл бұрын

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

@bmanagement4657

Жыл бұрын

Measure 97. Portland made its choice.

@Synfulz

Жыл бұрын

@@jersmith1486 laughable

@EndFreemasonry

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

They want others to solve their problems, give them food, money, free everything..and then not tell them what to do. It's like they never moved past being a toddler. I just don't get it.

@roryteal5940

Жыл бұрын

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.

@sarbantz

Жыл бұрын

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.

@tpolerex7282

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Kharkovkid

Жыл бұрын

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

@skyisreallyhigh3333

Жыл бұрын

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

I pay taxes, it should be illegal to sleep on the streets and leave their things for everyone to see. This has got to stop. I don't have to give anyone a solution or an answer. They have been given MANY things and choose this life, I want the streets back and safe for children.

Imagine saving your money so you can buy a home and this happens in front of your home. The politicians should live near campsites and not in some gated community.

The homeless are making the rules, by not having rules . Tax payers WORK to pay so the trash gets picked up. Politicians represent both groups. Of these three groups, which needs to have it's purpose in the community changed?

You voted for it Portland you got it

@chrisbudai409

Жыл бұрын

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

@JimmyDean1312

Жыл бұрын

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

@schlooonginator1227

Жыл бұрын

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.

@buttercuptaylor7135

Жыл бұрын

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

feel like that's when you install sprinklers facing the outside street.

“Inconvenience” is an amazingly gaslighting way to diminish open drug use, violence, and crimes when people are trying to keep their family and children safe. Disgusting verbiage

….. “but it’s up to the homeless to decide if they want the help or not.” Bingo! That’s the problem! Stop giving them the option of living on the street. Either accept help or go to jail. It will save lives.

@CTF33

Жыл бұрын

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.

@ursulasmith6402

Жыл бұрын

The help would be giving JOBS , EVERYONE CAN DO!

@backyardrebel2149

Жыл бұрын

@@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!

@michaelfuchs

Жыл бұрын

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.

@shivtim

Жыл бұрын

And what have you done to help homeless people?

Portland needs to re-instate the ban on city camping. That’s a simple first step. Austin changed course already. Almost 40% of homeless (research shows) drug addicted and 40% mental illness. We can offer help just to those who want it (drug/mental health/job support/shower/laundry/garbage/bus ride out/NOT free housing for most because cost/maybe short term or reduced rent for just a bit). Yes Portland is expensive and yes people can move. I was homeless in a city for a year and lived in a van. I never left thrash around or disrupted neighbors. I worked full time even though could only work under the table as was not a citizen of the country. There’s so many jobs available in Portland. Same day pay jobs even. The homeless issue is out of control here. I’ve been physically assaulted at a stop light with young kids in my car. Assaulted verbally (loudly and followed) because I didn’t have money to give, again with young kids in tow. I’m not speaking from privilege. I’m a former foster kid no family support.

@Briefcase217

Жыл бұрын

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.

@evognayr

Жыл бұрын

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

@Briefcase217

Жыл бұрын

@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.

@methus57

Жыл бұрын

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

Whenever we flushed our toilets, we wondered where it went.

This isnt about Portland, this is about america and what a damn shame it is!!! Its all over the place.

Keep voting the way you have been, and you'll keep getting what you got.

@sableann4255

Жыл бұрын

💯

@buttercuptaylor7135

Жыл бұрын

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.

@bmanagement4657

Жыл бұрын

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

@joanzaglool8300

Жыл бұрын

Why doesn’t anyone in this town get that?

@flower2289

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

"It's up to the homeless to decide if they want the help or not." Ya know, because their decision making has proven to be quite reliable thus far.

@21mushroomcupcakes33

Жыл бұрын

@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.

@Living4YHWH

Жыл бұрын

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.

@davidwhittaker9128

Жыл бұрын

​@@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.

@karkule5919

Жыл бұрын

@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.

@toeduso

Жыл бұрын

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

It’s almost like lawlessness sucks…

One more time, shelters are not safe! People need SAFE places to rebuild their lives.

The homeless girl said that the city needs to offer a solution. How do you offer a solution to someone who doesn’t want a solution?

@canileaveitblank1476

Жыл бұрын

EXACTLY!

@crand20033

Жыл бұрын

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

@Itsmeagain828

Жыл бұрын

You force the solution.

@mizzmini45

Жыл бұрын

Your right

@r8chlletters

10 ай бұрын

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

(sigh) Even that homeless woman knows the drill. Everyone knows that having people live on the street is a problem that ebbs and flows with the periodic clean ups, but it isn't being solved. Just reshuffling the deck and moving the mess around.

@canileaveitblank1476

Жыл бұрын

The “solution” involves stopping drug use, and following basic rules; most homeless do not want either of those things.

@skyisreallyhigh3333

Жыл бұрын

@@canileaveitblank1476 That's not the solution, considering many homeless people are not on drugs and some even hold full time jobs. The issue is we live under an economic system that requires there to be homeless people so there will be enough desperate people that dont want to end up homeless to shit work for shit wages. We should also consider the fact that most drug addicts are housed people. The largest criminal are giant corporations. The largest form of theft is wage theft. That's when employers steal wages from their employees. It dwarfs all other forms of theft in USA. But sure, it's the fault of the people society had left behind and not the society itself.

@lockandloadlikehell

Жыл бұрын

That's because the MAJORITY of them aren't just down on their luck temporarily due to bad luck financially They'll ruin anywhere they go because they don't gaf about others, are drug addicts, criminals and mentally ill Providing Housing does nothing They won't take it and if they do they'll destroy the Building/home/apt/hotel they're graciously provided with in no time

@lockandloadlikehell

Жыл бұрын

@@skyisreallyhigh3333 WRONG, gunt Sounds you're not homeless to me And don't have a gd clue what you're talking about Little socio fascist enablers like you are the problem You're just a lazy bitch

@lockandloadlikehell

Жыл бұрын

@@canileaveitblank1476 The solution doesn't have anything to do with drugs dipshit If you wanted to do that you'd be voting to eradicate your failed socialist drug war- not the opposite, Mr Karl Marx

The lady with the oxygen tube in her nose says- "I'm not gonna hold my breath"! !!!

That homeless woman in the interview sounds remarkably alert and aware of the situation, particularly if she is also on drugs.

i left portland in 2003.its crazy to see how fast a beautiful city can be destroyed. i have fond memories as a child riding my bike everywhere and going to the parks with my dad. this also seems to be spreading throughout oregon as well ,the more i see it the more i want to move further in the woods far away from it

@aprilflowers1579

Жыл бұрын

Please don't come back

@NicoleSchadenfreude

Жыл бұрын

@@aprilflowers1579 lol no problem. enjoy your hellscape

@DroneStrike1776

Жыл бұрын

Because of the liberals. Keep it up. Keep voting Blue, just don't cry about it afterwards.

@aprilflowers1579

Жыл бұрын

@@DroneStrike1776 I don't vote for either party and despise both as the enemies of working people. The current issue was created by politicians of both parties making decisions against the interests of the entire working class. I believe in and practice direct action solutions that benefit my class in it's entirety opposed to polices of politicians working to benefit wealthy elites. The democrat/republican paradigm is a sham to keep we, the working people, from exercising power in our interests in a meaningful way

@JaStvarno

Жыл бұрын

@@aprilflowers1579 "we, the working people" 😁😁😁😁 you HATE working people.

Relocation camps. You can be homeless if you want, but you can't be homeless where you want.

Bring the criminals to jail, the addicted to rehabilitation, the mentally ill to institutions, and find housing for the 2 or 3% that are left over.

Why do people keep voting for these incompetent city council and mayor??

We left Portland almost 15 years ago, It's sad to see how bad things have gotten.

@tremblence

Жыл бұрын

liberals wanted to defund the police So crime went up, children are getting kidnapped and fentanyl is flooding into the US homelessness is increasing, inflation is getting worse and all leftists are concerned with is calling innocent people racist, when they clearly aren't... like this lady kzread.info/dash/bejne/aqyc1cWvYpDNc7Q.html A woke university even promoted the protests against the bakery.....all on FALSE claims..... watch for yourself

@HighwayLand

Жыл бұрын

I would visit Portland nearly every year since 2002, but last year is the last time I will EVER go that city!

@DistendedPerinium

Жыл бұрын

You left right before the real bad decline started. I lived there until two years ago. I'm only going back to visit my father every so often.

@josebro352

Жыл бұрын

​@@DistendedPerinium I watched the whole video and didn't know whether it was Portland Oregon or Portland Maine. Which is it?

@DistendedPerinium

Жыл бұрын

@@josebro352 Oregon. KGW is one of the three major news broadcasters there.

My family moved from Canada to Oregon in 1993 a year after I was born. We lived in Wilsonville when it was mostly just swampy. We moved to Virginia in 1998 when I was only 6 years old. I met my wife in 2016 and I got a data analyst position in Wilsonville Oregon. The change just freaking shocked me

@tracys169

Жыл бұрын

Is there a houseless crisis there in Wilsonville, OR? I used to go there all the time and a lot of old friends lived in that area. Now I've moved to SE Portland and oh boy. My family are either in Canby, OR--some in Tigard--they tell me they usually don't see any houseless camp there but when they come see me in SE Portland, they always say, "WOW, there are so many houseless encampments everywhere!" My parents are actually embarrassed of me because my house is in SE Portland.

@michael198427

Жыл бұрын

Yeah what was the change

@Jim-vr2lx

Жыл бұрын

@@michael198427 He may be a 'data analyst', but he writes like a sixth-grader.

@ricksmith4736

Жыл бұрын

Yes, you were part of the transplants who started to invade Oregon in the late 80's.... Thanks alot for these problems.... Go Biden voters.....

@BrianMark1776

Жыл бұрын

Remember when Washington Oregon and California were red states? Not anymore, that's for damn sure. 😢

I feel bad for people who were born and raised and still live in Portland

there are kids in those neighborhoods that may see syringes thrown on the street in front of their homes! it’s embarrassing how the government doesn’t put their part to clean that whole mess… thats why people are moving away from portland!