As a recovering opioid addict (with 8+ years sober) who's experienced homelessness, I appreciate the level of empathy you bring to your work. It's obviously a complex issue with multiple layers going way back in time, as you succinctly point out. We need more folks like you out there to help bridge the gap between people on both sides of these issues. Keep up the good work!

@tmoddison

11 күн бұрын

Thanks. I enjoyed making this video, it's just a lot of work! 😳

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.

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment. You’re not wrong. Do you think the Supreme Court is going to have any impact on this situation?

@The1andOnlyCandiceKelly

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. Well said.

@jasonmorgan7280

2 ай бұрын

This right here. Somebody who actually lives in Grants Pass and has experience the issue first hand.

@mrmouse-ol9pw

Ай бұрын

As a grants pass citizen u hit the nail on the head. Our parks r unusable our communities our now entrenched. These r 90% drug addicts who choose to live this way. Many with children

@TinaInOr

Ай бұрын

It was actually over a cigarette. Someone asked for cigarette and someone said, no. I don't believe they were actually staying at the park. It's still not a safe place to be. But for the folks who are or become homeless ... it's the ONLY place they can go.

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.

@tmoddison

Ай бұрын

Thanks Jeff for watching and your compliment. Let me know when you’re headed this way and how I can help!

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

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment. Do you think all people did?

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.

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Great point. Every police officer talked to about it said that clumping them all together in a confined space is a terrible idea. Just creates more issues. Especially because they don’t want to be near other people in general.

@gypsy5592

4 ай бұрын

They feel safer with eachother than those trying to get rid of them. You know the safety in numbers rule we're taught as children.

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

@gypsy5592 not sure we are taught it or if it’s a basic human instinct?

@annsaunders5768

Ай бұрын

Take initiatives! Do something FOR the communities!

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.

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Thank you. Hopefully it’ll catch on with more people?!

@didirobert3657

4 ай бұрын

Do you mind me asking why you don’t offer your brother a place with you? Are drugs on board? Mental illness?

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.

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching! That is such an interesting point that you make about the county. Grants passes so unique and that the city really serves many more residence outside of the boundaries. How long have you lived in Oregon?

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!!😮😮😮😮

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

I hope they take care of you as well! Be sure to tell them what your thoughts are!!

That is so correct can't no one speak for the homeless but the homeless because it is their experience 🤔🤨🙄🤔

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!😮😮😮😮😮 !

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

This is such a great comment. Lots to unpack here for sure. Measure 110 in Oregon was supposed to provide financial support for rehab beds across the state, but that didn't pan out... There are social workers in Grants Pass, but the resources do not match the need. Housing is a major challenge - I'll be tackling that next!

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)

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the comment. Sometimes they do, and then are careless with fire and burn up parts of the forest.

Well done Travis.

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! Did it make sense? Seem unbiased? Were the interviews too long??

@debbiedaggett6692

4 ай бұрын

@@tmoddison it was very fair. you understand that to some it is a choice, to some it is too many barriers or mental health issues. And that there isn't a solution at this time. I did wonder if you got permission to use some of the public forum discussions, like Jase, but then though it was public so you probably don't need that. Well done

So ,I see one of Medford's favorite sons on the cover of the video, but their is no mention of him in the story. Daniel Doughty ( not sure of the spelling) has been a familiar figure in Medford for years. He is a kind hearted person.

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

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 😢😢

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

My wife’s family is all from Glendale! It was quite the town back in the day!

@coastalhillbilly3419

4 ай бұрын

Sure we haven’t always sent our best but if CA is exporting all these liberals why are there continually more liberals in CA? They are coming also to California, not a lot of multi-generational legacy Californians. 75% of Californians and 66% Washingtonians currently moving to Idaho are registered GOP and consider themselves conservatives, both higher percentage of legacy Idahoans. Abbott of TX would have barely squeaked by Beto O’Rourke for Governor had it not been for CA transplants.

@annsaunders5768

Ай бұрын

In your opinion...​@@coastalhillbilly3419

Inflation made it worst ! ...

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

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

@maryfaye1327

20 күн бұрын

All homeless people do not use drugs. That is such an insult 🙄🤔🤨 and all homeless people are not using alcohol either 🙄🤔🤨😊

@mrmouse-ol9pw

20 күн бұрын

Did I say that? Did I imply that? Or are you just making a statement?

@maryfaye1327

20 күн бұрын

@@mrmouse-ol9pw Making a sta according to what I have seen and heard concerning the homeless people in America USA. The American Citizens. That have. And still are taxpayers in America USA. At this present time. However; is homeless of no fault of their own.🙄🤔🤨

@mrmouse-ol9pw

20 күн бұрын

@maryfaye1327 oh so you're judging the US based off what? You're not here. So how would you know what the percentage of homeless here in Grants Pass OR are addicts/alcoholics and choose this life?

@mrmouse-ol9pw

20 күн бұрын

@maryfaye1327 I do live in Grants Pass OR so I think I'm in a better position to state facts about the situation here in Grants Pass OR

Mr.travis there's options,health department, hospital,CRC treatment center,Allcare there are plenty of resources to help the homeless we all got clear minds tell the intelligent people to surrender on how things SHOULD be instead they have 2 roads to walk the worldly walk our the pay it forward surrender the attitude and listen to the healthy support

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.

@tmoddison

25 күн бұрын

Maybe sir! Thank you!

No one has to tell anybody why the people in America is homeless first of all the the wages that they make the income that they have coming in for the two and three jobs if they're working on it's not sufficient to pay all the bills that they have. It is not enough money for the people to pay rent and pay for food gas and etcetera and etcetera. You figure it out 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

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

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment. I’m not sure I understand… there’s no permit to own a lot of rentals… What do you mean?

Grants pass is an awesome town I liked it there

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Did you live here?

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.

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Thanks again for your comment. Great idea regarding business owners. My next video in this series is on Measure 110 - how it got voted in, what the impact was, and why it had to be undone. Would you send me an email, if be happy to include your voice. my email is travis.moddison@gmail.com

hey neighbor

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Hi Neighbor!! Did you watch?

@BarbaraBoronda

4 ай бұрын

yeah i watched your video@@tmoddison

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

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Would you ever move back this way?

@theRealJohnnyAppleweed

4 ай бұрын

@@tmoddison I miss some of my friends out there but probably not. It's MUCH more affordable in OKC. I rented a tiny 2br condo on Kellenbeck for the same price I'm renting a 4br 3ba 2car with a pool in OKC. My Insurance is cheaper, gas is MUCH cheaper, Homelessness is low here and jobs pay surprisingly well. I had to have a 2nd job at the Lucky Duck and Purple Parot to survive in Grants Pass, Here in stacking silver, fishing often, and only working 1 job.

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

@@theRealJohnnyAppleweed hard to argue with that logic! Here's to catching some lunkers out there!

@theRealJohnnyAppleweed

4 ай бұрын

@@tmoddison Catfish. Lake Stanley Draper and Lake Thunderbird. Overflowing with them.

@tammyireland3763

4 ай бұрын

Wow! I’m opposite. I moved to Williams from Muskogee. My best move ever 😭

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.

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

I’m not sure what the rules are flying to Hawaii. Do you live there?

@Matentupe808

3 ай бұрын

You don't know what you're talking about re: Hawaii.

Homeless junkies have trashed grants pass. It used to be a nice town. The laws changed recently forbidding camping in the parks and things have improved a little.

We call it grants passed out😂

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Nice! I used to call it “Grass Pants” 👖

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Love your comment. That’s a lot of miles on 199!!! Ever get stuck behind a landslide?

The taxpayers come first.

@tmoddison

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment. You’re not wrong. Taxpayers paid for that park and part of the social contract is that it is for their use. What do you think the city should do?

@carinamcallister9730

Ай бұрын

But when there are solutions that are less costly than criminalizing homelessness (the justice system is extremely expensive to tax payers) are you open to hearing those solutions?

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.