This seems like such a good project. Government agencies need to work together to make these kinds of solutions work well and be reliable. Many people with mental illness and addictions cannot make informed choices, and where well- meaning citoes

Love seeing this

People NEED villages like this, and you know what? Those tiny houses might be cute, but they're too small for families, so they're not appropriate for children. What's needed is a larger plot of land and larger houses. Are Vancouver and Portland planning to expand these villages to where they can have cottages built, and not just little tiny homes that barely cut it? Also, how can private organizations and individuals get in on this? Could you run a story about that please? I'd like to donate, because this is a solution I can get behind.

@oregoneyes6673

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Most chronic homeless people are single men - greater than 80%.

@heatherpayne1995

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There's a family shelter downtown Vancouver that's more like an apartment building.

@justrosy5

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@@oregoneyes6673 Untrue. Most of them are families with kids combined with members of the LGBTQIA+ (including teenagers) and Veteran communities (including women). Get your facts straight.

@justrosy5

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@@heatherpayne1995 That's good, but it's not going to serve everyone who needs it, and really, apartment buildings are more at risk for massive damage and loss of life from more common types of fires, such as kitchen fires (and no, not always from Meth labs). So many of us are so used to the idea that apartments are all we'll ever have, because we're not fortunate enough to be Boomers, that we don't even think twice about it. But really, individual, separate units are safer. Notice that these tiny homes are made of metal, not wood. There's a reason for that. Cottages are just oversized tiny-homes, and can be built using metal rather than wood (and they don't have to be mobile homes either). Apartments are "ok for now," and I'm glad there's anything at all available for that purpose, but really, in the end, that needs to be replaced with cottages (or at least the families going through the apartments need to be moved into cottages at a later time). Besides, kids need actual (even if small) fenced in yards to play in, just as pets (including service and emotional support animals) do. Can't get that (at least in a decent way) with apartment buildings. I live by the philosophy, "Beggars can be choosers, because they're human beings too." I'm willing to donate toward that cause - are you?

@baitcrown9238

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I know a Bitcoin address you can donate to. The funds will be used to develop a small plot of land. The current big ticket item is installing septic.

Thank you for this story

This is an excellent idea. The problem is the troublemakers refuse to move into these communities.

Awesom!

Why can't Portland get it together and help more???

@cherylT321

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And California. It’s because these politicians don’t care. They just pretend to be doing something!

@garricray7025

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The city of Portland has already spent a billion dollars on the homeless crisis within the past decade. Sadly, I think when Portland’s elected officials do try and ‘help’ someone how they make the situation worse in regards to the homeless crisis

The numbers are very low. I wish these worked better.

@justrosy5

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The %s are high. They do work well. Only thing that's really needed is more land and cottages for the families with kids. I've asked KGW (in my comments on this and another story they just posted tonight about homelessness) to run a story on what private businesses and individuals can do to support this. If given a GoFundMe type of link, I'll donate to this project.

It's a ruff hard world out there. I don't even want to think were I'd be w/o my husband. I'm well educated, college graduate, licensed electrician, yet with 4 kids someone had to stay home. It's nearly impossible to make it in America on 1 income. So much for the American Dream.

Drop in the bucket. How might this be scaled up to really meet the need? How might we differentiate between serious mental disability and those who can be recovered? What response can be crafted for those who won't or can't be recovered? Right now the streets are the only place for those most difficult to handle.

It's unfair how the government only help people who are homeless. There should be a program helping people who are in the process of being laid off from their job and in the process of being homeless. There should be a program to help prevent from becoming homeless. It's all about mental health and addictions.

@justrosy5

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Slow down there for a moment. "Fairness" has nothing to do with it. If you have a job at all, you have to fight for it from the day you are hired (and really, before that, too). That's just life, honey-buns, and if you don't like it, tough cookies. If you're not making enough at the job you're at, go get another one before you lose this one (and don't worry about company loyalty during a mass layoff, it doesn't pay off in the end). When you've been homeless because you didn't make the smart moves while employed, you'll look back (as many of us have) and regret boo-hooing about help for people being laid off in a bid to take government money from people who need it more than you do already. To be clear: GET YOURSELF ANOTHER JOB NOW. Don't wait. It's not worth it. And stop complaining when the cities are bothering to do the right thing for once in their existences. Be grateful there's something to fall back on after you made the wrong call and waited for your employer to "help" you in some way (they won't). And frankly, be grateful you still have a job at all. On top of it all, still being employed makes you very attractive to employers - until they read comments like the one you just posted up there. No one wants to hire a crybaby who still has employment at all and could be doing something about it instead of trying to grab shelter funds from the homeless. There's only so much money to go around, babe.

@benjamite15

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Living in this evil greedy society makes people crazy ...

@cherylT321

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Exactly!

@trnguyen1

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@@justrosy5 first of all! I do have a job. 2nd if there were more funding to help with preventing homelessness then we would not have so many homelessness. That is the cause not helping from the start. MH and addictions also can be prevented if there was help from the start . And lastly I not against funding to help the homelessness. So get it straight!!!!😂

@boxerblvd3514

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@@trnguyen1 you tell em .👍👍💯💯

If even the feds say you're wrong to build villages to help homeless, how do you solve homelessness ?

I think there should be rules that apply to keeping your shelter somewhat clean. Idk why homeless people so often allow their trash to pile around them.

Soon my country will have homeless people. At these time, the “supposed to be homeless” people are staying in their parents’ houses and few are hoping from one family member house to another. Itll b a sad story soon!!

Hurry hurry ..move to Vancouver..free everything ..

great start! you want to 'clean up' the streets? GIVE HUMANS A PLACE TO GO.

Planning/Permitting? Get your head out of where sun don’t shine!!