Candidates for Portland mayor on tackling the city's homelessness

[@tedtalksrock]

FYI candidate Rubio: No,It didn’t take “decades” to get where we are now. It started in 2015 when tent living on city sidewalks was bizarrely legalized (by Tina Kotek and others…) that’s less than ten years. Prior to 2015 this city was a dramatically different place.

[@erikw2460]

I think this (referring to taking decades) also includes things like the addition of the fair cloth amendment that bars federal funds to support the aid in producing public housing which happened in the 90s. I think what she is referring to is that there are many things that have contributed to this city's current condition. I think the Safe Sleep Policy you are referring to might not have had the support that is needed (lowering rents, providing support services, jobs programs) to help folks get back on their feet.

[@chrisgattman4975]

Why are you catering to drug addicts that have absolutely no desire now or in the future to find jobs. They are only concerned on where their next fix is coming from. Jobs everywhere. Almost all business are understaffed. So don't treat them like poor misunderstood victims. My buddy has gone thru 3 or 4 treatment programs to keep from going to jail. Incarceration was the only way he got straight. The fear of having to back to jail is why he is straight now.

[@Azazel2024]

Waaaah junkies are people too 🤣

[@doneaton6704]

If they aren't for taxing rich people and companies I won't vote for them.

[@kevinposselt5428]

I was born in Portland but had to move across the river after city and state officials destroyed my once beautiful city of roses. I pray for a godly leader that will make Portland clean and safe again.

[@erikw2460]

What destroyed Portland in your opinion? Why would a Godly leader be the right leader?

[@kevinposselt5428]

​@@erikw2460 policies of the Governor, mayor, District Attorney. governor made fentanyl personal use not a crime. only recently realizing that it was a bad policy. The city mayor let riots destroy the city. District attorney called it peaceful protesting as criminals destroyed buildings and businesses. We need law and order back. It has got so bad with the blue states. We need leaders with a moral compass of God. Not the moral compass of man. We are wicked, sick, and evil. I am so done with the demonrat leaders. I pray we vote them all out office. we were doing so much better before they took office. God bless.

[@Thunder-Raw-am]

What destroyed Portland? Drugs, Prostitution, Unbalanced Scales in Law, High Taxes, High rental, Poverty, Homelessness, increasing criminal acts with no real accountability for starters. I left. ✌️

[@adaaa11]

They spend so much time speaking about homelessness. The issue is drug addiction and mental health If you want to sleep on a sidewalk- no one cares. We have always had homeless but it was still safe and no tents and camps taking over neighborhoods and the sidewalks. Most homeless now are groups of addicts and mentally ill people who should be mandated into treatment, sent back to their home state or go to jail if you broke the law. They do not want shelters. They like being on the street bc it’s easy for them to use drugs None of these people have any real understanding of addicts. Many of them have access to treatment and families they can go home to and they choose to be on the street instead. Giving addicts resources is never going to work unless they go through a long process of recovery and take slow steps to learn how to be a responsible adult. They’re like children, you have to let them do it but you need to chaperone them and hold them accountable

[@tedtalksrock]

We are in deep trouble.

[@meharju]

I Philly we have shelters and loitering laws. It’s either go to the shelter or go to jail. I’m also fine with some people leaving. Once housing prices go down it will be more affordable!

[@erikw2460]

How do you recommend we take on housing prices? Low cost housing? Rent Control?

[@meharju]

@@erikw2460 squatting when you leave your house. This is how we lived in Philadelphia

[@tpowell3776]

1) If you have not been a resident in Oregon in the last five years you get a bus ticket to your home town 2) You must pass a drug test and be drug free to receive any government help 3) You must seek and receive gainful employment in order to gain any subsidence with housing. 4) if you attempt to live on an Oregon sidewalk or any Oregon land you will be arrested and placed in jail

[@faustinreeder1075]

All great ideas. Run for mayor. I’ll vote for you.

[@All-due-respect-I-disagree]

Quick question: Is there more access to addiction recovery or do you imply what’s happening already at a county level?

[@Jms3424]

When they showed the County Board, could you spot the problem ???

[@cvrart]

Wow... candidate Rubio just said a bunch of nothing. Lots of the typical buzzwords and fluff, but I didn't get a sense of a substantive platform. I wonder if anyone is duped.

[@Azazel2024]

People here are really uneducated so yes they are

[@cvrart]

Portland's homelessness isn't so much a housing crisis as it is an addiction and mental illness crisis. HB 4002 will have a positive impact in reducing unsheltered homelessness in Portland and other Oregon cities. I realize this isn't a politically correct viewpoint, but I believe it to be the stark and unvarnished truth. Time will tell, but I'm optimistic.

[@Azazel2024]

It helps keep them away from non scumbags

[@Azazel2024]

100 % agree

[@That1_89]

Perhaps is housing was more affordable then we wouldn't see so many homeless. How many are living on the edge of poverty? How many are 1 paycheck away from joining the homeless population? So many issues but affordability is an issue that fuels homelessness.

[@portlandreviewer2143]

Keith Wilson is the only one in the top 3 who isn’t already working in government. His opponents allowed the homelessness crisis to happen under their watch, so why would things change if they become mayor. Keith is also the only one with a real solution, as we can see in his nonprofit Shelter Portland.

[@The_Black_Knight]

Vote wisely. Do detailed homework. There is a massive amount of political propaganda with no plan of action in three of four candidate discussion. Several are useless. All advocated drug decriminalization, defunding the police, pro crime, and homelessness as a "way of life" to some of extent. Few fought to unify government, but fractured the system further. Dysfunction. Military leaders have a different adage from history, "We solve problems, not create new ones."

[@jackehli621]

Rene Gonzalez is the only one where you will see any results.

[@GeneReynolds-xc6ws]

Make Portland Oregon Great Again 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉

[@therocket280z7]

It's amazing to me how essentially all these candidates fail to assess the problem correctly. I live in Washington and it's the same here. How do all these politicians not know how to solve the majority of the problem? The overwhelming part of the homeless population in these states, is not from these states, they're from California. California has been giving bus tickets, out of state, to their homeless for over 15yrs now. Want to know why these homeless folks are so troubled? Originally the program was intended to keep their most troubled homeless from ending up permanently in their prison system. So, if they were on their Third Strike they got offered a ticket out of state in the hopes they would get better help than they were getting in California. Tickets are also offered to anyone that was seeking better help of course. But, you have to wonder how it is that all these politicians don't realize you have to stop the source, or you problem is going to continue. Wa and Or don't have the resources to solve California's homeless problems. wake up people!

[@Jms3424]

Apparently Keith Wilson has never been to or seen Philadelphia

[@kasforai]

Not the women and the last guy for sure first two is good

[@Azazel2024]

Good lord they're a homely bunch. I look like Ryan Reynolds next to these goofs . Good lord . Ps , they're also all a joke

[@marmac7619]

Carmen Rubio & Keith Wilson are my Top 2, so far. BTW, whatever is going on with some former Candidates, most notably - Sarah Iannarone? or Teressa Raiford?

[@marmac7619]

For me, a priority for ANY Politician in OREGON, which includes PDX, is that they see ALL People, as human beings, & all worthy of equal civil & human - Rights & Respect. Rene Gonzalez absolutely does NOT fit that bill, for me. He speaks with such obvious lack of Compassion for the Houseless, & is literally scared of the Indigent, [See: Rene meets a Passenger on Max Train].

[@Azazel2024]

Because you're a far left troll

[@erikw2460]

@@Azazel2024 Far left because there is a desire to see all people as human beings (which they are) and worthy of equal rights? That sounds pretty anti-American to me if you believe that this ideal is trolling. Rene Gonzales is a fear-mongerer, just take a look @ his actions in office and his rhetoric during any of his campaigns.

[@marmac7619]

@@Azazel2024 - just go crawl back in trumps bosom, ur a far right fool.

[@laurianninirschl7969]

My impression was just the opposite. It appears to me that Rene Gonzales is compassionate and values all human beings, wishing for better lives for all of us. All 4 candidates seem to share that.

[@marmac7619]

@@laurianninirschl7969 - did you watch his campaigning when he was running to unseat JoAnn Hardesty & all the harsh & degrading words he was using to describe 'Houseless' PPL? Or how about more recently, when he came to the media proclaiming how he was simply NOT going to ride mass transit for the foreseeable future, based on this one Indigent woman whom had aggressively spoken to him & harshly shoved his shoulder? Well, when a tape of that whole event was uncovered, it didn't look like she had even touched him, or barely, if at all, even spoke to him. Just askin .. sayin ..

[@jonathanevenboer]

They all sound like horrible choices. Mapps and Gonzales were the only two who seemed sort of ok. My big problem with Gonzales is the way he uses certain words and phrases that sound like coded (possibly racist) language. Any which way, whomever ends up being mayor is going to get a harsh lesson in what the term "poisoned chalice" means.

[@johnnyatoms3620]

CAPITALISTS JUST LOVE HOMELESS PEOPLE.... THEY KEEP MAKING THEM ! Every injustice, is over something else, being of worth, than one another's well-being....

[@That1_89]

No. Democrats love homeless. More state of emergency=more money. Blue states are unaffordable and unsafe. Blue states give more hand outs enabling more people to keep getting handouts. Capitalist don't like homeless because they loose money.