Southeast Portland residents fed up with never ending homeless camps

[@ernestomartinez3091]

Citizens of Portland should go check the areas where the politicians live, their neighborhoods,to see if homeless people are allowed to park in their residential streets.

[@ZombieSnax42069]

Amen

[@Gfysimpletons]

I typed the same thing, no vulgarity nor profanity and it got erased!

[@richardkulik3204]

They are not on a residential street It's next to a park- Not same laws

[@ernestomartinez3091]

Maybe their streets are privately owned. Why aren't homeless tents set up in the park next to their neighborhoods. As long as streets are public streets according to your public administrators, their hands are tied, UNLESS THE HOMELESS TENTS ARE SET UP NEXT TO THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. HOW CONVENIENT.

[@SiberSleuths]

Why not figure out why so many are falling into this?

[@markmaloney8154]

Homelessness has become an industry. The more homeless people are, the more money the homeless industry makes. The money given to the homeless doesn't go to the homeless, it goes into the industry’s paychecks and lavish conferences talking about what to do about the homeless. They don't want the homeless problem fixed because they would lose all the money (tens of billions per year) poured into the homeless issue. America is broken from all the greed permeating throughout local, state, and federal governments. We have a government problem causing the disparities throughout America...

[@Scroll_Lock]

The industry donates pretty well to Democrat campaigns too so they can keep the tax payer grift cycle going.

[@arleneportsmouth1263]

👏🏻 Agree with your statement 💯‼️🏅🥇🏆 THIS IS SADLY TRUE. That is why it is BEST to just go out and offer to help these individuals ourselves. 😤

[@octosquatch.]

So true

[@ElizabethHunton-zn5pb]

Yes and immigrants get put up in mega hotels that they destroy

[@RobertaFierro-mc1ub]

Everything is getting worse..

[@Renville80]

Someone needs to take out a billboard in downtown Portland with the message “Unhappy? Shut up. You voted for this.”

[@NemoBlank]

They probably didn't. All you have to do to win an election is print up some ballots and stuff them in the mailbox.

[@siouxglamorous3117]

No politicians care anything about people. They only care about money.

[@lostinthedesert-hp4bw]

🎯

[@barrysmith1202]

yep

[@dgale1023]

Now that's the absolute truth, IF he was one of them that voted Democrat

[@ambermclaughlin3852]

What's repulsive is walking past the RV's..is the $hit on the sidewalks right outside their doors

[@rogerb5615]

Now rivaling San Francisco, the polished turd by the bay.

[@RawOlympia]

Vote RED then

[@plantmanstudios]

The city should place Porta potties and then they wouldn't drop $urds on the street

[@RoseanneSeason6]

Yes I stepped on their sewage one day on my way to blockbuster to rent American beauty. I'm tired of what Portland has turned into

[@helpyourcattodrive]

Ted Wheeler. What an awful waste of time.

[@mikehunt-fx7sf]

That fruitcake has ruined Portland.

[@europe7249]

Democracy in action. You get what you vote for. Zero sympathy for a city that re-elected Worm Wheeler. note to Portland... You can't out -California, California.

[@jayt4465]

He's the epitome of today's Democratic male, a white beta male who hates himself because he is white and a man.

[@SR71GIRL]

Your local government is receiving $$$ to help homeless... it's the new money-making schemes throughout the country. Good luck!

[@oneolddog8809]

This isn’t a “ new” scheme. As sad as that is to say.

[@chairmanofthebored8684]

Yep- that money goes towards temporarily plopping down around 10 to 15 micro-sheds on a paved lot and calling it "tiny houses for the homeless".

[@ourladyoftheflowers6668]

I am a paid staff member in the homeless shelters. Pays very well. If you actually think that ANY politician is going to save you than you don’t understand politicians. - Simply put, its mind over matter,- they don’t mind and you don’t matter…. Learn it. Enjoy the rest of your day.

[@Weshopwizard]

So you’re the problem.

[@Xanthro2]

​@@Weshopwizardspoken like some one who understands how the system works. LOL you are the problem. You helped cause this by not understanding what he said... But keep screaming "defund the police". Eh, ya get what ya vote for huh... Enjoy it.

[@anthonythompson3806]

As usual, the middle class eviscerates the poor. That's why I love Right-to-work. When the rich get richer, I get my paycheck. I'm okay with that. Up next: make churches pay taxes and abolish unions. Jails and prisons don't have homeless people. Vote red!

[@Weshopwizard]

@@Xanthro2 all these homeless advocacy groups don’t really do anything but suck up government money. Very little of that money goes to actually helping, rather it goes to pay salaries of people that don’t actually help. So, the OP is the problem.

[@RoseanneSeason6]

Do you like placebo?

[@billderinbaja3883]

It's a lot worse than just Southeast... the entire Portland metro area is full of homeless encampments.

[@1signalstrength]

Ted Wheeler doesn't care about Lents

[@finddeniro]

He was ask to leave from HOA...security problem...people showing up threatening.

[@bobbieh3155]

Wheeler doesn't care about Oregon.

[@annieann6347]

What a shame Oregon is so beautiful. 😕

[@scottcharney1091]

Why is it a shame for Oregon to be beautiful?

[@OldManMuskrat]

was

[@PDogB]

@@scottcharney1091 Because people go there and trash it.

[@scottcharney1091]

@@PDogB I was calling attention to the lack of a comma (or a semicolon) after "shame." It's written to suggest that Oregon being beautiful is a shame. It's like "let's eat, Grandma" versus "let's eat Grandma."

[@jaywatson9493]

I grew up in Portland. The democrats have annihilated the entire place. I went back last summer, will not be going back ever again. The graffiti, homeless, drug zombies, crime, filth is just too much to bare. I dont understand why people vote the way they do. Goodbye Portland!

[@janncoons7445]

As usual blame it on the Democrats - what are you doing to solve the situation in a positive kind compassionate Humane manner??? You seem to forget it could happen to you!!

[@kjbigsful]

Limited resources? Sounds like the city officials need to take a pay cut and find a solution! 💔🙏🏻

[@billflynn6903]

Born there and would not move back if you PAID Me. 74 years of going backward.

[@randallsmerna384]

In your opinion, what are the top reasons that has happened?

[@youtubesucks1499]

​@@randallsmerna384 Dude, its liberal policies. Look at California, Oregon, Washington, NYC, Detroit....

[@oldiebutgoodie2554]

@@randallsmerna384Amazing that you even ask that question!

[@zLigHt44]

​@randallsmerna384. Turn on AM radio, and listen to a few different talk shows, they discuss many subjects.

[@Mmmmkaaay]

Look at Red States. Trailer parks are the only difference. That's where they put their druggies​@@youtubesucks1499

[@user-co9ii9su9r]

The people of Portland got exactly what they voted for.

[@AgatBro]

ur right. im sure cities runned by republicans are WAY better

[@littleburps]

I live in Portland and I didn’t vote blue. Portland is the determining vote but everyone else outside of the city is conservative.

[@diana7043]

FACT!

[@graceg3250]

No, we voted for drug recovery programs. That never happened. And it was the Ninth Circuit Court that dictated that homeless camps couldn’t be illegal.

[@Kanezilla66]

Dummmycrats 😂

[@jayjohn9680]

Billions spent on homelessness… I guess… these homeless folks never see a dime of it.

[@notarealperson]

Are they even trying to get any of it, are they signing up for programs to get Un-homelessed?? No they fell into this life and have no interest in rejoining society because now they are FREE. This is litereally what my underpass-living sister told me.

[@MattHadder]

It's illegal to live on the surface of this planet, if you're not paying someone to do so.

[@EQ541]

That sounds suspiciously sacracstic…..

[@lostinthedesert-hp4bw]

facts

[@rottenrobbie7]

Pay to live, absolutely. Empathy is in short supply.

[@cousinfook]

Worst Mayor and city council in America

[@CatWhiskering]

"Hold my beer." - Seattle

[@GoogleSpyZon]

Stop voting Democrat

[@guy-tn2ud]

How dare you blame the mayor for doing what they hired him to do. Portlanders voted for this mayor, they just don't want to see it in their hoods. Left wing hypocrites.

[@knockout9446]

Yup. And now we can’t even vote Republican as they are above law and order.

[@lennyhoffman1216]

that's why we voted in a new form of government with lnieborhood representation. and yes. wheeler is a hack

[@steveprinz7331]

If these voters keep voting in there favorite political leaders then that really shouldn't complain! This is what they voted for .

[@littleburps]

I didn’t vote blue and the majority doesn’t. It’s the city of Portland that determines the vote, like Chicago or Atlanta.

[@donarthiazi2443]

_"their"_

[@nfr333]

@@littleburps didnt work for stacey abrams, maybe the left coast cheats better

[@newbootgoofin3139]

It’s Portland and you’re saying the majority doesn’t vote blue?? You’re nuts

[@Kookoo347]

THEIR! THEIR! THEIR!

[@ninez2698]

Never thought I’d live to this day that Homeless is the synonym word for America!

[@KatarinaS.]

2 possible solutions: 1. Stop paying property taxes en masse 2. Direct the homeless campers to the neighborhoods where city officals live

[@shmodzilla]

Thats how BLM got shut down there. Remember how fast the "peaceful protest" got shut down the literall minute they hit Ted Wheelers street?

[@markkalb2737]

Portland people wanted liberal and they got liberal

[@scottcharney1091]

And what would conservatives do?

[@markkalb2737]

@@scottcharney1091 not legalized drugs

[@danae-rain3019]

​@markkalb2737 This was as big an issue before they legalized drugs. You right wingers only throw out sound bites never solutions. You tear down but you never ever build.

[@TalLeGal]

@@scottcharney1091What they always do: nothing.

[@DPJeffFeller]

@@markkalb2737 they are not legal any more....nothing has changed,

[@phillipjohnson1459]

Put the meth down

[@MutethatBozo]

Maybe shut down the proud boy bikers in the area that have had a history of making and dealing meth around here since the early 1970's?...

[@phillipjohnson1459]

@@therealMJT your goofy

[@brianackerman2226]

​@@MutethatBozothe meth comes from Mexico.

[@phillipjohnson1459]

@@brianackerman2226 exactly

[@snowwhite5842]

@@therealMJT your source for this? Maybe a lost laptop? Or are you just running your mouth?

[@AyeCarumba221]

City of Portland purchases 30 giant incinerator trucks. City of Portland takes trucks to homeless camps and loads unauthorized debris into incinerators. Eventually homeless people get the message.

[@lostinthedesert-hp4bw]

wood/metal chippers 👍🏻😃!!

[@johnellis3309]

Believe me as a homeowner in Portland.. that has lived here for decades.. the apartment dwellers.. and homeowners.. are much much more crazy than the homeless .

[@Nogoingback424]

The Homeless Industrial Complex.

[@60something4]

I will save sympathy for when these resident take responsibility for those they vote into power. It is insanity voting the same way over and over and expecting different results.

[@scottcharney1091]

And what would Republicans do?

[@kellyshomemadekitchen]

That just happens to be the definition of insanity.

[@n.wealand-pasttime]

I thought that was crazy too, But then I saw 2020 election it's who counts the votes folks ~FJB~

[@scottcharney1091]

@@n.wealand-pasttime The election was fine. Trump knew that he lost, and he said so.

[@eringallagher9381]

Home owners telling a millionaire they need help, not for, but against the homeless camp. Such a dystopian feel.

[@Azzne-]

What do you mean? Folks are turning a nature preserve into a health hazard with a sprinkling of junkyard and garbage dump. Of course the people who live nearby would be against the homeless “camp” being there. In the end they seem to just want to be able to live safely in the homes they have paid and worked for. The people in charge are the ones that should be worried about helping the individuals to be independent and productive again while cleaning up this giant health and safety crisis. I can only imagine the sickness that could be passed from the camp if their waste were to contaminate ground water or something. Are the nearby homes on wells??

[@sadjaxx]

You go live next door.

[@eringallagher9381]

@@sadjaxx I already live next door to a homeless camp. I have offered them food on occasion. Nice try though lol.

[@kellyshomemadekitchen]

@@eringallagher9381 Great to see at least one compassionate heart on this feed. 💙

[@wonderfulwenna2710]

This is happening EVERYWHERE

[@gregoryaganowski3248]

Just in stupicrats cities.

[@killthestereotype4601]

Mental health, unemployment, and the drug epidemic

[@davelandefeld]

AND stupid high rents!

[@robhicks2117]

The drug epidemic has led to mental health issues and unemployment.

[@PNW_Sportbike_Life]

Lazy drug addicts

[@snowwhite5842]

It’s almost like they made drugs legal and all hell broke loose.

[@inkstain7193]

@@snowwhite5842an open border bringing in drugs like it’s candy. 8 million people need homes. Drive up prices.

[@jamesdalton7191]

Looks like Gavin Newsom is the governor or Oregon too.

[@scottcharney1091]

How so?

[@jamesdalton7191]

@@scottcharney1091 Oregon looks as bad as California and Ca is bad. Extremely poor conditions.

[@larrybenedict4984]

@@scottcharney1091Spoken like an outsider!! Ha!! The blue states of the left coast walk in lock step together. What CA does, OR and WA are soon to follow. That’s how it is, I know because I live here unfortunately…

[@lysliepope3967]

"Excuses are the tools of incompetence who build bridges to nowhere and monuments to nothingness,and those who use them seldom specialize in anything else."

[@mr.grotto]

Left that cesspool of an area 1.5 years ago now, and couldn't be happier. Most people in the area are amazing, and I don't blame the homeless for the actions of stupid leadership. When you give people opportunity, they take it. Our rent was 3000 a month, with other bills we were looking at 5500, with no car payments. Many of these homeless people have no housing options when the state allows rent to get this insane. Ask yourself how you'd take living the worst day of your life, and then imagine thats every day for years. I want to strongly emphasize again that most people in Portland are amazing folk. I lived 15 minutes from the city in a small town and it couldn't be more different.

[@jryder1068]

It's a criminal matter, city leaders need to be held responsible for allowing these people and the criminals to continue to operate.

[@jypseaspencer]

Those people are your neighbors that lost their housing because of GREED!

[@trninfan]

Where are they supposed to go?

[@lostinthedesert-hp4bw]

@@trninfan jail

[@depiction3435]

@@jypseaspencer LMAO most of them are on drugs stfu

[@depiction3435]

@@jypseaspencer They have mobile homes... they lost their home bc of their stupidity. ef em

[@mrmja50]

follow the laws! things parked with no license is against the law. Littering, camping over night on the street, using the street as your bathroom. Why cant the city just enforce the laws?

[@msmoe8687]

You ever had to struggle to exist?

[@KeikoFXDesigns]

Communism.

[@jonathanedwardgibson]

@@KeikoFXDesignsYawn. Learn politics on Instagram? If it was communism they’d take Wheeler’s real estate empire and put homeless people in his buildings.

[@janicehenning4505]

And where do you think these people should go? Do you think they wanna be homeless?

[@BuhodePiedra]

Can’t enforce laws against the poor or the rich now.. only the normal people. The wealthy have teams of lawyers and the poor can’t pay.

[@farble1670]

Our city river park in CA was turned into a burned trash heap and toilet. You're not alone. The homeless dug up water pipes and electrical and made it their home.

[@jeanniestegner9915]

Can you imagine saving your entire life to own a home and this is forced on you? Disgusting 🙏 😌 it would be different if the homeless gave a damn, tried harder to stay cleaner and increasing safety concerns. They are their own worst nightmares. 😮

[@DeepDish84]

Stop paying prop tax and sue the city for breach of contract

[@sagatuppercut2960]

There's no way that's going to work.

[@debbiepowell2036]

Absolutely😊

[@johng4093]

Only going to screw yourself with that strategy. Big mistake.

[@williamdistefano5698]

Yeah, it sounds nice till you realize the court is definitely going to side with the city no matter how eloquently you argue the case.

[@chrisd2p2]

@@sagatuppercut2960 Only if everyone does it.

[@lisarhodes2253]

Leave Portland, leave LA. Tax payers leaving is the only thing the governments who run these places understand.

[@Kanezilla66]

Dummmycrats

[@Kpete927]

No, stay there! You democrats voted for this so accept it and stop complaining! Don’t move to republican areas and bring your socialist/communist ideas and beliefs with you!

[@timdow8951]

Move to Texas where everything is unregulated and you lose power for a month when you get a storm.

[@OldManMuskrat]

I left the Bay area and took my business and 5 of 83 people I employed moved to Ohio with me. We will finally feel safe at our workplace now.

[@foosandbrews4680]

You can’t run forever.

[@918davisable]

Don't forget to pay your property taxes

[@Daniel-xb4yb]

Want to know how to fix this ? Stop allowing homes to become investments

[@shmodzilla]

No rentals? Yeah hell great idea i'm sure they all can get a mortgage instead.

[@justins.3518]

As a previous employee that moved homeless camps for the city (4 years), it's a game, after 5 the workers don't move camps and the homeless know they got weekends and that they can move back after a week or 2 After the homeless get moved from one location they get moved from the next location, the employees call this job security and it makes the homeless move in a circle always going back to where they like the best probably lents neighborhood

[@kepckatherinec805]

Almost moved to Portland in the early 1980’s. But my husband didn’t get the city job he had applied for, so we didn’t relocate to Portland. Thank God!

[@jypseaspencer]

Maybe Portland would be better if he had gotten the job?

[@kepckatherinec805]

@@jypseaspencer Maybe. The job would have been police officer.

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

We checked out Portland in 1992. Even back then, it seemed creepy and weird. There was just something off about it. Didn't want to live there.

[@PDogB]

I lived there in the 90's. It was a beautiful city.

[@user-tb7cb2rf3n]

Happines in Portland. Thank you Mayor Walker.

[@christichristenson8187]

Wake up! Time to vote differently. I’m tired of being a drop of red in a sea of blue.

[@conner_b_griften]

City of Portland Total employees: 8500 Total salaries: $700,000,000 (look it up)

[@sharoneuby-62]

😮

[@DrPhill96]

And?

[@user-gu7vq9ut6l]

The police and fire fighters abuse overtime. For example, "Mark PXXXX Portland Police Officer, $149,237 overtime payment, $285,966 total pay in 2022".

[@mattdelany6799]

@@DrPhill96dummy

[@DrPhill96]

@@mattdelany6799 - Glad you are admitting it. You’ll be fine though, squirt.

[@bill3641]

"Not much they can do" , but raise taxes....................

[@SunshineStateofMind1981]

They can vote Republican and see major changes, but they will NEVER do that.

[@albatross8]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jypseaspencer]

How about lowering and capping rent? How about providing AFFORDABLE HOUSING! HOW ABOUT BEING GOOD CHRISTIANS AND ACTUALLY LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AND HELP THEM INSTEAD OF KICKING THEM WHILE THEY'RE DOWN!

[@djkenny1202]

@@jypseaspencerit’s not a rent cost problem. It’s a problem with mental health, addiction, and lack of family to fall back on. The state should offer housing and services, mental health, addiction, and support to get these folks into permanent work. If they are incapable of being part of society requiring steady work, then they might need facilities. Some need to either accept the help or be incarcerated or fined if they fiat out refuse it. We just aren’t doing what needs to be done.

[@shmodzilla]

@@jypseaspencer You cant lower rent when taxes are out of control. Thats why i sold my rentals in NY, over half the rent was going to taxes and whats left after maintenance and other fees you arent doing anything. My school taxes alone per house were literally ten times more than my friends total taxes in TN on a 100 acre house and land.

[@duanedragon2]

Homeless Industrial Complex.

[@andypanda4756]

It's almost like if tax breaks for renting to low-income folks existed, or affordable housing existed; things would be different. You don't create the pigpen, then blame the pigs for being dirty.

[@sharonyoxall7553]

👏👏👏👏

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Too many entitled people who won't work and keep having kids they can't afford. Stop rewarding bad life choices.

[@PortlandViper]

Nothing will change until you vote differently.

[@janicehenning4505]

Yeah , like dump's gonna do anything about that. You are dilliusional

[@user-ts7ns7bt2v]

@@janicehenning4505dumps not local except actually you’ve got your own dump. Silly lefty

[@methus57]

the alternative to Wheeler was way, way worse

[@philly799]

I live in a red state, completely controlled by republicans. We don't have any of these problems. It does matter who you vote for.

[@kl0wnkiller912]

@@janicehenning4505 These issues are fixed at the Local government level. If you had any actual understanding of how this works you would know that but you don't so let the adults talk. Meanwhile just keep right on voting for the real source of the problem.

[@kamra99a]

The first spending priority is drugs, the second is food, the third is the phone and internet. Rent is way down the list and medical bills are last.

[@flameofthewest6196]

Actions have consequences. Vote differently next time.

[@dennisammann9104]

Do they continually vote for the people that do nothing about this? 🤔

[@littleburps]

Born and raised here and currently moving away. My city is broken. It’s become unsafe to leave your house or go out alone and companies pulling out. My beautiful city is utterly destroyed.

[@soothemysoul1]

Oh please. It’s not YOUR city and you the people of the cities are the problem. Where is your housing programs ? Don’t tell me it’s the Dems and their open door policies. Not cutting it with the truth. Quit talking about homeless people like they’re objects disturbing your beautiful view. How entitled is that ???? What do Republicans want to do with these individuals but fine them ??? How ridiculous. If they could pay they wouldn’t be in the streets. This is a community problem and pointing fingers is bull. Entitled thinking is the problem. YOUR city is also home to other people. You’re not a victim of anyone. The streets are filled because of Republican GREED ! You want things your way but just get rid of the objects disturbing your beautiful view. Poor thing. Maybe get out there and do some good and help instead of blaming and whining.

[@jypseaspencer]

So your answer is to run away? This is a NATIONWIDE CRISIS caused be GREED! Pull up your sleeves and work on a solution!

[@GinaTaglioli-vi5pn]

Sad! Voting for the WRONG people has consequences!!❤

[@seattlescofflaws]

Seattle is the same 🤦‍♂️

[@thomasmint1761]

And, San Franfecal

[@dogsense3773]

San Francisco is find was on vacation there for two weeks it was fun place!

[@lengxiong3061]

Homeless camps will never go away!!!

[@joshuam8146]

In the '80s I read so many stores about people setting the homeless camps on fire whether or not they were inhabited.

[@themandalorian1978]

That sounds cool, we need to do that again.

[@LordLoMR2]

I’m just confused how homeless people can accumulate so much trash/property.

[@jonathanrossroberts]

Well they probably weren't homeless their whole lives. How much crap would you have if you lost your home right now with no place to go?

[@ashelfey7677]

Because people who are evicted often don't have money to take stuff to the drump

[@flashnmb1]

Shoplifting

[@scott6252]

A lot of hoarders it looks like.

[@kathym6018]

I guess that's what it looks like if you're in survival mode with no shelter

[@Neppy1414]

that guy frustrated about getting a charge on his phone has no idea how frustrating it is to get up every day and go to work

[@janicehenning4505]

Kind hard to get a job when you don't have a home.

[@ianpatrickclarksr4074]

would you hire him?

[@kikimusha777]

It's not that simple. You need a phone and a residence to have a job. A charged phone is a necessity

[@ianpatrickclarksr4074]

@@kikimusha777 You are right.

[@terryhurtado8852]

@@kikimusha777 thats crazy, ill tell that to the illegal imagrints at home depo

[@kristensorensen2219]

How to fix the problem? City official: "what problem"?

[@Azzne-]

Even if that poor man wanted to move, who would buy any property in that area? They are paying crazy property taxes and I imagine that the value of their properties is negligible at this point.

[@jamiesanderson4052]

You get what you vote for

[@wudznutt6732]

Amen

[@Oldshirt]

Red cities all over Oregon send homeless people to Portland, I was a police dispatcher in one of those towns and saw it happen all the time.

[@mike-xn1qj]

@@Oldshirt You tried to type "red cities didn't allow what blue cities do" but it came out like you were blaming the wise ones.

[@Scroll_Lock]

@@Oldshirt That's where all the services and free stuff are because Portland likes it that way. Don't blame these "unhoused" for travelling freely to make their situation better. 🤣

[@SK-lt1so]

The best part is they pay property taxes for services they never receive. In the private world, this is called "fraud".

[@rahkinrah1963]

Property tax is a CRIME.

[@shmodzilla]

1000000 percent.

[@thomasdeturk5142]

Maybe Oregon should start lowering the property tax and maybe eliminate property tax for people 60 and older so that their money can be able to go to their children and grandchildren so that they can be able to make enough money to buy a house and inherit the property.

[@doubleagentgaming5689]

"We want normal lives" but wont get a job... i dont buy it. My neighbor just got evicted then stayed right next door with his friend then THEY got evicted. He literally told me he doesnt want a job and was totally fine with "staying at the park". A lot of these people think that way then scoff when you tell them to get a job. He lives off free food and charges his phone anywhere theres an outlet outside. They really have it too easy. What we need is to bring back mental institutions and keep the crazies in there and give them goals to be released. That being said, i know that there are people who become homeless under bad circumstances but those people will find a way to get off the streets quick. All these other homeless people who have been homeless for months? They are the ones who set up camps and destroy the area with trash and do drugs and start fires. Put em in mental institutions.

[@101Osprey101]

Unreal. Homeless guy complaining about not being able to charge his cell phone. YOU ARE HOMELESS. STOP WITH THE CELL PHONE. YOU HAVE LARGER CONCERNS. This is why these people are homeless. They do not understand priorities.

[@tammywallace8559]

Thank Biden!! 🤬🥲

[@scottcharney1091]

Biden? Seriously? This problem has been building for years, thanks to 40+ years of neoliberal capitalism.

[@Moresurenow]

Get/elect better city management. You get what you tolerate!

[@ncascadehiker]

Do drugs cause these homeless to collect junk? I see that so often.

[@lostinthedesert-hp4bw]

Yes. They barter for booze and drugs.

[@jamsandwich868]

Portland motto” keep Portland weird”

[@JohnC-ur5ut]

Voting, has consequences !

[@scottcharney1091]

True, but what would the Republicans do differently? They're just as devoted to 40+ years of neoliberal capitalism as the Democrats are.

[@johnteets2921]

Every once in a while change excuses for being a crook.

[@user-ni1ig7un1e]

You voted for your political party.

[@scottcharney1091]

What would Republicans do differently? They've not been supporters of affordable housing.

[@snowwhite5842]

@@scottcharney1091​​⁠ close down the border, enforce federal drug laws, reform homelessness and drug intervention programs so that funding is directly related to outcomes. Provide better resources for veterans, send in national guard to keep order, close down the border, and close down the border. That last one is important. Where do you want your tax money going, to illegals brining the drugs in or citizens who need to get off them?

[@digitalzips]

@@scottcharney1091 No one can fix a totally broken down society, especially if the other party actively blocks anything they do just because of politics.

[@joannlarson6386]

Maybe a audit to make sure the money for homeless goes to homeless.

[@DailyStalkerUpdate]

@@scottcharney1091 Wow. You're SO ignorant. These people are NOT living in tents because they can't afford housing. 99% of them turn down free housing. The 1% that accept it spend their days hanging out with their street friends ON THE STREET. 99% of them are substance abusers. They WANT to live outside. They don't want to live in a shelter where they have to follow rules and stay clean. Republicans would criminalize this activity and clean up the streets, like they did in Florida.

[@colinmccann7123]

I was talking to a deputy sheriff from Clackamas county and he told me they make those people move out. They have a good sheriff and a DA who backs them up.

[@MichaelDebalski-mk6bt]

Unfortunately they will be in his yard in 7 months.

[@MissysDomain]

They are prob using his hedges as cover as they relieve themselves around his property

[@johnteets2921]

@@MissysDomain Such modesty .

[@MissysDomain]

@@johnteets2921 I try

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

Isn't progressive life-style nice?

[@scottcharney1091]

It's better than regressive life-style.

[@albatross8]

Yes we all voted for this as it is the best progressive life style !! Our progressive life style is the best progressive life style ever!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@digitalzips]

@@scottcharney1091 Blue cities are a mess because of 'progressive' politicians.

[@Juezma52]

Progressives are working hard all over the country to make life worse for everyone!

[@WaltLively]

Not even smart enough to figure out that a small backpack solar panel would charge his phone.

[@raven4090]

If the people in charge of the homeless situation weren't getting paid for it, the problem would get solved. The money needs to go to projects that will help them. Not the politicians bank accounts.

[@finddeniro]

Some of the Homeless I have talked to...have 3 - 5 challenges...some Totolly Lost...

[@chrisrodriguez7351]

Somehow some type of jobs need to be created to help keep people off the streets. It's ridiculous. I'm in Texas and I've been having a rough time trying to find steady work and when I finally find one, the stupid hurricane put the power out at my job long enough to the point they couldn't afford to keep me on anymore and I got laid off. A lot of people especially me do not want to be homeless but it's not always our fault. Count your blessings if you had a supporting family, school and a job

[@annamarielewis7078]

They do not want to work

[@CatWhiskering]

@@chrisrodriguez7351 Nobody owes you a job. Maybe instead of demanding someone else create a job to give to you, 😂 you can earn a job by improving your skills and making yourself more valuable in the labor market.

[@flashnmb1]

You want to work at it; they don’t.

[@scottcharney1091]

@@CatWhiskering Naive.

[@scottcharney1091]

@@annamarielewis7078 Look up how many homeless people have jobs, some of them full-time. You'll be surprised.

[@gracietilert8952]

This is so sad. At every level.

[@jasonwillings3231]

Nothing has changed??? Imagine that! Most States run by democrats always say they're going to do something about the problems in that state but they never really do it. It's all about who's getting paid, I miss what Oregon used to be.😢

[@IMEMINE.]

I’m sure our homeless people are pretty upset about the fact that they don’t have a place to go Home to.

[@milesuit300]

You people voted that way.

[@sharoneuby-62]

Feelings over facts. Meanwhile demonrats getting richer.smdh

[@scottcharney1091]

If you're making this partisan (and I'm not saying that you are), what would Republicans do differently? They aren't known to support affordable housing.

[@swanswanson5411]

What do you mean “you people”

[@lostinthedesert-hp4bw]

@@scottcharney1091 Republicans throw criminals in jail. Democrats count on their votes. Thats the difference.

[@user-ii3vn8tn3q]

There are deserted and empty buildings everywhere, WHY isn't there low income housing? Why the money into homeless management, instead of housing?

[@PenTheMighty]

That's not the government's property. I'm disturbed how people say "there's so much empty space!" Forgetting that all those buildings are owned by someone. It's not up to others to "like" or "dislike" it. If you didn't pay for it through consensual exchange, it's not yours to do anything with. Period. Everyone wants "social housing" but no one (especially the people asking for it) want to pay for it. Instead, they want to steal from others. If you have an influx of bums encroaching on the property and rights of others, it's a guarantee your government is just as guilty of doing the same thing.

[@scottcharney1091]

@@PenTheMighty If these landlord parasites are leaving all these buildings empty, then the people (no, not the state) should seize them. It's just like the Russian billionaires who have done so much to make London unaffordable.

[@jypseaspencer]

The money doesn't make it past the administration pockets

[@johnteets2921]

@@PenTheMighty The solution is obvious ! Import millions more bums from Mexico !

[@JR-zu9hl]

It’s a crime with these cities and counties are putting these homeowners through and they’re paying such high property taxes to live with this nonsense

[@DrBozoEinstein]

This is everywhere, and it won't stop. No one that can stop it is going to take any action at all, ever.

[@photomaker4502]

If you think about it, majority of homeless people are some of the most entitled people around.

[@TheMandyhuppert]

Right!? Did you hear that guy complaining that he has to buy a cup of coffee to be able to plug into someone else's electricity to get a charge? Wow.

[@EugeneLorey]

And most volatile & dangerous.

[@DeliveryDuoMax23]

The most entitled are the 1%er's... and that's the damn truth, had everything handed to them on a silver platter!

[@EugeneLorey]

@@DeliveryDuoMax23 True, many of the ultra rich are not nice people but I've never had one defecate in my yard or come and steal my bike and tools. Most people, the vast majority in fact, if they work hard and save their money will advance in life.

[@jenniferwilcox9759]

Are you an outreach worker or some otherwise qualified, professional? Or, are you an armchair quarterback whose knowledge is limited by willful ignorance?

[@KeikoFXDesigns]

I'm glad I left Portland...

[@P2Feener305]

Glad I’ve never been.

[@duanesealy3592]

Glad I will never go

[@scottcharney1091]

@@P2Feener305 I've been, and I liked it.

[@scottcharney1091]

@@duanesealy3592 Don't be so sure.

[@danae-rain3019]

We are glad you left too...

[@azroseazlang9995]

Vote different " Fools you did it to Yourself How dare you move away CHANGE YOUR WAYS FJB say it with me * FJB Again FJB

[@user-ku3qr9ww2f]

I was born in Portland. It is such a shame that this has happened. So many talking of moving away due to out of control homelessness in Portland and officials seemingly unable to do much about it.

[@mjblue84]

Unable to do much about it or intentionally not doing anything about it?

[@DemocratsSuck1000]

You gonna keep on voting Democrat? If so.. STFU.

[@rreagan8739]

Yeah, I was born and raised in PDX. It’s heartbreaking to go back there now. I knew PDX was in serious trouble when Bud Clark was elected, and unfortunately I was not wrong. It’s been downhill ever since.

[@propblast82nd]

Democrats fed up with their own policies ❤

[@60something4]

And still they will vote Democrat

[@scottcharney1091]

What would Republicans do differently? It would be quite a change for them to support affordable housing.

[@scottcharney1091]

@@60something4 Yes, because the Republicans are intellectually debauched theocrats. Regarding municipal government, what would they do differently?

[@propblast82nd]

@@scottcharney1091 Yes affordable public housing would solve kzbin.info/www/bejne/npqchaehoq16gKcsi=6cxsF6xjFz9MVkLo

[@DrPhill96]

@@60something4- Good.

[@deemarch7648]

Unfortunately, people will continue to vote for the same people that are responsible for this mess. You know the old saying, vote blue no matter who!

[@scottcharney1091]

How will Republicans make housing cheaper?

[@jeanjaz]

The answer isn't to remove the homeless, but to provide somewhere for them to go. Like the man said, homeless don't WANT to be homeless, but they each have a story as to why they are stuck in their situation.

[@rnsummers4507]

Are the homeless going to take care of what they are given you know it's better to teach a man to fish rather then give a man a house.

[@PushSteady]

60 percent of Americans report having less then 500 in their bank account, we are all a paycheck away now

[@user-mn5rn9sv5p]

@@PushSteady I'm one paycheck away from getting OFF the street, but I don't have ten kids to feed. Oh,well!

[@flashnmb1]

Got to love Bidenomics; people voted for it!

[@scottcharney1091]

@@flashnmb1 This is the result of over 40 years of neoliberal capitalism, not 1 Biden term!

[@scottcharney1091]

That's the result of 40 years of neoliberal capitalism!

[@DrPhill96]

Don’t speak for me. Since 2021, I’m doing VERY well.

[@lisad476]

What a mess..shame on Portland

[@Odin33356]

Congratulations Obama and Erika

[@kl0wnkiller912]

All this started when Clinton sold all our industry overseas. Not enough jobs to go around and most of these people would rather live like these rather than do any form of manual labor. Liberals support them by giving them money and in some areas, drugs. This is despicable. Hunger is a great motivator and a lot of these people would get jobs if they did not have free money coming in. The Right tries to bring back jobs but the Libs and Environmentalists scream that we are "destroying the planet" so all the jobs are in China and Mexico, where they are polluting even worse than they would be here with legal oversight. We have given the fools the keys to the kingdom and they are driving it into a ditch.

[@scottcharney1091]

@@Odin33356 Obama? Seriously?

[@Odin33356]

@@scottcharney1091 congrats on the footballs, fentanyl and Elons new airplane design

[@azroseazlang9995]

Voting matters They do it every time Vote the Same Get the same results how hard is that to Understand Don't you dare Move away from YOUR OWN MESS change your views and vote Liberals out Say it with me F J B ONE MORE TIME F J B

[@danielwest8927]

Rich people need to start donating if they're so concerned stop being so greedy

[@gregbedford9706]

Why doesn't anyone ever try to look at the causes instead of the results?

[@CatWhiskering]

@@gregbedford9706 Why do we have to care? These are adults. We're not their mommy or daddy. Why don't the homeless look at the causes of their own problems instead of being nothing but a burden on society?

[@scottcharney1091]

​@@CatWhiskering Are you a social worker? Do you know any?

[@scottcharney1091]

That would require a hard look at 40+ years of neoliberal capitalism.

[@isaabaker963]

​@@CatWhiskeringpeople like you are the problem 🙄

[@jypseaspencer]

We know the cause, it's GREEDY LANDLORDS! The solution is AFFORDABLE HOUSING!

[@Retr0racin]

If you got a job I'm sure you could charge your phone there.

[@janicehenning4505]

A lot of homeless have jobs. But they don't pay enough to afford rent.

[@danpress7745]

Yep, got a job, that's the point.

[@Retr0racin]

@@janicehenning4505 no ,most homeless folks do not have jobs get out of here with that nonsense and get a job.

[@ianpatrickclarksr4074]

would you hire that guy?

[@Retr0racin]

@@ianpatrickclarksr4074 nope lol that's the problem too most these folks could not hold a job

[@user-du9ep6rl5z]

The city should pay those homeless people 10$ an hour to pick up trash and keep the city clean. Help them make money and help the city too!

[@jypseaspencer]

The trash wouldn't be there if they had AFFORDABLE HOUSING! THAT'S THE SOLUTION!

[@shmodzilla]

You guys are so delusional, they do not want to work.

[@mouseandryforever6848]

Those trailers are all full of drug addicts and they're horrible

[@user-jv4fi7ee2d]

If you can't afford the rent you live in the streets rents so expensive half the people can't afford to rent a place lower the damn rents and not make it so hard to get into a place

[@isaabaker963]

🎉❤thank you so true.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Yeah, no. Not going to happen abd I don't blame them. Can't get them out once they start making trouble.

[@kepckatherinec805]

That street should be labeled as “No Parking” and patrolled regularly. The adjacent nature area should be fenced and locked up at night, so that it’s not coated in poop each AM when people try to walk its trails.

[@depiction3435]

Drugs are almost always involved.