Homeless camps along Portland's Northeast 33rd Drive to be cleared

[@seric4546]

Funny thing is as a taxpaying citizen who works for a living no one has ever come up to me and asked me if I have some place to go.

[@U.s-epa]

Right? 😂 instead we're taxed up the butt and nothing ever gets better.

[@CsJ-y6g]

With every pack of cigarettes and every bottle of booze. Every tank of gas and every consumer item purchased, homless people ARE paying taxes.

[@U.s-epa]

@@CsJ-y6g eh not really in Oregon because we're mostly taxed from property abs income.

[@CsJ-y6g]

@@U.s-epa WHAT I CANT BELIEVE IS THAT YOUR GOING TO RULE YOUR ARGUMENT OFF THE WORD MOSTLY.....LOL

[@U.s-epa]

@@CsJ-y6g sweet reply bro

[@ReedsBeans]

Glad our homeless committee is basically an overpaid clean up crew

[@jzen1455]

We just need another committee to oversee the homeless committee.

[@ReedsBeans]

@@jzen1455 🤣

[@thefelonattorney]

Where will they go? How about back to their home states for a start.

[@karlabritfeld7104]

You mean Oregon. That's where they're from.

[@Scorch1028]

Yeah, legions of drug addicts arrive in Portland, and they've never paid one penny in taxes to Portland or Multnomah County. Compounding the problem, are the hordes of illegal aliens who migrate to Portland because it's a sanctuary city. That's a formula for bankruptcy.

[@Scorch1028]

​@@karlabritfeld7104 Officials in many towns in Idaho and Montana put their drug-addicted riff-raff on buses to Portland to get rid of them. Until recently, Portland allowed drug use in public, and this was very appealing to people who wanted to spend all day getting high, instead of working for a living.

[@htas6888]

Did all these people live in a place in Portland at one time and then lose their house or apt, homes they owned or rented.. Are all these homeless really from Portland and surrounding areas? it is hard to believe that it can be true.

[@thefelonattorney]

They have mostly come from out of state

[@GalacticTradingPost]

keep advertising your social services and hand outs. red states look clean because they bus their losers and crazies here. look up homeless relocation program, every state has one.

[@scottpeterson1991]

I grew up on the coast of oregon came up here with a girl almost 2 years ago and havent had good luck so im out here as a resident of oregon

[@karlabritfeld7104]

Yes they are from Oregon. Go talk to them.

[@karlabritfeld7104]

​@@thefelonattorneyyou've asked them personally?

[@03PaK]

Sadly deserved. People in Portland just shrug off these issues. I’ve dealt with these people in real life and they defend this saying “housing prices are too high what else can they do”.. it’s such a lazy excuse for this activity.

[@johngillon6969]

Housing prices are always high. i bought my house in 1989 and worked two jobs my wife worked two jobs. we put down 20 percent cash we had saved from each of us working two jobs. Not sad. that's the way it is done. You work and are productive and buy a house. most of the homeless i have asked have lived this lifestyle over a year. some seven or eight. In life we all do what we do best. these homeless feel the victim and use drugs to avoid looking at their lives. The Vietnamese work hard and buy houses for the family and then buy houses for each of the kids. You don't see any Vietnamese homeless. You ever wonder why?

[@truther001]

@@johngillon6969 Many homeless have had horrific, dysfunctional childhoods and never lived normal lives.Also, the mentally ill have no place to go. Government and non-profits embezzle the money that should be going to the homeless.

[@johngillon6969]

BALONEY, Most of them prefer to live under a tarp because they don't want to face the stress of working for a living. Don't want to get up early . People like YOU tell them it is not their fault, so they fancy they are victims, which gives them an excuse to behave in an anti social way. If it were up to me i would bring back the chain gangs, and make vagrancy a crime like back in the Good Old Days.@@truther001

[@guddsitizen4024]

Yes the state does extort humans. They take everything they under the guise of creating a solution to a problem they sometimes create. Nothing will stop a person who benefits financially that is so far removed from responsibility and morals

[@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531]

When the NE 33rd drive camps get cleared, the residents all move to Springwater/82nd. When Springwater/82nd gets cleared, the residents all move to the woods near NE Airport Way/138th. When the woods near NE Airport Way/138th get cleared, the residents all move to Rocky Butte. When Rocky Butte gets cleared, the residents all move to Marine Drive. When Marine Drive gets cleared, the residents all move to NE 33rd. This shell game costs a lot of money, lets the city say something is happening, and doesn't accomplish anything.

[@methus57]

ALL of these people have been offered clean, safe, heated housing in shelters, but they refuse to go because they don't want to live by any rules.

[@scottpeterson1991]

My Guy, lemme just say that you sir/ma'am, are clearly misinformed! As a 33rd homeless resident, i myself HAVE NOT been offered any type of help nor alternative! Some people dont have anyone... and things are hard on your own, but why would they want to take what little we have at a time of year like this it could be deadly. Sometimes people should offer a hand rather than an opinion i believe! We'd be a much stronger existense together!

[@zoom1490]

​@@scottpeterson1991as someone who was homeless until 2 years ago here in portland, i gotta say it's on you. Regardless if you're a homeless youth or someone in your 40s. You know you can always call 211 and have them tell you the possible shelters you can go to. But i agree with the guy above you, even if you did get that assistance, it sounds like you'd find a reason to not accept it

[@johnoliverio8729]

Spot on! Absolutely Spot on!

[@justiceforall007]

I disagree with you assertion that shelters are "safe". Having been to shelters when I was homeless and in a domestic violence situation as a woman and with my kids, I can tell you that shelters are only as safe as the background checks performed and the people allowed in. Unfortunately, a lot of people in shelters continue to use, drink, and engage in criminal behavior. If you're a straight person and not a felon, being in a shelter can be what I'd imagine prison to be like. I think being safe and in one's own car, tent, or RV would be a much better alternative.

[@melissacarterpresley5786]

@methus57, you have clearly had a lot of practice saying things that you know are not true.

[@rogerstephens8019]

Clear it out and make room for new migrants from South America !!!😮

[@PapagenoMF]

At least the migrants from South America aren't all mentally ill or drug addicts and will actually work for a living.

[@Scorch1028]

Portland is a sanctuary city inside of the sanctuary state of Oregon. So, "Viva los homeless illegal aliens!" 😆

[@joeatunderground8714]

This reminds me of the Wack-a-mole game in that the ones popping up and getting hit are not the homeless. The ones doing the striking are government officials and the homeless. The major difference here is at the cost of millions not coins. Who is paying for all of this?

[@Scorch1028]

The root of the problem, is that Oregon is very lax on prosecuting people who use drugs in public. For that reason, Portland in particular, attracts drug addicts from all over the state and the country. Because Oregon is a sanctuary state, hordes of undocumented people have been adding to the misery created by the domestic drug addicts living on the streets for a long time.

[@DerBingle1]

Too many people make too much money of the homeless situation. The status quo is just fine with the powers that be.

[@btfup]

The lady said "try not to be angry" Tina Kotek and Ted Wheeler suck.

[@nicholasthompson7690]

At least ppl won't vote wheeler back into office

[@forgottenman8629]

maybe so but before them there are Portland/Valley/State leftists who 'placed' them into office...

[@geertaerts977]

Neither the city nor PBOT are interested whatsoever in moving RVs away from poor neighborhoods, because then they'll end up in rich neighborhoods where city council and PBOT executives live. If they were, they would have long ago placed concrete "Jersey" barriers in the useless blacktop next to 33rd and solved the problem instantly. All the city and PBOT want is for the RVs to continue moving from one poor street to another nearby poor street and back again. The "cleanup" is only to make it look like the city and PBOT are doing something.

[@forgottenman8629]

that's exactly right, this is kinda like mandating that 'only' certain classes of folks pay taxes while others do not. When bums are 'placed' into hoods including West Hills, Lauralhurst, Alameda, and Eastamoreland -- meaning camping right smack on 'their' parking strip or sidewalk so they too can clean up daily, we 'all' will then witness the end of this plague...

[@theonlychinailikeiswhite2582]

Give them a bus ticket to Washington DC

[@thesecurityguardchannel]

Add architecture that prevents rv’s

[@karlabritfeld7104]

This can be solved with low income housing. The money the city is spending right now to clean up the city could instead be spent to fix up some old motels or abandoned buildings. Take a nominal feel from all low income recipients, hire a caregiver, pay for administration and upkeep, give these people some dignity. Cause what the city is doing now is not working. All the nasty judgemental comments don't help either. It's just spreading hatred.

[@SonofHardrada]

When 95% of them are drug addicts who have NO desire to better themselves low income housing isnt going to solve shinola. Wake up!

[@ChicagoBeaver]

What? Homeless people playing the victim? We'll get your life together and get off the streets. Stop whining, jeez

[@ronaldnelson4370]

If you are out there down and out it will not always be like that things will start looking up eventually

[@seannash4695]

What if you have a mailing address and your rv runs, is registered and is insured and you are licensed? Then what? Targeted anyway or will there be any kind of recognition of humanity? I myself have already gotten the old "you can't park that eyesore in my noseyhood" and quickly responded with "you can't bark that earsore at me in your noseyhood" leaving him to call the police and be gravely disappointed by the same police when they told him to mind his own business. Intolerant of intolerance? Kinda has a ring to it don't it.

[@guddsitizen4024]

The people who live in Clark county are one phone call away from being homeless. One health care emergency from being homeless. They feel like they’re safe but the state needs your money and access to you children’s future to sustain themselves and their control on the cities they corrupt. When men create laws to benefit certain groups they will create a moral and “legal” system to support themselves

[@CsJ-y6g]

IMAGINE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY SPENT TO CLEAR BOTH SIDES OF 33RD, GIVEN TO THE ROADSIDE ESTATES, IN AN ATTEMPT TO BETTER EVERYBODY'S LIVES. NOT SURE WHY IT HAS TO BE AN ASSAULT. IM GUESSING ITS COSTING A LOT.

[@christophermozeleski7149]

Maybe they can get there shit together and move back in with family or friends.

[@capncaptain1594]

Many of them have burned their bridges with family, friends and jobs.

[@nicholasthompson7690]

@@capncaptain1594agreed sadly

[@scottpeterson1991]

What is so disrespectful is your assumption that many have burned bridges and or lost the family the have due to being untrustworthy and or deceitful, but some if us were adopted and the family that brought me up kinda just wanted goodbye when I was 16 and could care less about someone who isn't there blood some times people have no one to turn to for help

[@capncaptain1594]

@@scottpeterson1991 I used the word MANY. I think you assumed I used the word everyone. I am speaking from lived experience. Please read before you respond. Don't be disrespectful. Merry Christmas.

[@scottpeterson1991]

@@capncaptain1594 You are right I apologize I did read it as if it said everyone. However for you to make an assumption like that is unfair and categorizing. Like I said I live down here and a major issue here is mental disabilities and lack of care and or help for us all due to speculation because everyone has to have an issue with something and the way this is looking to be handled is downright disgusting and not the answer. No disrespect to you just putting my opinion out there. You have a Merry Christmas.

[@ohlordy2042]

Portlanders really amuse me. That mystified look on their faces when they peer around and see what 20 years of voting for "progressive" politicians has done to their community. It's quite hilarious.

[@boossersgarage3239]

sure jan.

[@johngillon6969]

So blame the victims. You have no idea who this poor woman voted or here political view.

[@ohlordy2042]

@@johngillon6969 90% of Portlanders have voted for self righteous, virtue signalling "compassionate progressive" local and state politicians for over 2 decades now. That is undeniable. So, my chances of being wrong about this "victim" are pretty low. I'm prepared to apologise, and empathise, if she is a genuine victim. That is, one of the handful who have consistently voted for sensible moderate politicians over the last 20 years. I'll remain amused until proven otherwise.

[@johngillon6969]

Sheer baloney so you are talking out your A** now. no election has ever won by 90%. think you might try a little to stop being such a rabbid hater.@@ohlordy2042

[@SonofHardrada]

They arent very bright.

[@LordLoMR2]

I went to highschool with the second guy they interviewed. He was always doing drugs during lunch time in the back of the school with stoners. 😂

[@maestrovso]

Measure 110 made it the city of paradise for him. Undoing it will have zero impact as they created all these hopeless hard drug junkies. These can't live by any rules or social norms, let alone holding a job.

[@josephtrudel1816]

Love to see portland getting the just rewards of being a sanctuary 'city'

[@Scorch1028]

Yeah, they're also feeling the effects of allowing public drug use. You let people shoot up and smoke hard drugs wherever they feel like it. Then hordes of homeless illegal aliens turn to drugs when they figure out that they can't make it in America. What could possibly go wrong?

[@jesushappy692]

Drugs.

[@rahulbosebose1]

Where they should go? Is that a mystery? Should go to where they belong jail.

[@scottpeterson1991]

This right here is the absolute prime example of what's wrong with this situation, u are criminalizing us for being homeless!?! So because I'm not as fortunate as some and have had lots of different events in my Life that left me alone and somewhere I don't know many. I belong in jail cause I don't have anywhere to go huh? You would rather pay yo house me in jail, instead of taking that money and helping with low to no income housing! I mean how bad is it to offer a helping hand in lou of criticism and or assuming we are all bad people! This isn't the answer!

[@rahulbosebose1]

@@scottpeterson1991 Being homeless is not a crime.. abusing public parks and walkways making them dangerous for public use .. and doing drugs all day is criminal. And such junkie criminals need to be prosecuted to give them tax paid free housing in jail.

[@SonofHardrada]

@@scottpeterson1991 The problem is that the 95% who are p.o.s. drug addicts whi are robbing us blind screw it up for the rest of you.

[@joeatunderground8714]

I asked my youngest daughter, “If you had a magic wand, how would you fix this?” She replied after some thought, “I have no idea.” What does that ………imply ?

[@witchywoman7311]

Do something different this time, clearing them without a plan is insanity. Just doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is insane. Get some apartments ready first.

[@PapagenoMF]

Maybe they'll just move back to California?

[@Scorch1028]

Portland's homeless problem has been building up for decades, in large part because they are a drug-friendly city that allows people to get high in public. Even though Portland recently changed their ordinance allowing people to use hard drugs wherever they want to, it is too late for law enforcement to deter or reduce the problem. Portland and Multnomah County will be stuck with this homeless problem for decades to come. You cannot be "that permissive" of open-air drug use for such a long time, attracting hordes of drug addicts from all over the country, and then expect to be able to get thousands of drug addicted vagrants clean. It doesn't work that way. A word to the wise.

[@launanisbett1051]

This is the true Issue Making me so Upset I was HOMELESS 5 yrs!!! Never once did I leave trash, or needles, or stay up all night, and blast music and Blow up propane tanks !!! I had my Dog and we picked up after myself Everytime I used anything with trash not only that I picked up other people's trash too cuz I believed and still do in leaving this world better then I even found it ❤🙏❤🌍❤ I even got sober on the streets hardest thing iv ever done and once I lost my precious dog I went to shelters and into programs that help you if you are sober i was sober last 2 yrs of being out there and i just want fo help anyone i can , but these drugs out there now afe so much worse and destroying there minds even worse but i still go out once. Week with my church just to love on the homeless and help with resources and food and just know they are loved and there is hope❤ but I will not stand here and see how bad they are treating this earth with all the trash is mind-blowing i never thought this was possible 😢 if they cared one bit about having a place to park or tent spot they would clean up and be quiet at night time i mean seriously just those 2 things alone would of changed everything people yelled at me and didn't even let me insist just because i was homeless i cleaned and did everything to not effect any one but those people dont care and dont appriciate or be thankful for anything and the trash ill be there after helping clean up too cuz its so wrong to do what they have done i can't feel bad for them anymore i had none of what they have but i was better to this world and it was no ones fault either not those precious neibors this woman deserves peace ill help fight to give it back to here i dont fight for people doing these horrible things to eveeyone else its so wrong prayers up for them but its there own responsibility to pick up trash and give darn respect its awfull so good luck

[@scottpeterson1991]

See this is another post that tries to put all us homeless in the same hate category, i live here on 33rd and i dont have garbage all over my spot, nor do i leave needles blast music at night and or start fires, but im sure you all heard but didnt listen when they said that the reason people are downhere is because the city decided this was the best place for us homeless and now they wanna just sweep thru and take everything! i mean i been here almost 2 years... but we arent all crazy doped up messy firestarters some of us are just people who have let the hard times take a tole on them....

[@htas6888]

What do you think that city, county, state, federal government should do to eliminate homelessness and people living on the streets in terrible conditions?

[@htas6888]

@@scottpeterson1991 it seems that there is help available, what do you think people like you need to get off the streets and stay off the streets?

[@scottpeterson1991]

@@htas6888 honestly I'm not in politics and my opinion on what government should do is help people when the fall so we can ride up together and be stronger idk. People think a handout isnt something that helps people but if your on the other side of the hand out... It can be life saving...

[@fredrickriffel5845]

Come to Bloomington Indiana they have everything you would want. Free stuff

[@spankyssurprise1361]

Bloomington is becoming a cesspool.

[@johnoliverio8729]

@@spankyssurprise1361 Perfect!

[@rogerstephens8019]

I happen to know that CHICAGO is in bad,bad,bad, need of homeless and illegals ! They are building tent cities there for anybody, yes that is right ,ANYBODY !! DON'T BELIEVE ME ?? Watch TV !!!!😅

[@Scorch1028]

Drug addiction leads to homelessness. Don't use drugs.

[@dolores2318]

Get a job

[@DerekJensen-m3q]

Lower housing prices and people will be able to find a home but that will never happen when you make 20 something an hour and all your money goes to bills and taxes

[@greybeard3368]

Most aren’t willing to work, even for $20 per hour and lower house prices. They’d rather do drugs.

[@nicholasthompson7690]

Then get a roommate like I had to when I moved to a new city

[@PapagenoMF]

That one dude looks like a normal size Peter Dinklage.

[@amybaby04]

You get what YOU vote for. 🤔

[@moss787]

Did you vote for making corporations richer? I bet you did there, kiddo.

[@PapagenoMF]

Trump never solved it.

[@dons3073]

No man stay away from delta park

[@pondmaker]

Drugs are the problem...

[@scottpeterson1991]

As a 33rd homeless resident, i myself HAVE NOT been offered any type of help nor alternative! Some people dont have anyone... and things are hard on your own, but why would they want to take what little we have at a time of year like this it could be deadly. Sometimes people should offer a hand rather than an opinion i believe! We'd be a much stronger existense together!

[@maxmotors9497]

You’re not a resident.

[@maxmotors9497]

You require a legal address for that. Figure it out. Why are you there? That’s what you need to answer.

[@orbscorbs]

The homeless inflict themselves upon us. They want everything given to them; they work for nothing. The majority of homeless are addicts. You don't "help" them by enabling their addiction.

[@amber190]

I hope you weren’t for the idiots that are running our country now and who would rather leave us homeless and house all the illegals coming into our country who should be shipped right back out

[@karlabritfeld7104]

Many people are just mean and uncaring. My how their opinion would change if suddenly they became homeless.

[@dons3073]

Why lie it’s a sin

[@nicholasthompson7690]

Go to a shelter or tiny home

[@i_luv_hecklefish]

Yes, they do have to go somewhere. ❤

[@lisahorstman1797]

So sad that folks have to put up with this crap!😢

[@U.s-epa]

Honesty don't care. Time to leave, forcefully if needed.

[@ENScottish]

Hope they'll have a place to go. Can't government open one of the national parks for them to survive?

[@spankyssurprise1361]

Yeah that's it...we all want our national parks covered in trash and human waste.

[@nicholasthompson7690]

Hell no

[@scottpeterson1991]

I live here on 33rd and i dont have garbage all over my spot, nor do i leave needles blast music at night and or start fires, but im sure you all heard but didnt listen when they said that the reason people are downhere is because the city decided this was the best place for us homeless and now they wanna just sweep thru and take everything! i mean i been here almost 2 years... but we arent all crazy doped up messy firestarters some of us are just people who have let the hard times take a tole on them....

[@seric4546]

Almost two years of living on the streets is enough. Time to get your act together.

[@scottpeterson1991]

@@seric4546 My act is surely together I assure you but because I have no job because I haven't any transportation, and I haven't any family to help me it's me my girl and or two dogs. We struggle... sometimes q telling hand does more than a criticising one! Be helpful not judgemental

[@seric4546]

@@scottpeterson1991 Oh, I'm helpful but mostly to family and friends in the Philippines. Who don't have the opportunities available in this country. Millions of people are entering into this country with absolutely nothing, and they are going to pass you by. Once again I hope you get your act together.

[@zsdollhaus]

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[@may-beeart7930]

You know what??? Billions and billions gone to Ukraine. A shame

[@lucavenaugh1740]

I’m sorry for this woman’s discomfort, but it pales in comparison to the discomfort of those without homes. Imagine that you have no bed, no bathroom, no kitchen, and no way to stay warm in the winter. What would you do? Don’t get mad at the homeless. Get mad at the politicians who failed to plan for low-cost housing, thus creating this horrendous problem.

[@TheAerialgreen]

If you truly embrace altruism, why not consider opening your home to homeless individuals, allowing them access to your kitchen, bathroom, and bed?

[@nicholasthompson7690]

I'd sleep In my car

[@SonofHardrada]

Imagine youre a drug addict who has been offered every opportunity to improve your life and instead you choose being a drug addicted criminal on Portlands streets because the bleeding hearts make it so easy to be a loser why would you ever clean up? Thats over 80% of them.

[@TheJhndarwin]

Well i will be the first to admit i made a mistake voting for trump in 2016 but if i would’ve known he was going to destroy our country I promise i wouldn’t have cast that vote. For that i apologize. So 2020 I vote Biden thinking he will fix it but after taking several readings i find i was wrong once again, for that vote i apologize as well as for 2024 my voting days are over, i am taking George Carlins advice and staying home. At least i will have something to show for it this time. Good luck all

[@thefelonattorney]

You didn’t vote for Trump. So stop lying dude

[@karlabritfeld7104]

Hahahaha. I feel the same.

[@seric4546]

The trump years were actually quite good. It was the democrats constant temper tantrums and insanely idiotic conspiracy theories that made those years of bummer. Now democrats run everything and the country is learning the hard way that Americans come dead last when they elect anti-American globalist elites.

[@nicholasthompson7690]

@@seric4546he was a damn joke

[@seric4546]

@@nicholasthompson7690 Or so you were told.

[@fredrickriffel5845]

Biden is here for you

[@PapagenoMF]

Trump never did anything about it either.

[@jefferystephen-ud7id]

I hear California is warm this time of year.

[@johnlerner5346]

Is that Alec Baldwin?

[@tinyjones8454]

Get what u vote for

[@karlabritfeld7104]

What did your vote for Trump get you??

[@seric4546]

​@karlabritfeld7104 Peace and prosperity, As well as four years of childish temper tantrums from those who hated every minute of it.