Homeless campers in North Portland say the city has failed them

[@ferretdash]

Rather than the city has failed them, I'd say the city has enabled them.

[@l3rlc]

Why not both? The lack of affordable housing is such an obvious problem that people routinely omit.

[@cats5351]

I'm just one person. But when you enable people to do this, it's wrong. Good work Blair..

[@sarbantz]

Sadly, street homeless encampments are nothing else but open drugs markets brewing all sorts of crime. They are fentanyl addicts, and not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy everything around themselves. Many will die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl drug available on our streets.

[@edhcb9359]

@@l3rlc If housing in Portland were super cheap it wouldn’t matter because drug addicts still could not afford it. Go do a community cleanup at a homeless camp and you will see.

[@kerrickgerba5607]

Well said it's a dope addicts paradise.

[@zmvpainting]

Yeah I must admit, my first reaction is the same as most here . I hear "Help me maintain my homeless lifestyle."

[@sarbantz]

Sadly, street homeless encampments are nothing else but open drugs markets brewing all sorts of crime. They are fentanyl addicts, and not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy everything around themselves. Many will die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl drug available on our streets.

[@LaserBread]

Lol, bot.

[@2FRESH-4U]

It should be like free summer camp forever with drugs payed for by tax payers

[@ElleBaby87]

@@baileygregg6567 the difference is the children are genuinely asking, where you evidently find joy in other people's pain.

[@sosa2x360]

got my bike stolen at the freddys right next to it, lock was cut and all, homeless people tipped me and my friend off and sure enough we found it hidden under tarps at some homeless camp on the bike path

[@issawrapppp]

Good way to get shanked.

[@sosa2x360]

@Leslie Carol Calvert you may be right, but that's just pointing out the obvious. But when I went walking down that bike path I seen heroin syringes everywhere, people smoking meth, each homeless person out there is out there because of what they did, the path they chose. Nobody made them get addicted to drugs, can't complain when consequences come for your own actions

[@CandiceMMartinez]

I'm glad you got your bike back! 😊

[@jeretso]

You are a hero! Good Job

[@Antony..24]

Liberal city's will pass liberal laws.. They got what they voted for

[@randallbrostean8009]

Clear em all out of Portland. Make Portland SAFE again.

[@edhcb9359]

It’s going to take a lot more than that to make Portland safe again.

[@l3rlc]

Only if you get cleared out as well!

[@sarbantz]

Sadly, street homeless encampments are nothing else but open drugs markets brewing all sorts of crime. They are fentanyl addicts, and not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy everything around themselves. Many will die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl drug available on our streets.

[@LaserBread]

@@baileygregg6567 Where

[@LaserBread]

@@baileygregg6567 The free money, I mean.

[@jasonlarsen3515]

All the trash on the ground says a lot about them

[@Truth5eeker33]

they dont give any fxcks. i would move

[@justinl8478]

They don’t want to follow curfew rules. Some don’t want to follow drug rules. This is a mental health and addiction crisis, not a homeless crisis

[@duvine3882]

Is a houseless crisis as without a home there isn't meant health and addiction continuous care and prevention.

[@duvine3882]

@@baileygregg6567 In what high space bubble have you been?, they kill them nowadays!.

[@l3rlc]

No it's a fucking homeless crisis because these people don't have a home to go to, a bed to sleep in. Do many homeless people also struggle with addiction and mental health? Absolutely and most of the time it is because of, or at least exacerbated by the fact that they are homeless. Its crazy how many people in this comment section think that they are superior and that something like this could never happen to them. Maybe you are just spoiled, young and naive. Just remember that it could happen to you or someone you love and that while they can be messy and annoying they are human beings just like yourself, each and every one and entirely unique life. They have or had parents that love them or maybe never did but they are people and that really seems to get lost on a lot of the commenters here.

[@sarbantz]

Sadly, street homeless encampments are nothing else but open drugs markets brewing all sorts of crime. They are fentanyl addicts, and not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy everything around themselves. Many will die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl drug available on our streets.

[@ailynevensen]

@@duvine3882 uh, I have a roof over my head and I can't even get mental health help....

[@TheRealMayn1er]

I'm so tired of hearing them say they've been failed. Just like that dude said, most of them live like this by choice. I know for a fact that there are many many many opportunities for housing, and you want to know how? I lived on that same exact trail with my significant other for a couple of years and I am in an apartment now. I'm born and raised in St John's but down the street from that trail. They choose not to go and do the work to get into housing. They Bank on the fact that nobody will do the research and find out just how many different shelters and different programs there are to sign up to. Everybody is just so stuck on saying the words... "everyone has a right to housing" BUT YOU DON'T HAVE RIGHTS IF YOU DON'T WORK FOR THEM. YOU CAN'T JUST SPECTATE, YOU HAVE TO PARTICIPATE. JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE ON HARD TIMES DOES NOT JUSTIFY YOU BEING TAKEN CARE OF BY EVERYONE ELSE AROUND YOU THAT HAPPENS TO DO THEIR PART AND WORK OR AT LEAST WORK A PROGRAM IN ORDER TO HAVE THE BENEFITS WHICH INCLUDES HOUSING.

[@MR-tu9dj]

They haven't been failed. They are failures who keep getting far to many chances.

[@happymcmasters9903]

Good job getting the help you needed and taking responsibility for yourself, but you spent two years free-loading and destroying our trails. You are also part of the problem. Glad you got over it, but your opinion is frankly meaningless.

[@christianjon8064]

@@happymcmasters9903 what do you think he’s doing right now? They give them free housing. That’s even more freeloading than living on the trail. People living outside are actually more self sufficient and cheaper to the taxpayer than those living in section 8. If you’re gonna make this a freeloading thing. Cancel all welfare including social security and Medicare and let’s see how people survive.

[@rogerguiltyforbes8291]

Try and get then to pay even 250$ for rent and you'll never see the money. Whatever housing anyone does give them becomes uninhabitable quite quickly. Within days it will turn into a needle infested junkyard of stolen items

[@christianjon8064]

@@rogerguiltyforbes8291 once you let it get this bad it’s hard to reverse the damage. Kinda like how it’s gonna be hard to reverse course the more we degrade into a third world country in general. Open borders have consequences. Wages go down, housing goes up.

[@normansilver905]

The city owes these wanderers nothing. What contribution do they make to the community besides creating blighted areas?

[@user-uy3eq5hg1s]

Exactly Norman! Apparently taxpaying citizens have to suffer so that these self-entitled drug addicts get to live for free next to our bike paths and parks? Now they're parking their RVs in front of playgrounds to do their hard drugs. This is insanity!

[@galegrazutis964]

They not only don't contribute anything to society but cost 66 BILLION a year.

[@normansilver905]

@@user-uy3eq5hg1s AND the politicians want us to pay fore all of this too! My answer is to the wanderer's, "Get a job. There is work out there!"

[@l3rlc]

They are part of this community... And they human beings just like yourself. No matter how much better or smarter you tell yourself that you are, that it could never happen to you it doesn't matter and you are lying to yourself. And the city doesn't owe it to them it owes it to all of us. We are all people and apart of this community. It sounds like you don't like all of these "blighted areas", I am also not a fan. Guess what? The city solving this problem by offering adequate/sufficient affordable housing will benefit them by giving them a home and a chance at life and people like you that hate seeing the the trash and camps everywhere. Or you know we can just keep doing what we have been and the situation will continue to deteriorate.

[@galegrazutis964]

@@l3rlc Sorry but they are worse than vermin!

[@KN-eh2fh]

I never felt sorry for the homeless. It's your choice. I guess living on the street is better than getting a job.

[@treeightoh3003]

exaclty, their entitled lazy pos's to put it nicely

[@wildlifewarrior2670]

Sometimes it's not their choice most of the time it is their choice through drugs and alcohol

[@dirkdiggler9379]

These people choose this lifestyle end of story

[@vallee7966]

Let the fentanyl take its course. It’s like the Darwin Awards on a large scale.

[@bigdeneen]

Not all homeless people drink and do drugs! There, I fixed it.

[@zigzag6758]

these people are disgusting when offered help , they refuse . I have no sympathy for lazy people who refuse to work .

[@snotbubbles3276]

Sad thing is that the city doesnt enforce the violations the people without housing commit because there is no profit in doing that. But if you deposit your property taxes into an account and tell the city that you will transfer those funds and the interest the funds have incurred once they start enforcing some of the violations being committed the city will quickly put a lien on your property.

[@ragipogulasankar5117]

Y

[@karlabritfeld7104]

Oh yeah the banks are paying huge amounts of interest on a couple thousand bucks.

[@happymcmasters9903]

I live near the shelter on Lombard and Denver. The spillover has overtaken the empty tavern on the corner. They strip bikes and cars there. It's a noisy filthy violent chop shop. I have to carry a gun to walk my dogs, and they still attack me just doing my thing. No one goes outside anymore. The fire marshall told me he was putting a lien on the tavern, because the owner failed to keep them out. I said, that's bullshit dude...the owner should have had his rights protected. I hope they show up when the tavern goes up in flames because of the auto work and open fires they have there. The city is literally blaming property owners for not solving the problem of bums and drugged out deadbeats. And they tell us we shouldn't excercise our 2d ammendment rights or crack their skulls when they forget their place. Guess what? I'm sick of hiding inside because they're pitching tents in my DRIVEWAY! I got a surprise for those pieces of shit.

[@evegreenification]

❤

[@vallee7966]

A large, class-action law suit against the city for resulting chaos of Measure 110 is a great idea. Where’s the committee looking into this?

[@ericstromberg6215]

I moved out here homeless and slept in Downtown Portland myself for months. No one knew I was homeless other than when I slept. I didn't drink. I didn't do drugs. I didn't ask for money. I kept quiet, I bought essentials like water and sandwich stuff. I washed my hair with shampoo and shaved in parking lots using the side mirrors on cars. I spent 20$ on white T shirts and a nice 60$ pair of jeans. I got this money by cleaning up the bottles around town. I stayed clean and hopeful so that I could get a job and look presentable for an interview. I didn't ask for a damn handout. The encampment I slept near always asked if I wanted to chip in for booze or drugs.... You failed yourself.....portland has all the resources required to get off the ground. The max was my way to work I started my own business and clear 200k a year now. Stop having a victim mentality, you'll never make it like that. Have a survivor mentality, everything changed for me when I changed who I put the blame on. Because I held my self accountable I was able to get out of my scenario.

[@mymobilebuddy4392]

Some people use adversity to bring themselves up. Others use adversity to bring them down.

[@baitcrown9238]

Cool sorry but you still have to go back. When are you moving home?

[@ericstromberg6215]

@@baitcrown9238 well my home was destroyed in hurricane Katrina so never. But I'll be gone to Japan when it opens.

[@baitcrown9238]

@@ericstromberg6215 I'm happy to hear the weaboo is leaving

[@ericstromberg6215]

@@baitcrown9238 before I leave come see me do stand up at helium

[@9davidlong]

You take no responsibility for life choices, move to some city and yell I'M A VICTIM!!! B. S. CLEAN UP YOUR ACT!

[@ronaldmcdonald3965]

A lot of the blame falls on the young Activists who enable this. This go into hysterical fits of rage if you force the homeless into mental, drug addiction programs, or organized housing They blindly ignore the lack of sewage/garbage/water services And cling to the notion they are *all* down on their luck people who just need some help; ignore the mentally ill and drug addicted

[@ronaldmcdonald3965]

@@timcombs2730 You are correct. I see it as false compassion. Because it is really about feeling good about themselves: "Look what I did, I am so compassionate". Willie Brown, former Mayor of SF in the 90s, said it best: We all want to vote in a way that makes us feel good" (paraphrase). I think only the consequences of our brain dead policies will make us realize how wrong they are. We are not there, but getting closer.

[@l3rlc]

Yeah the problem is definitely the activists... I don't know what your smoking on that farm man maybe lay off it for a bit? Maybe we need to force you into one of these mental health programs? You would be cool with that right? The issue is obviously multifaceted and thus requires a multifaceted approach . Each person is entirely unique after all. But every single homeless person has one thing in common, the fact that they are homeless. Water, food and shelter are essential to our survival and until people have adequate access to affordable housing this problem will never be solved no matter how many stupid ideas idiots like yourself come up with.

[@cats5351]

PDX is failing only business and homeowners. Stop enabling the homeless sweeping them out is just cleaning up after them. Make it Criminal lock them up or give them a concentration camp they cannot leave.

[@LaserBread]

Not quite. The Democratic Party has been running on the platform of equality, but then turns around to lick the same boots as the GOP.

[@Liberal_From_Prairies689]

It’s not just young activists. It’s so many boomers actually riding the hippy wave. In Vancouver Canada it’s the same thing.

[@DogmaDisputant]

We’re not monsters! We are good people so you should help us live for free the way we want to without rules or responsibilities.

[@ElleBaby87]

That isn't what she said 🙄 Maybe you should clean your ears and stop hearing what you want to hear instead. They are human beings.

[@SM-tg5pi]

Yes, they are human beings. So Why don't the government treat them like human beings? With all the funding, we should be able to purchase a piece of land for them to be self sufficient . Teach them to grow their own food, raise their own chicken, show them how to fish. They already have EBT, therefore they should learn to cook.

[@happymcmasters9903]

@@SM-tg5pi They should definitely not be given free land. They're sociopathic. They get enough. They should get jobs. They aren't even from Portland.

[@dellingson4833]

@@SM-tg5pi For blue states/cities homelesness is a business. All the Federal helicopter money is pocketed by several agencies and groups.

[@valeriebrown7946]

I feel absolutely NOTHING for the homeless. I'm sorry, the city failed you? No, you failed yourself! Life is hard and no one owes you a darn thing.

[@ronaldmcdonald3965]

You're right. "I deserve", "There should be". The homeless in my CA town are now saying we should build homes for them.

[@tsea8352]

@@ronaldmcdonald3965 lucky hobos

[@janhatcher6991]

I agree! We make choices every day and this is a choice that they made. People can change and they do every day. Maybe when we get a new governor and the new mayor things will change in Portland I hope so

[@rbwirth12]

Absolutely agree. I felt sorry for them until they destroyed the parks I used to use and take my kids to, and before they started camping feet from my home. I realized first hand that they need to be given a choice of jail or getting assistance elsewhere.

[@janhatcher6991]

@@rbwirth12 One of the people that's running for governor wants to make it a felony and she wants to have them arrested and put in a treatment center forced into a treatment center for drug and alcohol and I think that is fantastic! If they don't want to do it then they need to move out of Oregon move somewhere else because we don't need this anymore

[@ashleylandon1585]

We're all a product of the decisions we've made along the way ... gotta take responsibility for your life at some point and decide its time to make some better choices. Get a job, seek out treatment for drugs and alcohol, speak to a counsellor, I mean.. nothing changes if nothing changes ! Reality is.. Nobody's coming to save you... you gotta get up, stop making excuses and save yourself.

[@ElleBaby87]

You sound clueless and privileged af lol maybe you should volunteer at a homeless shelter

[@mbeecher9921]

Oh hey, look! Its a pretty, entitled yuppie giving advice to people she knows nothing about. Y'all deserve homeless camps in your back yards. Nasty, heartless, terrible people, all of you.

[@Liberty2358]

In two words, personal responsibility.

[@corvin_nl3455]

My buddy and I moved out to Beaverton during the fires of 2020. The person that invited us to their home so that we could find our bearing had a psychotic break and called the police saying that we were invaders and wanted them to hurt us. She was unstable and I had moved out to Oregon to finish my college degree. Because of her abusive behavior we decided that we had to leave. We put all of our stuff into storage- only $60/mo and packed the bare necessities. I had my credit available for emergency purchases and we pooled our savings together. A couple of friends pooled money together so we could get the cheapest Airbnb in Chinatown for 15 days. Wasn’t great but I knew that it would take us two weeks to get a sizeable paycheck to make a down payment on a studio. My buddy stayed working at UPS and I spent the next four days driving up and down Portland looking for apartments and putting in applications. I had to look for work somewhere near school if needed and expanded my radius for apartments in the area. Found a studio in a clean neighborhood in the Pearl. 1000/mo, 500 each. That took one week. Got a job at the end of that week at a sandwich shop and my buddy found work near the studio- ups is rough and management is ass. We made it into the studio with one day left for the Airbnb. We got our feet on the ground finally but I had to take a leave of absence from school. People in Portland don’t know how to fucking drive and I got hit by a car while driving to work. Had to fix the car, was in the process of switching jobs to a better paying one and my buddy followed suit. Had a massive depressive suicidal episode a month later. Didn’t understand why we moved out here if nothing was working. My buddy kept my head on straight, it rained and was cold and I remembered why we left AZ. Decided that l wanted to live for more so we moved into a two bedroom after that month. It was closer to our new job locations and the area is beautiful. All this happened in the span of six months. When homeless people say they don’t see a way out I believe them. I don’t however, accept that there is no work and that housing is out of reach. Its about to be our two year anniversary out here in Portland and I can say two things for certain- the state is beautiful but I hate the people. They’re entitled white crust people that don’t know how to properly express their distress and are supercilious and disingenuous. I stay for the location. The people I can do without. Keep Portland weird, huh?

[@mr.samurai901]

I love your take on this, it absolutely echoes my sentiments of years past. I spent twenty years in the NW, and the part about the passive aggressive weird white crust people is spot on. I stayed in the NW for many years just for the location. I lived three blocks from this piece of shit trail camp for 7 years. In 2020 is when it went off like a bomb. I've since moved to NJ. It's so much better here. That place will put the zap on your head. The people of the NW ruin it. Fucking weirdos to the Max. They can keep the scenery now too. It's hot and expensive here too, but I don't have to look at this disgusting shit anymore , nor do I have to deal with the inept freakish white bread weirdos that ruin that place. There is a reason those people breed so many serial killers up there If people tried to do this shit here where I am now, the community as a whole would absolutely not tolerate it. It would not happen.

[@bosonrider]

I don't feel safe biking through there. Too bad, guess I'll just drive my polluting car more.

[@happymcmasters9903]

Yeah, and our tax dollars built those trails, and our tax dollars pay for the cleanup, and our taxdollars pay to shelter these pieces of shit. Citizens need to do more than withhold their property taxes. I'm voting for whoever says they'll crack down hard and mercilessly on these sociopaths. Enough is enough. Cry a river for me bums! You poor poor babies.

[@ouroregonfamilylife5548]

They failed themselves, not any city or government, it’s your job to take care of yourselves.

[@chrisfriends7911]

They didn't fail. These LAZY THIEVES are the problem.

[@icat4868]

Is not fair at all for homeowners who works so hard to pay property taxes to have something like this near to theirs houses. If the City of Portland doesn’t have a solution for this mess,which is totally theirs failure for letting this happen from the very beginning than the homeowners should not have to pay any property taxes. We pay taxes for tags on our cars to make sure the bikes and pedestrians are safe,what is good,but is not fair in the same time what the City of Portland had done to those roads!

[@CandiceMMartinez]

@Leslie Carol Calvert Most homeless are very caring - about crack. Most homeless care a lot about crack. A lot of homeless also care about alcohol.

[@boxerblvd3514]

@Leslie Carol Calvert were not talking about emotions. But one does not have to gather trash to their tent that happens to be on someone's property or the view out someone's window.

[@jeretso]

I suggest buy several cars and park them in front of your house before they multiply

[@FortniteDad39]

@Leslie Carol Calvert The other day they interviewed homeless being moved in that same area. 2 out of the 3 they interviewed, cited drug use as the main reason for their situation. I get it. I've known folks suffering addiction, along with the stigma attached. Then you have the guy in this video who simply prefers the lifestyle and thinks he has the right to set up camp wherever he pleases.

[@jacobnapkins1155]

Homeowners caused this problem

[@Cajundaddydave]

The homeless living on the street are at great risk of violence and the spread of disease. Roughly 90% suffer from raging addiction or mental illness, are in a desperate place, and the least compassionate thing we can do is abandon them to city streets.

[@narcissistinjurygiver2932]

i think we should compassionately euthanize them

[@mahfugga]

Because drugs are free.

[@ElleBaby87]

@@mahfugga you realize you can buy meth and crack with chump change from recycling right 🙄 It's cheap af hence why it's so dangerous and deadly. You try coming clean off of cleaning supplies, gasoline, different medicines etc and see how your body feels/reacts. It's more painful to get sober after a certain point than it is to get high. A lot of them die during recovery.

[@SM-tg5pi]

We need to look at the root of the problems. Drug is the main reason why they are homeless.

[@Voicenreason247]

Basic needs is not a luxury. I remember when people worked for sports cars gold rings vacation homes. Not basic survival. This is greed rent is just ridicules.

[@DogmaDisputant]

Littering should be a felony.

[@WanderingRationalist]

You’re not monsters, but you’re not welcome to be where you are either. You all need to be in homes and not out in people’s yards.

[@LaserBread]

Why are we not providing homes then?

[@WanderingRationalist]

@@LaserBread ask your local governments. My guess is cost and resources. We can’t build indefinitely. We need green spaces, too. What should be done is governments have to figure out ways to keep people in their homes so they don’t become homeless.

[@LaserBread]

@@WanderingRationalist There are 14 million vacant houses in this country. Most of them are in the hands of large corporations who hoard them.

[@WanderingRationalist]

@@LaserBread why do they have that many empty houses?

[@stevef1748]

Portland residents deserve every bit of this and I feel zero compassion for their predicament.

[@Ryan-rp1es]

100%

[@silaslizzie43]

As if all Portlanders voted for the current bullshit. Sure.

[@RichardApperition]

This is how americans act💀

[@BrianSmith-yq7ys]

They don’t pay taxes they should be moved out into the prairie

[@desfromage9737]

The railroad tracks nearby which are extensive and the hillside mainly are strewn with trash and debris. It's a bloody health hazard for everyone. Where in the Hell is the health department? Does it exist in PDX city Any kind of health department authority to condemn it and SHUT IT DOWN WHEELER!

[@mrbombastic2485]

No jobs in Portland? Really?

[@jayrob846]

Not really just 12$ an hour jobs and considering how much everything from rent to food costs here in Portland it would be like working for free anyway so why bother?

[@sarbantz]

Sadly, street homeless encampments are nothing else but open drugs markets brewing all sorts of crime. They are fentanyl addicts, and not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy everything around themselves. Many will die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl drug available on our streets.

[@mrbombastic2485]

@@jayrob846 "Things are hard, so just quit". Yup, that kind of thinking is prevalent among total losers

[@ElleBaby87]

@@tsea8352 then maybe the judgy bosses should hire them instead of rejecting them

[@happymcmasters9903]

@@jayrob846 Bullshit. Even Taco Bell offers 18/hr with sign on bonuses. No one promised you a bed of roses.

[@Justrandomvideos-2023]

Not everyone can afford $1,700 for rent which is completely bulls*it 1:48 it's not an rv it's a camper dhurrr

[@charlenemocksing6909]

It isn't easy, but they can put more effort to improve themselves. They can't expect people to support them. Everyone is struggling nowadays.

[@Truth5eeker33]

drugs take over your life. I believe the drug war caused this. illegal drugs are everywhere and cheap

[@mrcpaddler]

That RV with the folding chairs facing the swing set in the park? Makes you feel grateful that the homeless can take pleasure and solace watching little kids laugh, play, and run around.

[@Carvin0]

Offering options to vagrants that they can pick and choose according to how they feel about it will not solve anything. Humane coercion is required. Build managed, fenced shelters with 24x7 security, heating, cooling, etc. - like comfortable prisons with check-in/check-out control. Not silly little huts. If vagrants would prefer to "live free", well I'm sorry but not sorry enough not to remove them to institutional shelter by force. They can join the rest of us singing "I can't get no satisfaction."

[@nicolejennings3339]

If you feel entitled that your neighbors should be forced to pay you to not work and not pay bills but be on drugs, maybe you are threat to decent families

[@luvlabso130]

And yet they vote for democrats and an open border.

[@user-uy3eq5hg1s]

What a load of BS. It is not your right to decide to live for free along a bike path that many taxpaying residents once enjoyed. 99% of you are homeless because you're junkies... so everyone else has to suffer so you can keep doing hard drugs? These homeless drug addicts are parking their RVs right in front of parks where kids play and the government thinks that's okay? This is insanity. We need a new government with some gall who will make this kind of camping strictly illegal once and for all.

[@galegrazutis964]

Standing ovation from me couldn't agree more. The filth the crime they create is unbelievable!

[@l3rlc]

If they are going to do that then they need to provide affordable housing. Current wait lists can be as long as 3 years. Until we fix that problem then none of this will ever be solved. Water, food and housing are essential to human life. Telling people that they can't camp without providing an alternative is not a solution and in fact likely makes the situaion worse as camps just move to new locations when they are cleared spreading the problem and trash everywhere. Also I know you were exaggerating but it's not anywhere near 99% and saying that only hurts the situation and particularly the the other homeless out there trying to get back on there feet.

[@user-uy3eq5hg1s]

​@@l3rlc You must not be reading the headlines - there are multiple homeless shelters and villages in Portland with lots of vacancies. The reason that they don't want to move into these homeless shelters/villages is that they usually can't do their hard drugs there. A guy in this very video that you're commenting on said it's his "right" to pitch up a tent next to a bike path because he's a free spirit. Many of these homeless will not go into shelters/villages by their own choice and instead want to keep camping for free next to our parks and bike paths. The only way to make this change is the law and making it strictly illegal to camp on the streets.

[@LaserBread]

1. Force people out of jobs to keep wages low. 2. Create bad socioeconomic conditions for said people that force them "deviant" behaviors. 3. Funnel billions into propaganda campaigns that blame the deviance on the individuals and scare the upper class and dehumanize then from the untouchables. 4. Use these networks to get people to rationalize the policies that created the deviants in the first place, thus creating more. 5. Profit

[@user-uy3eq5hg1s]

@@LaserBread Your theory relies on an absurd idea that people are "forced" to become drug addicts. No one is forcing you to take meth or fentanyl. I've been broke with literally 0 dollars in my bank account and had to live with my mom, that didn't "force" me to get addicted to drugs.

[@sweendog2769]

Never their fault.. Know why i have 3 payments left on my mortgage... Cause i been bustin my a s s for 20 yrs and never stopped hustleling.. With help from no one!

[@Handleweary]

The city did not fail them! That city doesn't owe them them a thing. Get jobs and keep trying! Don't just give up and expect the locals to support you!

[@sp123]

PNW is too expensive for people without skilled labor; the bottom of working class people are being priced out

[@BlueSky-gu2bx]

Portland pays some of the highest taxes in the USA, and evidently many there must feel they have no rights at all. That they are expected to just tolerate camps, and filth and whatever else goes on. You don't have to tolerate this. Your not getting your money's worth for all the taxes your paying. Obviously the city of Portland has no respect for its residents that pay the bills. Your Royally being used by Portland city Gov't and quite possibly the state. So my suggestion and I would think this has already happened I don't know. A group of residents need to start things rolling, and file a class action suit against the city and or state over these issues shown. You are entitled to a clean safe place to live when paying all those taxes and your not getting it. There is no bathroom facilities for these people, and right there you have the city on environmental and health concerns. You most likely have rat infestations from all the garbage. Portland has already been sued by the American Disabilities People, over blocked sidewalks because of Homeless tents. I would not tolerate this abuse to the taxpayers, and neither should you. However you have to be the one to get out there, and say Portland we are no longer tolerating this behaviour in our city. Otherwise this problem I'm afraid isn't going away in Portland, Oregon.

[@mr.samurai901]

I used to live down the street from this camp. It's way beyond that. It's an open air drug Mart, a car chop shop, a location where stolen goods are fenced, and it is dangerous as hell. It is basically a superfund site now, it is that polluted. There are probably 2000 tons of garbage on the side of the hill , tens of thousands of needles , piss, shit everywhere ,and the ground is saturated with leaked fluids from burned, chopped, gutted out cars. They put toilets on the street for this idiots, and they destroy them and set them on fire. These campers had a stolen backhoe a few winters ago , doing donuts on the trail with it. One guy had a pile of disassembled bicycles piled at least ten feet high. Hundreds of stolen bikes. There was a guy walking around with a rifle one day , and drug deals go down in full view of the cops 24 hours a day. If the city wanted these people gone, they could arrest most of them on all kinds of felony larceny charges. Nope. This is being done deliberately. I do not know what the endgame is, but this trail and the camps like it are manufacturing consent for something. They are allowing this , problem, reaction, solution. It used to be really nice around there . I lived that neighborhood from 2016-2022. There was one guy with one tent there back in 2017 I remember....

[@TK-lc7be]

Cut the freebies in half and keep the dealers in prison and it will solve itself!

[@cspdx11]

there is an interview with Dave Dahl from Killer Bread fame (sold for $250 MILLION). He was a drug user, prisoner, etc and he said the only way out was some stick along with the carrot to get his life turned around. There is an interview with him on Valuetainment

[@Frenchylikeshikes]

Rent is getting so high, I am always nervous this will happen to me one day.

[@happymcmasters9903]

Maybe Portland wasn't the city for you.

[@colinchampollion4420]

Go live where rents are really cheap

[@spiritual246]

Have your camps not along the street, pick up your garbage, leave drugs alone. Manage your Health. Making a choice isn't our choice to succumb to nastiness.

[@spiritual246]

It really makes u 🤔 why they're homeless

[@ElleBaby87]

@@spiritual246 why don't you ask some of them as you clean up all the garbage you guys love to complain about out on the streets? Oh wait you'd rather whine on the internet than actually do anything.

[@colinhaney]

@@ElleBaby87 Sorry I know this is long but I've seen a lot of your comments and I think your approach to this discussion is counterproctive, specifically that you'd choose THAT comment to reply snarkily to. Lots of people DO clean up after homeless people around their homes. It can be hard for homeless people to deal with their trash, but giving everyone a pass and saying they have no choice is not a good solution. Plus it leads to an apathy that spills over to the rest of society. I live in an area with NO homeless but there is an affordable housing building and a 7-11 a block from my house, and I can't step outside without seeing a piece of trash on the sidewalk, which i pick up almost every time. There are a lot of very charged and ignorant comments on these videos from multiple opposing viewpoints. In my view, there will never be political will to prevent homelessness problems from getting worse as long as it's mostly a fight between these 2 groups - 1)people who think that homeless people causing serious nuisances are doing nothing wrong, and nothing should be done except provide more and better shelter, whether or not people decide to live there permanently because they want to 2)people who think the homeless are all freeloading, disrespectful scum of the earth, and who react to the extreme entitlement mentality of people in group 1, reinforcing their own incorrect beliefs that ALL homeless people want to to be homeless, and therefore nothing should be done except make homelessness illegal entirely. These two groups polarize each other by reinforcing their own belief that the other side is ignorant, so their solutions must be completely wrong. But both extremes ignore the complexity of the problem... When people end up homeless and want to get out of it, it's difficult and demoralizing...but housed people are working hard to survive too, everyone is. When you see someone make a reasonably compassionate suggestion that some homeless people should try to excercise more respect for their communities AND themselves, don't lump them in with the crazies who want us to change the law to where everyone without a bed to sleep in would go to jail... As an aside I should mention tents on busy sidewalks make it very difficult for disabled and blind people to get around, so it's not just aesthetics. This IS a complex set of problems that requires nuance and cooperation. Politicians won't be able to work together toward that end if their supporters strawman each other into caring less and less about the humanity of these problems as faced both by homeless, the housed, and taxpayers. I don't even know what the answers are, but I have a hunch about how NOT to find them, and that's people insisting that this is all black-and-white.

[@markr8796]

“Do you think it’s your right that you can camp right here?” “Yeah, absolutely”. That is the problem! Too much coddling of those who break the law. They think they have the right to do whatever they please. They don’t. This “free spirit” should be told to leave town. Permanently.

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

Isnt that what your founding fathers said tho? They have the right?? -COMANCHE NATION

[@galegrazutis964]

ABSOLUTELY!!!

[@mymobilebuddy4392]

It sounds like he isn't the problem sir. You are the problem.

[@janhatcher6991]

we have no laws that's the problem. Maybe if we made it a felony to camp on the sidewalk and on the street maybe they would leave. One of the governors if she's elected wants to make it a crime and she wants to put people in a treatment facility so that they have to get help. I think that's a great idea. They would probably leave the state and that would be good to

[@thechiefwildhorse4651]

@@timcombs2730 So that makes whites illegal? -COMANCHE NATION

[@spicyboy5330]

Sure do behave like monsters though

[@brockhershey414]

The homeless failed themselves.

[@RichardApperition]

If it's hard to help someone, let 'em struggle. That's the American way.

[@guesswho4327]

They live by a choice. Beggars can't be choosers. Got to start somewhere. The city is trying to help you homeless ppl but you all denied it by choice.

[@grammamamel]

It's horrible. Now this blight is effecting every town in Oregon. The north coast is short on resources with out adding an ever increasing homeless population.

[@ElleBaby87]

Homelessness is a huge issue these people trying to exist and survive is not a blight

[@dayacres2996]

Meanwhile Portland activist are making drugs even more available to their populace, fueling addiction and even more homelessness

[@IdeologyPill]

VOTE OUT JOANARCHIST HARDESTY IN NOVEMBER OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES

[@WandersonRC3]

Blaming the city for your failures is part of the problem. Too many places hiring and shorthanded to say “ we can’t find work “ .

[@CandiceMMartinez]

The lady at the beginning seems to have simply fallen on bad luck. She might be an actual victim of skyrocketing rent. Hopefully she gets a second chance at a home. But the dude was a definitely a junky. He definitely looks like the type to create his own problems. He needs to go into a rehab.

[@LaserBread]

Addiction isn't a choice. It's the result of a slew of possible factors.

[@LaserBread]

@Smellegance Sorry reality doesn't agree with your worldview.

[@ginoturrella9985]

So now the homeless want to say that the city has failed them. Is that the way that your parents brought you up? Did your parents teach you about self-responsibility? But you want to shift the blame on other people instead of looking inward towards yourself. That's hard to do isn't it homeless man woman? Once you start reflecting inward instead of outward you will rise off the street. I don't hate homeless people. It's their frame of mind that's hated. Of course some of their brains have been turned into diarrhea due to drug and alcohol abuse. Again homeless you chose that path.

[@ericstromberg6215]

Agree as someone who was homeless and been through this.

[@user-uy3eq5hg1s]

It's disgusting - the vast majority of these homeless people are homeless because they're drug addicts... so everyone else in the community has to suffer so that they can live for free and keep doing hard drugs? They're now parking their RVs in front of playgrounds making children scared to go play in the park! What kind of government is this? What kind of government allows mentally ill drug addicts to do hard drugs in front of a playground? We need new leadership now!

[@ericstromberg6215]

@@baileygregg6567 congrats on finding a better life. It's hard for others to recognize the exact effort of the struggles.

[@sarbantz]

Sadly, street homeless encampments are nothing else but open drugs markets brewing all sorts of crime. They are fentanyl addicts, and not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy everything around themselves. Many will die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl drug available on our streets.

[@LaserBread]

Just don't be poor lol

[@DoubleDogDare54]

You're not a monster - you are a lazy bum. If the city doesn't clear them out, I wouldn't be surprised if one night they were cleared out by some gasoline and a lit match. There is zero reason why respectable homeowners in that area should have to put up with bums wrecking their neighborhood and posing a threat to their safety.

[@happymcmasters9903]

Second Ammendment.

[@DoubleDogDare54]

@@happymcmasters9903 If need be.

[@beabeauchamp956]

You got a heated to income apt. Still became homeless again ? Something missing in your story sister

[@erickzuniga3113]

They have failed THEMSELVES, this is what happens when you are so entitled to the point where you think it's someone else's responsibility to take care of you. Have accountability.

[@RichardApperition]

Having a job isn't enough to have a place of your own. So you expect people to get more than one job... do you have more than one job

[@992001jeffr]

If you choose to have a “victim mentality”, you’ll never succeed. Almost everyone starts with nothing, but are able to support themselves without being a nuisance. Blaming others, and expecting them to support your lifestyle choice, is not a path to success.

[@LaserBread]

How do you feel about the FBI raiding Trump's place?

[@ElleBaby87]

Who would choose to have a victim mentality 😑 Do you people hear yourselves or do you just vomit whatever on the internet. These people are sick and need help and compassion, not your judgy opinions that do nothing for anyone.

[@karlabritfeld7104]

This is now the entire west coast. Homeless and drugs from Seattle to San Diego.

[@thelegendofmiles]

the homeless are failing their community

[@happymcmasters9903]

They aint my community, but your point is well taken

[@brendabrock7702]

It's not fair to work a full time job and not AFFORD HOUSING!!!! To the superior individual complaining! I work full time and have to live in a van,! WAAA FRICKIN WAA that poor people messy up your uppity hood!

[@MrJamesVanEngen]

Homeless shelters are overflowing all across the U.S.A. as homeless people are the inventory of every homeless shelter, and what can businesspeople expect to occur if inventory runs low?

[@abrahamelliott9806]

Not where I'm at there's plenty of beds and they offer it to them all the time but they don't want to live there too many rules they say.

[@thelegendofmiles]

What?

[@MrJamesVanEngen]

The U.S. Census Bureau reports apprx. 600,000 homeless, but millions of homeless in the U.S.A. refuse to report to the U.S. Census Bureau. Companies regularly exploit the homeless more than help.

[@thelegendofmiles]

@@MrJamesVanEngen ..... exploit how you mean lose business because the homeless make towns into shit?

[@MrJamesVanEngen]

You still bigoting! Seriously? ... Ok ... 🙄

[@dalepxp8963]

90% of the homeless want that. They have been homeless for long periods of time, or were or have been living with dear old mom, or in Prison. Now they expect to live off the taxpayers. They are probably if not all, unfit for paying rent or holding a job. I think the US Gobberment should Build A complex in Nevada for them and build those Tuff Sheds for them to live in. 1 cooked meal a day in the afternoon and coffee or tea, toast and lite butter in the morning, Tall glass of milk before bed. Have to work at $2 hour for other items. No smoking ever, no drugs or alcohol allowed. They clean up after themselves. There will be jobs in toilet/outhouse, and shower house cleaning. Picking up trash on highways in good weather. Pothole filling and other roadway jobs as they are requested. Church on Sunday Mornings.

[@nz6241]

City has failed them? You mean you failed. period. Stop blaming your failure on someone or something other than yourselves.

[@goofballbiscuits3647]

Old woman said she misses the old days when the homeless were invisibly ignored.

[@l3rlc]

Lol, reminds me of MAGA.

[@LaserBread]

Any sources that support this "free money" claim?

[@goofballbiscuits3647]

@@LaserBread we will be waiting forever, my guy :/ it's easy for them to say is all lol

[@ElleBaby87]

She sounded like such a bitch. Bet she claims to be a Christian like half these other people do.

[@happymcmasters9903]

Yeah, it's better to have sociopaths shoved down our throats. What are you saying?

[@vm4890]

Sanchez says, “we don’t want to be here,” time for her to leave then.

[@scottyee707]

she is clearly not telling the truth

[@Tess1984]

If the State does not build some sort of housing communities ( and pay for them) this will only get worse. You can't just push them further away into the hills. It's not right having them park in neighborhoods and parks. This is a crisis that none of these cities will do anything about. Right now there are over 20% of homeless, decent young families with children who have been unable to keep up with this inflation. One parent usually works. But cannot afford a home. These are the people I worry about.

[@sarbantz]

Sadly, street homeless encampments are nothing else but open drugs markets brewing all sorts of crime. They are fentanyl addicts, and not capable of doing anything no matter how simple it is. They destroy everything around themselves. Many will die from fentanyl overdose, or drugs related violence. We will never reduce street homelessness without reducing the amount of fentanyl drug available on our streets.

[@drewmatthew3]

I agree. These are able bodied adults who need to sober up and work. Where there's a will, there's a way. I worked for a large non-profit and homeless drug addicted adults received more resources and help, than families with children. It's absurd! You canno believe how much government grants and funding there is for homeless adults. They get rental assistance, food stamps, cash assistance, motel vouchers, free clothing and furniture, free medical, and free treatment! There is help, but a lot of these people are lazy and want others to do all the work and or don't want to get sober. I don't have sympathy for them.

[@ElleBaby87]

@@drewmatthew3 and yet you worked at a homeless shelter with no sympathy 🤣 Families with children and women receive way more help than regular homeless people who are single 🙄 Please don't spread misinformation and we all know you didn't work anywhere where it required you to be kind see you next Thursday lol

[@susanjaneterry1073]

When a person loses their home, they normally try to get back on their feet. Sadly, most of these people aren't interested. Can people who are drug-addicted and seriously mentally ill, make wise choices? Moving indoors is a no-brainer unless you are so incapacitated that you prefer these filthy encampments. Then the law should make decisions in favor of the people who pay for this and want to hang on to civilization, the taxpayers.

[@SingaSlinger]

God made us equal, but I get up every morning to go to work and deal with people and situations I would rather not deal with. But my bills are paid - if we are the same why not go to work.

[@banditnip0345]

I left Portland and moved to Los Angeles where there seems to be less homelessness.

[@sebastianstarr007]

Why is it always the OLD people in their houses so out of touch with how unaffordable housing is, especially with stagnant wages, for the younger generation. They have created this mess, they are responsible for it and should be held accountable!!!

[@AdiusOmega]

"Made us all equals" No that's not what happened at all, that's why some people have nice things and you don't. They worked for it.

[@thismaineliving]

The next time someone says housing is a basic right just remember that a large majority of Portlands homeless dont want leave or stop that lifestyle. Most just want to do what they want and get everything for free without having to do anything.

[@deniseodaniels7356]

i feel sorry for those whose rents are so high they loose their homes or apartments but ...why not stay with family? or friends?? or at least have a clean camp area? some actually are monsters. strung out on drugs and stealing.hurting others. they dont make a good case for themselves when their camps are so filthy.

[@boxerblvd3514]

Denise thank you that is what I've been saying. There's dumpsters everywhere no need to live in filth

[@edwardsmith5650]

WOW!! The City failed the homeless. Homeless refused to go to shelters where their every need would be provided for. The homeless failed themselves by largely preferring to continue their drug addiction instead of accepting help.

[@NYC-pd4ku]

NO ONE'S COMING TO HELP YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN

[@biggootz]

Every major city on the west coast constantly talks about housing for the homeless. Even if provided, how long do you think it will take for area to look just like these camps? There will be drugs and trash and filth everywhere in a short time.

[@seanhicks8569]

Two ppl with a job can't make rent? Something else is going on. I'm on my own and I do it just fine.

[@paulrevere9348]

These are the component to create *Homeless Shelter Villages* [HSV] using _Pallet Shelter's_ existing HSV products: the _Community Room_ sells for $37,000, the _Bathroom_ costs $35,000, and the _Services Office_ costs $9,000. So for only $81,000 a city can establish a HSV. The two person _Shelter 64_ costs $7,000. 100 X $7,000 = $7,000,000. For $7,201,000 the city can establish a HSV for 200 residents. $160,000,000 can establish 22 HSVs to shelter 4,000 residents.

[@JJUnohu]

Nothing is government funded, it's all taxpayer funded.....the people are taxed enough , paying for people that take more from the system than they put in...

[@banditnip0345]

Usually those who are capable of living the rough outdoor life shouldn't be phased by working two jobs in order to pay rent. Those who go back to the encampments are the one's who are addicted to getting hand outs and maybe even making their drug habit more important than paying rent.

[@themasterrogerdelgado]

Instead of the city failing them, they have failed themselves and want to live without any job or responsibilities. Wow, wouldn't that be great if EVERYONE did that?

[@gpg9516]

Maybe people wouldn’t feel so threatened if the encampments were kept clean.

[@ozonethegreat6948]

Keep voting blue portland 😂😂😂

[@jamesddean5759]

Make like 4 to 6 random roads with nothing on them close enough to a grocery store and say live here and keep it clean or we will jack your stuff

[@Karmazov]

It is obvious homeless lifestyle is very lucrative with zero strings attached. You can throw any amount of money at these guys or give them any shelter and they will back on streets in no time.

[@dbimprove1847]

Homeless people would do a lot better if they kept the camp site really clean and organized.

[@Kharkovkid]

If that`s a "community" then I would ask myself why I haven`t moved. The first step in escaping failure, is to leave behind companions who have too.

[@stephensciuto7251]

08-14-22 Just start running water in the direction of the camps..makes the ground wet..and what will the homless do? (2 guesses).

[@l3rlc]

You say "the homeless" like they are not human beings, people, like you or me. How about I go and flood your house and see what the Stephen Sciuto does? I wonder what it's reaction would be? You have to be a pretty shitty and stupid person to even jokingly suggest this. Doing something like this is a good way to get your ass beat or possibly killed.

[@TrekPanda]

The city pays them to be homeless. Why would they want to do better?

[@l3rlc]

Yeah why would anyone want to move into a home or apartment when they can sleep outside in the rain surrounded by trash moving from place to place , getting robbed ect. ? Shit I think i'm gonna give my landlord my 30 days because that just sounds too nice! Like you said "why would they want to do better?" Where do I sign up with the city to start getting paid? Let me know so I can tell every homeless person I see that the city will actually pay them to be homeless! Get the fuck out of here lol. Im really just shaking my head and laughing trying to think would would lead someone to post something so idiotic.

[@l3rlc]

@@baileygregg6567 It's an exchange, they aren't free and its done for harm reduction and reducing the spread of disease and death.

[@CandiceMMartinez]

@@l3rlc Clean needles are effective for harm reduction but getting clean needles from the government is not something to be proud of

[@LaserBread]

Source?

[@mahfugga]

Do better? We all die with nothing.

[@homenj3897]

Do I understand two people working full time jobs can’t afford to pay rent in Portland? How much is rent?

[@jamiehammond5923]

People who owns homes there should quit paying their property taxes.

[@BartyTheParty]

Not fair to the community. 🤣 You know, people like that really are just incapable of seeing big pictures aren't they? That makes me sick...

[@JJUnohu]

Did you buy a house only to have a homeless guy move in at the end of your driveway?....

[@BartyTheParty]

@@JJUnohu No. I'm homeless. Be careful who you bitch to.

[@BartyTheParty]

@J.J. Unohu Have you ever had to BE homeless? No? Then, get some perspective.

[@BartyTheParty]

@J.J. Unohu You should go ask him if he needs anything. A blanket, socks, food, but you probably hadn't considered that they need those things just like you do huh? It's people like you who give people like me shifty looks at the gas station while we're making Ramen at the coffee machines. And you think I'm gonna feel sympathy for you because you have to exist in the same general area as one of us? Boo-hoo bitch. Cry me a river.

[@JJUnohu]

You should get your shit together....I've been working in over fifty hours a week since I was twenty....I'm a high school drop out that makes over 100k a year....poor immigrant parents that gave me nothing to get ahead....I bust my ass everyday to keep getting ahead

[@johnpaulharmon]

Looks like a primitive set of huts in a 3rd world nation.

[@dougmcgrawgg7166]

I'm really tired of these people and their victim attitude. They complain that the city has failed them. What have they offered the city. They stand there with their hands out but they don't do anything to earn what ever benefits they expect the city to give them. I think the city needs to take a harder line with these people.

[@mastersr1956]

when did they turn into campers? I do not think i would enjoy this going on outside of my house

[@ManInTheBigHat]

1:30 I could be wrong, but I'm guessing this woman votes democratic.

[@desfromage9737]

Thanks Karen.

[@happymcmasters9903]

There ought to be a term to apply to dumbasses who overuse a misused term like Karen.

[@paulrevere9348]

*Paragraph 4 of 4.* 89 million Americans is 27% of the *working* population! Or a $50,000 a year stipend for 40 million American families of 4 making less than $15 an hour; *so that they are NOT made permanently homeless.* Amen.

[@siliconvalleyengineer5875]

If the city installed desentegration chambers power by 55kv electrical power lines, the bums could enter chamber room, push the green "go" button and they would be a puff of smoke and off to the next place.

[@justrosy5]

"The community is at it's wits end." *AND HOW DO YOU THINK THE HOMELESS FEEL?!* They didn't ask for this. *THEIR EMPLOYERS DID THIS TO THEM.* Those same employers will rob you of YOUR home one day, sir. What kind of life do you want to live when it comes YOUR turn?! Better think hard about that...