One Point of Contact Campsite Reporting System

[@jeanseymour1171]

You are enabling!

[@merryecho4236]

I live in North Portland where the homeless/transient problem has become untenable. Our community garbage and recycling area is in a locked structure that is constantly damaged by homeless looking for personal info, as soon as I have it repaired it is damaged again. I can't count the number of cars that have been broken into, and nothing can be left outside our homes anymore or it is gone. We have gone from a nice neighborhood to living under a seige mentality. Your video talks a lot about respect for the people living in tents. Where is the respect for those of us following the law, paying huge taxes, who just want to be left alone? We have dignity village nearby, that was working. It is time to recognize that not all homeless and transient are just down on their luck. Some are criminals, looking to do harm.

[@beatricem5408]

Its third world conditions, police wont help you, completely lawless.

[@timrlarson]

I go through St. John’s weekly, and out Old Portland Road. You are 100% correct. Today’s homeless and transient communities are connected by cell phone and computer websites. They share information about where you can set up camp with the least likelihood of being hassled. Welcome to North and East Portland you happy trash collectors! 😡

[@mistyschlegel4975]

I can’t understand why this is OK. We have the homeless/Rv’ers (with California plates)/ out on marine drive and behind the levees and near our well sites IN THE FOREST (think fire) and on the Columbia slough, just a few miles from us out in Fairview, but still technically the city of portland. Our crime has increased, they come out in our neighborhood with cars and wait for ppl to put out their garbage (and used items). I cannot (will not) go on our morning walks along the trail on the Columbia. There are CARS down there and cars parked along marine drive. If I did that, I would be fined. I’ve had it. It’s time the ppl of Portland grow some balls and stop the insanity. Please.

[@billkowalczyk15]

Although I appreciate this work by the folks at CCC to help clean up these sites with compassion, I feel it is an insult to the city and citizens that we are normalizing camping on the streets, in neighborhoods, and on any exposed piece of grass, except of course in the highest income residential neighborhoods. To address this crisis, and as an interim solution to the city's lack of enough shelters we need designated camping areas and expanded emergency shelters with toilet and social services. The citizens deserve this, both housed and houseless. Accepting random camping in the urban area as the new normal is an absolute failure of city leadership.

[@lsmith1237]

You are absolutely correct, camps should be MADE to move to designated camp sites. It's ridiculous that they have been allowed to take over streets in neighborhoods and the city does little if anything about if (except enable them).

[@billkowalczyk15]

I am thrilled to read my comment below from 2 years ago and see that some progress is finally being made in the Lloyd District with getting homeless people off the street. Sadly, the One Point of Contact system was used repeatedly over the past year by many neighbors to address a camper on Schyler and 10th Ave. Nothing was done over almost an entire year until there was a massive fire that burned the camper, the trees and the electric lines. That's what it took. There was NO action by the city. Luckily' no one died. But, the open drug market in front of the post office is finally gone. My great fear is that the 'wack a mole" approach is creating the massive "Hoovervilles" on 33rd, Marine Dr., and out Foster to name a few. Noting short of addressing this as a refugee crisis due to severe economic, dependency, and mental health deficiencies in our society will work. Its bigger than the city, but the city can take leadership by creating safe-spaces-with-services, much more scaled up than they are. These spaces need to be overseen by a city or county-wide board to keep them safe and civilized because massive safe, transitional housing and camping must be the mandatory alternative to random camping if all our citizens are to be safe.

[@marvinthiessen3454]

One thousand pounds of garbage and between 80 to 100 used syringes a day (and that's collected by just 2 responders?), does this sound like people who want to end being homeless and get back in the saddle of life? I don't think so. Why enable them further with free stuff and personalized garbage disposal service? The city should enforce vagrancy laws already established. Putting multiple band-aids on a hemorrhaging patient isn't going to solve the problem. Our mayor should be concerned about offending homeowners in various neighborhoods who have to put up with the related theft, garbage and vandalism of drug-addled homeless, than be more concerned about offending the very people responsible. Get your priorities straight, Mr. Mayor, the homeless aren't going to vote you out, city taxpayers will.

[@ladawnabooze]

Does anyone know about the murder on the Springwater trail....and still nothing changes

[@ndetto1]

This video says nothing about getting them to move from where they are camping. They took over a local dog park and now noone dares walk in there. It was beautiful 5 years ago, now its post apocalyptic. Offering pamphlets to them just adds to the trash they accrue. What are my taxes paying for.....permiting the degradation of public space I guess.

[@timrlarson]

I am with you all the way.

[@mistyschlegel4975]

I hear you and I think this needs to stop

[@fed-upwiththenonsense148]

This video is a joke. It doesn't show the true situations of piles and piles of pure garbage that it would take a week to clean up at one campsite. I agree with others that have commented on this video. It's time for the city to stop catering to this way of life. Man up and take some true action. The situation will only get worse if you continue to tiptoe around it

[@mistyschlegel4975]

I think it’s time real portland residents take a stand.

[@haopham1102]

Ted was posted this video and all comment are negative but result = 0 because he never read .

[@LNLA]

Great spokesperson....where did you go Jonathan? Too bad the system doesn't work...12 to 24 hours. 🤣🤣

[@mr.wiggles431]

Hey Ted. Never mind nothing will get done anyway.

[@sueporter847]

Although this attempt to clean up garbage with bags is good (or garbage would be worse), doesn't it in some way accommodate the camping? We need pro-active "Housing First" programs to eliminate street and highway camping. "Housing First" could address basic human needs for the homeless population and return Portland to what we once were.

[@lyndavincent6659]

Honest citizens who work hard in Portland pay their TAXES!!!!!!!! Homeless people DO NOT PAY TAXES!!!!! Get them the f out!!! No compassion!!! They DO NOT want to EVER WORK just camp for life!!!!!!

[@mistyschlegel4975]

It is not fair. I am feeling absolutely helpless at having my rights trampled, because many of these ppl are homeless BY CHOICE.

[@lyndavincent6659]

@@mistyschlegel4975 exactly they don't want to work, Portland is a garbage dump I'm totally ashamed of our mayor he does nothing!! Wheeler is a trust fund liberal bitch and so bad at representing portland hes the one letting them receive welfare and food stamps my theory is you dont work you dont eat

[@mistyschlegel4975]

@@lyndavincent6659 mine too. But what is equally horrifying is the sheer amount of ppl coming here from other places, destroying our habitat (see Columbia river, Columbia slough…….), living in any little forested area (fires), and wreaking havoc …(theft, garbage dumping in our neighborhood, ). If I parked my car overnight on marine drive, I would be ticketed. We follow the rules. They don’t. We pay taxes that contribute to their lifestyle, they don’t. What recourse do we have, other than move out of state?

[@lyndavincent6659]

@@mistyschlegel4975 agreed they dont have to follow the law at all

[@mistyschlegel4975]

@@lyndavincent6659 I wish we had some kind of recourse other than a new city council and mayor. In the meantime, we, the taxpayers, have to watch this continue on a daily basis. No wonder so many ppl are angry.

[@sallyharris9100]

While I don't believe anyone should be dehumanized, why is the response to camping on a sidewalk, in a green space, in a park, or on ODOT land to ask if they need any trash removed? For anyone to believe that allowing people to set up camp outdoors inside city limits and then expect the rest of us to carry on as if this is a viable option and solution is utterly absurd. The people of the city have had enough. The majority of these camps are occupied by active drug abusers, and they are likely there because everyone else in their lives has refused to enable their addiction any longer. So now the city enables them. It's really quite infuriating, and it's not doing them any favors.

[@carolberkley2171]

I would like to help a group of tent residents at Moody and Bond clean up a site that is being used as a neighborhood dump. How can I do this?

[@rcbturbine9]

If these "homeless" people have families, moms, dad, children - they why are they homeless, and illegally camping, and destroying the environment and our city and society? No more useless compassion - These city employed desk holders need to uphold their own laws!

[@mistyschlegel4975]

Many of them have RV’s with out of state plates, cars, etc. … really? Homeless? Bull it’s about time we start distinguishing the needy from the ppl that just want to take advantage.

[@ladawnabooze]

This is more money going to people behind the desk & to keep more homeless homeless

[@GregBarton-w7p]

We are constantly told the problem is just poor folks and lack of housing...and yet the video mentions all the needles and trash around the homeless camps. Portland and Multnomah County have invested in a well-funded and organized system of severe enabling, and as a result addicts are dying from overdoses, violence and suicides in the tents freely provided by tax-payers (via Mult. Co leadership). The culpability of this system with supporting the ruining of lives is horrific. Addicts need to be removed from the streets and the power of deferment used for treatment. That's how you save lives. Should I ever end up in a tent banging drugs daily, surrounded by garbage, feces, rats, and decomposing clutter, please do not come "clean up my area" with dignity....get me into treatment and save my life.

[@jeanseymour1171]

Just move them away from my neighborhood!

[@sawmanchris]

my cousin,who is a plumber a hard worker and a good man,was attacked and put in the hospital from Antifa last weekend..all he was doing was working...we blame you,and when I say we I mean a ton of construction workers...you know what happens when a bunch of fascist little limp wristed antifa go against a bunch of pizzed off construction workers?...oh and BTW,cops were right there watching...its all on film and will be used in the lawsuit

[@ascensionunlimited4182]

Despite the other comments on this video, myself and many others find that this is the kind of compassionate real world approach that will actually fix our societal ails. It may not be much more than a band aid atm, but this is an extremely ethical solution to the homeless crisis that many other communities should look towards

[@lsmith1237]

it's been 2 years and things are no damn better. Homeless continue to rule neighborhoods, parks, downtown, etc. They have driven good residents and many businesses out. The majority of homeless are drug addicts and mentally ill people, who wreck havoc wherever they go. Enabling them is NOT ethical. Allowing them to take over the city is NOT ethical. Trampling all over the rights of housed residents is NOT ethical. The whole situation is sickening.