This is the face of "harm reduction" and drug and street camping enablement. Old Town has been consumed by the negative side effects of the operations of various "services" organizations. If the city wants to revitalize its economy, it's gonna need to come up with a different plan, because the sprawling open air insane asylum approach isn't really working all that well.
Watching the director of the garden cry during the interview was heartbreaking. The garden is a beautiful and educational sanctuary in what was only a few years ago a safe urban area, but it is no longer safe, and it is reprehensible that the staff and garden cannot feel and be protected. I live a few blocks away and navigate through downtown mainly on foot, amidst the appalling refuse on the sidewalks and mentally ill or substance addicted people living in tents, and realize the politicians who make the decisions with my and everyone's tax money essentially DO NOT CARE to make effective changes to resolve the blight that has destroyed a lot of areas and businesses.
Did a bit of math. So there are 55,000 fewer visitors. The admission price is a nominal $16, and if a visitor spends $10 in the shop that's $26 total. $26 x 55,000 - that's a 1.43 million dollar loss of income per year. And I'm guessing that many other museums, shops, restaurants, and hotels are also seeing big declines in visitors. This downward spiral is really painful - and so many beautiful things, once gone, will be lost forever.
I love the Chinese garden so much, it's so amazing to go there and see how it looks bigger on the inside. Not only that, but absolutely beautiful. I hope the people in charge take an interest in helping things improve downtown. My family is too afraid to go there anymore. We miss it.
Someone please explain to us the law abiding citizens why we are forced to pay taxes? How are elected leader's allowed to refuse to do their job and still have a job?
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For those attacking Portland City government, it's not them, it's Multnomah County, where Portland is located. Portland City government is far from perfect, but they enacted a camping ban that went into effect July 1, 2024. You are given a choice between accepting services and housing, or going to jail. The very first person arrested after the ban went into effect was taken to the county jail which is run by the Multnomah County Sheriff's office. That person was cited and released under the directive of Multnomah County Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O'Donnell who stated that, "I believe we need to utilize the corrections system as a place for people who pose a genuine danger to the public, and that does not include individuals whose only offense is living unsheltered..." In other words, she refused to book the arrested individual. She made it clear that any person arrested under the new city ordinance would not be booked into jail. How do you think that will affect the priorities of the Portland Police with regard to enforcing the new camping ban?
I am appalled at the city's response that their hands are tied. They have been using that same old tired phrase for over 10 years now. This new city government will take at least a year, possibly longer, for anyone in Portland to see any change. These will be representatives vying for attention and funding from every corner of the city. We need to stop catering to the unhoused and start considering the working class, taxpaying public. I would think the homeless advocates and nonprofits have made enough off this human crisis. Time to put an end to it and clean up the city, either by giving them tickets back home or giving them some time in jail. For the people that are actually homeless get them off the street. If there are actually any working class people living in cars, RV's or tents that are drug free they should be the first people to get into housing or apartments. For the others that are mentally ill, drug addicted or criminals get them the help they need. That first has to be accomplished by having a DA and Sheriff's Department that are serious about cleaning up the city. So far I haven't seen that from either one.
It's all about the money. So many problems, and they are all so expensive. We are witnessing the results of late stage capitalism, and soon it will be like this everywhere, not just in Portland. More and more homelessness and drug addiction, more and more people living in cars, more renters and fewer homeowners, and a shrinking middle class, while billionaires buy up all of the hospitals, mobile home parks, single family homes, veterinary clinics, funeral homes, etc.
@@gregoryhagen8801 we will be getting a new DA in January. Getting rid of the Sheriff is another matter to deal with. However, recalls are very difficult to accomplish in Oregon.
@@gregoryhagen8801 catch-up, the DA is already scheduled to be replaced JanuARy 1st. The Sheriff's patrol areas are mostly fine, more of the problem is City Hall and direction with clarity to the police.
You elected these leaders. Not much more needs said. I hope some people have gained some perspective, as their safety has disappeared along with everything else here that was once beautiful.
So crime isn't down? Only one ideology and party to blame for the decay, crime, violence, and chaos we live with here. No one else to blame. Except for the voters that keep voting for it. Want change? Think and vote different.
It must be so nice to feed your own delusions. There are plenty of crime ridden places in traditionally red controlled areas. The GOP and people like you just ignore them because you cant handle the truth. Go to mississippi and see how decades of GOP control has done to this state.
Growing up my family passed through Portland on the way back to Louisiana. I thought what a beautiful city and state, now I have to go back to a sh$$ hole. Now, 40 years later, I can honestly say, Louisiana is beautiful and Portland is a sh$$ hole😮
Wrong. The homelessness problem began in the 1980s when REPUBLICANS under President Regan started cutting back on public housing for people who could not afford a place to live. The issue has snowballed since then. The economy is better now than four years ago but there still is not enough affordable/publichousing for all the people stuck in the cycle of homelessness.
@@Rosarium2007 still making excuses for Democrats? We have a homeless problem because eastern states have been shipping them in from the 60 ! Or war mongers like bush or Obama spending our money defending Europeans! Many reasons but you chose Reagan who only made people be responsible for themselves AND NOT TAXPAYERS! You insane ignorance and blame shows your 1 dimensional brain not working ? Fix it or do not contact me !
@@Rosarium2007 I don't remember bums being such dicks when I was young. I believe it really started when all of you left leaning Multnomah county folks voted to legalize hard drugs.
@@arcana_mysteryyou must be smoking some of that high grade fentanyl. Our current city leaders are a goddamn joke. Life wasn’t great before or after him. Look what has become of every major city like Portland, Seattle, Oakland, San Francisco and New York. They’ve been turned upside down since Biden took office. Go live in a third world country if you that’s the kind of environment and economy you want to live in where there’s homeless everywhere, rampant crime everywhere, drug use everywhere! You goddamn leftists simply don’t care what our country has come to. You think it’s completely fine how it currently is and that is mind boggling.
I have been a Loyal Democrat my entire life, but The Wheeler Administration is a total embarrassment in this situation. Portland's leaders must decide who they are going to serve in Portland: It's either the taxpayers of Portland or the no loads and scumbags and thugs who are destroying this once beautiful city
This is the face of "harm reduction" and drug and street camping enablement. Old Town has been consumed by the negative side effects of the operations of various "services" organizations. If the city wants to revitalize its economy, it's gonna need to come up with a different plan, because the sprawling open air insane asylum approach isn't really working all that well.
Watching the director of the garden cry during the interview was heartbreaking. The garden is a beautiful and educational sanctuary in what was only a few years ago a safe urban area, but it is no longer safe, and it is reprehensible that the staff and garden cannot feel and be protected. I live a few blocks away and navigate through downtown mainly on foot, amidst the appalling refuse on the sidewalks and mentally ill or substance addicted people living in tents, and realize the politicians who make the decisions with my and everyone's tax money essentially DO NOT CARE to make effective changes to resolve the blight that has destroyed a lot of areas and businesses.
@@Charles-d4e3b That’s why friends don’t let friends vote Democrat. We told you so. I’m so glad I visited Portland before it became a mess.
She voted for it. She admitted it, it's her own fault too.
Did a bit of math. So there are 55,000 fewer visitors. The admission price is a nominal $16, and if a visitor spends $10 in the shop that's $26 total. $26 x 55,000 - that's a 1.43 million dollar loss of income per year. And I'm guessing that many other museums, shops, restaurants, and hotels are also seeing big declines in visitors. This downward spiral is really painful - and so many beautiful things, once gone, will be lost forever.
I love the Chinese garden so much, it's so amazing to go there and see how it looks bigger on the inside. Not only that, but absolutely beautiful. I hope the people in charge take an interest in helping things improve downtown. My family is too afraid to go there anymore. We miss it.
Someone please explain to us the law abiding citizens why we are forced to pay taxes? How are elected leader's allowed to refuse to do their job and still have a job?
Because you allow it.
@@jamwest3146 Have never voted for any of the idiots currently running my city into the ground?
We can stop at any time, people just act like they can't I think it comes down to most folks want to be ruled.
Clean up our neighborhoods too ! It’s not just downtown businesses and nonprofits.
Elect a different type of leader.
You can vote Kamala Harris unveils economic plan, proposes federal ban on grocery price “gaging.”
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For those attacking Portland City government, it's not them, it's Multnomah County, where Portland is located. Portland City government is far from perfect, but they enacted a camping ban that went into effect July 1, 2024. You are given a choice between accepting services and housing, or going to jail. The very first person arrested after the ban went into effect was taken to the county jail which is run by the Multnomah County Sheriff's office. That person was cited and released under the directive of Multnomah County Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O'Donnell who stated that, "I believe we need to utilize the corrections system as a place for people who pose a genuine danger to the public, and that does not include individuals whose only offense is living unsheltered..." In other words, she refused to book the arrested individual. She made it clear that any person arrested under the new city ordinance would not be booked into jail. How do you think that will affect the priorities of the Portland Police with regard to enforcing the new camping ban?
They never should have called it camping and call it what it is FILTHY SQUATTING.
I am appalled at the city's response that their hands are tied. They have been using that same old tired phrase for over 10 years now. This new city government will take at least a year, possibly longer, for anyone in Portland to see any change. These will be representatives vying for attention and funding from every corner of the city. We need to stop catering to the unhoused and start considering the working class, taxpaying public. I would think the homeless advocates and nonprofits have made enough off this human crisis. Time to put an end to it and clean up the city, either by giving them tickets back home or giving them some time in jail. For the people that are actually homeless get them off the street. If there are actually any working class people living in cars, RV's or tents that are drug free they should be the first people to get into housing or apartments. For the others that are mentally ill, drug addicted or criminals get them the help they need. That first has to be accomplished by having a DA and Sheriff's Department that are serious about cleaning up the city. So far I haven't seen that from either one.
@@LNLA Thank you, great minds think alike! Our city leader's could use a dose of common sense?
It's all about the money. So many problems, and they are all so expensive. We are witnessing the results of late stage capitalism, and soon it will be like this everywhere, not just in Portland. More and more homelessness and drug addiction, more and more people living in cars, more renters and fewer homeowners, and a shrinking middle class, while billionaires buy up all of the hospitals, mobile home parks, single family homes, veterinary clinics, funeral homes, etc.
The sheriff takes her Que's from the D.A. he needs to be recalled, as Doe's the sheriff, for NOT upholding the law.
@@gregoryhagen8801 we will be getting a new DA in January. Getting rid of the Sheriff is another matter to deal with. However, recalls are very difficult to accomplish in Oregon.
@@gregoryhagen8801 catch-up, the DA is already scheduled to be replaced JanuARy 1st. The Sheriff's patrol areas are mostly fine, more of the problem is City Hall and direction with clarity to the police.
There's a reason why i never go to lan su the area sucks and is full of crazies
@@ziffy88 shame about those zombies
You elected these leaders. Not much more needs said. I hope some people have gained some perspective, as their safety has disappeared along with everything else here that was once beautiful.
So crime isn't down? Only one ideology and party to blame for the decay, crime, violence, and chaos we live with here. No one else to blame. Except for the voters that keep voting for it. Want change? Think and vote different.
It must be so nice to feed your own delusions. There are plenty of crime ridden places in traditionally red controlled areas. The GOP and people like you just ignore them because you cant handle the truth. Go to mississippi and see how decades of GOP control has done to this state.
Hands are tied ? You people need to address the elected this very day as one voice
Should have not elected Tina kotek. She hasn’t helped Portland at all. Her and Ted’s camping ban is a joke! She’s just made it worse.
You know WHY she was elected in the first place. This is what happens when you vote for someone just because of their "sexual identity"
Welcome to Oregon!!
No kidding. Again, that Wheeler guy has got to go. Apparently, he's wallowing in his own rhetoric. He doesn't know what he is doing.
The drop in visitors is highly disappointing.
Our city leaders should care but they don't or can't for ideological reasons
Oooo 😄 we should make illegal drugs legal. Ya let’s do THAT!!! 😑😑😑
Welcome to Portland. These leaders don't care
Growing up my family passed through Portland on the way back to Louisiana. I thought what a beautiful city and state, now I have to go back to a sh$$ hole. Now, 40 years later, I can honestly say, Louisiana is beautiful and Portland is a sh$$ hole😮
Hope criminals don’t know about bolt cutters.
Thanks antifa and leftists
A beautiful place. To be fair, this is close to chinatown Portland which has never been a great place to visit.
Never been to the garden but will definitely go soon. While it's still there.
Cameras?
It's hurting tourism, and it's the reason we can't have nice things.
50000 fewer visitors
My guess is that she voted for the current government. Keep voting democrat and this is what you get.
So why does the south have massive poverty, crime, and drugs? Those Republicans just dont care either. 😂
Sad, 😥
google maps has a story, NW Flanders street, May 2024, addiction a vicious, and cruel enemy. 😥
We need to bring back the wild west.
While you may feel sorry for this lady, realize she voted for this and will continue voting the same way forever.
😢
You don't cry about it, you get it done.
Very sad.but remember,elections have consequences.
Vote democrats.
Liberal drug policies have been a disaster, and soft of crime failed also.
BIDENOMICS 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wrong. The homelessness problem began in the 1980s when REPUBLICANS under President Regan started cutting back on public housing for people who could not afford a place to live. The issue has snowballed since then. The economy is better now than four years ago but there still is not enough affordable/publichousing for all the people stuck in the cycle of homelessness.
@@Rosarium2007 i stopped listening when you said the ECONOMY is better now than 4 years ago !
Go away !
@@smckay6438dum dum dum, you dum.
@@Rosarium2007 still making excuses for Democrats?
We have a homeless problem because eastern states have been shipping them in from the 60 !
Or war mongers like bush or Obama spending our money defending Europeans! Many reasons but you chose Reagan who only made people be responsible for themselves AND NOT TAXPAYERS!
You insane ignorance and blame shows your 1 dimensional brain not working ?
Fix it or do not contact me !
@@Rosarium2007 I don't remember bums being such dicks when I was young. I believe it really started when all of you left leaning Multnomah county folks voted to legalize hard drugs.
see what happens kids when you vote democrat
Trump 2024
@@arcana_mystery Sounds like you have zero idea who your mayor, city council, or governor is? I'm guessing you get all your information from MSNBC..
@@arcana_mystery Go learn what city leaders are charge of Portland, unfortunately, Trump is not one of them.
Trump got flack for calling Portland a "destroyed city" but he is correct.
@@arcana_mysteryyou must be smoking some of that high grade fentanyl. Our current city leaders are a goddamn joke. Life wasn’t great before or after him. Look what has become of every major city like Portland, Seattle, Oakland, San Francisco and New York. They’ve been turned upside down since Biden took office. Go live in a third world country if you that’s the kind of environment and economy you want to live in where there’s homeless everywhere, rampant crime everywhere, drug use everywhere! You goddamn leftists simply don’t care what our country has come to. You think it’s completely fine how it currently is and that is mind boggling.
Vote Liberal lol
I have zero confidence in this administration! Shame on them!
I have been a Loyal Democrat my entire life, but The Wheeler Administration is a total embarrassment in this situation.
Portland's leaders must decide who they are going to serve in Portland: It's either the taxpayers of Portland or the no loads and scumbags and thugs who are destroying this once beautiful city
And I thought Charlie Hales was a pathetic disaster. Wheeler is worse.
It doesn't have to be one way or the other. These cities need balance again. One party rule leads to this. 🤷♀️❤️🤍💙