City of Portland, ODOT run out of funds to clear homeless camps along roadways
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2023
- Citing the danger to campers, crews hired by the City of Portland have been clearing homeless camps along roads and by interstate ramps on Oregon Department of Transportation property. But that effort is now on hold after the city used all of its allotted funding.
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What about all the money that went into purchasing tents and sleeping bags? I’m sure they marked up those prices and bought them through a friends business.
Sure... Graft. Gotta make money off the homeless somehow. Sounds like the mob in NYC with the concrete companies.
💯
Non profits at their finest
John Kitzhaber's girlfriend made money off the "climate emergency".
The fact that agencies just pass the buck back and forth instead of working hand in hand is disgraceful. Bums run the show here. Screw the taxpayers.
It’s not the bums, it’s their advocates. They skim all that money and very little actually gets to where the water meets the wheel.
How can the lawmakers not be absolutely embarrassed by their pathetic and incompetent attempts to remedy this situation.
Your missing the message from your officials. They are in fact proud of the job thay have done. They see this as a progressive ideology and this is the rsults. Portland has now entered the Home Building Business. Look it up. I ask what could go wrong?
The checks cleared.
BUT PAY YOUR TAX
29 years old and homeless for 2 years? He's not even trying
No kidding. You can't go anywhere these days without seeing a WE ARE HIRING sign. These bums would rather sit around and party all night.
I believe he's too busy getting high all the time.
He wants his drugs and alcohol
Lived in Beaverton lived in Oregon for 1975 up until a couple of years ago Oregon has turned into a gigantic septic tank I'll never move back ever and I'm moving somewhere where we have right still that is Idaho I tell everyone who lives there that we really want a good life get out
Yup. I got out in 2019 which turns out was just in time. I go up every now and then to visit friends and just cannot believe how bad it is, but moreover, how everyone seems to just conduct business as usual. It's like nothing is wrong and this is the new zombie land. Gotta love how that one city keeps voting for it and how this ONE city controls who gets elected Governor. Just not right for the state when the majority want change.
It's appropriate naming the Homeless Camps "CLINTON'S TRIANGLE" since they're responsible for sending American jobs overseas with NAFTA. ❤️🙏
Businesses sent American jobs overseas for a sliver more profit. It’s really that simple.
Why the mayor doesn't pass a law to make camping illegal??? I remember when panhandling was illegal. What happened??? Democratic voting is what caused this
Because homeless are prioritized over tax payers and public safety its clear
Portland already established multiple illegal camping laws, but it was accepted and encouraged from 2014-2021. It is always better to learn from the mistakes of others, rather than face consequences of poor decisions.
So what would republicans do? Probably nothing.
Yeah, we should totally be even more fascist...
My father actually grew up under nazi rule ....you know nothing of what you speak....
Make the people who are provided these tents work a day cleaning up homeless camps.
If we gave these camps trash service that wouldnt be necessary
Speaking from experience.... jail time helps people get sober
True... Met lots that kicked on the cement next to the drain in a holding cell.
Yes! make unsanctioned camping illegal and lock anyone up who is doing it!
What a shock? Wonder where all the taxpayer money went? Notice the language, “dangerous for the campers”
We love Blair, please make sure you have a good security team to assure her safety on these investigations. This is real journalism, just a fantastic job to the whole team!
Man, imagine electing people to look after you and they turn your city into a trash tip
5 gallons deisel, pump sprayer, road flare....how expensive can it be?
In 1965 there was a great influx of draftees into the US Army. At Fort Gordon Georgia the army put up wall tents with wooden floors, lockers, and bunk beds. Maybe our current government could hold back on a few billion bucks from going to other nations and invest in wall tents.
I have already watched the results of a Fetanyl addicted homeless person walk out in front of a semi-tractor trailer here. They never looked up but rather continued the zombie shuffle. The visual display endstate was highly unpleasant, and traffic accident effect far reaching. The reason vagrants are living along the interstate is they are fearful of living downtown, not exclusive to forced relocation.
Tolerance laid the path to the present as well as the future.
People who are completely sober can and have walked right out into traffic.
I once saw this dude crossing the street get hit by the car in front of me. Dude kept walking! It was crazy.
He wandered out into traffic at night so the car didn't see him. The car hit him, he stumbled but never went down and then he walked it off. He was definitely high.
The car in front of me stopped. I was stopped behind that car. And I was wondering "Should we call the cops to report an accident or call an ambulance?"
Me and the other car just stood there for a bit wondering what to do. But dude just kept walking. I suspected he was on wet.
Eventually the car in front of me decided "fuck it" and drove away. I went back to driving too. Is it really a hit and run if the dude keeps walking? He definitely felt it after the wet wore off.
Great coverage.
If a homeless person commits a serious crime, put them in jail for it, give them rehabilitation, do not release them until there is mandatory housing & treatment available for them.
Gosh the city is so mismanaged.
Go run for city council then. or complain to your state rep/city reps.
They have no idea what to do
and yet those in charge keep getting re-elected. Sounds like the population of Portland is nuts.
The problem of homelessness will not go away until the homeless become productive. Not with free housing but with housing that is included with public work. Back in 1933 the civilian conservation corp helped people face economic hardship.
Very true.
Accountability is required to be accepted before change can performed.
This has been proven time and time again that it doesnt work.
What has bee proven is to put them into housing first, then give then all the programs they need to get back to being a productive member of society.
It's obvious you have never bee homeless and dont understand the extreme stress it does, which makes it near impossible to actually be productive.
But you just repeat talking points put out by the very people who benefit off of homeless people.
@@skyisreallyhigh3333 I was homeless for over a year. Being productive and working side jobs kept me going during that time 2009 to 2011. And history speaks for it's self.
So is everyone a carbon copy of you?
Are you really going to pull the "there's an exception to the rule so there is no rule" argument? If so that just shows your massive ignorance on psychology.
In everything besides hard science, there is always an exception to the rule, and that's just how life works.
So, you really wanna pit your anecdotal evidence against all the evidence gathered by the psychology community that shows that its NEAR impossible to function while in survival mode?
Do you really want to argue that your time being homeless wouldn't have been made easier if they just gave you some housing to use while you got back on your feet?
This is really sad
Sounds like the 29 year old they interviewed has no plans to get a job, get clean and make a life for himself..why should he when he knows that there are people who will provide for all their needs.
It’s easier said than done
@@cameronb3834
Nobody ever said getting your shit together was easy.
@@cameronb3834 Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh
@@cameronb3834 everything is easier said than done. Difficult is different from impossible.
@@mrbombastic2485 It's impossible if you have anything on a background check and the corporate landlords won't rent to you. It's almost like getting rid of all the mom and pop landlords made housing more expensive and harder to qualify for.
These law breakers are SUPPOSE to be in jail. City keeps not upholding the law AND WONDER what to do. Arrest all and you will see how fast everything gets great. This was the way it was always done
Debs husband says it looks like the summer of love is in full swing!
Sorry, dude. You don't just get to build piles of trash wherever you want.
Then you should be arguing for the city to give them trash services.
Where else are they supposed to put it?
Not one word about just how corrupt Portland has become. FOLLOW THE MONEY!
Straight to california and new york.
Let's look at the salaries of the people in charge of this issue.
When I was homeless I swear every single homeless Portland person I met were addicted to smoking meth, I'm serious every single one
Yeah, you're just a lying sack of shit.
@Soma Persona So you're a fascist.
@Soma Persona I'm not a liberal, but I clearly triggered you're retarded ass. I find this comical how easily you morons get triggered.
Go be a snowflake in your safe space already and stop crying on the internet.
@Soma Persona Yeah, you're super triggered. Do you need a safe space for your snowflake ass?
Facts dont care about your feelings.
@Soma Persona You're a triggered little fascist. Only person raging is you because of how much of a baby you are.
People who wanna throw homeless people in prison instead of helping them are literally fascists.
And its comical because I have you so triggered.
Keep rageing you triggered snowflake baby
Make the sale of tarps restricted to residents with proof of OR residency.
Healthy 29 yr old male made completely helpless by his victim mentality. I have NO sympathy for him. He wants other people to work so the city can provide him with shelter and food enabling him to get high 24/7.
Some of the tent areas look clean and away from on ramps ,homes. Why not sweap the trouble ones and allow the others to stay for now. We do have a housing and inflation crisis. The housing crisis has been going on for years. The fact the system income line is so low that making a dollar or two above minimum an hour can make you lose your housing and turn over brings in more money than having stable renters. The system of how housing is done needs to change. Increase the amount of vouches,do audits etc. The wait list is 2 to 6 years.
He is safe and comfortable, listen to what he says, not I need a safe place to move into, he WANT's to be homeless.
I hate to judge people but I see a lot of homeless young able bodied men, who could work a job, demanding the government come and give them a bail out. That just seems ridiculous to me. Meet the government half way.....get a job.
If you want to know where the money went look in the pockets of your politicians ...
Oh good, Ted Wheeler and the governor talked about this issue. 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
How much of that 2 million dollars was spent on salaries of high level people and what were their salaries?
Prosecute crimes and make clean up part of community service.
Do you think those bicycles were bought or do you think they were stolen? I’m thinking stolen.
2 Million flushed away and the camps are still there. Sweep and the campers return. Sweep and the campers return. Over and over again. Get these people the support they need and get them into housing. Stop spending millions on Sweeps when the millions should be spent on housing.
Half these people would destroy free housing
@@U.s-epa so spend millions and millions sweeping, makes perfect sense.
@@martinrebhahn9665 I never said sweeps are good 🤷♂️
@@U.s-epa No, a tiny fraction of the homeless population would destroy housing, and why does that mean they dont need housing? If they are destroying housing they get they clearly have a mental illness. Why does that mean to you that they dont deserve housing? Tell me, do you think someone can heal from that while living on the streets? The answer is no, homelessness causes mental illness and makes existing ones even worse.
And people will need to clean up and repair these destroyed homes, which means jobs.
So next time, dont complain about a tiny fraction of the housing getting damaged because that's just you arguing that they belong on the streets.
Why the cruelty?
@@skyisreallyhigh3333 because I don't feel like helping 🤷♂️ it's not my problem and not my responsibility to pay for.
All that money every year would build a space and the recourses homeless could better be served.
Put them to work cleaning up camps
2 million is not enough?
I'm sure there's a lot of fed up people willing to help clear the camps...for free!
I see they started pulling over a lot more trucks??? Now I know why.
I’m a truck driver trying to make an honest living. They shouldn’t be pulling us over looking for violations to pay for the homeless. I would drive around the state of Oregon if I could
Nice business model!
It's a Sanctuary City where do you get off trying to run them out?!?
Portland is a sanctuary for beggars and those that believe that freedom is free. Taxpayers and the hard working already departed for new locations. Entitlement is a societal corruption. The situation is accelerating as the entire State of Oregon descends into anarchy. Watching bemused from across the Columbia River.
sanctuary city
noun
(in North America) a city whose municipal laws tend to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation or prosecution, despite federal immigration law.
@@lizjmom so in other words the illegals have more rights than the American citizens.
And by the way thank you for sharing!
If you cut off their drugs supply, they'd F..OFF somewhere else.
What a dump..... Check the politician pockets!!!!!!
Send all the homeless to the mayor's house
Maybe this is a blessing in disguise in some odd way. The sweeps are a waist of money anyhow.
Hahahaha! Welcome to Portland. Hey, keep Portland weird, right? It's working.
I hear they have a ton of strip clubs there.
This is nonsense, where are all the tax dollars from Marijuana going? where are the treatment programs, and addiction centers it was supposed to provide? where is the first 45 million dollars of tax revenue a year going? Oregonians demand receipts for what the government is spending our tax money on.
House the houseless.
EARTH MOTHER WILL SHAKE IT OFF
How dysfunctional that two or more government agencies only communicate with each other through a media station😂😂😂😂 go Ducks go Oregon go Portland😂😂😂😂
I actually want to move to Portland lol …how are the non homeless residents doin these days?
Perfect. Please buy my home. Can’t wait to get the hell out.
@@girthybrowns4489 so there isn’t any joy of living near national forests and all that natural beauty? I definitely see how downtown is a hellscape, but I was under the impression that plenty of cool, normal people live just 20-30 min outside the city itself in surrounding areas.
Oh, there is. I love Oregon. But I’d avoid the city proper. I’m in SE myself and it’s Mad Max territory out here (except for some pleasant inner SE pockets - which are unaffordable - at least in my case.) I’d check out the outskirts, like Gladstone, Hillsboro, Sherwood / Newberg, Happy Valley, or Oregon city areas for example. In my opinion it’s better to have the option to visit, but not to have to stay ;)
Or consider Salem / Eugene, as mentioned also
Why don’t these people get a job?
homeless industrial complex
Prison yard society! The leaders new economy!
Easy solution, set up minum security prisons and work farms. Beihnind locked up will give time for these people to dry out. Another solution is ship them to Detroit lots of empty houses there
What about all the money from taxing weed? This city is run by criminals.
State of Oregon partially used cannabis taxes to buy tents for the homeless for nearly eight years. Another good decision?
Great now there will be cardboard houses littered everywhere on the freeway.
Shantytown, Oregon
Then why arent you advocating for them to be put directly in housing.
Nothing is government funded... it's all taxpayer funded.....I don't owe you a home....they should be forced into camps
@@JJUnohu So you want to be a nazi?
Because what you want is what the nazis did. That didnt end well. Do you realize how much of your tax money would be spent to handle these concentration camps? It's not cheap.
It's cheaper to put them in housing, but you want cruelty.
Legalize all drugs don't be surprised of cities demise
Exactly. Instead of heavy deterrents like lifetime jail for distribution etc... they legalize it. Not realizing that once on meth they generally can't work anymore. Hard to be production doing that drug. So those that feel entitled, don't want to work and be productive will go to cities like Portland, oakland, and SF. That way they can stay on the streets and smoke crack. That' really their only need in life. Sad.
Yes,,, get the tax payers to pay $30,,, $70 or $100 million a year too solve the homeless camps...
Its nothing but money that keeps the system going and pretty soon the tax payers will be homeless too...
That way they can live on the streets too...
Good times for sure
🤣 Well Done Sleep Joe Biden, Yeah Sleep more.
Good excuses lmao
200 million empty in less than 2 months.
Elections have consequences and Democrats are weak on crime so enjoy what you voted for Portland.
All this money to remove homeless when it could of been spent on providing shelters for them instead. People might argue that they rather not go to a shelter because of all the rules and regulations they have to follow to stay there. But maybe make a less strict shelter so they actually feel comfortable there. idk just some guys opinion on the situation.
Some dont want a shelter bed
Research will reveal the State of Oregon has spent millions of dollars of tax oncome issuing tents from starting 2014 until 2023. How has this worked out? Shelter is not the solution. Over 80% want "their freedom" lawful or unlawful. A person has no precedence for accountability. The US Constitution does not include a right for free housing. Alternatively, poor houses require work.
Can't do fentanyl in section 8 housing
Or instead of shelters, actual housing.
@@nicholasthompson7690 Would you want a shelter bed knowing that you only get it for one night with zero guarantee for a bed the next night, and you also have to throw away the majority of your stuff.
Ignorant people like you that have no idea how shelters work should probably stop speaking about them.
Don't ostracize them or film them like freaks. Maybe find some of them work or hire them to be KGW reporters. We have camps here, many people seem to stay 4 or 5 months. Sometimes the city puts up eviction notices on vehicles and they leave or RV's sometimes burn down.
They are predominantly strung out drug addicts suffering some degree of psychosis. They aren't reliable enough to hold gainful employment due to their crippling drug addictions. The camps they live in are cesspools and prime breeding grounds for communicable diseases that haven't been prevalent since NYC tenements of the 1800s.
Like the gentleman who is building a house under a bridge in Seattle who is clearly someone who could be a laborer? Well drug testing.
Really?
Tolerance is the first stepping stone towards acceptance.
😂 Hire them as KGW reporters? WTF lol You can’t be serious
Should have just used that money to put them directly into housing.
But cruelty is the point.
That won't work. They will just trash the housing. And generally they are not allowed to do meth when living in gov housing. That's why the projects failed miserably. They ended up condemning and tearing them down. Your idea has been tested and failed every single time. Rehab won't work either because relapse on meth is insanely high. The only answer and its not easy is to seal the border and stop distribution. Take people caught with distribution and lock them away for 10 years. Sounds cold huh? But it would work. I guarantee it. You literally have to eliminate access to meth. Other drugs don't seem to decline humans as fast as meth. Take that single drug off the market and you would see meaningful change
@@HiPlains1 Except it has worked in other countries.
What you say isnt based in any reality, just a delusional one that demonizes the weak.
Humans have been housing those who need housing since we first developed housing. Not housing people who need it is an entirely modern concept. We live in a truly barbaric world, and you seem to add to that barbarism.
Ever seen an ODOT "worker" actually working?!?
Me neither.. perhaps they need to find REAL JOBS?!?!?