One of Portland's oldest homeless encampments was broken down, many left wondering where to go next
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2023
- Portland tried to offer limited shelter to unhoused people and only a handful accepted. Nonprofits and organizers say city shelters have too many barriers.
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It’s time that mental asylums are instituted!
100 percent agree
They were dismantled under Reagan that is why the streets are filled with them now.
Should have never closed em just remodeled like they remodel hospitals, it's in a different budget I was told
Portland is such a mess. It’s so sad.
The interview said it all! They would rather be in a position to feed and continue their addiction rather than "just try" to get clean with a bed, roof over your head and regular meals. Our society is rotting from the inside!
And a growing epidemic.
getting kicked out of a trash dump.
The shithead liberals running Portland are ruining the area just like they have destroyed San Francisco for decades. There is nothing to be proud of when the city government permits the city to deteriorate to the point that there are hypodermic syringes strewn about the city and human feces on people's lawns. There is simply not enough purple and green hair dye, or tattoo ink, or nipple piercings, to solve these societal problems. Sorry, liberals. You have to use your liberal arts education to actually do something about the problem instead of talking about it month after month.
You can't help ones that won't help themselves
To say NO to shelter is CRAZY
a lot of them are
I worked in health care for decades. Treating people with the illnesses of substance abuse and mental illness is incredibly expensive and that's why no one wants to put in the time and money to spend on the homeless. Society views them as disposable and expendable.
You're not getting kicked out of your tent, pack it up and leave.
Every city is fine with camping, just not the trash that these people bring with them. Patrol camp sites, pick up trash, keep things clean. If you can't fit it into your tent, you don't get to have it.
Put the trash where
They don't have right to trash disposal, nor are there trash facilities provided to them.
A shelter bed is just temporary shelter for one night. It provides no place to be during the 12 hrs of the day from 7am 7 pm.
Its more than trash. They hoard junk and leave it behind when they move. Its not living its just existence.
@@steveshea7725shelters are full everyday
True. They tend to hoard junk.
Just make street camping illegal. the mayor freaking said they could camp in public parks...what happened? The Springwater trail was detsroyed, every park became unsafe, the homeless population tripled in the five years following. People flocke dto homeless to be "free" on the streets and do meth. Get tough on vagrancy and drugs and make it unattractive for them to be here...they'll leave.
Growing up in Maine in the 60's and 70's you would not see this ever!!! If someone was on hard times or unwell the neighbors pitched in. I lived in Ogunquit. It's the drugs and the outrageous apartment prices. I was actually thinking of moving home but I will stay in California since the same thing is going on there.
The goodwill of the past is gone. The rich are rich and give nothing. The middle class and poor are poor not making it with what they have.
3 Choices:
1. Go to shelter/rehab. (Please tell me there’s psychological help there, not just a bed. The people need classes to rebuild themselves, learning a trade, life guidance/spiritual advisor of their choice…)
2. Go to jail
3. Or Go Home ~ Bus ticket back to their last known address. Or back to parents/Stamped Return To Sender.
It's heartbreaking that people are living this way. Some could make changes to live differently if they wish, some cannot. The latter are the folks who truly need help. My heart goes out to them. God bless those who are trying!
Jail or institutions
Street encampments are open air fentanyl markets destroying our neighborhoods.
I thought this good news was coming from Portland Oregon!! But this is far east Maine!!😢😢homeless everywhere
@@sjnmhn Its everywhere because our leaders no longer
arrest vagrants or drug addicts
they no longer lock up the insane
and no longer enforce immigration
We face mobs in the streets and vigilantes and CW unless leaders act
@sjnmhn
Sadly its what happens when 60 percent of factories are shut down, sent abroad and then awaiting products from a container ship. Good ile 42nd for that NAFTA agreement
We definitely need more asylum seekers.
Strong sarcasm aye
Joe Biden and the clowns in the White House will ensure they are well taken care of. And we all will foot the bill.
These people will be just as homeless somewhere else. Nothing is gained and nothing is fixed. Probably even worse for the evicted people.
good wake up call to get off the drugs
@@user-jr5mh9td8cI thought this good news was coming from Portland Oregon!! But this is far east Maine!!😢😢homeless everywhere
@@user-jr5mh9td8c take some personal responsibility, fight hard to stay off drugs, and pour myself into working.
They prefer drugs, criminality, and chaos. And the homeless advocates are making a living from it. Shameless fools.
They don't want to leave their lifestyle but their lifestyle is a menace to others.
Govt and people need to stop giving them funds
Our church helps with food and cloths. Lots of working families, kids. Just not enough for rent. Landlords gouge. Its not a government problem. Some are drug users. Most without a job don't want one.
Huh, No hotels for Americans, Shame !!!!!
Will you still vote liberal?
@@silentmajority8365 Never have, never will :) TRUMP 2024 !!!
That is because they were brought here for their votes !!!@@user-jr5mh9td8c
Street encampments are open air fentanyl markets destroying our neighborhoods.
@@user-jr5mh9td8cwe are being
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There needs to be a real solution.
The Shelters are not great.
Go undercover go see what it is to be homeless.
Go try for help & spend a few nights at a shelter.
Shelters were bad when I was homeless.
It looks like it is ten thousand times worse.
Than it was 40 years ago.
Help these people with real long-term solutions.
Not temporary housing at a shelter.
Drug addiction is not always the reason to turn down the shelter.
I knew a lady who got hurt trying to sleep at a shelter.
Some have mental health issues & cannot deal with the environment of the shelters.
This goes for the entire western seaboard, every State, city & town.
They come from the eastern states to escape winter, they all come west.
It happens, it happened during the Dust Bowl & the Free Love Years, and all the youth.
Now, it is everyone from old folks to young families, it is not getting better yet.
Affordable housing is needed now, more than ever real-world solutions. IMHO
Ok, the end of "offering". They do not have a choice or the capability to make these decisions - the compassionate thing is to move them into regulated encampments and provide services whether they like it our not. But no one has the balls to do it.
There are interviews with these people and they are offered jobs, and most say no, they can just sit around. Look it up. Don't feel bad for these people, it is a choice.
Every single one of them gets SSDI payments. You won't find a single drug zombie in these tent cities not collecting a SS disability direct deposit every month. NGOs have staff lawyers that do all the paperwork for them to get them on disability and these NGO lawyers get their cut too. They can afford low-income housing, they choose to use their SSDI on drugs rather than rent. Not a bit of sympathy.
Cold hearted 🤢
@@cindysandbeck2447 Truth hurts. Do some research.
About time they took it down
Too many people are dying from overdosing in those tints. 😢
Street encampments are open air fentanyl markets destroying our neighborhoods.
@@user-jr5mh9td8c 👀👁️
And it’s saving taxpayer dollars.
They’re offered places to go, but they don’t want to go because they can’t pursue their drug habit in shelters. It’s so odd that nobody wants to address the drug problem they just want to say unhoused. For most of these people in the beginning it was a choice to do drugs. I’ve worked with the doctors and have had several say that certain synthetic drugs in certain combination of drugs, cause permanent psychosis along with years of abuse will cause permanent psychosis. Until people stop, pretending this isn’t the issue the root cause nothing will change it will only get worse….
So what is your proposed solution.
You're fundamentally misunderstanding addiction if you think it was a choice.
What happens in winter?
How about the employment office
Get a fnJob
Street encampments are open air fentanyl markets destroying our neighborhoods.
@@user-jr5mh9td8c Grow up you are not born on the street
Drugs mental illness or laziness gets you there
This problem grew because people like you opposed arresting addicts or arresting vagrants
and stopped us from locking up the insane for life
All you are doing is making it easy to be useless
You probably had lots of practice
I grew up poor
SOGFY
I am. It's called tough love. There is help. These people don't want it.@@user-jr5mh9td8c
@@user-jr5mh9td8c Your empathy policies sure aren't working, are they.
Its a drug crisis not a homeless crisis
Exactly! 💯👍🏾
It’s a job and inflation crisis. Can’t have a home without a job and an affordable place to live.
Jail is where these people should go!
For what? You want to lock people up for being homeless? Just because a few do drugs you want to lock them all up. God damn, I hope your family knows to let you rot if your ever on hard times. They probably already hate you 😂
I don't understand why they do this to people. Not everyone who is homeless are on drugs. Some are really down on their luck. My husband and I lost everything after covid shut everything down... This is sad to me.. is it hurting anybody it's a basic human right to need a shelter and place to live and everybody can afford these higher prices at everybody's charging nowadays.
You love to blame everything on the government, but what have you done to help yourself?
@@sgtsims512 take care of myself without government aid. I was taught the only person you can depend on is yourself! That doesn't mean I want my tax dollars to go towards wars or paying to house and feed people who shouldn't be here. It would be nice to use our tax dollars on people who are America citizens!
@@sgtsims512 and it was the government who shut us down with covid.. I didn't chose to lose my job, home my whole life with no way to get back up. They shut the world down not me.
2:05 Backpack just big enough to pack his most needed possession, his sharps container.
I saw the same sharps container and thought what the h*ll... He's attached to a biohazard box???
In other cities, what has been most effective is *housing* people *first.* That is the most basic and crucial need. Once people have a roof over their heads the other issues can be addressed. It's backwards to tell people to deal with their addiction mental health issues when they're in survival mode. I know, my life began at age 15 when my sadistic father threw me out into the street. I didn't drink or use drugs, I was just getting big enough to fight him off. I was on my own at fifteen. I had never had a boyfriend, I was both innocent and naive.
People assume that everyone who is homeless is a pos and you get treated that way. Until we begin to see homeless folks as human beings, and treat them...not based on who or what they are, but as who *we* are; compassionate, knowledgeable, capable, understanding...the homeless population is a *reflection* of who we are. And we are failing. As a society, as human beings, as a nation. We look so lame and so ignorant in the eyes of the world.
I once had a conversation with a man from Cuba. He said "Americans talk bad about communism, but we don't let our people sleep in the dirt." There are many countries who make us look bad, as they care for their people. In the eyes of the world, we don't. We don't even do right by our veterans.
Also, it's painfully obvious that our *government* has flooded the streets with drugs and guns and are watching us destroy ourselves and each other. But because they're so good at playing us against each other, even as they betray us, we are ineffective and ignorant. TPTB are winning...we the people are losing...every day. 😔🌹
Agree! ❤️
Yea, well, they tried that too. As soon as people were in a little home community, the drug pushers showed up.
@@awesomesmasher999ftw4 They tried that where? In my research, every city where they housed first experienced success. Where did it not work?
@@awesomesmasher999ftw4 no response, because you made it up and cannot name your fictional city. Again I say, it's worked in every city they've implemented...have a nice day.
I have been to Cuba and the man told you a lie, I have seen people sleeping in the streets and in cars and near government buildings. So don't believe everything you hear. And if communism was so good? Why was he here, or did you go there?
Because, again. It's a drug problem NOT a housing problem. 🤦
and that was created, endorsed, and is wholly supported by 'liberalism'...
@@forgottenman8629 yes, ofc it is. The whole "my body my choice" movement. I know. 😔 Is sad.
Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results ♻️
When there were vagrancy laws and mental intituions we didn't have this problem. Just sayin.
Vagrancy laws didn’t stop the Great Depression because the business lobby and bankers imported too much cheap foreign labor. Same exact thing as today.
They should GO to the HOUSING the CITY has to offer them!
Another Millsville will by necessity spring up somewhere.
Unsheltered? Unhoused? How about "really special people who have no place to live through NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN?" Every one of these people are moving tents stolen from Portland stores, wagons that are $180 at Harbor freight and equipment stolen from stores. Or stolen from YOU!And Portland wonders why retail and working citizens are moving out.
My parents are refugees from the vietnam war and worked hard. They literally came from the jungle. I have no sympathy for the homeless.
Welllllllll, what can we say? You would rather live in squalor than get clean. You do have options.
Sweepers act like they're jerks!...... replace their tents meds and blankets !
Good coverage thanks
Seems the cities can find placement for the asylum seekers, the citizens, not so much. Maine is 98 percent woods, set up mini house developments for off-the-grid self-sufficiency living.
hotels, food, phones and money for "asylum seekers", fuck them American citizens though..
DNC runs everything Lets start there
Street encampments are open air fentanyl markets destroying our neighborhoods.
These people are not capable of being good people if you gave them shelter they would have it torched and looking like a dumb put them all in jail its cheaper than cleaning up after them
Don't trash our woods,,, send em to nyc or Philadelphia
The American solution to homelessness!
if they tried to keep it clean maybe this wouldn't happen. no one wants a trash dump by their home.
where can people go if there is no place to go. the fricking city is offering them a place to go but they refuse.
They should offer shelter with free treatments for addiction .
Where do they think that the illegal Migrants will wind up at ?
These losers just want to be able to get drugs to feed their addictions at any price. Moving to a shelter would mean they would have to kick their drug habits. They need to be forced into shelters, and given no choice in the matter.
"Only 18 people accepted their offer for shelter". Wow.
Go check into a shelter and see why
@@steveshea7725 I know it's not a great place, but at least they would be indoors, especially with the weather getting ready to turn cold.
Shelters are dangerous everywhere
@@notmebutyou8350its only for 12 hours. Most shelters are full
@@steveshea7725hmmm...so you are saying the homeless don't like shelters because of rules or due to other homeless people?
At 2:06 it looks like the guy is packing a sharps bin
I'm sure, percentage- wise, these kind- of - ppl aren't even 1 % of total - population.
As a street roots. Newspaper vendor is I give out resource letting them know where they can go
The dude with the microphone should open his home to the thousand out there.
Would it not be better to offer them a un used field or un used warehouse if they would rather live like this?
It's so much better than have them living on the streets/ in shop doorways as we do in the UK
Its liability. Homeless simply trash areas they live in, no respect. The owner would be left to clean it up or cited from the city.
The drug dealers aren’t in a field. They’re right on the street.
‘So commuters could use half the lot’. Ahahaha
@@rambojambone4586 that would be a great gig. Rent-a-homeless. Carpool buddy.
Won't leave their lifestyle? Is that what she said? Won't go to a shelter because of drugs? WTF?
Were all living pay check to pay check it can happen to anyone of us 🇺🇸 Be blessed everyone
Which portland or or maine
Why don't they hide in wooded areas or the mountain foothills instead of camping in cities.
No body could ever predict this.
Shelters are overcrowded and just plain suck for the most part. Don't know if I want that kind of "help". They need permanent housing not shelter
There are to many people that just want to be on the street, yet they want to say that it is the governments fault that they are in the position they are in. Only 18 to up the offer of staying somewhere.
Bus the homeless and migrants to DC.
Yeah, that’s an idea. Be careful what you want for somebody else.
They are going to go to the only place they can go. Right across the street.
We don't even allow dogs and cats to live on the street.
Obviously, those government officials have never stayed in Homeless Shelter. They are dangerous and fall short on helping people.
No sad feelings for these squatters when they do want shelter offered.
Everything is 😢with pooky loves loving the kids and your family loves you pooky you are the best warrior ever quit you are ahead
Where do you suppose the Sackler's are living right now and with how many billions in the bank?
Yeah you cant do drugs and get shelter. Shocker!! Choose life and shelter, not drugs. They made their choice. They got the same support and they chose drugs, cant help those who don't want it.
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
Yet we offer free housing, money and food to Non-American asylum seekers.
They offered these people housing in shelters. Many of these people get general assistance and food stamps. Addicts have access to state financed rehab. What are you talking about?
they aren't provided with an apartment. it is more like homeless shelter. no privacy and smelly.
They don’t want help so why bother trying? Just keep moving them or ship them to Utah or somewhere in the middle of nowhere so they can live like the animals that they apparently want to live like.
Utah is not the middle of nowhere. It used to be.
Amazing, everyone at the encampment was offered shelter and help. This does not happen in other states and cities (not in CA where I live). This is an intractable problem when the majority of this homeless population have serious addiction problems and/or mental illness.
No one wants to hear it, but this population either cannot or will not take care of themselves. You cannot have a dysfunctional minority dictating terms to the entire community. It seems like Portland, ME is offering some solutions - not perfect but a start.
Where to go? Go to WORK! Only fractions of them really cannot work. Other - just leaches.
Time to go, we got to make room for migrants.
3:07 sir they can go in your backyard.
Sadly, the larger majority of these people, in tents etc. are just too damn lazy to make a living for themselves. It’s just so much easier to put their hands out for help when they should do it like the rest of us on our own. I truly believe that mental asylums need to be re-introduced into, our towns and cities in order to care for those that truly do need care at all times.
I thought this good news was coming from chronic homelessness of Portland Oregon!! But this is far east Maine!!😢😢homeless everywhere
Hitler hadda plan
@@user-jr5mh9td8c Yes, I thought Portland Oregon had chronic homlessness, but far east city with same name in Maine also has same problem!! coincidence!!
Thats not true. Our church hands out meals and cloths to homeless. Many are working with families. Few drugs. Just not enough money for rent. Its not a political or government problem. Landlords gouge. Food is expensive. True though some we offer jobs or community help and few takers. They have nothing but time.
it is an addiction issue
Wish the weather was harsher here. Then maybe we wouldn’t have the drug users around much longer
THE PARTY'S OVER.🇺🇸
its about time!
Where do all these poor folks go?
Decline shelter and go to jail. Also require mandatory drug or mental health treatment.
homeless is no limited with or without side habits, take care just 1 is easy but add 2 or 3 more with daily population plus with side habits is not under your control, it is self-control. side habits do nothing benefit to all.
These drug addicts have completely trashed the areas where they’ve camped out.
Just a bunch of druggies that would rather just live off the state and do drugs. Their choice.
The city is not responsible for rehoming. Clean up their trash. Move them from living on public property…..PUBLIC does mean freedom to live there
Just look at all that shared prosperity the US India Comprehensive Economic Partnership has provided.
Please tell me WHY you NEED to cart a freaking ottoman around with you when you are homeless???
Just About the stupidest comment in this thread.
When your life has been reduced to living in a tent and eating out of garbage cans.
An ottoman is just a “thing”.
Something that is tangible and is theirs.
Why they “need” it asked in a doltish manner is the real issue.
People are suffering.
Suffering by liberal policies and CIA fueled drug trade.
This wonderful country you live in has its citizens well conditioned.
I hope one day you form a conscience and offer a solution instead of a condemnation.
Apparently she wants to keep it that's her business
@@jackiesplinter8844are you crazy
This is America and people should be allowed to destroy themselves with their addictions. The state should withdrawal all financial and medical assistance to these people. They cost society too much money and society has no obligation to support useless eaters. Ignore them completely, let them fend for themselves, and if they commit any crimes against the sober public, they should be beaten to teach them a lesson.
Then they will only be preying on us working folks, robbing us more than they already are.
Geemany crickets. That's cruel!
kick them out!
Send em to the white house
Help the mentally ill, but not the junkies. Mentally Ill dont have a choice, junkies made their choice.
Have you ever heard of duel diagnosis. Mentally ill and drug use often go together. Many people who are using drugs are just trying to medicate themselves.
@@awesomesmasher999ftw4this is true! So many turn to drugs to ease their pain...However I know some personally who are paranoid schizophrenics...who don't use drugs, let alone take their prescribed anti psych meds as they believe it's all poison. They won't even accept food offered to them because of the same reason. They are on the street and yes they chose to be homeless (cause paranoia) * one I know almost died of infection a month ago 💔Mental illness is a serious issue everywhere and it's definitely not being addressed how it should be.
"American's Last...Everyone Else First"
She can bring some home with her if she likes .
Rats, drugs, feces, vermin and stabbings, at the expense of taxpayers makes no sense. Give them one alternative: housing.
I don't understand what is so complicated. The guy with the microphone is asking the city government of Portland where these people in the encampment can go, yet ALL of these individuals were offered city shelters and did not have to live in tents. Then in the video, it comes out that the real reason for why all of these people turned down city-run shelters is because it meant them having to get help for their drug addiction, and having to give up their drug-addicted "lifestyle". Well, that's too damn bad. The city is obviously doing what it can to help these individuals, but what they really need is to be physically forced into a residential drug rehabilitation center whether they like it or not. These drug-addicted idiots should not be permitted to ruin Portland for everyone else. This is all San Francisco repeated, and the liberals have a very bad track record for running cities.
😂😂😂 Election year is it? 😂😂😂
Shelter or rehab!!
They refuse help, so move into a shelter and get straight.
The people need help, and Maine can do better.🤨🤨
The leaders going after homeless camps, this is atrocious and sickening.
You wouldn't want a camp in your neighborhood.
We have to think about why only 18 people wanted “city help”. Perhaps, because so many of us sit back and watch ! There was only 3 women helping them. We have low income housing, maybe we should have more tiny homes for people with addiction issues. We have to expect the fact that not everyone is going to be a doctor or lawyer. They are part of the human family and we need to treat them like that. Love them from a distance to be safe. Love them enough to help them help themselves.