Homeless people forced out of large encampment known as ‘The Pit’ as security guards move in
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2023
- Private security guards have begun to patrol the site of the former homeless camp near the Steel Bridge onramp in Portland's Old Town neighborhood. Until the beginning of this week, the site has been a makeshift neighborhood for homeless people.
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I live in Northeast Portland, across the street from Hollywood Fred Meyer. I walk my dog daily. Where there used to be tents on sidewalks and along highway frontage, these have now all but disappeared.
In my neighborhood -- I cannot speak for others -- the homeless are living in cars and motor homes.
The motor home aspect of it is wild. I watched a video about it. Those things are rolling biohazards lol
Many homeless have the maturity of a 10 yr old -- they need rules to keep others safe. They cannot continue to just do whatever they want, wherever.
10 years old is optimistic. I'd say more like terrible two-year olds. These people are a menace. I realize they are humans, and I am sympathetic to their plight, but I have seen far too much crime, vandalizm, open drug use, and the like.
"All my stuff got tooken."
@@josiahbirthright24 nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. Oh, a wise guy, eh? 👍
Those of us who had decent parents who taught us if the difference between right and wrong how to wash our hands brush our teeth use proper grammar etc etc should count our blessings !! I'm not making excuses for these people living worse than animals, it is what it is.... And it's going to continue....
This is the direct consequence of horrible woke policies, woke politicians, and woke judges. Fentanyl , Tranq, meth, rampant theft, total lawlessness, anarchy, and social decay everywhere. Enjoy what you voted for.
The city doesn't owe you anything, Colt.
I have seen new tents show up in part of downtown on the sidewalks. It's super annoying.
I say put the homeless services near where the city wants to move the homeless, out side the city center and enforce the no camping in the city center. There should to be a balance between the needs downtown shoppers, workers and the homeless.
Wilson Bright should've been the Governor.
That will make becoming self sufficient more difficult
When he gets tired of moving so many times, he can buckle down and work for his living like all the rest of us. Instead of his lame excuses.
And get sober!
Seriously, ignorant statement
You honestly believe an employer would hire him when he doesn't have the means to get to work, takes money. Adequate sleep, takes housing stability, Adequate food source, takes money, showering? Clean clothes? Hygiene? There aren't enough housing. Shelters are terrible and regardless short term. Unless you have experienced homelessness you have no grounds to stand upon
They are two different kinds of people on the streets one group using drugs and then claimed that they are homeless and not even careing about what happened to them as long as they get the drugs they want then they are the real people who are homeless people who struggle in the streets and they don’t draw your attention because they are working on getting out of there situation but lacking of bathrooms and stuff that is required is killing there chances I don’t think anyone has a clue how tough it is out here I’ve struggle with homelessness for a long time and now I’m planning on making sure that it will never happen to me again I don’t drink I don’t smoke I have never been a drudger my issue has always been not enough time for change as long as we believe that they are all just using the systems then nothing is going to change the first thing is too getting them seeing what life is like to have a real life again and then never forget about them because our systems have flaws that allows for them to continue to use the system over and over again I just want to tell everyone that they are real needs and it not always cut and dry if you are looking for hardworking people I work hard and didn’t pay enough for me to keep a place over my head I still work you have a blessed week
Our family was homeless in Portland, after a house fire. It was horrible! Even if you find a dry place to sleep, you wake up soaking wet and nowhere to eat or go to the bathroom! I had to move back to California, where I lived in a tent for three years. I signed up for college and did my homework by flashlight, in my little tent. After the third semester, I was finally able to find a home. I feel for the homeless, and it can happen to anyone
4:35 - My concern now is when the contractor leaves, will the homeless just move back in? That's what they did after the city "swept" the Springwater corridor for Hood to Coast. Took just a couple weeks for the tents to start re-appearing.
It's just like what cop's do with hookers. They chase them from one neighborhood, to the next. BUT they never get rid of them.
That's why cities and counties need to buy land and set up designated camping areas and say to homeless people, "If you want to stay in THIS city/county, you have to stay in this area or move out completely." Homeless people cannot be allowed to stay wherever they want and do whatever they want.
@@ericemmons3040 but the problem with that is if they're junkies they'll trash the place.
Make them move daily.
Have no fear, the zombies will be back. The city is basically cleaning up their shit again. Then they will move back. Round up the zombies force them into an encampment and leave them out of society !
They are not homeless..they are NPA's (no permanent address).
These folk look super homeless to me
Well done Portland.
He's right. More and real security forces are needed. We've got to get tough on the homeless. This shit has got to stop already. We want our city back! Make Portland the most unfriendly place for homeless in the country. Make this a model city.
"Make Portland the most unfriendly place for homeless in the country. Make this a model city." (stifling sarcastic laughter here - too many citizens are terminally woke)
This is the direct consequence of horrible woke policies, woke politicians, and woke judges. Fentanyl , Tranq, meth, rampant theft, total lawlessness, anarchy, and social decay everywhere. Enjoy what you voted for.
And once the contractors are done and gone will the security patrols still be in place??
My guess would be NOT.
Looks like they hired the local Stoner from the pot shop for security🤣🤣
at least somebody is stepping up for a job~!!!!
@@sallymiller4973 right😉
@@jfam7827shut up you judgmental dipshit
Thanks for going a little farther with this story; very informative.
Since a lot of people on many sides all agree that the shelters are dangerous, dirty & most homeless won't use them, then why aren't any officials cleaning THEM up?? Otherwise, it's just shuffling people from pillar to post!!
They don't care.
Oh give me a break!!!! Most homeless people do not want to go into a shelter because they have to follow rules. Not because the shelters are dirty or dangerous. Just like housing the homeless, they move into an apartment only to bring the homeless buddies who then cause all sorts of issues with other tenants and neighboring properties. I managed over 1200 units in Seattle and have hundreds of stories that clearly reflect the bigger picture of housing these people
As far Portland's future goes people are voting with their feet and that makes Portland one of the city's with the most folks moving out in the nation.
@workerbottmaybe the rent prices will stop being unaffordable for so many people.
Now coming to a neighborhood near you.
It's about time
About goddamn time. Now start clearing the East Esplanade.
Yes I think it’s an excellent idea. There are bolders at the Safeway store on 122nd off of SE Powell BLVD to protect the store.
Help is available, but there are rules to follow, just like everyone else. "Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results", Mike De needs to examine what moving again to another plot of sidewalk is going to do to change the outcome he lives.
A fairly recent ninth circuit decision makes it difficult for government to remove campers from public places unless there is alternative shelter available. Until that decision is overruled by the US Supreme Court, campers will continue to be a problem.
The problem is that there's already a ton of private security in businesses, residencies, public buildings, etc.
That hasn't really put a dent in encampments, theft, public use of hard drugs, and so on. I'm not sure that adding more private security will do much. Private security can't do much beyond call the police.
In theory, adding more private security is nice, but I don't think it'll have much effect.
They city needs to stop making rules and not enforcing. Make a rule and then it is a rule. Sidewalks are for walking then they need to be free of clutter and debris. Homeless need a place to go then supply them with an option.
Wow. An HONEST, thinking reporter. What a novelty.....😊
Both Blair and Pat have put out numerous good reports in the last year plus.
Yep. I have to admit, this fine gentleman is the ONLY reporter I will watch anymore, and the only one I trust, without any reservations. @@PhilAndersonOutside
Not forever. That pitt didn't exist when I was growing up in Portland.
The city should work with the county and the state to distribute services more broadly throughout the county and state, so that the "Rose City" is not left with shouldering so much of the load. If the economy of the Portland metropolitan area is considered important to the state economy, then then the state should take steps to help take some of the load off of Portland in order to preserve the vitality of the city's economy. Every time we respond to the homelessness situation in Portland by adding yet more services here, at taxpayer expense, we further entrench the phenomenon in this area, and it never seems to make a dent (surprise, surprise). A deliberate and coordinated effort is needed to intentionally divert / redirect / distribute the response, with willing cooperation at the state level, in order to turn the tide. For years, we have been doubling down on centralizing the services in Portland, building up a so-called "homeless industrial complex", when decentralizing the services would be healthier for the city and its economy, and, in turn, the state economy.
The city should provide this, the state should provide that, and the government should provide that over there, huh? You're a st oo pid Snowflake. The kind America doesn't need. Let those aholes get out and work for it like I did all my life. If not for schmucks like you, we'd HAVE a decent nation.
*Eastern and Southern Oregon counties want no part of Portland's $hit people. Let them drown in their own sewage. Every time Portland or the Salem Commies make such a proposal, the Citizens for Greater Idaho Movement gains strength and $upport, including my own. Cheers!*
VIOLATION OF RIGHTS
"Boise, the Ninth Circuit ruled that cities cannot penalize homeless people for camping on public property unless the city has sufficient shelter space available for people living unsheltered. Otherwise, the court ruled, those penalties violate the Eighth Amendment,
Landmark 2018 decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an Idaho case that was binding on California local government. Judges then decided that it's unconstitutional to criminally penalize people camping in public when they lack “access to adequate temporary shelter.
Enforce the camping ban? Yea, right. And if you believe that, you also believe in the Easter Bunny.
Copy and repeat, shut that down..
...what if we used that $62 million dollars to actually do what Pat said? ~Crazy I know but it just might work
"They finally got their eviction notice." -Lady sounded like Janice from Friends. Which was only kind of funny, until you followed her up by interviewing a guy named "Officer Chandler" 😂
A State program with an opportunity to work towards a small portion of land to own with a container is starter idea.Maybe on BLM or scrubland of Oregon forests.They has to be projects theses folks can do in the forest,create fire barriers,trail work,forest clean up.Tree planting,and other jobs would create self worth,some folks seem really far gone though😮
If we could at least get something going that's different.Anyone have a skeleton of an 💡 idea?
We have to think harder on this.
Ship them to Idaho
Ship them back to your neighborhood and let them shit on your lawn
There’s no solutions with this Government or Facilities to shelter Drug users on a death wish…. Save your breath ………..
i hope these guards are armed and well paid, because they are in for a rough ride with these homeless.
City of Portland just needs to invest in boulders, problem solved
The boulders won't help unless they invest in a catapult too.
Taxpayers are probably being gouged for them... enforcement and beautiful parks would better.
GOOD LORD!!! "Security"?????????? He looks like one of 'DA DAMN homeless guys. 'DEEEEEE HELL!!!
So where are those being cleared from pit going?
Some moved to the mass sanctioned camp in SE Portland. Not sure where that is.
Don’t worry after we put a few million in bridge repairs they can move right back in to do it again
I remember a time back in 2017-18 when people would pay me to deliver Doordash to homeless folk on the Burnside Bridge; just as a random act of kindness. I doubt anyone in these comments ever did that or ever would. That being said, this issue has now been going on so long that most folks have run out of compassion.
It has only compounded under Ted Wheeler's leadership and yet no legitimate alternative has risen to oppose him. Multnomah is so paralyzed on how to solve this, that Kotek pulled back millions from the county to give to the rest of the state who'd actually use the money effectively. This paired with the decriminalization of drugs and the Fentanyl crisis have created a perfect storm that people just want to end by any means necessary. It's hard to pinpoint the guiltiest parties in all of this but I hope when this is all resolved, the state will do a serious look into lessons learned so this doesn't happen again.
I remember those times too... My compassion ran out in 2020. Between the Antifa-MAGA wars that consumed downtown for months, and the endless drug use, vandalism, and so on, living here went from wonderful to abysmal, and has returned to almost tolerable in the past several months, where I still avoid going out except when necessary. Maybe by this time next year, with some luck, and hope, the city can return to being pleasant again.
There is one reasonable person on the Portland City Council, Rene Gonzalez, and one on the Multnomah Commission (Sharon Meiren) Everyone else is either an idealist who thinks this will all somehow work it's way out, are incapable of commitment, paralyzed by hard decisions, or further to the left than AOC (or all of the above).
@@PhilAndersonOutside Exactly, Portland would be lucky to even have some moderate Democrats, but these far-left activists love to assassinate people's characters.
When I was growing up in the 60s downtown Portland had its homeless they stayed on Burnside in the shelters there are under the bridge and they cause no trouble and they didn't come into town it was just known and not said and all the churches help feed them and they had the rescue mission and the ones that wanted to make something of themselves and get off the street they did it just wasn't publicized
The mean girl at 1:00 made my day lol, she reminds me of Chanel Oberlin
Since there is a STATE OF EMERGENCY DUE TO HOMELESSNESS" declared by Tina Kotek then prevent homelessness and create functional successful housing programs by those with lived experience.
Awesome! You made homeless people not exist anymore! Unless you just kicked the problem down the road.
Kick the fucking bums out of our city and state. Yeah, make it not our problem anymore. We've had enough of this shit.
3:14 "Convoluted trail to follow". Yep, that's Portland, for ya!
Do people realize that they are all a pay check away from being in the same street😢please don’t make it worse for them I understand that they are not aware that homeless people are not trying to get a life 😢let make it more affordable
I wonder if that lady in the red coat knows she looks and sounds like an actual cartoon villian.😂
She sounds like, The Nanny.
All of Portland is a pit!
Awesome!
I LOVE IT!!! Finally! Can't we get this everywhere, I'm so for it!
It's ultimately a game of whack-a-mole unless Portland gets more centrist.
And just a sobering reminder when you and I Die we can't talk earthly possessions with us
Long overdue!
The security guard looks homeless 🤣
I appreciate the good reporting however Portland has already, by design, crossed the Rubicon
I saw the signs!
Finally
Tooken
They're all moving to Tigard
Be happy move now
"They finally got their eviction notice. Hundreds of emails." Listed.
What names inhabit the entitlement complex of free college education and "supports."?
It's easy to behave when you get a paycheck -- and break the one law by ROBBING AND PHYSICALLY HARMING human beings whose life is sacred from conception until birth.
Lead you into temptation.
Delivered of Recession.
They need the security guards. I think it's a great idea. Just don't push them out this way
Find a field. They are delearous not real skilled. But they ruin others lively hood.
Give them bus passes! They need to be sent to their state, or country of birth period! Bus passes not safe rest holes. Soon as they start using drugs they get kicked back on the street to do it all over again! Insanity! You built it, and they came. And keep coming! Only one ideology and party to blame for the decay, crime, violence, and chaos you live with here. Quit reelecting it!
What about all the Portland & Oregonian natives that are homeless??
@@kaythegardener People from portland can't be homeless! only people I can call "different" can be homeless. is what they really meant.
That's an incredibly myopic view. This is a very complicated problem, and there is no one cause, and certainly no one political party responsible. Six decades on this world, living in over a dozen US cities and in Europe, I can tell you, it is a universal problem, but more prevalent in the US than any other modern industrialized "first-world" nation. In fact, quite honestly, the US's problem is very much on par with that of many third-world countries. It's been a problem as long as I can remember, and just as bad in Portland as is Atlanta, as in Albequerque, as in NYC, as in Boston, as in Los Angeles, as in Denver, as in Chicago, and on and on. It's not a political PARTY issue. It's a social issue caused by the entirety of American society. You, me, and all of us are to blame, and until we stop pointing fingers and blaming the "other guys", and start identifying our own culpability, nothign will significantly change.
@@kaythegardener That we can handel.
@@all4espi Portland enables. That's the problem. Only one party in this state. A catastrophic failure.
The city MUST START offering to do family reunification. Find Grandma and Grandpa, parents, siblings. See if they are willing to give their family members a welcome home.
Burnt family bridges DOWN ! .....time to say f-u, protecting real family members
It isn’t our job to repair families. The handouts only enable the behavior and the addictions. And it’s ideas like those that are destroying the city. It’s time for some accountability.
Did you mean "a welcome home and fentanyl?" Because unless Grandma is serving milk, cookies, and fentanyl, the homeless aren't interested.
The pit 😂😂😂
It’s funny watching the same Democrats that allowed this to happen now angry about the results 🤣
The sad thing is we have so many illegals we are taking care of and giving a place to live and supporting we don't have anywhere to put our own homeless
There aren't even enough beds for the people that want them, we need more shelters before we just keep pushing people down the road
That will never work as more keep coming.
Enabling and giving handouts is clearly not the solution. Forced drug testing or no handouts.
more prisons
Nimby...Not in my back yard.... let's build one right by your house
Imagine if we made housing affordable for everyone in the city, by not having houses be half a million dollars. That might actually solve the problem, but nah lets just keep blaming people for being poor.
Y E S❕
I don’t blame people for being poor, I am poor too. But I do what I need to do to show up for myself and my family. I don’t do drugs. I don’t rob or steal. I don’t harm other people. Housing options are there especially if the food stamps aren’t sold for cash and the ssi isn’t used for drugs. Time to expect accountability and stop the handouts.
@@TFQ161THIS! All. Of. This!!!
And everyone should get warm milk, a puppy, and a unicorn, too! Government will make all our dreams come true!
Let's also stop pandering to people milking the system and encouraging victmhood.
"There but for the grace of God go I"
"There but for the grace of God go I if I get addicted to fentanyl"
Fixed it for 'ya!
It is a good thing to move the homeless out but u have to have a place where you are going to take them??? And moving them is not going to be a solution find out the fentanyl sources and block ???we are loosing the young generation!!!
No “we” don’t have to have a place to take them. It’s dangerous ideas like this that have destroyed our city. Not my responsibility, and takes my rights away from me and my children and my neighbors. Enough.
One that sign is illegal 2 that is called stealing people's belongings and whoever is taking them should be prosecuted don't they realize that you need a warrant to go into somebody's tent that's it private property just like a home you have no business going in there and taking a s*** without them being there
First of all not all homeless people steal there is a few of us out there that don't do stupid s*** like that and I'm not a dirty slob like they are and that's why I don't stay near them I live on my own name nobody lives with me or near me
Yes I agree with you that's what I'm saying people shouldn't be stealing s*** and like I said in my last comment I don't do that stuff
LOL
People don't have the right to trash public areas where the taxpayers should be respecting and enjoying it.
It's funny you guys think homeless people don't pay taxes or something just cuz they're not working motherfuker doesn't mean they don't pay taxes they pay taxes every time they go to the f****** store and buy s*** bro and yes I agree with you they shouldn't be leaving a f****** mess I'm not a sloth I put my s*** in the trash I agree with that 100% what they had nothing to do with my comment I don't know why you even with the mention that
I hope that curvy reporter doesn't get hurt in some random bum attack, pressing her luck. She should get a tamer assignment.
Dude at the end is a creep too. I hope he never looses his job and house, my fingers might be crossed behind my back.
Let me guess... You're an enabler.
He probably doesn’t spend all his money on dr*gs. He’ll be ok.
The security guards need K-9 back up, Oh yah, and don't over feed them, they work better when are HUNGERY!
that's a great idea! Maybe...maybe...
Lol
The neighborhoods with homes are determined that their neighbors without homes vanish from view.
Translation: The hard working productive citizens want the drunks, addicts, criminals, and psychos out of their neighborhood.
Rules for me, but not for thee!
I know Mike Dietz, the guy with the monster cap, and he is genuinely a well intended person, a good man.
I noticed, however, in the shots of his camp it appeared he had a syringe and that made me wonder if he is still homeless because the city and the community want him to suffer, THAT is why they keep making it so easy to camp and suffer downtown, to "opium den Old Town."
Its the people of Portland, I'm now convinced after years of trying to deny the truth, who are peevish, small minded people who factually "feel better" when they see someone worse off than they are. Our community, the families of this community, are amoral, anti-intellectuals.
On one hand, Portlandians have empathy--they clearly help the homeless who obviously and desperately need help.
But on the other hand, they "get off" on how they are doing however much better than a homeless person or the help they afford the homeless so validates them personally, they have accepted chronic homelessness as part of life in Portland where their life is "valid."
I really do believe, not because I want to but because of lifetime experience, the vast majority of people in our community are also functionally incompetent people who go along to get along with whatever is most current in popular culture. Its a community of sleepwalkers.
In some ways, that is celebrated as Portland is a hip city but in a real obvious way it also has the culture of twits (people who constant deny reality, constantly striving for their personal narrative as if in a role play game), questionably genetic morons who rationalize or otherwise normalize the street eugenics that is the homelessness crisis.
Its eugenics, Portland, you as a community are guilty of being the most morally incompetent, anti-intellectuals with eyeglasses in the entire world. The homelessness crisis has been going on for so long, replete with homelessness industry, it qualifies for the conservative standard, for what EUGENICS is.
Not "Eugene" it is EUGENICS that is the homelessness industry and our incompetent, anti-intellectual, as sophisticated as their coffee preference, Portland. I wish more in the community would realize this.
Literally, there were race riots for over 100 days and nights (especially) consecutive, like a 100 day Race War in Portland not that long ago that is historical, in the history books and not a single leader in the community spoke to the community to quell the stupid violence same as the Hamas attack is nothing but stupid violence "rationalized" by incompetent people who are also total sociopaths (all they care about are themselves).... no one pointed out for 100 YEARS all science has proven different races do not exist and the ONLY WAY to be a racist is to insist different races of people do exist--that the fact of logic.
Its not, and I have thought deeply about all this, about Democrats nor Republicans, its not about people with different colors of skin its not even about different religions it is that some human beings are afflicted with genetic mental retardation and its a type of arrogance and insolence such they refuse or "can't" learn how to participate in reality.
Their trauma is also an effective trap keeping them outside reality, want for populism, want to make their narrative-fantasy the reality like misery loves suffering-company.
The solution? The community needs to realize the real problem is the Baby Boomer generation--leaded gasoline huffing generation--and their Fraud of science in medicine that is psychiatry that has driven the community insane and been insane NOT WIERD IT IS INANITY EUGENICS WITH DRUGS cult the Boomer hippies created in Oregon far worse and more criminal than the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and they did it with their graduate degree autistic shrinks.
@@crushedorchids You don't know me but you'll say such things about me because you are incompetent and want someone to be paid (a psychiatrist) to lie to you about what is really a genetic condition.
You don't even know what help is, you just know what you want, that you want to tell other people who they are and what to do with their money.
Hilarious how you love blaming Conservatives for some sort of moral superiority, yet here you are getting off telling everyone how dumb they are (in a Liberal majority city). No one is forcing him to do drugs, it's called PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY! True eugenics is Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger's agenda to eradicate minorities, or Demokkkratic policies to incentivize minority races to get welfare than keep the family together, leading to criminality that will fuel the prison industrial complex.
Clean up the rich neighborhoods first. Nothing new here.
Yes, this is inevitable. The city will prioritize the areas of higher economic value. It's entirely predictable and fully to be expected. That's why allowing any amount of camping in the city at all will inevitably disparately impact the lower income communities and communities of color, because those neighborhoods will end up with the least camp clearing and enforcement, and so the camps will end up being pushed out to the periphery.
This is naive. The 30 year old condos next to a train station is not 'a rich neighborhood,' but I understand how some get confused given the overall deterioration of the city.
@@RyanRuarkwell, yes... but I guess it's all relative, eh?
This woman harasses homeless people,she's insanely cruel to them.I live across from her,I've seen her cruel behavior.
@bofferius8530 There was actually some very kind and respectful people that have camped out there.
Good, I wish I had more neighbors with spines like hers.
@RyanRuark Being a bully doesn't have anything to do with having spine.
@@Mimi-nz4fy neither does enabling their drug induced behavior.
@@Mimi-nz4fy I they are such kind and respectful people then they should have no problem getting a job and getting off of the street.
I can't wait until the woman complaining for 2 years becomes homeless...then i will laugh and say "awww, boo hoo"
It won’t happen. Smart people make smart choices. Tired of making allowances and being forced to pay for other people’s stupid decisions. Forced drug testing or no handouts.
Those Biden voter's are making it rough for the other Biden voter's 😂😂😂😂😂
Also, thank you Portland Fire And Rescue for saving me, I love my city 🖤🛹🙏