No "homeless," no money for: nonprofits, the "harm reduction" workers, the county and city departments, the public employee unions, the "housing first" hustlers (and allied builders), legacy media reporters...all dependent on the raw material that pays their mortgages. Homelessness will never be "solved." The cost would be too high.
As always an awesome article. 🥰 I wish there was an awesome solution, but as you said the ideologues do not seem to want to entertain anyone else's ideas or point of view. Now that the DSA's are basically running city council I see little hope of change in getting these folks into a controlled environment, especially when their idea is to tear the entire system down. They're too busy supporting riots over at the ICE facility then working on the REAL issues that Portland is facing. Safety and livability don't appear to be their concern. 😒
Environmental Terrorism is exactly what this is. Which is why I'm so sick of hearing these holier-than-thou, liberal, Democrat, hypocrites spewing about saving the environment by making gas leaf blowers illegal. Jeez, just clean up the damn forests, under tons of filth and refuse. Prove your moral superiority by cleaning up the damn forests! Jack asses!
There are those who will say we have to love people more than trees. From your photos, I would have to say that no one can say they love those people and still allow them to live that way. Just my two cents.
No "homeless," no money for: nonprofits, the "harm reduction" workers, the county and city departments, the public employee unions, the "housing first" hustlers (and allied builders), legacy media reporters...all dependent on the raw material that pays their mortgages. Homelessness will never be "solved." The cost would be too high.
As always an awesome article. 🥰 I wish there was an awesome solution, but as you said the ideologues do not seem to want to entertain anyone else's ideas or point of view. Now that the DSA's are basically running city council I see little hope of change in getting these folks into a controlled environment, especially when their idea is to tear the entire system down. They're too busy supporting riots over at the ICE facility then working on the REAL issues that Portland is facing. Safety and livability don't appear to be their concern. 😒
Environmental Terrorism is exactly what this is. Which is why I'm so sick of hearing these holier-than-thou, liberal, Democrat, hypocrites spewing about saving the environment by making gas leaf blowers illegal. Jeez, just clean up the damn forests, under tons of filth and refuse. Prove your moral superiority by cleaning up the damn forests! Jack asses!
There are those who will say we have to love people more than trees. From your photos, I would have to say that no one can say they love those people and still allow them to live that way. Just my two cents.
Excellent reporting as usual. Very disheartening to see the damage both environmental and to those people. Liberals are hypocrites.
What can we do to bring this evidence and these perspectives to the forefront of Portland's conversations about homelessness?
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