I heard this bill summed up another way. It turns what people consider public into private. In public, like a sidewalk or park, you have no expectation of privacy. It’s public after all. Privacy is the opposite. Thus, things people do in private such as bathing, using the toilet, having sex and so on are all now legal. Stopping someone who is homeless from doing these things is now illegal. The police cannot stop them.
So how does this work ???
A homeless guy comes into my property and I tell him to leave
That’s harassment ???
What if I say I’ll call the police ???
Have I committed a felony ???
Yeah probably
“How many of the homeless have attorneys?”
They’ll have as many as they want - funded by you.
Whatever you reward you get more of, whatever you punish you get less of. This bill will guarantee more “homeless” and less productive tax paying citizens.
Go for it Oregon, you have not hit bottom, yet!
The best term to describe the USA today is FUBAR
It’s a short step from there to declaring home ownership as an affront to the homeless. Then the the homeless will go all Dr. Zhivago on every property. Fun times.
Because they bring almost no skills to the job market, and/or they drink and drug it up to the point where they are completely unreliable if they are employed.
“Should go both ways, no?”
Even if it did, suing someone who is already destitute isn’t going to accomplish anything.
So, when does the exodus of people in WA state, Ore-is-gone, & Kaliforniastan, heading to Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, Texas and Montana, turning red states to blue states because they continue to leave, come to our safe, gun owning, hard working, red states and turning them blue because they continue to vote the same way. They leave because of high taxes, crap like this bill, etc. But, they don’t have a brain change. They don’t become one of us. Believe like us. That is what happened to Georgia. Atlanta’s mob of “foreigners” of radical blue states turned a great southern state into a blue mob of liberals and socialists.
This is what a collapsing society looks like. Keep focusing on wars abroad, like they want you to.
The homeless in Oregon have an army of pro bono lawyers and advocacy groups.
“there is a shortage of safe and affordable housing,”
Oregon also has a stupid bureaucracy in Salem that defines the “Urban Geowth Boundary.” East of the cascades there is plenty of room to build houses. But a single bureaucrat draws arbitrary lines and says “no building for you.”
Also... It pays to be homeless No bills, no taxes, and free everything.
I could swear sometimes I’m living in an Ayn Rand novel.