Tents surrounded by trash line residential streets in multiple neighborhoods in the city of Portland, as it wrestles with an out of control homeless population which is now spreading out from the downtown area into the surrounding suburbs
Posted on 09/05/2022 6:00:58 PM PDT by Morgana
In a city known for it's unique neighborhoods, bike-friendly commutes, and locally-owned businesses, some Portland, Oregon residents have become so terrified of the homeless crisis plaguing the area, which is now spreading into the suburbs, they have resorted to selling their homes - but realtors are struggling to offload them.
Photos by DailyMail.com show how some of the most charming, trendy and expensive neighborhoods of the Pacific Northwest city are now overrun with tent cities crowding residential sidewalks and littered with trash.
The Democratic city has one of the most deserted downtowns in the United States as soaring crime rates and homelessness are scaring away both locals and tourists. But now the crisis has spread beyond the downtown area and into the quiet suburbs, forcing many to leave.
These homeless camps are now becoming a permanent fixture in the suburbs, with the city being forced to conduct sweeps on a regular basis.
The latest sweep took place a week ago as Portland's Rapid Response Bio-Clean team cleared out a large homeless camp at Southeast 80th Avenue and Rhine Street, according to KGW8.
The site - located at the corner of the South Tabor and the Foster-Powell neighborhoods - had been reported by residents countless times this summer, but nothing was ever done. Until now.
But it's a little too late for lifelong residents Bruce and Rebecca 'Becky' Philip who told DailyMail.com that they're 'done with Portland' due to the increasing number of homeless camps that have trickled into the suburbs from downtown.
'I've been here 65 years but I'm done,' Bruce Philip said. 'I'm done with Portland.'
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I would make the local politicians buy it at a fair price, since they caused the mess. They are not going to have any luck with people actually looking for a house buying their house,
Locusts. They will move.and still vote demonrat.
Good luck finding a buyer.
yeah — fleeing Rats
What Bruce Philip doesn't realize is that Portland was done with everyone when the port closed in 2015 due to the size of the current generation of container ships.
That’s not the pic..keep scrolling down.
All so rich globalists can buy up all the property cheap, then build their personal kingdom where they eliminate the homeless except those they can enslave
> ‘I’m done with Portland.’ <
Will they be voting Democrat at their new location?
Just curious.
Those idiots will move to another state and vote for the same type of DemocRats who screwed up Portland.
Seattle the same.
Just a thought. Wondering if these conglomerates that are buying up homes everywhere are partly behind this debacle.
Once they own everything, suddenly the rules change and the homeless are ‘disappeared’.
They will still vote democrat they will never learn
...and that’s the BIG PROBLEM with most people on our side - we figure that if we keep our heads low and don’t cause trouble, we’ll be left alone. After all, isn’t that how we treat others who don’t cause trouble?
All good and fine, but RESPECTING others to live the lives they grew up with and simply want to retire to IS NOT in the Leftist lexicon, with the latest being the seizing of our right to drive a gasoline car.
When they get to their new destination they’ll still vote Democrat. They’re like a swarm of locust.
Play Barry Manilow, loudly. Let the homeless call the city to complain.
BlackRock
https://newtube.app/user/Hostage/aZXdOqd
Believable.
We will own nothing and love it, we have been told.
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