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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If they voted for Rats, they need to stay right where they are and eat their own dogfood.
All of these idiots are faithful Democrat voters — the homeless and the non-homeless. You can’t fix stupid.
All they have to do is STOP VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS! and the problem will be fixed!
so easy!
“Wondering if these conglomerates that are buying up homes everywhere are partly behind this debacle”
I wonder stuff myself. I look at these pics and think “some of these camping tents are very new and very nice”. Too nice for junkies to have gone down to Cabala’s or Gander Mountain and paid a lot of money for. I saw a Coleman tent that can easily go for about $250.00 give or take.
When the city comes in and takes all these down and clears them away within a week they sprout up again like mushrooms. So how do they afford this?
We are a bunch of Bambi killing hicks around here. Probably cannibals. We just salivate when we see innocent plump city people move into the area.
And we don't even have a Starbucks.
Try that nice place across the bridge.
Yeah? How are you going to make them do that?
Many, many years of California leftists moving up to Oregon & Washington State...this is what you get.
I watched highlights of the Portland Indy Car race from yesterday. The place looked empty. I remember going in the mid-1990s to Oakes stands and overflow crowds sitting on the grass. Haven’t been to one there since maybe 1996 or 1997.
I give up - which pic is it??
Or perhaps, Slim Whitman!
Could get messy...
Oakes stands should be packed stands.
Here in Bend Oregon there has been a large increase in tent people. I can’t help but wonder how much is because Oregon has legalized hard drugs. It will be hard to break the crowd mentality of Oregon Democrats but someday as they are stepping in a pile of shit they may put two and two together.
Portland has long been a Mecca for Oregon’s homegrown lefties.
Yep.
Towards the bottom, No one drinks Michelob ;)
Winter’s comin’....
The same idiots who voted for stupid democrats and now “surprised” at what has happened and are “wondering” how it could have happened.
I’m done with Portland!
I’m going to move to Idaho or Texas and vote for exactly the same people in my new home!
I didn’t say it was. I just grabbed a pic. 🙂
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