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Disabled residents sue Portland over homeless camps blocking sidewalks and discover city spent $2 MILLION taxpayer funds for 22,000 homeless tents - mayor defends expense for 'public health emergency'
Daily Mail UK ^ | February 1, 2023 | Alex Oliveira

Posted on 02/01/2023 4:03:12 PM PST by Morgana

Disabled residents suing Portland over scores of homeless encampments blocking city sidewalks have discovered the city spent at least $2million in taxpayer funds to buy those tents and tarps.

Plaintiffs learned that Multnomah County's Joint Office of Homeless Services (JOHS) used the millions to buy 22,000 tents and 70,000 tarps for its homeless residents, but kept basically no record of who got the supplies or where they were set up.

The lawsuit alleges the Oregon city is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act by allowing tents to build up unchecked across the city and block disabled people's abilities to safely navigate the city sidewalks.

Over the past four years the city has also spent at least $26.6million over the last four years cleaning up camps it helped fund. Representatives for Mayor Ted Wheeler defended the expenses, insisting they were mitigating the city's 'public health emergency.'

The attorney representing the plaintiffs in the case, John DiLorenzo, uncovered the tent and tarp funds in the lawsuit's discovery phase.

'The taxpayers are paying the county to put tents in place, which the city is, in turn, charging the taxpayers to sweep up,' he said, according to Fox News. 'It's sort of like trying to walk up the down escalator.'

'You provide them [with] 22,000 tents and tarps over a couple of years, we believe the likelihood is quite high that most of those tents and tarps are what ended up on the sidewalks, streets, and in the parks,' he said.

The lawsuit seeks to have the city remove all encampments - which total more than 30,000 - from across the city's sidewalks and parks.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: disabled; fraud; homeless; lawsuit; misappropriation; oregon; portland; tents
"city spent at least $2million in taxpayer funds to buy those tents and tarps"

I said before that I wondered how they afforded some of those tents. I know how much a lot of them cost and they are expensive. You are looking at $250. tents in some of these pics. Honestly one could by an old pop up camper for that money.

1 posted on 02/01/2023 4:03:12 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Glamping on the public plan . . .


2 posted on 02/01/2023 4:08:31 PM PST by BraveMan
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To: Morgana

[Bicycle trails] == [future homeless camps].


3 posted on 02/01/2023 4:13:25 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Morgana

HAHAHAHAHA!!

Ted Wheeler! How does he have any credibility.


4 posted on 02/01/2023 4:14:51 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Morgana

Homeless rights vs disabled rights....Suddenly,the dems haven’t heard of the ADA....


5 posted on 02/01/2023 4:17:56 PM PST by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: Morgana

The money would have been better spent on a couple of those scoop trucks from Soylent Green.


6 posted on 02/01/2023 4:18:15 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Morgana

“but kept basically no record of who got the supplies or where they were set up.”

Yep. Probably at most 25% of the money went to tents and tarps. 2million divided by 22000 is $90 per tent. You can get a 3 man tent for $35 at Walmart.


7 posted on 02/01/2023 4:20:14 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Morgana

Libtards ripped off the taxpayers and broke federal disability laws.

What a swell bunch of morons


8 posted on 02/01/2023 4:25:04 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Morgana

bkmk


9 posted on 02/01/2023 4:27:56 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: Morgana; Liz; LS; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; Kaslin; BenLurkin

Heck, that’s less than 91.00 dollars per “tent”. (2,000,000.00 / 22,000)

Seems like I can only get a tarp - but nothing more than that - for 91.00 in today’s inflation under Biden. No ropes, no ties, no zippers.


10 posted on 02/01/2023 4:37:24 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Morgana

Tents must have been purchased using military specifications:

No shorter than 4’ 4 3/8” and no taller than 4’ 11 5/16”

At least three windows no smaller than 12 square feet (ie: 3’ x 4’) with appropriate insect netting using weather resistant, non-petroleum based material, which will prevent incursion of insects smaller than 1/16th a square inch. Said netting shall not harm or kill said insects. Window shall have a closable cover sufficient to provide privacy and be resistant to rain, snow, sunshine and winds up to 350 mph.

Flooring shall . . .


11 posted on 02/01/2023 4:49:12 PM PST by MCSETots
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To: Morgana

The legacy of the accidental Governor Kate Brown. This is all recent under her watch. Legalized drugs. Basically outlawed guns. Worst graduation rates. Covid lockdowns. exploding homelessness and crime. Antifa.


12 posted on 02/01/2023 4:50:12 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Organic Panic

Don’t forget the fires of September 2020 set by Kate’s gestapo

Thousands of us were and are still displaced.


13 posted on 02/01/2023 4:54:57 PM PST by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Morgana

The only thing bums should be given is a one-way bus ticket to anywhere but the west coast.


14 posted on 02/01/2023 5:41:35 PM PST by Aeneas2112 (YOU are your own first responder)
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To: Twotone; VeryFRank; Clinging Bitterly; Rio; aimhigh; Hieronymus; bray; 1malumprohibitum; ...
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.
15 posted on 02/02/2023 6:14:18 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Morgana; All

Remind me of the current CASTE SYSTEM in America? It seems to change daily.

From TOP Rung to BOTTOM Rung:

Illegals

Homeless Crazies

Blacks - (If beaten by the Po-Po, move up to the top until rioting ceases)

Children with sex changes/Adult Trannies (It’s a tie!)

Any Woman With A Complaint Against Any Man

Pond Scum

Disabled People of any color

Jews

Straight, White, Christian Males (with or without a gun)


16 posted on 02/02/2023 6:41:10 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Morgana

Here is an update to this story:

“Class Action ADA Suit Forces Portland to Clear Sidewalks of Homeless Camps”

“The City of Portland, Oregon, will be required to clear its sidewalks of sprawling homeless camps under terms of a lawsuit tentatively settled this week.

Filed in September, the federal class action lawsuit alleged that the city violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 by allowing tent camps and debris to obstruct sidewalks. The plaintiffs included nine people with disabilities who use wheelchairs, scooters, canes, and walkers to get around.”

A paywall-free link:

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theepochtimes.com%2Fclass-action-ada-suit-forces-portland-to-clear-sidewalks-of-homeless-camps_5304149.html


17 posted on 06/01/2023 6:31:58 AM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: Morgana

They didn’t just buy the tents. They set up empty tents to attract “homeless” to certain areas.


18 posted on 06/01/2023 6:35:44 AM PDT by lodi90
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