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Posted on 05/31/2023 4:16:38 PM PDT by Libloather
Months of stepping past sidewalk homeless camps and open-air drug markets have taken their toll on residents of Portland, Oregon.
Voters there have delivered a stunning rebuke to officials of the Democrat-run hipster city, with three quarters calling homelessness 'an out-of-control disaster.'
The survey, commissioned by People for Portland, a conservative advocacy group, found that more than two thirds of voters wanted to clear the streets by forcing drug addicts into rehab.
Respondents also by wide margins supported Mayor Ted Wheeler's plan to ban homeless daytime camping and people stringing up tents near schools and daycare centers.
Portland City Council members were set to debate such a ban on Wednesday.
'Every citizen is sick and damn tired of the growing homeless problem,' an angry Portland business owner posted on social media.
'Portland used to be clean and safe and a place we were proud to call home. Now, people are moving the f**k out.'
The survey of 500 voters across Multnomah County comes after its homeless population reached 5,228 last year — a rise of more than 1,200 against 2019.
More than 2,000 of them are sheltered, but that leaves more than 3,000 sleeping rough.
Residents of the city of 641,000 people have told DailyMail.com that they're sick of tents being erected on sidewalks, grassy areas and beside canals.
Officials have started tearing down encampments, but tents have sprung back up again within hours.
Business owners complain about vagrants defecating in front of their stores.
Walmart in March said it was shuttering its Portland outlets.
The survey echoes fears that Portland has gone from a kooky progressive city with great restaurants and reliable public transportation to a hellscape with high taxes and overstretched city services.
Some 55 percent of respondents said Portland 'has lost what made it...
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The only movie I can recall set in Portland was Mr. Brooks where Kevin Costner plays a well off serial killer businessman in the lead role. He tries to prevent his daughter from following him in his unusual hobby and thus you are supposed to sympathize with the lead character who also happens to be a serial killer. In a way I suppose it sums up Portland. I felt I needed a shower after it was over.
Took their leftists asses long enough.
So, in other words, nothing's going to change.
That wasn’t chicken...
What about them?
They're not sleeping on the streets.
If Portland's homeless population looks anything like San Diego's, we're talking mostly able-bodied men (with a minority of women and elderly), both black and white, who are severely psychotic and drug-addicted.
“’My goal is to have enough shelter, housing, and treatment access available so that we can fully eliminate unsanctioned, unsheltered camping in Portland,’ Wheeler said in a statement ahead of the talks.”
Wheeler is a moron: they’ll NEVER have enough free shelter, housing, and treatment access because they’ll simply attract an unlimited number of vagabonds ... it’s pretty much like feeding pigeons: the more you feed them, the more pigeons you’ll get ...
Sadly I have to travel to Portland on business on a regular basis and can confirm that these filthy animals are everywhere.
More like a stunning rebuke to themselves for electing the people they did. They probably don’t even realize they were (are?) the cause of the problem.
Better late than never, I guess.
I only hope those leaving Portland stay the hell away from Texas.
They’ll vote blue.
They always do.
There is always one in every crowd not matter how obvious you make it. The quote answers the question - "progressives."
If Portland’s homeless population looks anything like San Diego’s, we’re talking mostly able-bodied men (with a minority of women and elderly), both black and white, who are severely psychotic and drug-addicted.
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You nailed it.
The demographics are the same from British Columbia to San Diego.
These types of kooks & crazies are a “dime a dozen” on the West Coast.
>>it’s pretty much like feeding pigeons: the more you feed them, the more pigeons you’ll get ...<<
I call it the “stray cat problem.” My BIL (now dead) couldn’t resist a stray cat. There were upwards if a hundred of them in and around his car repair business at the time of his death. His affinity for giving shelter, food, and unrestricted access to rampant procreation, untreated disease, and daily cat fights that looked like an Antifa protest, was well-known and tolerated by the locals - especially those who didn’t live near the mess. The cats, themselves, were not unlike the denizens of human homeless encampments - sickly, disfigured by disease and injury. Malnourished beings with rheumy eyes, open sores, and pandemic-level diseases. It was the disease that kept this population from growing exponentially. The environment in and around his business was very much like one sees in these human vagrant encampments. The amount of animal waste, trash, rotting food and garbage was staggering. The resident rats, crows and seagulls attended to the disposal of the dead and dying, but even they couldn’t keep ahead of the filthy landscape. Animal shelter workers would trap, sterilize, and release these strays back to this location as time and charity donations allowed. It rewarded the humans with a fine sense of compassionate good-works but, in truth, it only served to perpetuate the miserable existence of these pathetic animals. When my BIL died, the cats were trapped en masse and most were euthanized. Only a scant few were able to be rehabilitated sufficiently to become barn cats for local farmers willing to take them. The point is, this was a Hellish existence of the cats’ own making - aided and abetted by humans with a misguided sense of what compassionate treatment looked like. I don’t see a nickel’s worth of difference between these stray cats and the human “homeless” population infesting our cities today. Do you?
If they keep voting for Democrats...
My apologies, but we interact with so many idiots
one can never be certain.
I saw it as sarcasm immediately, buy usually we mark it as
such for the slower people.
And who is going to buy up the real-estate at a bargain price as people and businesses leave?
Foreigners, mostly.
...But they have street smarts. Which is just “so cool’ to spoiled, entitled prog white women.
There’s a reason it’s called street smarts. Because it belongs on the street. I bet some of the homeless talk about having home smarts.
And they will vote Solid Democrat in the next election, and the next...
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