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Portland Considers “Mandatory Rest Spaces” For The Homeless On Private Property
Hotair ^ | Dec 7, 2019 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 12/07/2019 6:13:47 PM PST by upchuck

Portland, Oregon, like many cities on the left coast, is struggling with a growing homelessness crisis. But what can they do about it? One idea that’s now being floated is to change the building codes so that all new structures (including private property, not just government buildings) include spaces for people to “rest” and “feel welcome and safe.” This understandably has prospective property owners concerned, since the wording is all quite vague and suggests that they will be forced to allow the homeless to camp in and around their buildings. (KATU News)

The obvious questions are already being raised. What specifically does “rest” mean in this context? Does that mean that new buildings will have to include spaces for the “unhoused” (their word) where they will be “protected from the weather?” That’s basically just an invitation for people to come trespass and stay there.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homeless; insanity; oregon; portkand; portland; tyranny
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To: upchuck
Rest on this.
21 posted on 12/07/2019 6:44:31 PM PST by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: upchuck

L8r


22 posted on 12/07/2019 6:44:42 PM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: upchuck

Funny how the liberals’ solutions always involve taking something away from someone who has earned it and giving it to someone who has not.


23 posted on 12/07/2019 6:44:59 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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To: Texan5

I haven’t spent enough time that far north so as to be aware.

What I do like is that Texas is too far south for much red cottonwood. My allergies have been so much better since I moved down here.


24 posted on 12/07/2019 6:47:50 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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To: MrEdd

Junk yard dogs. Everyone needs a few dozen.


25 posted on 12/07/2019 6:51:18 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!)
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To: upchuck

I hope some of those “rogue” asteroids crashes into any one (or all) the rouge cities on the left coast eliminating a whole host of problems from Antifa through Zedongists.

I will mourn the few trees that die as a result of the impact but will celebrate the mass extinction of the people who are claiming we need fewer people on the planet but want to kill everyone else but themselves.


26 posted on 12/07/2019 6:52:39 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (#NoNBA #No NFL)
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To: upchuck

I believe Russians tried this on 1917. Didn’t turn out well


27 posted on 12/07/2019 6:54:51 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: upchuck

Start with each elected official’s house who votes for this...


28 posted on 12/07/2019 6:55:14 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: upchuck

Go Portland, great idea!!


29 posted on 12/07/2019 6:56:33 PM PST by Professional
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To: GnuThere

Mandatory transporting bums wherever they desire to go when they want to be driven.


30 posted on 12/07/2019 6:57:29 PM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

All LIBS show be required to take in a homeless person as part of their family...with all privileges.


31 posted on 12/07/2019 6:58:51 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

How do you import a plague? Fire ants? Skunk attractant? vampire bats?


32 posted on 12/07/2019 6:59:20 PM PST by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: Dogbert41

If only landmines were legal.


33 posted on 12/07/2019 7:00:13 PM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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To: EinNYC

HOW DARE YOU!

To accuse a “PERSON OF COLOR” of being a LAZY, DRUG ADDICTED, WELFARE SUCKING, THUG, BUM, you should be ashamed of your self.

Just as I am for my lack of politically correct compassion.


34 posted on 12/07/2019 7:00:57 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: EinNYC

Beats working for a living.


35 posted on 12/07/2019 7:01:16 PM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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To: 2banana

Their dachas should be used first, no question.


36 posted on 12/07/2019 7:02:53 PM PST by wally_bert (Your methods were a little incomplete, you too for that matter.)
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To: upchuck

I’m not sure if that would stand up to Constitutional scrutiny.

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Article [V.]
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.


37 posted on 12/07/2019 7:05:01 PM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: EinNYC

He’s chillin’. Is that drug paraphernalia on the ground next to him? My town already gets Portland’s overflow. No more, please.


38 posted on 12/07/2019 7:05:47 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: upchuck

Just Compensation
This is a taking.


39 posted on 12/07/2019 7:06:06 PM PST by ptsal
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Yeah, those property owners are going to feel REAL safe with the loonies, crazies and druggies camped on their property.

Probably will be no worse than the Charles Manson family. Norman Rockwell missed painting the new ones today but probably Tim Burton could do it.

40 posted on 12/07/2019 7:08:13 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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