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. I live across the Columbia river from Portland in the Vancouver Washington area. This past summer, the homeless situation was BAD. B A D. Driving down I-5, there were homeless encampments on both side in pretty much every free space. Graffiti everywhere, etc. The most troubling thing was that A LOT of these homeless were living in cars, or old decrepit RVs. Parked on the side of the secondary roads in the industrial areas wherever there was a free space. But, I took a drive down a few days ago, and they’ve cleaned a bunch of this crap out. I didn’t see ANY cars/vans/RVs being used as living quarters, and the city has put concrete blocks (big ones that you can’t move by hand, or likely destroy without explosives) in all the spots that there had previously been RVs and vans. The tent cities have greatly decreased in size. (Some of them burned and weren’t repopulated, some of them just seemed to move along, and the city came in and cleaned up behind them).
The folks in charge are still leftists, and Antifa still has the “right” to go into downtown and bust out shop windows, and set dumpsters on fire without prosecution. But at least the homeless camps are getting taken care of.
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. We drive thru and around Portland regularly. Lived there for several years when it was Free and Beautiful. Portland now reminds me of a 3rd world country. We have to go into the city on Monday to pick up appliances. Not looking forward to it.
I have to drive I-205, east Portland, regularly. The homeless camps along the freeway, especially near Powell Blvd., seem to spring up and then get torn down by the authorities. I’m assuming they move back and forth from
I-5 to I-205.
Wheeler was key to the destruction of portland an odd fact that the reporter missed.
Good luck. I’m in one of the saner parts of the Oregon coast, and there was an assault on an “elderly” vet and his service dog in a local park. Coos won’t do anything because no weapon was involved. The local commies are saying we need to recall the sheriff, who is pretty damn good, and bring more progressives into the area. Yeah. That’ll help.