Posted on 08/17/2022 9:07:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
KGW8 aired a report yesterday about families in North Portland who have had enough of the city’s homeless camps and rising crime. Some of them are seriously thinking about leaving but some have already sold their homes and are moving further out into the suburbs, away from the problems associated with the city.
“It makes you not feel that great about living here,” said Greg Dilkes, who has lived in North Portland for 30 years. “It makes living in the neighborhood harder, not as congenial as it could be.”
Dilkes said the homeless camps along the Peninsula Crossing Trail near his home have changed the area.
“It’s the first time in a long time that we’ve actually seriously thought about moving,” he said…
North Portland neighbors told KGW at least three families along McKenna Avenue are leaving due to nearby homeless camps. Real estate broker Lauren Iaquinta sees it first hand.
“I would say the migration to the suburbs, I’ve seen quite a bit in the last two years,” she said. “Most people don’t want to have to worry about if they can leave their car parked in their driveway overnight without maybe having it broken into. It’s a pretty testy subject.”
The issues these particular neighbors are complaining about involved a bike trail called Peninsula Crossing which has become a haven for the homeless. Over the weekend, KGW did a story about the trail and the people living there which is worth a look. TT Sanchez, the “camp mom” who is supposedly in charge of the camp, says homeowners have nothing to fear from her or other camp residents. She describes the camp as one big family of people who are temporarily down and out. But at least one camp resident KGW spoke to admitted that he chose the homeless lifestyle because he prefers it. He doesn’t explain why exactly but I think you can probably guess.
North Portland isn’t the only part of the city facing these problems. Yesterday, KATU 2 published a story about people in Southeast Portland who feel terrorized by a group of homeless people living in a large treehouse adjacent to their property.
“We actually had to put up a fence from Johnson Creek all the way back to the Springwater Trail, just to keep them out of our backyard,” said [Kerry] Stickler.
He’s talking about people who live in the treehouse, about 100 yards from his home on city property. Stickler shared a video with KATU News, showing us the elaborate structure built in the trees, including a window and a staircase surrounded by fencing. He and his wife, Marysue, say a few dozen people have been living in the treehouse, and they’re not good neighbors.
“They’re right outside our bedroom window at night. We can hear them,” said Marysue Stickler. “They’re fighting. There’s [sic] guys punching women, women screaming up and down the street. It’s horrible.”…
“They threatened to shoot our dog. They’ve actually shot at us from up there when my dog was barking,” said Stickler.
Here’s a photo of the treehouse. As you can see, it’s not a small structure.
A Southeast Portland couple says they've been terrorized for years by campers living in and around a massive treehouse built on city property.https://t.co/UxJKDFQZAN
— KATU News (@KATUNews) August 16, 2022
The land where the treehouse stands is owned by the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services. You’d think they’d be concerned about keeping the environment near a creek free of garbage but the bureau declined to be interviewed about it when KATU made the request. This seems to be how the city operates. It can take weeks or months to get the city’s attention and get them to enforce codes against illegal camping and construction. Residents just have to put up with it or, as this clip shows, give up and leave the city.
> Now they want to move after they voted to destroy their own area.
Liberal locusts.
Just like San Francisco…..
Funny how the cancer they encouraged supported and voted for is not to their liking now
Just don’t come to Texas. It’s way too hot and miserable to live in a tent.
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And of course, our ENEMEDIA helps the Marxist Democrats by downplaying homelessness when a Democrat is in the White House and playing up the horrible, endless, hopeless plight of the downtrodden homeless when a Republican is in the White House!
“LOOK OUT WEST COAST!”
This all will become moot when the JDF (Juan De Fuca) Subduction plate snaps back. Which is due, since it seems every 300 years or so it occurs. BAM! SWISH! GURGLE! No problemo.
People need to leave at the first sign of decay
People need to leave at the first sign of decay
This ain’t Omega man
This is campers within 150 yards of wealth and a billion in commercial assets within 500 yards either way
They get you by transiting as much as inhabiting
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It’s not like white flight which my parents lived
It’s different
I saw some of this Manhattan when I lived there 40 years ago
Crazies roaming upper broadway
These are drug addicts
Bend was pretty much down the toilet by the turn of the century, and Sisters even before Bend. Sorry to hear that Redmond’s going the same way. I spent a lot of time in central Oregon in the late 70s and early 80s, mostly in Prineville, but I haven’t been up that way in years.
Just like parasites!
You mean like termites.
The nearest town next to me is 10K people and they are wanting to revitalize the historic downtown and expect tourist and the population to go downtown again. Until they deal with the roaming homeless that is pie in the sky. There are homeless living under bridges and in wooded areas near buildings stealing electricity.
The politicians will work themselves up and decide to turn the police loose and move them on and before the job is done their liberal tendencies and a few so-called advocates will call out the politicians and local churches for allowing this to go on, are you not Christians they will wail and they back down. Keep in mind the homeless advocates who do this don’t do anything to help the homeless but will use guilt of others to assuage their guilt and push their political agendas.
It is happening in other places.
I was at a small city (72000) last week. At one crossroad was 4 persons, one on each corner, with a signs begging.
Behind them were several retail stores, all with Help Wanted signs.
And that was just one crossroad! Another time I saw beggars all along the interstate crossroads creating traffic hazards due to their begging.
I don’t EVER remember seeing a beggar in my youth from 1946-1968, except panhandlers in California.
Portland families are leaving the city to escape homelessness and crime
Does that make them racists and homophobes?
“revitalize the historic downtown”
Translation: Scam some out of state developers into pouring money into their third world %$#hole.
You broke it, you bought it.
I understand.
In these times any noted breakdown of the social order I recommend getting out and redeploy assets.
The only places one should invest in at this time are areas willing to use force if needed to protect private property remove street people.
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