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.
You voted for it, you deal with the consequences.
I could give many examples of how Central Oregon is changing, but here is just one from Bend schools.
A couple from my son's church was informed that based on a survey given to entering middle school children, their son could benefit from the LGBTQ club. They were called repeatedly and always refused. Finally, they asked if they could visit a club meeting and see the curriculum. The school answered no to both requests. The next call was from the State of Oregon expressing their concerns. The couple immediately quit their jobs and moved out of state. My son visited a Bend middle school and saw ubiquitous posters carrying inspirational affirmations of gender fluidity.
That should no longer be an automatic assumption in Leftist-controlled polity.
"The people" can vote them in, but "the people" can never vote them out again. Other means are required.
No???
How shocking.
On the bright side, that’s more empty houses for the homeless to squat in…
If someone else buys the house and assumes the tax payments, no on will care at all about these people.
Now they want to move after they voted to destroy their own area. People are idiots. I hope these jerk offs stay where they are.
It’s basically the wild west there. City don’t care. Cops don’t care. Just a huge mess courtesy of the hard left.
This forced “exodus” might be part of the Socialist’s Plan to rid the city of hard working people to become a Commie Paradise!
LOOK OUT WEST COAST!
I thought the Aunt Teefah Fascists were running Portland now.
Half of them squat in the middle of the sidewalk.
Finally, they asked if they could visit a club meeting and see the curriculum. The school answered no to both requests. The next call was from the State of Oregon expressing their concerns. The couple immediately quit their jobs and moved out of state.
Damnn, that’s scary, and that’s why I homeschool. Before covid, I questioned the curriculum in Math, and I was taken to the back in a small room with two of the teachers, door closed. When covid lockdown came right after, she didn’t go back.
So after 30 years of DEM VOTING he figures out it was kinda stooooopid.
Like the guy who discovered a few weeks ago that all this time professional wrestling was fixed with the winners decided upon long in advance. "Didn't see that one coming. And all that money I lost betting."
Photo of modern Portland outdoorsy housing camp....
“Mr.and Mrs.Mgummba T’noogka Decided to Return to Somalia After Dreams of American Life Faded For Them. “Our shacks back home were plush and luxurious compared with America.”
Bullshit hoss
I deal with it in Nashville.
Cost me half million so far
And been dangerous like 10mm pulled dangerous
And I sure as F didn’t vote for it
I know it’s only slightly possible but if any poster here thinks these are homeless
They are not
They are drug addict predators through and through
I doubt anyone here knows this issue like I do
These cities are run by stupid people. Lose their tax base then what can those cities accomplish? Detroit and Baltimore is Portland’s future. Cities either grow or shrink. Growth can be managed, shrinkage is just chaos.
So the useful idiot democrats vote for this disaster and now want to run away to some well run red city and vote to destroy that city next.
The Left beatified the homeless during the eighties to embarrass Reagan and the Republicans. They even had a Saint, Mitch Snyder. As a result they really can’t deal realistically with homelessness and the issue tends to ebb and flow depending on which party holds the White House.
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