When I read articles about homeless in Portland, it sounds like there are hundreds of non-profits. Some are doing good things, but when I read about “41 graduated last year” or “50 high barrier beds at Bybee Lakes” I have to look down and shake my head…What are we talking about here…”overnight shelters, are not the solution to homelessness and should not be painted as such” Wait a minute!! When do we start working on the solution. I thought that’s why Wilson was elected. Portland is awash with fentanyl, drug addiction is at crisis levels, 11,000 sleeping on the streets of Portland and we are still handing out drug supplies and calling it “harm reduction” …even San Francisco stopped doing that. How long before our leaders wake up..how many more Mayors will it take to clean up the drugs in Portland
Editor: These comments by Lance Orton just help the community better understand the boneheaded decisions the mayor is making in homeless policy.
Nighttime no-barrier shelters with imported homeless being housed in the Pearl - a fraction of whom are actually from the area or Oregon for that matter, will not work.
Orton, the mayor's homeless guru, is actually is quoted as saying
“I thought the pushback at the Armory was going to be stronger,” Orton said. “There was a surprising amount of support.”
What meeting was he attending? Anyone - I mean anyone who was there and does not lie or have delusions saw the overwhelming opposition from almost all of the 600 people, to the mayor's planned no-barrier overnight shelter. The mayor ignored the warnings, the comments and the FACTS presented at the. meeting and in the months leading up to the meeting. The fact that Orton said what he said is just indicative of the people who are surrounding the mayor. "Yes people" who have little experience and ability to change things. Sorry Lance - being formally homeless is not an experience that translates to solving the problem. Nor does being a staff member of some rich persons "homeless" organization.
The people who surround the mayor, including the Portland Solutions staff lead by Brocker Skyler-Knapp and Hank Smith are untrained and amateur hold overs from the Wheeler administration who brought you tiny house shelters that are an utter and overpriced failure. Yes, let's keep those folks, who along with the Urban Alchemy and Transition Projects homeless industrial complex representatives, who keep making the same dumb decisions that endanger the community and do nothing to solve the homeless crisis.
Where is the city council? Going along like lemmings. It's funny to see the same people who decry the US Congress and Senate for not standing up to the Chief Executive - not standing up to this city's mayor.
Look at the facts - the costs are astronomical for each tiny house or bed in one of the mayor's shelters. And even the city "dashboard" showing some marginal metrics (not the true facts or metrics) illustrates how much a failure these program are.
For all the taxpayer money that is being wasted and making the owners of Urban Alchemy and Transition Projects richer - the city's residents, renters, business people, homeowners and neighborhoods are poorer. Time to make a strong political statement - a recall is the only way out.
When I read articles about homeless in Portland, it sounds like there are hundreds of non-profits. Some are doing good things, but when I read about “41 graduated last year” or “50 high barrier beds at Bybee Lakes” I have to look down and shake my head…What are we talking about here…”overnight shelters, are not the solution to homelessness and should not be painted as such” Wait a minute!! When do we start working on the solution. I thought that’s why Wilson was elected. Portland is awash with fentanyl, drug addiction is at crisis levels, 11,000 sleeping on the streets of Portland and we are still handing out drug supplies and calling it “harm reduction” …even San Francisco stopped doing that. How long before our leaders wake up..how many more Mayors will it take to clean up the drugs in Portland
Editor: These comments by Lance Orton just help the community better understand the boneheaded decisions the mayor is making in homeless policy.
Nighttime no-barrier shelters with imported homeless being housed in the Pearl - a fraction of whom are actually from the area or Oregon for that matter, will not work.
Orton, the mayor's homeless guru, is actually is quoted as saying
“I thought the pushback at the Armory was going to be stronger,” Orton said. “There was a surprising amount of support.”
What meeting was he attending? Anyone - I mean anyone who was there and does not lie or have delusions saw the overwhelming opposition from almost all of the 600 people, to the mayor's planned no-barrier overnight shelter. The mayor ignored the warnings, the comments and the FACTS presented at the. meeting and in the months leading up to the meeting. The fact that Orton said what he said is just indicative of the people who are surrounding the mayor. "Yes people" who have little experience and ability to change things. Sorry Lance - being formally homeless is not an experience that translates to solving the problem. Nor does being a staff member of some rich persons "homeless" organization.
The people who surround the mayor, including the Portland Solutions staff lead by Brocker Skyler-Knapp and Hank Smith are untrained and amateur hold overs from the Wheeler administration who brought you tiny house shelters that are an utter and overpriced failure. Yes, let's keep those folks, who along with the Urban Alchemy and Transition Projects homeless industrial complex representatives, who keep making the same dumb decisions that endanger the community and do nothing to solve the homeless crisis.
Where is the city council? Going along like lemmings. It's funny to see the same people who decry the US Congress and Senate for not standing up to the Chief Executive - not standing up to this city's mayor.
Look at the facts - the costs are astronomical for each tiny house or bed in one of the mayor's shelters. And even the city "dashboard" showing some marginal metrics (not the true facts or metrics) illustrates how much a failure these program are.
For all the taxpayer money that is being wasted and making the owners of Urban Alchemy and Transition Projects richer - the city's residents, renters, business people, homeowners and neighborhoods are poorer. Time to make a strong political statement - a recall is the only way out.
Have we located the person who has Wilson’s brain yet? He needs it back.