Cute party line "policy". To be clear - NO ONE at the NWDA is against providing services to assist people into a life off of the streets. There is NO FAITH that the city / county will serve people completely - meaning 24/7. WHO picks up the other 16 hours of the 24 hour clock? RESIDENTS of the community who have NOT been consulted about incoming shelters! The same community members who are ALREADY cleaning up streets full of feces, used syringes from needles distributed in our community by the handfulls - not an exchange - a hand out, garbage by the truck loads, dealing with tents, living around boulders and fences, walking around and through addicts smoking fentanyl, shooting up or passed out on our streets, sidewalks, next to buildings. WTF! ENOUGH!
Mayor Wilson, in his June 18th email (“Here’s what I want you to know about emergency shelters…”), outlines very specific commitments to neighborhoods where shelter are being proposed. They represent a good start, but there needs to be funding commitments and personnel tied to these. NW Examiner should pose these questions to the Mayor.
"Engaging residents, local organizations and people with lived experience fosters trust, increases transparency and strengthens the community’s shared commitment to creating safe, inclusive and compassionate shelter options.”
Once again we get the usual Portlandia City/Counter boilerplate, but it's a lie: The only "people with lived experience" that Jessica, Candace, Sameer, Angelita and Tiffany Koyama Lane will ever listen to are the junkies, the mentally ill and whoever else fits their ideological stereotype of "The Oppressed". Don't expect that crowd to ever have an ear out to listen to the LIVED EXPERIENCE of those of us who regularly clean up garbage, needles, tents, tarps and yes, feces. We, who voluntarily clean up after these unfortunates, pay the taxes that are funding all of this homeless rescue work, and also fund these politicians significantly overgenerous paychecks, will never have our "lived experience" acknowledged. And this knowledge is driving the resistance of NW Portland's tax-paying community to resist the City's plans.
Cute party line "policy". To be clear - NO ONE at the NWDA is against providing services to assist people into a life off of the streets. There is NO FAITH that the city / county will serve people completely - meaning 24/7. WHO picks up the other 16 hours of the 24 hour clock? RESIDENTS of the community who have NOT been consulted about incoming shelters! The same community members who are ALREADY cleaning up streets full of feces, used syringes from needles distributed in our community by the handfulls - not an exchange - a hand out, garbage by the truck loads, dealing with tents, living around boulders and fences, walking around and through addicts smoking fentanyl, shooting up or passed out on our streets, sidewalks, next to buildings. WTF! ENOUGH!
Mayor Wilson, in his June 18th email (“Here’s what I want you to know about emergency shelters…”), outlines very specific commitments to neighborhoods where shelter are being proposed. They represent a good start, but there needs to be funding commitments and personnel tied to these. NW Examiner should pose these questions to the Mayor.
"Engaging residents, local organizations and people with lived experience fosters trust, increases transparency and strengthens the community’s shared commitment to creating safe, inclusive and compassionate shelter options.”
Once again we get the usual Portlandia City/Counter boilerplate, but it's a lie: The only "people with lived experience" that Jessica, Candace, Sameer, Angelita and Tiffany Koyama Lane will ever listen to are the junkies, the mentally ill and whoever else fits their ideological stereotype of "The Oppressed". Don't expect that crowd to ever have an ear out to listen to the LIVED EXPERIENCE of those of us who regularly clean up garbage, needles, tents, tarps and yes, feces. We, who voluntarily clean up after these unfortunates, pay the taxes that are funding all of this homeless rescue work, and also fund these politicians significantly overgenerous paychecks, will never have our "lived experience" acknowledged. And this knowledge is driving the resistance of NW Portland's tax-paying community to resist the City's plans.
And I wish them well!