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I just spent over an hour cleaning the dump that surrounded the utility box at couch plaza - between couch, davis, 16th ave nw / 15th ave nw. The dumpsite on the EAST side of 15th ave nw remains - as it has for over a month. Pbot no longer deals with ODOT land. Odot does NOTHING, and I'm suppose to believe that the city is going to care for our streets?

I listened to the news regarding Monday's meeting. "Affluent"???? wtf? I live in a 380 sq ft AFFORDABLE home. And - I clean the refuse from the ass**les that are living on the street. Nope - no compassion here. I do not care to be the partner to the mayor or any other elected person. Want to partner with me cleaning feces? Let's go.

If you don't have the stomach or the shovel - do your freaking job! Get these creeps OFF THE STREET, and MAKE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS SAFE!

No feelings of "oohhhh pooor unfortunate". FU** THAT.

City, County, Metro - do you fu**ing job!

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Aug 1Edited

In response to the first comment - of course the mayor wasn’t going to get buy in for these shelters, because overnight low barrier shelters are a blight no neighborhood should have to put up with because our lazy and misguided politicians are apparently incapable of doing anything better. Yes, they do need a different approach - stop putting low barrier shelters in the middle of neighborhoods. Put 24/7 well regulated shelters with rules, etc. in neighborhoods and move low barrier to areas that won’t have immediate residential impact. Provide wraparound services, start enforcing laws.

The homeless issue isn’t just an overnight thing - it’s the DAYTIME loitering in our public spaces, wandering through our backyards and up onto our porches to check door handles, assaults, public drug usage outside a school playground (the list goes on and on) that we are all fed up with. Overnight camping does zero to address safety and livability for everyone else. It’s time the city started considering everyone else.

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