At 6am they will be sent over to the new “Oasis Day Center” in NW Old Town (Broadway & 6th - nw Glisan & Hoyt) across from the Art Collage.
The entire block will be used for the hangout / clean up / resource center. Their hours: 6am - 10pm.
I’ve resided in OTCT for 14 years. I can’t tell you how much this will impact our lively hood and livability here. I imagine this will amplify crime 30% in my neighborhood as well as the neighboring areas.
We must stop our government officials from continuing to center services on our west side!
The “homeless” it turns out are smarter and more particular about where they sleep than we thought. They don’t want one big room with beds spaced 4 feet apart, with no place to put their stuff, no thought for their pets.
The line from a Costner baseball film says: “ If you build it, they will come”.
Seems like it didn’t happen. NO one showed up!
Turns out they don’t want our charity and condescending attitude toward them.
Leave them alone, keep the door open and a hot pot of soup….they will come when they are ready.
First, Ruby Reichart: Public transportation in Portland is up and running a lot earlier than 6:00 AM. And I must comment on Gail Cronyn's plan to put all the Poors of the Pearl in jail for 30 days by echoing the great German filmmaker Werner Rainer Fassbinder in "The Merchant of Four Seasons" (1973) when, after someone breaks some glass in a bar, the bartender leaps up and bellows "WHO PAYS FOR THIS!" Yes, who pays for the astronomical cost of all that imprisonment? All those "county" doctors and nurses and the people to guard them too... WHO PAYS FOR THIS? I'm sure the nice people of Northwest Portland would be happy to contribute to a Go Fund Me campaign... because where else is the money coming from?
Of course, the solution is... affordable housing! Yes, mentioning Affordable Housing is when everybody gets a chance to be a Serious Person. Unfortunately, that housing has to be built, or at least developed from renovations, also expensive, and such construction only happens when at least a few people get to make some serious money... and WHO PAYS FOR THIS? Isn't that what capitalism at its purest is all about, using the poors to turn a profit?
I still think Mayor Wilson's plan to set up more overnight homeless shelters, using existing structures whenever possible, at least has the tidy virtue of being an inexpensive first step. And I deeply admire him for doing this without first consulting every last bore in Portland. In his plan, when the rent-a-cops in white gloves sweep the trash from a sidewalk encampment those evicted and without tents will at least have a sheltered place to sleep. And hopefully, everybody in the neighborhood will be able to walk their dogs without being too scared.
It’s weird your entire comment completely ignores the rampant real issue - which is drug addiction. And yes, I’d gladly pay my tax money (millions spent, so far) on actual imprisonment for those who commit crimes, than this constant, useless enablement of disorder. And god forbid the government here listen to their actual tax paying residents, they wouldn’t want to waste time doing that!
It’s bizarre you dismiss people’s valid fears about walking around their own neighborhood with sarcasm, as if assaults and crime don’t happen with great frequency in NW. You sound like the condescending and out of touch bore.
Maybe all the streetcars are running (they’re not) but it was meant to be a tongue in cheek comment to our mayor’s argument that the Pearl for this reason is a good place for a homeless shelter.
The Streetcar is likely ecstatic about its paying customers from Northrop to Nowhere, I’m sure.
All the studies mentioned by Wilson, eliminates the fact that most cities he offers as examples for his ill advised ideas, have long ago abandoned overnight shelters in city centers as a solution. This society and the culture of bandaids and shoddy fixes are again behind the curve and further degrading our cities to a level unimaginable in many western civilized countries like the Netherlands.
At 6am they will be sent over to the new “Oasis Day Center” in NW Old Town (Broadway & 6th - nw Glisan & Hoyt) across from the Art Collage.
The entire block will be used for the hangout / clean up / resource center. Their hours: 6am - 10pm.
I’ve resided in OTCT for 14 years. I can’t tell you how much this will impact our lively hood and livability here. I imagine this will amplify crime 30% in my neighborhood as well as the neighboring areas.
We must stop our government officials from continuing to center services on our west side!
The “homeless” it turns out are smarter and more particular about where they sleep than we thought. They don’t want one big room with beds spaced 4 feet apart, with no place to put their stuff, no thought for their pets.
The line from a Costner baseball film says: “ If you build it, they will come”.
Seems like it didn’t happen. NO one showed up!
Turns out they don’t want our charity and condescending attitude toward them.
Leave them alone, keep the door open and a hot pot of soup….they will come when they are ready.
First, Ruby Reichart: Public transportation in Portland is up and running a lot earlier than 6:00 AM. And I must comment on Gail Cronyn's plan to put all the Poors of the Pearl in jail for 30 days by echoing the great German filmmaker Werner Rainer Fassbinder in "The Merchant of Four Seasons" (1973) when, after someone breaks some glass in a bar, the bartender leaps up and bellows "WHO PAYS FOR THIS!" Yes, who pays for the astronomical cost of all that imprisonment? All those "county" doctors and nurses and the people to guard them too... WHO PAYS FOR THIS? I'm sure the nice people of Northwest Portland would be happy to contribute to a Go Fund Me campaign... because where else is the money coming from?
Of course, the solution is... affordable housing! Yes, mentioning Affordable Housing is when everybody gets a chance to be a Serious Person. Unfortunately, that housing has to be built, or at least developed from renovations, also expensive, and such construction only happens when at least a few people get to make some serious money... and WHO PAYS FOR THIS? Isn't that what capitalism at its purest is all about, using the poors to turn a profit?
I still think Mayor Wilson's plan to set up more overnight homeless shelters, using existing structures whenever possible, at least has the tidy virtue of being an inexpensive first step. And I deeply admire him for doing this without first consulting every last bore in Portland. In his plan, when the rent-a-cops in white gloves sweep the trash from a sidewalk encampment those evicted and without tents will at least have a sheltered place to sleep. And hopefully, everybody in the neighborhood will be able to walk their dogs without being too scared.
It’s weird your entire comment completely ignores the rampant real issue - which is drug addiction. And yes, I’d gladly pay my tax money (millions spent, so far) on actual imprisonment for those who commit crimes, than this constant, useless enablement of disorder. And god forbid the government here listen to their actual tax paying residents, they wouldn’t want to waste time doing that!
It’s bizarre you dismiss people’s valid fears about walking around their own neighborhood with sarcasm, as if assaults and crime don’t happen with great frequency in NW. You sound like the condescending and out of touch bore.
Maybe all the streetcars are running (they’re not) but it was meant to be a tongue in cheek comment to our mayor’s argument that the Pearl for this reason is a good place for a homeless shelter.
The Streetcar is likely ecstatic about its paying customers from Northrop to Nowhere, I’m sure.
All the studies mentioned by Wilson, eliminates the fact that most cities he offers as examples for his ill advised ideas, have long ago abandoned overnight shelters in city centers as a solution. This society and the culture of bandaids and shoddy fixes are again behind the curve and further degrading our cities to a level unimaginable in many western civilized countries like the Netherlands.