Yeah, weird how the city has stuffed about 400 shelter beds into the Pearl as well as the absolute skid row that is the “Oasis” day shelter, but no shelters in Alameda where the clueless mayor lives! Maybe the protestors at his house last week had the right idea and Pearl residents should start paying him visits until he corrects the situation.
The River District Navigation Center has failed its neighbors from the day it went in - endless camping, drug dealing, prostitution and squalor on its steps. It's just another example of how it's NOT possible to mitigate the effects of putting low-barrier homeless shelters in high-density residential neighborhoods. There is not one single success story in our city, or anywhere, where this works. The Moore Center in North Portland has traumatized its residential neighbors, people near the MSRV are selling their homes, and Pearl District owners are selling their condos for staggering losses - just to get out of the neighborhood beset with drugs and squalor. The mayor needs to reset his strategy and follow in the steps of San Francisco, where consequences and "tough love" are now the policy, to clean up neighborhoods and truly help the acutely addicted people and mentally ill -- rather than just warehousing them, without supportive services.
If they are blocking sidewalks and stairwells, someone should file an ADA complaint with the city. Call 911 to report the sidewalk blockage and request to file a ADA complaint.
I like to climb the stairs to cross the Broadway bridge, but I found the stairs blocked. One time a person had the whole staircase blocked with his paraphernalia shooting up.
I do think we have an ally now in the Multnomah County District Attorney's office. Nathan Vasquez is just about the only politician currently in office in either governmental body who has more compassion for the victims of crime than for the criminal perpetrators. Quite unlike his incompetent predecessor Schmidt, nor the current county chair, JVP.
Perhaps we should try appealing to the DA's office for help more frequently.
HAHAHAHA...talk to the mayor???? A mayor who doesn't give a RIP about the neighborhoods he is destroying.
Yeah, weird how the city has stuffed about 400 shelter beds into the Pearl as well as the absolute skid row that is the “Oasis” day shelter, but no shelters in Alameda where the clueless mayor lives! Maybe the protestors at his house last week had the right idea and Pearl residents should start paying him visits until he corrects the situation.
Regarding Brian Harvey’s comment: “Every pedestrian I see walks off the sidewalk, down to the street.”
Several times recently I have had to walk off the sidewalk- blocked by people~into the street. Not safe!
The River District Navigation Center has failed its neighbors from the day it went in - endless camping, drug dealing, prostitution and squalor on its steps. It's just another example of how it's NOT possible to mitigate the effects of putting low-barrier homeless shelters in high-density residential neighborhoods. There is not one single success story in our city, or anywhere, where this works. The Moore Center in North Portland has traumatized its residential neighbors, people near the MSRV are selling their homes, and Pearl District owners are selling their condos for staggering losses - just to get out of the neighborhood beset with drugs and squalor. The mayor needs to reset his strategy and follow in the steps of San Francisco, where consequences and "tough love" are now the policy, to clean up neighborhoods and truly help the acutely addicted people and mentally ill -- rather than just warehousing them, without supportive services.
If they are blocking sidewalks and stairwells, someone should file an ADA complaint with the city. Call 911 to report the sidewalk blockage and request to file a ADA complaint.
I like to climb the stairs to cross the Broadway bridge, but I found the stairs blocked. One time a person had the whole staircase blocked with his paraphernalia shooting up.
It would be helpful if the reporting in the Examiner included the addresses of the places referred to in the articles.
I do think we have an ally now in the Multnomah County District Attorney's office. Nathan Vasquez is just about the only politician currently in office in either governmental body who has more compassion for the victims of crime than for the criminal perpetrators. Quite unlike his incompetent predecessor Schmidt, nor the current county chair, JVP.
Perhaps we should try appealing to the DA's office for help more frequently.