When it opened, it was intended to be a temporary short-term solution. Hence the inflatable bouncy-house structure. Significant commitments were made to maintain the building, set up rules for residents, and a promise to be a good neighbor. Didn't Homer Williams provide the site?
All low barrier shelters should be closed or converted to high barrier shelters which require sobriety and agreement to follow rules. The city should gradually exert a much tougher stance and set some expectations for the severely mentally ill homeless. It isn't wrong for the city to set expectations of public behavior and hold people accountable.
I am SO OVER this koo koo balance of "accountability"- the lack there of - in the name of "helping our most vulnerable" as the mayor states. Not "my most vulnerable" when there is ZERO accountability. And, at the same time, I am expected to pay all the dues I am charged to maintain a home, a car, a life in Portland.
Done. Done. This lack of oversight, accountability, is b.s. The promise os a "good neighbor" agreement (eye roll) is total junk.
Fk this. Can we call a duck a duck-- finally??? Take the gloves off. Deposit offenders in jail for the LONG haul; force the mentally ill into recovery facilities; do the same with addicts / users living on the street using our public spaces to do drugs and deal. The self rightousness that the RIDICULOUS body autonomy policy cloaks "the less fortunate" with, forces us all to live the addict, street junkie, mentally ill life style. FK that! How about SANITY back on our streets!!! What the hell city of Portland?? Have you lost your fkng mind????
Until you can corral the Social Justice Warrior contingent, the ACLU (who are obsessed with individual rights vs community rights) and “nonprofit” parasitic groups who’s survival depends on keeping the status quo, nothing will change.
Despite years of community “lived experience” about the need to involuntarily commit ongoing drug addicts and the untreated mentally ill, nothing has been able to move the needle to get our City, County and State legislators do anything but virtue signal and gaslight voters into thinking the higher taxes they pushed on us would actually succeed in solving the problem.
One other thought--The woman who was cold and looking for food that caused the fire at Elephant's was only a few blocks away from the homeless shelter for women on Lovejoy. Isn't that why we have these shelters all over NW Portland? So people don't have to spend the night out in the cold? Mayor, your thoughts?
Unfortunately, the organizations, NGO’s, nonprofits, whatever you want to call it, hire people with “lived experience “ who have no understanding of appropriate boundaries, appear to put in the absolute minimum effort if any at all, and the nonprofits tolerate it because, who would want to work with such a difficult population? Plus the NGO is cashing the checks on the gravy train of sustaining the status quo. The police are battered and denigrated by the Peacock gang and all of their sycophantic supporters, so why make an effort? It is a recipe for failure.
I am equal parts in awe and incredulous that people who pay over $500K for condos in the Pearl, do so in spite of the government-sanctioned sheetshow that is the excess tolerance regime. I live in SW Portland and won't even go to The Pearl anymore for Powell's, dinner, shopping. I can't imagine paying for the delight of living amongst the felonious filth.
Shelters should not be put in residential areas. Bybee lakes is in a non-residential area and works great. And the county is closing shelters while simultaneously opening new ones. Why open new ones if they can’t manage the ones they have? Just more mismanagement and waste. The homeless have been given the keys to the city and now they expect residents to give more and suffer even more than they already are.
We give addicts and criminals shelter, tents, needles, pipes and food. We give them one stop shopping at the Bottle Drops where they can get cash and meet their drug dealers. And we barely have jail beds or a functional criminal justice system, which was intentional. No wonder criminals and severe addicts come here.
When it opened, it was intended to be a temporary short-term solution. Hence the inflatable bouncy-house structure. Significant commitments were made to maintain the building, set up rules for residents, and a promise to be a good neighbor. Didn't Homer Williams provide the site?
Feels like another episode of Groundhog Day.
Banksy didn't have to create Dismal Land in Britain, he could have just sold tickets to Portland.
All low barrier shelters should be closed or converted to high barrier shelters which require sobriety and agreement to follow rules. The city should gradually exert a much tougher stance and set some expectations for the severely mentally ill homeless. It isn't wrong for the city to set expectations of public behavior and hold people accountable.
I am SO OVER this koo koo balance of "accountability"- the lack there of - in the name of "helping our most vulnerable" as the mayor states. Not "my most vulnerable" when there is ZERO accountability. And, at the same time, I am expected to pay all the dues I am charged to maintain a home, a car, a life in Portland.
Done. Done. This lack of oversight, accountability, is b.s. The promise os a "good neighbor" agreement (eye roll) is total junk.
Fk this. Can we call a duck a duck-- finally??? Take the gloves off. Deposit offenders in jail for the LONG haul; force the mentally ill into recovery facilities; do the same with addicts / users living on the street using our public spaces to do drugs and deal. The self rightousness that the RIDICULOUS body autonomy policy cloaks "the less fortunate" with, forces us all to live the addict, street junkie, mentally ill life style. FK that! How about SANITY back on our streets!!! What the hell city of Portland?? Have you lost your fkng mind????
We are seething red and Oregon will flip red... because we have had it!
Until you can corral the Social Justice Warrior contingent, the ACLU (who are obsessed with individual rights vs community rights) and “nonprofit” parasitic groups who’s survival depends on keeping the status quo, nothing will change.
Despite years of community “lived experience” about the need to involuntarily commit ongoing drug addicts and the untreated mentally ill, nothing has been able to move the needle to get our City, County and State legislators do anything but virtue signal and gaslight voters into thinking the higher taxes they pushed on us would actually succeed in solving the problem.
They’re not vulnerable, they victimize the vulnerable. Portland has an obscene level of “politically correct” language that perpetuates enabling.
One other thought--The woman who was cold and looking for food that caused the fire at Elephant's was only a few blocks away from the homeless shelter for women on Lovejoy. Isn't that why we have these shelters all over NW Portland? So people don't have to spend the night out in the cold? Mayor, your thoughts?
Unfortunately, the organizations, NGO’s, nonprofits, whatever you want to call it, hire people with “lived experience “ who have no understanding of appropriate boundaries, appear to put in the absolute minimum effort if any at all, and the nonprofits tolerate it because, who would want to work with such a difficult population? Plus the NGO is cashing the checks on the gravy train of sustaining the status quo. The police are battered and denigrated by the Peacock gang and all of their sycophantic supporters, so why make an effort? It is a recipe for failure.
Bethanie’s Room opened in February.
I am equal parts in awe and incredulous that people who pay over $500K for condos in the Pearl, do so in spite of the government-sanctioned sheetshow that is the excess tolerance regime. I live in SW Portland and won't even go to The Pearl anymore for Powell's, dinner, shopping. I can't imagine paying for the delight of living amongst the felonious filth.
Shelters should not be put in residential areas. Bybee lakes is in a non-residential area and works great. And the county is closing shelters while simultaneously opening new ones. Why open new ones if they can’t manage the ones they have? Just more mismanagement and waste. The homeless have been given the keys to the city and now they expect residents to give more and suffer even more than they already are.
We give addicts and criminals shelter, tents, needles, pipes and food. We give them one stop shopping at the Bottle Drops where they can get cash and meet their drug dealers. And we barely have jail beds or a functional criminal justice system, which was intentional. No wonder criminals and severe addicts come here.