Outside Safeway is sometimes crowded with transients just before or after dark and almost always especially in the dark alcove opposite Sisters Coffee on Marshall.
I think there should be a bright light in that alcove and it would be fair if the city should pitch in to give Safeway extra security guard hours.
Same for extra security at Fred Meyer on Burnside, some of the ample money from the ballot initiative or other city funds might help them too.
The alcove next to the health center and opposite Safeway is crazy, people congregate there at all hours which makes walking to Safeway the most depressing thing to do. I’ve been spit at, cussed at and thrown food at just by passing by, before entering the market- with more of the same urban blight.
You think it’s a good idea to document by snapping a photo?
I have compassion, and I’m not living a lavish lifestyle here in the Pearl, but my property taxes are staring me down from my desk and it feels like an insult upon injury.
This is not an issue of affordable housing, being bankrupted by medical bills, loosing a lease or working through trauma. Bandaids that don’t stick are completely useless, as is funding of parks, planting trees, creating bike paths and reviving Oldtown by diverting it’s desperation a few blocks into the Pearl. I love to bike but I avoid the broadway bridge, I love parks I have a puppy, I love all the great developments planned- but it’s MEANINGLESS in the face of this chaos going on in our streets.
When I look at Zillow or another real estate publication, the condos, for sale, in the Pearl all seem to have one thing in common, they all say “price reduction”…I feel sorry for Portlanders who paid a lot of money to buy a condo, in what was once one of the nicest neighborhoods in Portland only to have our city leaders drop the ball…Portlands recovery lags behind almost every big city in America..it didn’t have to be like this
This all tracks back to one of the dumbest political promises in Portland history--our capon-mayor's promise to end homelessness in a year--since amended to add "unsheltered." It enabled the Oregonian and WillyWeek to carry water for the political naif and avoid putting a tough guy, Marco Rubio, into city hall. Wilson promptly signaled the socialists on city council that he wouldn't make any waves when he refused to break the tie vote (brilliant engineering by the charter commission) for council president.
Now the socialists want to defund removal of feral camps--Wilson will have to accept whatever they want since he doesn't have a veto. By design--and we hope the socialists thank Julia Meier in their nightly prayers.
Those of us out in the neighborhoods secretly revel in the Pearl's agony--the high-rise nabobs now understand what's become of the rest of the city. Join the celebration!
Outside Safeway is sometimes crowded with transients just before or after dark and almost always especially in the dark alcove opposite Sisters Coffee on Marshall.
I think there should be a bright light in that alcove and it would be fair if the city should pitch in to give Safeway extra security guard hours.
Same for extra security at Fred Meyer on Burnside, some of the ample money from the ballot initiative or other city funds might help them too.
I would add CVS on NW Couch and 13th to the list.
The alcove next to the health center and opposite Safeway is crazy, people congregate there at all hours which makes walking to Safeway the most depressing thing to do. I’ve been spit at, cussed at and thrown food at just by passing by, before entering the market- with more of the same urban blight.
You think it’s a good idea to document by snapping a photo?
I have compassion, and I’m not living a lavish lifestyle here in the Pearl, but my property taxes are staring me down from my desk and it feels like an insult upon injury.
This is not an issue of affordable housing, being bankrupted by medical bills, loosing a lease or working through trauma. Bandaids that don’t stick are completely useless, as is funding of parks, planting trees, creating bike paths and reviving Oldtown by diverting it’s desperation a few blocks into the Pearl. I love to bike but I avoid the broadway bridge, I love parks I have a puppy, I love all the great developments planned- but it’s MEANINGLESS in the face of this chaos going on in our streets.
When I look at Zillow or another real estate publication, the condos, for sale, in the Pearl all seem to have one thing in common, they all say “price reduction”…I feel sorry for Portlanders who paid a lot of money to buy a condo, in what was once one of the nicest neighborhoods in Portland only to have our city leaders drop the ball…Portlands recovery lags behind almost every big city in America..it didn’t have to be like this
Our District 4 Council members should advocating on behalf of all the voters. Remember that next year when it's time to vote.
They'll easily get 25-percent of the morons to re-elect them. I'll bet you voted for the new charter and its nifty Easter eggs.
This all tracks back to one of the dumbest political promises in Portland history--our capon-mayor's promise to end homelessness in a year--since amended to add "unsheltered." It enabled the Oregonian and WillyWeek to carry water for the political naif and avoid putting a tough guy, Marco Rubio, into city hall. Wilson promptly signaled the socialists on city council that he wouldn't make any waves when he refused to break the tie vote (brilliant engineering by the charter commission) for council president.
Now the socialists want to defund removal of feral camps--Wilson will have to accept whatever they want since he doesn't have a veto. By design--and we hope the socialists thank Julia Meier in their nightly prayers.
Those of us out in the neighborhoods secretly revel in the Pearl's agony--the high-rise nabobs now understand what's become of the rest of the city. Join the celebration!