NW Portland has been struggling heavily with the homeless/associated violence and crime now for honestly a good 6 years (even pre-Covid, etc.). In a total void of city services that any taxpayer could reasonably expect, these neighborhoods have largely had to fend for themselves and build strong networks to step in where the city has utterly failed. Now, instead of (for once) attempting to finally give this area some relief, the city (the mayor driving, the district reps sitting, totally useless to us, on the sidelines letting this occur) has decided to basically make all of NW a shelter district - overnight and day shelters for an inordinate amount of people on opposite ends of the district, I guess to ensure all day homeless foot traffic and loitering through as much of the area as humanly possible. It’s quite literally like the thousands of people who ACTUALLY live and have businesses in the area are just there to host and pay for the ongoing destruction of our safety, property values, and just overall livability by people who have migrated here from other places and do nothing but take from the community they are actively destroying. Now they do it with the city government’s blessing.
Everyone remember these names: Keith Wilson, Olivia Clark, Mitch Green, Eric Zimmerman, Jessica Vega Peterson, and Megan Moyer. They never again deserve your vote.
The whole so-called Charter Reform with Ranked Choice Voting (giving City Council seats to winners with only 25% of the vote +1) devised by Julia Meier and ushered in by Candace Avalos and the DSA, is at the heart of this unresponsiveness to the voters. They don’t need to listen to you anymore, because they don’t need your vote! And now the county is to join the RCV scam in the near future. so I’ve no doubt Megan will be here until she’s term limited.
There’s a reason nobody on the City Council is standing up for the taxpayers of NW Portland.
Yes the ranked choice voting idea was just another scam that the voters here fell for (as was expanding the city council to include even more worthless representatives that we now also have to pay to completely ignore us). However, I do think the district 4 reps have pissed off enough NW constituents that I would be surprised if any of them can achieve 25% again. Personally, I am angry enough to actively start an “anti” campaign to make sure everyone knows who is responsible for the major downgrade the neighborhood is about to take. I would think the neighborhood associations (Pearl and NW) would be too.
The staffing level seems wholly inadequate for the number of people they are admitting. I'll assume 3 at any time (or is it 3 to cover 16 hour days, 7 days a week?!) to oversee 200 people, keep this facility clean, settle disputes, answer questions, provide links to potential drug rehab or long term housing solutions. I don't pretend to have other solutions, but it does seem like the mayor and council have decided to concentrate a large portion of services for Portland's homeless in the NW neighborhood.
But perhaps this is their answer to our question - what will the homeless sleeping at the Northrup shelter do during the day? They have a 15 minute walk (through the Pearl) over to this shelter.
NW Portland has been struggling heavily with the homeless/associated violence and crime now for honestly a good 6 years (even pre-Covid, etc.). In a total void of city services that any taxpayer could reasonably expect, these neighborhoods have largely had to fend for themselves and build strong networks to step in where the city has utterly failed. Now, instead of (for once) attempting to finally give this area some relief, the city (the mayor driving, the district reps sitting, totally useless to us, on the sidelines letting this occur) has decided to basically make all of NW a shelter district - overnight and day shelters for an inordinate amount of people on opposite ends of the district, I guess to ensure all day homeless foot traffic and loitering through as much of the area as humanly possible. It’s quite literally like the thousands of people who ACTUALLY live and have businesses in the area are just there to host and pay for the ongoing destruction of our safety, property values, and just overall livability by people who have migrated here from other places and do nothing but take from the community they are actively destroying. Now they do it with the city government’s blessing.
Everyone remember these names: Keith Wilson, Olivia Clark, Mitch Green, Eric Zimmerman, Jessica Vega Peterson, and Megan Moyer. They never again deserve your vote.
The whole so-called Charter Reform with Ranked Choice Voting (giving City Council seats to winners with only 25% of the vote +1) devised by Julia Meier and ushered in by Candace Avalos and the DSA, is at the heart of this unresponsiveness to the voters. They don’t need to listen to you anymore, because they don’t need your vote! And now the county is to join the RCV scam in the near future. so I’ve no doubt Megan will be here until she’s term limited.
There’s a reason nobody on the City Council is standing up for the taxpayers of NW Portland.
Yes the ranked choice voting idea was just another scam that the voters here fell for (as was expanding the city council to include even more worthless representatives that we now also have to pay to completely ignore us). However, I do think the district 4 reps have pissed off enough NW constituents that I would be surprised if any of them can achieve 25% again. Personally, I am angry enough to actively start an “anti” campaign to make sure everyone knows who is responsible for the major downgrade the neighborhood is about to take. I would think the neighborhood associations (Pearl and NW) would be too.
The staffing level seems wholly inadequate for the number of people they are admitting. I'll assume 3 at any time (or is it 3 to cover 16 hour days, 7 days a week?!) to oversee 200 people, keep this facility clean, settle disputes, answer questions, provide links to potential drug rehab or long term housing solutions. I don't pretend to have other solutions, but it does seem like the mayor and council have decided to concentrate a large portion of services for Portland's homeless in the NW neighborhood.
But perhaps this is their answer to our question - what will the homeless sleeping at the Northrup shelter do during the day? They have a 15 minute walk (through the Pearl) over to this shelter.
I mean at least they are trying and doing something? Trying to find positives here...
Nope, sorry, positives not allowed here! /s