Rumor What's going on in Portland?

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    This place is thriving. Went there this week… AMAZING food!

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    And definitely stops by Baes Fried Chicken next door!!!
     
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    My wife and I love that place!
     
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    Anybody doing property damage should be put in jail.

    Especially repeat offenders. They are criminals. Their home should be in jail.

    *Edit* This would be included in the education and corrections reform as I've discussed above.
     
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    Portland became too much "city" for me over two decades ago....it's why I moved to Lane County...all urban sprawls eventually morph into mismanaged communities as the population doesn't fit the ways and means or cost of living and social services are stretched too thin....sometimes it's a combination of natural disasters or cost of living stress but just as often it's mental illness, addiction or desperation that drives people to give up trying. Hopefully some sense of reconstruction can turn it around like Jimmy Carter did with Habitat for Humaity. An example of stressed social services would be the border having something like 150K pending immigration cases and just a handful of govt lawyers to hear the cases. They need an army of social service workers to tackle that problem if they want to solve it....same with homeless problems..it's going to take an army of social service workers to clean up our cities and all cities are battling this issue, not just Oregon. New York City went through decades of reconstruction from the squatter, homeless problem they had in the 70s to modern day NY....it doesn't change overnight or with a new politician...it takes money and social services. It's what I expect my tax dollars to do. In Lane County they've made real progress with the homeless problem. It's so much better than a few years ago but they got funding and cleaned up the ghetto camps putting up shelters and campsites out of the city and away from the business district.
     
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    Was surprised to see a tent city here in SLC yesterday on our way to the hotel from the airport. Thought it was just shitty Portland that had a homeless problem.
     
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    I 100% agree and think it is the quickest way to figure out who wants help aNd who doesn't.
     
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    ‘Unprecedented early victory’: Oregon lawmakers pass $200 million package to address homelessness and housing

    Not Portland specific, but hopefully this will be be successful. I know Salem has some shelters that are funded through the rest of the year but are already worried about funding after that. The only thing we can do that is worse than not trying to get people housed is getting people housed then taking it away from them. Complex issues, I hope the counties do right with these funds and solve some of the problems Oregonians are dealing with.
     
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    Good. Now we have enough to get nearly everyone off of the streets of Oregon.

    Ball is in your court, City and State Governments.

    *Whoops, forgot to address the ball being in County Government courts as well.
     
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    Just in time for the nice weather and for people from out of state to come get a piece of the pie.

    Ball is mostly in the counties court, but yeah.
     
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    Train and bus tickets are cheap. Send them back to the city of their last known address. The Martin v Boise ruling states we only need to have enough resources for our local population and we can make public camping illegal.

    They'll stop coming fairly soon once they realize they'll be sent back or put in jail.
     
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    You're more optimistic than I am but I hope you're right.
     
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    Gotta try... It can't be worse than doing nothing...
     
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