Portland’s city council has passed a ban targeting homeless encampments, forbidding them from being on public property during the day. NBC’s Aaron Gilchrist reports.
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Where are the social programs to help citizens???
Meanwhile the US military………………………….$1, 000, 000,000, 000 for American freedom to be homeless……..per year
Their just voting on anything because they want a salutation, but this isn’t iT. 0pen All of those abandoned buildings that have just been dormant for years. Then, create a program that HELPS 0ur homeless people not move them around day to day!)🔴🙄
Wish Ohio would do this.
They are working on a process that turns homeless people into yacht fuel. That will solve the problem.
How bad do you think it will get when Artificial Intelligence takes 90% of jobs away? Banning homeless camps isnt the answer. Let the working class of people keep more of their earned wages. You tax the rich less than the poor. Until you start wanting real change, its only going to get worse… much worse. Amazon is killing the American dream single handedly with their non union low wage 20 hr work weeks. If a company this profitable wont share the wealth… who will? Jesus please help us all.
Aren’t the illegals crossing the border getting put up in hotel rooms at U.S. taxpayers’ expense? 🤔 But we can’t help our own citizens? Huh.
Make a homeless shelter then 🤷🏿♂️
For whatever it’s worth due to the court system I was homeless and Denver a decade ago I had to stash my pack everyday in the bushes somewhere so I didn’t have to carry it around
Sorry to hear that.
NO WAY
How about no camping?
It’s actually crazy the government hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Homeless Problem. Some of these people simply dont want to pay rent and other people have severe mental illness and they also have medical issues. We don’t even have a hospital or mental institution for them to go and lay their head and relax for awhile and get better. The hospital kick them out back to our streets. Its madness 😂
Jesus said help those in NEED. That’s you’re neighbor. LOVE… folks and do Good as you’re FATHER in Heaven is Good. Amen
Oregon is home to massive Douglas Fir forests, which is the standard for construction lumber. It also has a forest fire problem in recent years, meaning it’s overgrown forests need to be thinned and more responsibly managed. What they need to do is start cutting down some of those trees and build government subsidized housing before those trees are lost in a forest fire anyways.
Maybe we can put the homeless to work to do that.
The cruel people who passed and advocated for this horrible law should have to pack up all their stuff and move out of their house every morning.
Has anyone that are fighting against the new law have they taken any the the homeless home with them
Are rents ten grand a month yet? Or is it only five grand a month?
They’re gonna have to start building more houses and houses in shelter places for these people and nothing else is gonna work
Awesome news
homeless are like seagulls, if they need to move to find food they will, if you feed them they multiply.
This is a Democrat ran cities of course and people keep voting for this
God bless everybody its rough out here alot of people have no empathy or love in their heart.
To respond to one of the so-called advocates, NOBODY IS MAKING HOMELESSNESS “ILLEGAL”. This statement is disingenuous, in other words, bullsh*t. What this IS about is restoring order and making public places for ALL the public again. Ten years on the streets and I’m supposed to feel sorry for the young and seemingly healthy, strong man in the video? Ten years and you couldn’t get it together? You can’t join forces with your fellow “unhoused” and “vulnerable” and do something about getting “housed”? After the massive funds provided to social service agencies across the country to help people get back on their feet and into finding shelter, services that include counseling and other kinds of support? Give me a break. Nobody’s buying the gaslighting any more. We have all reached compassion fatigue, especially as we have gotten wise to the bullsh*t and the ways we, the tax-paying, working people of the country, have been manipulated (emotionally and our goodwill) and the system we work hard to keep going for EVERYBODY has been abused. Enough already!
No crying NOW
Fine homeless $100 … good luck collecting
These are Americans, you can’t deny them citizenship. They should sue the government for millions.
Unfortunately, there are more bad homeless people than good homeless people.
Solution rent each person a Year’s campground must pick up the trash keep the grounds clean and people with their campers a year campground for them and have all the camper separated by
Mountain campground would be like a rehab family and children’s in RVs third campground would be couple sick with HIV the fork campground would be people that single man and then the fifth
The fifth campground would be single job to Goodwill to teach them how to do a job another place might be washing dishes
Nice now they can come down to los angeles
“Forbidding them from being on public property DURING THE DAY”.
This is a joke!
Day camping ⛺️ or day trespassing is banned during daytime only ugh 😣
OMG. I am tired of these advocates saying that this just criminalizing “homelessness,” like all the people on the street are sweet and innocent. Come on. Look, I understand that some people simply are down on their luck, and simply have it difficult (God bless them), but vast majority of the homeless in Portland are hostile, threatening, crazy, and drugged. They camp wherever they wish and pile up mountains of garbage. They shoot up heroin and smoke fentanyl right on the sidewalks and ON TRIMET BUSSES! They constantly break into businesses to steal property to make money to feed their addiction. They terrorize citizens, take over the public parks, and burden the Portland Fire Bureau with their daily baker’s dozen tent fires. And don’t forget those huge stolen car chop shops on North Going Street near Swan Island. I am sorry, but too much compassion can just lead to enabling horrible behavior and therefore becoming a bad person yourself. Portland cannot be a city where everyone is allowed to do everything they please if it wants to recover. Enforce the laws for once.
Great news for the general public. 👏👏👏
Good 😊
Where are they supposed to go, you need to help and stop this attack on homeless
The advocates who complain should take them home!
no camping downtown period. is that too hard? seems basic.
shuuuuuuut up
Yea. Lock em all up!
You can’t get blood from a stone the fine and imprisonment is cruel and unusual punishment for things outside of people’s control.
As long as the democratic party lets millions of people walk over open borders, rent cost and homelessness will only get worse, crime, violence and fear will only increase, we spend 150 billion tax dollars per year on illegal immigration while Americans sleep in tents and defecate in the streets, of course, in a nation where half the people vote for a guy with dementia to run our country were already doomed any way.
Portland city council have created this problem years ago and lost a lot of good police officers during the woke period and the downtown riots now they want to change the law reversing the law they created, It will be extremely hard to reverse this law as Portland continues to lose its most long term businesses s and residents, It the words of one business owner and resident
“it has just become to unsafe for people to stay in Portland.
So in effect they are banning being homeless? It is like banning having the flu. To ban something there must be an alternative. What is that alternative? Oh of course….. you must freeze to death. Is that it?
Many of the homeless don’t want help or do anything to better their situation. Perhaps laws like this will motivate them to get a job and get off the streets?
Amazing. I never thought they would come to their senses. Maybe there is hope for America after all. Stop enabling bad behavior.
it’s difficult and hard!
i hope all people is happy, but that’s
ideal theories.
No lady it’s unrealistic that people are squatting on public sidewalks.
So they’ll just roam around in the city instead of being in their tents. Problem solved!
We need to face reality. The issue isn’t housing, it is drug addiction and mental health issues. There is no waiting list for shelters in Portland – however, these people prefer to live on the street because they are unwilling to follow the shelter’s minimum rules. Anyone who has seen and spoken to these people knows that this is a drug addiction issue.
Gee,what’s the hurry
This doesn’t take them off the streets. If anything they will be roaming around like zombies during the day.
Capitalism is a death cult
Just like a red state city
Ban
Ban
Ban
You said NO to measure 97 and killed your own city, cowards
I spent some time homeless when I was a kid. We tried desperately to hide it, pretending like we were just a family on a camping trip wherever we went. Campgrounds wouldn’t typically let you stay longer than a couple of weeks, so we moved around a lot. My dad was extremely conservative, anti-tax, anti-regular job, and we were religious fanatics. Somehow I made it out of that mess and even got an education and led a relatively normal adult life in spite of it. Now I hear people all the time who share his politics and religion railing against the homeless and against the rest of us who are trying to find ways to solve the homelessness problem. It’s interesting how many of these homeless haters are the first ones in line looking for government handouts and the last ones to agree that the government has any role in helping people who aren’t them. For conservatives, it’s all about whatever they can get from the rest of us, so naturally they see everyone else through the same lens. And yes, a good part of that childhood was spent in Portland.
Cool story I’d watch a video about your story if you had it. God bless
Guy says he’s been trying to get a bed but some places have a 6 month wait list, he also says he’s been homeless out there for 10yrs. Well he had Plenty of time, this law is good get these people up and out
Who wants to come to America. Open your eyes – Homeless, the Governments won’t ACT as they own 2 or more Properties.
City!!!! build a area for them to live. Provide jobs cleaning highways and public places. Help them
Get jobs. Your town is a mess!
Why doesnt that homeless man get a job?
Protest and destroy buildings lets go … democrats
Other states like Texas ship their homeless to he PNW. States should sue southern states that ship their homeless to other states.
It’s sad that ppl would rather put fellow humans in jail than give them affordable housing through taxes.
I know that there are people that needs help. But there are people that also take advantage of the situation especially those that are not from Portland. I also understand the hime owners and business owners. Their concern for safety is very much valid. And who keeps the area around them clean? It is a problem. This is a big problem.
Fentanyl and Tranq horse tranquilizer are destroying humans mentally and physically beyond the point of repair very quickly. They will destroy any housing we put them in because of fentanyl. It will get only worse from here.
Get a job if it’s to expensive then move. I’ve worked 2 jobs plenty of times. Tired of excuses. Most that have been homeless for years don’t want to change they make every excuse in the world
I know the encampents are not appealing to the city, but if they cant live in tents then where will they go?
ITS about time! those people are not even from PDX, I live in lauralhurst and getting sick of havin to walk past the few left. ship them back to where those states they came from.
Liberals are a joke.
Put them up in your spare bedroom in your House. You people are pathetic
They need to cut down on rent hikes
How is the 2&1 bedroom unit even a metric ?? Shares housing is a very valid thing for lower income earners.
It’s not my fault that these homeless people don’t have a place to call their home.
Unhoused?!
Clean up the streets in Portland! The DA and cops need to step up.
Blocking access on public sidewalks especially for those with disabilities is unconstitutional. Many people in wheelchairs have to travel in traffic because the sidewalks are blocked with tents. Portland was sued for violating the Americans With Disabilities Act over that reason……
Greed and corruption feed this system. No its not illegal to be homeless, you just can’t sleep on this public sidewalk.
Portland is exactly what the entire Democratic Party looks like
Criminalizing the poor isn’t going to help. Duh
You could just give them all back their stolen jobs.
🤣 Good luck with that!!!
Portland Oregon horrible place
Open up as many mental institution as needed and drug rehab centers.
Too late Portland, you have already dug your own grave with social justice.
Where do you think those homeless people go when you get rid of camps? Just admit you want them in prisons so you don’t have to see them.
You need to start at something, let’s see how this progresses
Maybe they should relocate them to nearest Hotel with all illegal immigrants,at least those people are US citizens
Get a job
Sooo you remove them from one spot just so they can set up in another spot and round and round we go? DONT FIX THE PROBLEM just toss humans around like they’re checker pieces
Lol 30 days in jail? You’re giving homeless a home.
Lose your health lose your job and you will be one of these people. Their are too few safety nets.
Finally
Its time for the silent majority to fight back against the wacko ultra vocal liberals who have been destroying Oregon/California and other states for the last number of years. Fight back people. We must put an end to the homeless encampment/drug den craziness thats increasing crime and ruining our communities.
Capitalism zero sum game
The ban is from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and like other commenters have said most of these people are not even from here
Sort them out in jail
About time!!!!
It is about time. If people are not happy with this they can take them home
Progressive paradise 😂