Homelessness in Portland

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Portland families forced to sell their homes as concerns mount over homeless camps

Residents in a Portland, Oregon, neighborhood are resorting to selling their homes and moving due to homeless encampments right outside their front doors.

"It’s a little scary because I know there is mental illness and that concerns me," one North Portland resident Maria Inocencio told KGW8.

Residents of North Portland said at least three families on one street have left in recent days due to the homeless camps, and KGW8 reported seeing for-sale signs up and down streets.

"I would say the migration to the suburbs, I’ve seen quite a bit in the last two years," real estate broker Lauren Iaquinta said. "Most people don’t want to have to worry about if they can leave their car parked in their driveway overnight without maybe having it broken into. It’s a pretty testy subject."

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A large homeless camp at Laurelhurst Park in one of Portland's most affluent neighborhoods. (iStock)

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Portland has become the home of Tent-City Chop Shops with a 26-year high in Car Thefts

Portland, Oregon, calls itself Rose City. But in recent years the bloom has definitely fallen off the rose. There are now many parts of the city that resemble the set of the series "The Walking Dead" minus the creepy zombies. North Portland, in particular, is like an auto graveyard. Twenty-twenty-one set a 26-year high with 9,057 stolen vehicles and the trend is not good with November and December setting records for auto thefts in a month. Increasingly, the stolen cars and trucks are ending up in tent city open-air chop shops.

One of them is next to Acme Storage.

"Our city council and mayor are idiots, just straight up idiots," Jennifer Wilkins, who is the manager of Acme Storage, told Fox News Digital. "They don’t seem to care."

Portland has become the home of tent-city chop shops with a 26-year high in car thefts
 
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I knew a guy years ago that had a homeless guy build a treehouse of sorts in his front yard. He came home from work one day to discover it, and didn’t have many options in the way of removing it other than waiting for the homeless guy to leave and to then dismantle it. This was in Alameda, CA.
 
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We have discussed this in other contexts before. As an individual, I struggle with this issue because I recognize that any help I might provide is almost certainly going to be abused and misused, due to mental illness. As a society we seem to be at a loss as to how to not just thrown money down a hole for the same reason.
 
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davethevol said:
I knew a guy years ago that had a homeless guy build a treehouse of sorts in his front yard. He came home from work one day to discover it, and didn’t have many options in the way of removing it other than waiting for the homeless guy to leave and to then dismantle it. This was in Alameda, CA.
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I think I would have purchased a queen bee and put her next to, or in, the treehouse.
 
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lawgator1 said:
We have discussed this in other contexts before. As an individual, I struggle with this issue because I recognize that any help I might provide is almost certainly going to be abused and misused, due to mental illness. As a society we seem to be at a loss as to how to not just thrown money down a hole for the same reason.
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The mental health issue is extremely challenging. McMom did a psych rotation as required in her therapy program. Mental health patients are notoriously non compliant because once their meds are balanced and they feel well, they convince themselves they no longer need the meds. They aren't rational.
There are no good solutions. There are only varying degrees of bad choices.
 
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McDad said:
The mental health issue is extremely challenging. McMom did a psych rotation as required in her therapy program. Mental health patients are notoriously non compliant because once their meds are balanced and they feel well, they convince themselves they no longer need the meds. They aren't rational.
There are no good solutions. There are only varying degrees of bad choices.
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Your last two sentences I could not agree with more. I find myself feeling sorry for them and holding them in contempt, both at the same time.
 
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McDad said:
The mental health issue is extremely challenging. McMom did a psych rotation as required in her therapy program. Mental health patients are notoriously non compliant because once their meds are balanced and they feel well, they convince themselves they no longer need the meds. They aren't rational.
There are no good solutions. There are only varying degrees of bad choices.
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We used to deal with mental health issues with locking them up in treatment facilities aka mental hospitals. Maybe it's time to move back to that model because the only thing we're doing today is fostering drug abuse and crime.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Your last two sentences I could not agree with more. I find myself feeling sorry for them and holding them in contempt, both at the same time.
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The State of TN used to have a large institution where the severely mentally challenged were kept and provided for, including health care. Got shut down because of lawsuits filed by family members of residents. A lot of physical and sexual abuse by staff in that facility.

Now, they are managed in small groups (1-3 depending on nature of their disability) in private homes across the state. I had one of my properties leased by a company who took care of these folks.

The options are not good even for people who are non functional. They get worse for people who have high functioning mental health challenges.
 
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VolStrom said:
We used to deal with mental health issues with locking them up in treatment facilities aka mental hospitals. Maybe it's time to move back to that model because the only thing we're doing today is fostering drug abuse and crime.
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We were typing about a similar notion at the same time.
 
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McDad said:
The State of TN used to have a large institution where the severely mentally challenged were kept and provided for, including health care. Got shut down because of lawsuits filed by family members of residents. A lot of physical and sexual abuse by staff in that facility.

Now, they are managed in small groups (1-3 depending on nature of their disability) in private homes across the state. I had one of my properties leased by a company who took care of these folks.

The options are not good even for people who are non functional. They get worse for people who have high functioning mental health challenges.
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There used to be a facility in Knoxville, I think off of North Shore drive called Eastern State that housed the mentally ill people back in the 70's and maybe the 80's. It was a huge facility with several buildings and acres or grass all surrounded by cast iron fences. It looked nice from what I remember driving by it when it was in operation. I vaguely remember when they shut it down because they were just kicking these people to the street and there was a public outcry over it.
 
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VolStrom said:
We used to deal with mental health issues with locking them up in treatment facilities aka mental hospitals. Maybe it's time to move back to that model because the only thing we're doing today is fostering drug abuse and crime.
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There’s a handful of people on VN that needs treatment as well.
 
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Portland has become the home of Tent-City Chop Shops with a 26-year high in Car Thefts

Portland, Oregon, calls itself Rose City. But in recent years the bloom has definitely fallen off the rose. There are now many parts of the city that resemble the set of the series "The Walking Dead" minus the creepy zombies. North Portland, in particular, is like an auto graveyard. Twenty-twenty-one set a 26-year high with 9,057 stolen vehicles and the trend is not good with November and December setting records for auto thefts in a month. Increasingly, the stolen cars and trucks are ending up in tent city open-air chop shops.

One of them is next to Acme Storage.

"Our city council and mayor are idiots, just straight up idiots," Jennifer Wilkins, who is the manager of Acme Storage, told Fox News Digital. "They don’t seem to care."

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Elections have consequences.
 
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VolStrom said:
There used to be a facility in Knoxville, I think off of North Shore drive called Eastern State that housed the mentally ill people back in the 70's and maybe the 80's. It was a huge facility with several buildings and acres or grass all surrounded by cast iron fences. It looked nice from what I remember driving by it when it was in operation. I vaguely remember when they shut it down because they were just kicking these people to the street and there was a public outcry over it.
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More commonly known as Lakeshore.

They've turned a lot of the grassy areas into soccer fields now.
 
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Vol423 said:
Admitting the problem is the first step.
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It's really hard to GAS about anything in your city if it doesn't affect you? I'm glad that Texas is sending some of their problems to NYC and DC. I notice that they get welcomed with a handshake for breaking the law and being a leach.
 
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VolStrom said:
I didn't knowingly address any question towards you. Portland is a liberal crap hole that deserves what they ask for though.
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The Republican candidate actually received 40% of the vote in the last mayor election in Portland. That tells me not all people in Portland agree with the nonsense.

I do often wonder if at least some of these people who live in homeless camps were evicted due to the massive rent increases that have occurred over the years.
 
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DonjoVol said:
The Republican candidate actually received 40% of the vote in the last mayor election in Portland. That tells me not all people in Portland agree with the nonsense.

I do often wonder if at least some of these people who live in homeless camps were evicted due to the massive rent increases that have occurred over the years.
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I've wondered that too. I really do not know how a household on $40k a year makes it any more, when rent could be $1,500 a month, not to mention the cost of groceries, gas, utilities, etc.
 
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