Posted on 05/31/2023 4:16:38 PM PDT by Libloather
Months of stepping past sidewalk homeless camps and open-air drug markets have taken their toll on residents of Portland, Oregon.
Voters there have delivered a stunning rebuke to officials of the Democrat-run hipster city, with three quarters calling homelessness 'an out-of-control disaster.'
The survey, commissioned by People for Portland, a conservative advocacy group, found that more than two thirds of voters wanted to clear the streets by forcing drug addicts into rehab.
Respondents also by wide margins supported Mayor Ted Wheeler's plan to ban homeless daytime camping and people stringing up tents near schools and daycare centers.
Portland City Council members were set to debate such a ban on Wednesday.
'Every citizen is sick and damn tired of the growing homeless problem,' an angry Portland business owner posted on social media.
'Portland used to be clean and safe and a place we were proud to call home. Now, people are moving the f**k out.'
The survey of 500 voters across Multnomah County comes after its homeless population reached 5,228 last year — a rise of more than 1,200 against 2019.
More than 2,000 of them are sheltered, but that leaves more than 3,000 sleeping rough.
Residents of the city of 641,000 people have told DailyMail.com that they're sick of tents being erected on sidewalks, grassy areas and beside canals.
Officials have started tearing down encampments, but tents have sprung back up again within hours.
Business owners complain about vagrants defecating in front of their stores.
Walmart in March said it was shuttering its Portland outlets.
The survey echoes fears that Portland has gone from a kooky progressive city with great restaurants and reliable public transportation to a hellscape with high taxes and overstretched city services.
Some 55 percent of respondents said Portland 'has lost what made it...
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But, they need to keep Portland weird and stuff or something
Call BLM and Antifa to fix what they destroyed.
I want to see how the pizza box garden is doing since the summer of love.
It is a complete mystery to me what led to this problem.
The useful idiots never take responsibility for what they voted for.
What to do... The street bums are how Oregon gets votes to the districts it needs to get the democrat in power. “Get Out The Vote” groups will get all these bums registered in districts that need votes for the democrats. Other counties and cities that are close calls but lean conservative will end up with hundreds of new registrations. There will be thousands of people registered to vote at a shelter or ‘church’ just before the votes are counted. I’ve seen it myself in my former city. The democrats are EXPERTS at this. Portland votes 80% democrat. SCrew them. Let them fester in their open sewer.
That leaves 29 percent who like it this way. Guess whose votes count and whose don't.
Keepin’ it weird....
What about the muzzy “refugees”?!
They never did.
They are not homeless. They are the unhoused or houseless.
Enjoy
I was in Portland about 8 years ago. Was at a general store and being waited on by this nice looking young girl. But, she had dreadlocks on her young head.
Says I “you know since they don’t collect sales tax in Oregon one might think you could afford some shampoo to wash that nasty hair”.
My wife was elbowing me in the ribs. Ha haa good times!
You aren’t too bright are you?
“It is a complete mystery to me what led to this problem.”
since you didn’t mark this as sarcasm, I’ll answer it for you, DEMOCRATS!
I had lots of family and friends in Oregon, they all left or died.
I never once considered moving into that state because It was tyrannically ruled by West of the Cascades Democrats.
And I presently physicaly reside in one of the bluest states there is, Hawaii. I’m officially a WA state resident registered to vote there and that state is so blue you’d freeze to death in winter.
No way in he&& I’d move to Oregon.
I have a hard time refraining about asking about if some piercings are zits or not....
Could a few dimwitted indoctrinated leftist Dems change their minds and aspire to be maybe 10% as smart as we are?
There’s a saying “a worm turns” —
((how a situation can suddenly change so that a person who has been weak, unlucky, unsuccessful, etc., can become strong, lucky, successful, etc.)) Popularized by William Shakespeare in Henry VI, Part 3: “The smallest worm will turn being trodden on…”
And who is going to buy up the real-estate at a bargain price as people and businesses leave?
Then the cancer spreads to other areas. Gobble, gobble.
Portland was where the push for drug legalization began back in the ‘90s.
This should be a warning to all of America.
Too bad they won’t listen until “Portland” comes to their town in 10 years.
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