Posted on 06/09/2021 10:36:48 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Oregon communities must rewrite local rules to allow Oregonians to sit, lie, sleep and keep warm and dry on public property in most circumstances.
House Bill 3115, which passed the Senate on Wednesday afternoon and is en route to Gov. Kate Brown’s desk, is a response to a 2018 landmark homelessness case that impacted most Western states with an intent to better support individuals experiencing homelessness.
While local governments should already be following rules set forth by the case known as Martin v. Boise, the bill, written at the behest of House Speaker Tina Kotek, forces cities to officially change any ordinance language still on the books to be in line with the court decision.
In its ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said governments cannot criminalize conduct that is unavoidable as a result of experiencing homelessness. To punish a homeless individual for sleeping outside when there aren’t enough shelter beds would be comparable to punishing that individual for the fact that they are homeless, a consequence the court described as cruel and unusual.
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(Excerpt) Read more at bendbulletin.com ...
Oregon, you’ll be SORRY!!!
It’s what the people want.
When you enable a person experiencing misery, you become complicit in that misery. The left shut down the sanatoriums which resulted in people with mental health issues being left to die a slow, miserable death on the streets.
Yes. We need places for the mentally ill to live.
Portland, Salem, and parts of Eugene look like homeless camps already. Portland has an ANTIFA housing compound right under/next to I-5 that appears to be administered by the city.
Live with what you voted for Oregon!! Sucks to be you.
Hmmmm...doesn’t bode well for my favorite park
They already do it in Nashville
Mario Cuomo did this when he was Governor of New York State, and then they wondered why the prison population went up, and they had to build more prisons. The system ended up with more convicts that exhibited mental health issues, requiring the administration of large amounts of psychotropic drugs.
This is one more reason not to live in Oregon.
The consequences of this will be devastating. It will not be safe to even VISIT public sites.
Public land will be the domain of predators, desperate addicts and the mentally ill. Public places will be a health hazard from the inevitable filthy habits of these derelicts.
Yes. We need places for the mentally ill to live.
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Well don’t fret. Soon some leftist judge will rule that the homeless and the mentally ill have the right to live on private property, including yours!
“The left shut down the sanatoriums which resulted in people with mental health issues being left to die a slow, miserable death on the streets.”
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They should have been given the option of dying a slow, miserable death on the streets OR in the sanatoriums!
The 9th Circus Homeless camping on public property ruling in 2018 affects Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, Arizona and Alaska.
https://harvardlawreview.org/2019/12/martin-v-city-of-boise/
Start with putting the homeless in the offices and hallways of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
I am already supporting my mentally ill son.
One reason we have zoning is something called a bed tax. Non commercial property, homes, pay a bed tax. Commercial land does not pay a bed tax and thus, no sleeping is allowed on commercial property. This is to prevent people from living on commercial property. Hotels of course, pay the bed tax despite being commercial property. If you had a homeless relative you can’t put him in an RV on your property because there’s no bed tax on it. One of the reasons homelessness was not allowed prior to the Supreme Court emptying the institutions was, they didn’t pay a bed tax.
Never fear though, ordinances are only enforced against regular citizens. I know a Hispanic from Nicaragua, a legitimate green card holder, who has a sister in-law living in an RV behind his house and he built a shack for his mother-in-law that looks like it belongs in Nicaragua and has no bathroom. (She uses theirs.) When the code enforcement guy showed up, he pretended to be an illegal, spoke only Spanish, and the guy went away. That was five years ago. Code enforcement has never been back. They nailed his Caucasian neighbor for an unpermitted addition to his porch though.
Laws and regulations are only for those of us who are white and pay taxes. Everyone else is exempt. That’s part of our white privilege.
“When the code enforcement guy showed up, he pretended to be an illegal, spoke only Spanish, and the guy went away. That was five years ago. Code enforcement has never been back. They nailed his Caucasian neighbor for an unpermitted addition to his porch though.”
The only reason something like this happens is because so-called conservatives in that community refused to get off their fat, useless asses and show up at the city council meeting.
A thousand conservatives packing the city council meeting would have gotten the bureaucrat pig fired, and then the sheriff could have made certain that the bureaucrat left the county.
I just read the madness of outlawing hunting and fishing in Oregon. My question is how many of the political elites that promote this madness are huffing fentanyl in the cloak rooms? What else explains the drive to societal suicide?
Gadsden county Florida has a racial makeup of 57.7% black and 30.5% white. Those whites are mostly well paid bureaucrats who work in neighboring Leon county...Tallahassee and they are Democrats. There aren’t enough conservatives there to stuff a phone booth.
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