This neighborhood is inundated with these services. It's hardly fair for us to carry the weight of the street population here in our little neighborhood. It's disappointing at best. We all know what is coming. The neighbors right by it will see the worst of it. I can only hope those who are still asleep will wake up.
The Portland and Multco politicos resemble old-world Soviet commissars more all the time: common ideology, unified control, passive-aggressive personalities, and no accountability except to themselves.
I thought it was precious Multnomah Village and my schadenfreude was kicking in at the thought of all those upper middle class west side meritocrats dealing with a city homeless facility amid their Sunset-Magazine perfect bungalows.
In other news, the newspaper with two names reported recently that fewer of the houseless went from homeless shelters to housing in 2024 than the year before. How they know that wasn't made clear. What really matters to the city's hard-working voter-taxpayers is how many of them flopped back out onto the streets.
The scariest news this side of D.C. today was finding out how clueless and passive Multnomah County Commissioner Julia Brim-Edwards is about the drug dealing on SE Pine Street. Isn't the County in charge of ending the chronic drug crisis? Or is County's remit limited to ensuring that the badass harm-reduction squad have handed out needles, foil and kisses to their charges among the living dead on SE Pine Street?
Brim-Edwards was a strong advocate for a good neighbor agreement and went to many if not all the meetings. She is in fact the strongest advocate we have on the county commission. Still it feels like at some point even the advocates refer you to someone else for solutions.
Yep pretty sad when Brimm-Edwards is the best of them. She’s a total White Savior on the PPS school board—joined the Black bloc to reverse the firing of the black teacher Damon Keller who was calling in sick to work a second job. It was racist to fire him???!!
I think Lents was the first neighborhood to suffer the uncontrollable homeless issues having the Springwater Corridor right in their backyard. However, every neighborhood around us called us NIMBY's and wondered why we weren't all overjoyed with the responsibility of taking care of our poor unfortunate homeless. After all we were all just one paycheck away from being one of them. If we had ALL banded together as one we might have been able to fight this onslaught but I'm guessing we have missed that opportunity. Do you remember the manifesto that the Montavilla NA wrote about Montaville Initiative as well as us? Foster Powell as well as Reedway feel the same way today about us. Things are not changing fast enough to save outer SE Portland. Like it was stated in another comment, the minute JVP moved out of SE it was a sign 🔚🔜🔙⚠
I drive Lyft in the SE several nights a week and I can personally testify that you are 100% correct. Homeless camps with the squalor of “belongings” and garbage piled up around them and illegal unlicensed and unregistered, often inoperable and in various stages of being stripped, exist on little out of the way streets and make lives a living hell for the financially disadvantaged, but nonetheless quality individuals and families who are forced to live in this lawless part of town. My heart has been broken many times by the stories of the SE residents who I have had the privilege to provide transportation home, we are failing our neighbors who are victims of poverty and we have allowed criminals, crime, squalor, and violence to take the place of the peace and quiet the rest of us enjoy 😡. Shame on us for allowing these good people to become victims, trapped inside their homes behind locked security doors. We are all to blame!
We all know what will happen, the place will be trashed! I'm sure Straightway Services will police the grounds till they are overwhelmed. Drugs will be persuasive people will overdose. With that kind of money, it will be interesting to see who starts taking their cut!
Excellent piece!😊👍🏻 This goes hand in glove with Kevin Dahlgren and Tara’s new video describing 24 hours on the frozen streets of Oldtown, without a single County Social Worker in sight! We all have to speak out more loudly for a complete change in the philosophy of local government in regards to homelessness. The problem is not about housing people, the problem is how to convince them to accept the help that is already available!
This neighborhood is inundated with these services. It's hardly fair for us to carry the weight of the street population here in our little neighborhood. It's disappointing at best. We all know what is coming. The neighbors right by it will see the worst of it. I can only hope those who are still asleep will wake up.
Absolutely. If you build it, they come.
Well JVP saw the writing on the wall and moved to the leafy West Side.
Damn, the big wigs keep hating on 82nd. Hypocritical bastards!!!
The Homeless Industrial Complex runs Portland (for THEIR benefit). Money, Money, Money (from the taxpayers) makes their world go ‘round.
The Portland and Multco politicos resemble old-world Soviet commissars more all the time: common ideology, unified control, passive-aggressive personalities, and no accountability except to themselves.
Montavilla. Oh.
I thought it was precious Multnomah Village and my schadenfreude was kicking in at the thought of all those upper middle class west side meritocrats dealing with a city homeless facility amid their Sunset-Magazine perfect bungalows.
In other news, the newspaper with two names reported recently that fewer of the houseless went from homeless shelters to housing in 2024 than the year before. How they know that wasn't made clear. What really matters to the city's hard-working voter-taxpayers is how many of them flopped back out onto the streets.
The scariest news this side of D.C. today was finding out how clueless and passive Multnomah County Commissioner Julia Brim-Edwards is about the drug dealing on SE Pine Street. Isn't the County in charge of ending the chronic drug crisis? Or is County's remit limited to ensuring that the badass harm-reduction squad have handed out needles, foil and kisses to their charges among the living dead on SE Pine Street?
Brim-Edwards was a strong advocate for a good neighbor agreement and went to many if not all the meetings. She is in fact the strongest advocate we have on the county commission. Still it feels like at some point even the advocates refer you to someone else for solutions.
Yep pretty sad when Brimm-Edwards is the best of them. She’s a total White Savior on the PPS school board—joined the Black bloc to reverse the firing of the black teacher Damon Keller who was calling in sick to work a second job. It was racist to fire him???!!
https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2023/07/editorial-a-failing-grade-for-the-portland-school-board-on-teachers-dismissal.html
I think Lents was the first neighborhood to suffer the uncontrollable homeless issues having the Springwater Corridor right in their backyard. However, every neighborhood around us called us NIMBY's and wondered why we weren't all overjoyed with the responsibility of taking care of our poor unfortunate homeless. After all we were all just one paycheck away from being one of them. If we had ALL banded together as one we might have been able to fight this onslaught but I'm guessing we have missed that opportunity. Do you remember the manifesto that the Montavilla NA wrote about Montaville Initiative as well as us? Foster Powell as well as Reedway feel the same way today about us. Things are not changing fast enough to save outer SE Portland. Like it was stated in another comment, the minute JVP moved out of SE it was a sign 🔚🔜🔙⚠
I drive Lyft in the SE several nights a week and I can personally testify that you are 100% correct. Homeless camps with the squalor of “belongings” and garbage piled up around them and illegal unlicensed and unregistered, often inoperable and in various stages of being stripped, exist on little out of the way streets and make lives a living hell for the financially disadvantaged, but nonetheless quality individuals and families who are forced to live in this lawless part of town. My heart has been broken many times by the stories of the SE residents who I have had the privilege to provide transportation home, we are failing our neighbors who are victims of poverty and we have allowed criminals, crime, squalor, and violence to take the place of the peace and quiet the rest of us enjoy 😡. Shame on us for allowing these good people to become victims, trapped inside their homes behind locked security doors. We are all to blame!
The city has become insufferable.
We all know what will happen, the place will be trashed! I'm sure Straightway Services will police the grounds till they are overwhelmed. Drugs will be persuasive people will overdose. With that kind of money, it will be interesting to see who starts taking their cut!
Excellent piece!😊👍🏻 This goes hand in glove with Kevin Dahlgren and Tara’s new video describing 24 hours on the frozen streets of Oldtown, without a single County Social Worker in sight! We all have to speak out more loudly for a complete change in the philosophy of local government in regards to homelessness. The problem is not about housing people, the problem is how to convince them to accept the help that is already available!