Portland, Oregon mayoral candidate Rene Gonzalez pitches accountability for homeless tents
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- Portland City Commissioner and mayoral candidate Rene Gonzalez wants to change how Multnomah County hands out tents and tarps to the homeless - including stickering County-provided tents and tracking distribution numbers.
"To continue to encourage camping indirectly by distributing tents and tarps is just the wrong message," said Gonzalez.
It's no secret Gonzalez is not a fan of tents and tarps. Shortly after taking office in 2023, he ordered the Portland Fire Bureau, which houses Portland Street Response, to stop handing them out.
Gonzalez has consistently cited fires and other safety concerns.
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Agree with Gonzalez completely, quit the enablement and no more tarps and tents! Trashing the city.
Yes ! Bring back accountability, respect by respecting yourself, responsibility, etc !!! Yes debris and criminal behavior must be kept at bay!
@joifire It's always someone else's fault they ended up like they did homeless and addicted to drugs they have mental health issues after years of being addicted to
I totally support Gonzalez' approach and he will get my vote for having the guts to propose sensible rules. We're not helping the homeless by keeping them in an endless cycle of drug addiction, violence, and lawlessness. It's time they are held accountable. Why should we fund the very people who would make our city a garbage dump and a dangerous place? Instead we should offer help combined with tough love and accountability.
What do the homeless do to help the community? Nothing, they sit around panhandling all day and then trash the area. Time for some tough love and put them to work. Stop enabling this behavior.
How about your politicians? All they do is steal ur money and make life worse to the point u become homeless. Do they not serve jail time? Only the population?
@@h_3_x_ got the award for most lamest comment...
@forgottenman8629
You're probably waiting for a new taxpayers funded tent and tarp.
And you'll be in line for the free harm reduction drug supplies
The homeless are complete druggies trashing this city with garbage and human waste but that's
OK with a complete moron like yourself 😊
I propose they all be “assisted” into permanent shelter made of steel and reinforced concrete, no windows, and only *1* door… a door that’s marked “entrance only.”
, 14 mil a year ? 😢
Finally someone with a functional brain in Portland
That's why leftist trolls lyle CharlesM hate him . Ps CharlesM wears a nuevoring...up his bum
Voters are ready to move on from Wheeler $ Co
The homeless can remove graffiti, clean up (mostly their) garbage, and other tasks to earn taxpayer supplied tents. Just handing them out, then confiscating them during "clean ups," just to hand more out is literally insane and idiotic. You want Portland to become a bustling city that people actually want to visit again? It starts with cleaning it up. Make them take some responsibility for their actions and contribute to the solution instead of just taking from society and demanding more with 0 contributions from themselves.
5 years is not going through tough times. Sounds like a choice to me...
Exactly.
Get some circus tents . Portland is a three ring circus .
controlled by the clowns occupying 1221 SW 4th, city hall in case you're not aware...
Recognize "unofficially" Portland continues to issue more tents and tarps than any other county in the State of Oregon. NGOs receive the tents which DO NOT maintain accountability records. This is the "backdoor" methodology.
All the money that has been spent on tents and tarps and cleanup of those tents and tarps could’ve been spent on actual stick built, shed type housing and put on property to house them
Seems to me even back in 2008-09 we as in homeless people we had an understanding of what to do and not to do.
Don't camp in obvious places don't dook on the street be discreet about your house/camp and if you're up to no good keep that shit away from prying eyes, yes we had a code and some of us still uphold that way however the fools out there and other cities seem to have lost their minds, anyone who did that back in the day they'd be ostracized and scolded for their behavior.
Most of these people are drug bums not homeless. Just burnouts from everywhere
Edgefield in Troutdale, Or at one point was a huge 300 acre farm outside the metro area that was a poor farm and housed many of the area homeless. They would work the farm for all thier food and put forth an effort to have stable housing, medical and treatment for alcohol and drug addiction. They learned to be self suffient. I see a need for something that will build self respect in these people that have lived with nothing for so long.
You must be getting a second hand high from all the dope smoke drifting in Portland
Oh just stick them out there what could go wrong?
Total moron idea.
Almost as good as your own house and yard.
Now they just do dope and trash entire city's with garbage and human waste
Totally agree with the proposal if you don’t feed the geese you don’t get poop everywhere.
Finally a politician that cares about the city and its tax payers
The whole idea of having to hand out tents and tarps to citizens of the most prosperous country on the planet is ludicrous. Work on fixing the problem at the root. I’ll never find it humane that people are left to live on the streets, that some think it’s perfectly okay. These people need REAL help - mental, emotional and economic.
We have a pretty high homeless tax…..
The root problem is illegal immigration followed by drug trafficking from border
Thats the leftist way
@@mikefredd3390 maybe it's time to jail the politicians rather then the poor
Invite some to come and live with you. Or are you just virtue signaling?
If it's true that we spend $14 million cleaning tents off sidewalks, that's approximately $2200 per homeless individual in Portland. We might as well rent them apartments at that point.
They need to be clean and sober first, otherwise they'll trash taxpayer-funded apartments with their dope parties.
Nope - that's what they want. Their own free, furnished one bedroom apartment. They are a pain in the neck for a reason
What kind of apartment are you getting for $2,200 a year?
Put homeless druggies into a apartment that's nice do you want to rent a apartment in a building full of druggies
Enablement culture IS sort of a problem here. I have neighbors who can't sleep due to a camp and RV and box truck situation down the road (with a loud generator), but they're too 'compassionate' to report the camp....while their own home-owning, working, tax-paying neighbors also can't sleep. So they seem to priorotize the reckless street folken over themselves and their own actual neighbors. WTF.
Lots of obstacles sir. Best of luck.
HOW BOUT THEY WORK ! People hungry, no job's living on the street ? I don't remember F.D.R. but I do read. Reinitialize the C.C.C. They don't wanna work ? O.K. walk home from (you name it National Forrest). We didn't build this city so you could come here and freeload. Take a hike.
Theyre eating the tents, theyre eating the tarps
There should be no laws against homelessness,there are laws against open drug drug use,open alcohol consumption,shoplifting and shitting on the sidewalk ! Enforce those laws……….
Don't hand out tents and tarps. Provide sufficient shelter and that's it.
How much more taxpayers money do you expect to be flushed down the
Homeless
Industrial complex
Toilet of Portland Oregon?
I have the best idea get off the dope,!!
Worthless homeless druggies
Just keep on giving and giving open your own house
portland is absolutely overran with tents, RV's, and everything in between again. back to square one apparently
connecting tents with handing out food is disingenuous. I can see where is is going with his idea. He is wanting transparence of where the tax dollars are going sense getting hard numbers from the city, and county is hard given they love to play the delay game of "finding" that data.
With all the housing available, it's a choice to be on the street... Giving out clothing & tents just enables lawless behavior, and frustrates an already over taxed citizenry...
*Fix the roads & infrastructure*
@@blackops844 so, in fifteen years nobody offered you transitional housing and work training, or you never looked for a job?
Sue the city if they didn't offer transitional housing, they claim "it's available to anyone in need"...
I'm 63 and had never been without employment until I was forced to retire... And I was a single parent of three kids for 15 years.
"Black ops", you are either a veteran or a valor thief, if you are a veteran, thank you for your service & there are multiple avenues to housing if you make the effort, my best bud from HS got VA housing within weeks of being homeless... if you're a valor thief, maybe karma has your number...
@blackops..what secret special service where you in ? The hobo army or antifa sht pants coward squad?
I WAS THINKING TENT CITY TINA WAS GOING TO SAVE PORTLAND
Portland needs a Sheriff Grady Judd. It’s time to stop enabling these people and hold them accountable for their own bad life choices. The homeless guy commenting has been homeless for 5 YEARS? Why? Do we owe him?
Only one ideology and party to blame for the decay, squalor, crime, violence, and chaos here. Only one to blame. And the voters that keep reelecting it.
The politicians on the homeless/houseless committee need to move the table and chairs for their next meeting out of their cozy office building to the North parks downtown and see, hear and smell (and walk on ) what the community of tax paying downtown residents and businesses live with 24/7. We would then have rapid removal of tents in public places.
Open enough shelters and dont give them tents or allow them to camp in public areas. That should be the bare minimum.
Renee’s idea is objectively outstanding. Unfortunately, the taxpayers of Portland don’t want someone with common sense. “Compassion” to them comes in the form of enabling. We the taxpayers remain the indentured servants of people who have no intention of ever contributing. Thats *our* money going down the drain.
I want to change politicians running for mayor !
Just stop the camping!
Any changes in policy are viewed as too “harsh” by people who have no real policy to speak of themselves.
Never TRUST anyone that turns off COMMENTS.
By reporting? Weird. I think you are part of the problem by attacking the news. Would you rather not hear about it? What’s the last book you read?
Remove Lori
How about we fix the underlying cause of homelessness in the first place… instead of these bandaids
indeed, enforce vagrancy, trespassing and loitering, mandate all must have a J-O-B...
@@forgottenman8629 that won’t work because we have done that before. Even more underlying than that. Directly at the root
Who is we and how exactly does one “fix” homelessness? You make it sound so easy.
@@8-SamMon it certainly won’t be easy but it certainly could be easier. Especially if certain obstacles were no longer in the way. Why can other countries figure this out and what is different about them?
@@8-SamMon also we as in me and you, the community, certain institutions and organizations. Together. That’s the problem with the US. We are too individualized and we don’t take collective responsibility for each other and our surroundings. They do this in Japan and guess what.. they have little to no homelessness even for a capitalist country with class divisions
How much would those “county stickers” cost?
Elect Rene
If you're tired of this mess.. start forcing these rental companies to drop the cost of rent.. the rents about twice as high as it should be.. the rental industry has lost its mind and it is completely out of touch with reality.. in the current economic situation that we all find ourselves in.
Great idea that's going to help so the homeless druggies can afford to pay rent and stay high.
Moron complete one at that.
Lower rent greedy landlords so this drug addicted homeless person can move in and not pay rent and destroy your property
It's everyone else's fault but the homeless druggies.
Lower the rent so people will have to pay more
You would make a great landlord 😂
What rent control?
That ends up with less rental units.
For the working person
@@Dennis-p2l no I want people off the streets.. and in the past even the drug addicts and alcoholics could find a place to go.. today the rent so expensive they are trapped.. I'm sure lucky I bought my house when I did
@johnellis3309
Nice me also I have decent rent I own my own place.
There are too many drugs in Portland and hopefully they can clean it up.
But the people must want and take the help.
To any mayoral candidate:
What is the minimum price for purchasing a detached home in Portland?
How many starter homes are available for sale at a low price?
How many starter homes were even built in the last ten years?
I get that, but people act like they are incapable of moving to somewhere they can afford. If you can't afford to live here, there are a few dozen other states that might work out better for some people.
Before you come at me, my 3-person family came to Portland 10 years ago with our dog and anything we could fit in a minivan, which we drove across the country from NY. We came here for work. Our situation is changing, and our first thought is that we need to go live somewhere more affordable.
I have experienced homelessness in the PNW. There are a variety of factors at play, but in my view, the biggest factor is people insisting that they have to stay where they are.
I don't have solutions for grown ass men who are a half-decade entrenched in homelessness and calling it "going through a tough time". There is more than enough work available, and Portland has a network of free public showers. There's no excuse for not working at all unless you're 100% disabled.
This whole thing is now beyond insane.
The home dreamers need a place to be! Spend that money on somewhere for them to put their tents! Homelessness is not a criminal act. You expect a lot out of those who have nothing! Our state’s & government are a part of many of these life situations! Seriously! Give them some place to be. Instead of spending thousands to bring in boulders & camp sweeps! It’s ridiculous! They need help & support! Not judgement & hate! Whole families are homeless! Have compassion for them, as one day it can be you!
Huge Problem… Utilize older large buildings that have structural integrity and clean them up add as many small apartments with a separate laundry area.
These folks need a job according to their level of mentality and or abilities.
Working and contributing has a way of helping a person in many ways..
Having some sort of place to feel a sense of belonging and safety is important.
A private area to go to the bathroom , shower and rest are humanitarian to say the least.
As everyone can see they are not out for the dream home just some ,safety, hygiene and privacy.A place to take time to think rest and possibly be able to work.
A real community. The Anasazi did it…
If a person shows no mercy, no mercy will be shown to them.
That guy is not a fan of people either 😂
To the homeless man in the interview, what’s really sadistic is allowing yourself to live a life like that on the streets and thinking it’s OK. While doing absolutely nothing to help yourself out and demanding handouts from others. You can never help someone that does not want to help themselves.
Tent and tarp manufacturers should have to pay a tax into a fund for getting homeless off the streets. They are making money hand-over-fist with selling tents to the homeless and to homeless advocates.
, removing tents , & yet handing out tarps , with , what ? The Left hand ? Does the Right hand know , - ?!
Until the laws are changes such that the city gets to tell the county what to do, this is just political hot air.
Didn’t reach out to Keith Wilson…..? BS
Portland? Free tents, free tarps, free meals, free drugs. Drug addict paradise.
Yes.
this guy is a such a joke!!!! What a waste of breath!!!
, whats the deal with State Funded Tent deall ? sounds like a stamp of Hester Prine ! , days - "A" , for Adultry🤣
they should just build a big house for the people?
Why dont you spend that money and build affordible housing instead?.... and more detox services?...healthy food ...instead of crumbs.......tent recyling is not the answer.
Sharp as a marble
KATU is part of the problem
Definitely
All media here is is Uber far left and fictional
Rob los ricos
This is inhumane. I would much rather pay for tents and vulnerable people who need them get them. Even if that means some are used for drugs. Drug users are still human beings and deserve not to be left to the elements. How will families with children sleep together in a tent for only 2 people? A 2 person tent is really a 1 person tent for someone who is 5'6 150 lbs with their stuff. What about if you're a 6'4 280 lb dude? They are homeless, too and they need bigger tents. What about people who just became homeless? How do they get a new tent? I am an avid camper and exposure to the elements eventually makes tents no longer be waterproof or windproof after a while. Especially small cheap ones, not the nice ones from REI. They don't even have access to a washing machine and Nikwax to give a used tent a boost. We need to actually build the detox centers we were promised with measure 110, and hold fentanyl/ meth addicts accountable by forcing them into detox if they do not qualify for a shelter. Not just letting them stay on the street corner slumped over high and checked out. Taking their tents away won't solve that problem. If anything it will encourage more public drug use and squatting in empty homes because they have nowhere to hide. We need to push people toward rehab and provide more affordable housing with some units on a sliding income scale.
The fastest way for the city of Portland to stop tent camping is for the City of Portland to give out motel room vounchers to all they find living in tents on the streets of Portland. Litterally give them 2 months of a clean room to live in and have social service people help them get into medical and social service programs so they can heal and get back to living instead of barely surviving.
Why? They have been providing outreach services but the homeless don't want to use them.
you've 'not' come to grips that this is a 'choice', taxpayers must never be in the 'enabling' businesses...
Legal tent city's work research tent city 3 Seattle Washington
This city is a waste of our money
WHERES THE TENT DISTRIBUTING FIREARMS...? (asking for a friend)
Well what the Heck all you need to do is give them a one person tent one small tarp a yoga mat and and nothing more because the taxpayers are sick of it and open up 3 frickin tinny house shelters and charge them tent and or lock them up
Maybe help the American homeless before Ukraine .14 million a year build mentally hospitals and put them there
The Ukraninan people are fighting for their lives, their families, and their country. They have made huge sacrifices to defend their nation. All our homeless population wants is to get their next fix and have someone else deal with the consequences. I would give $1000 to Ukraine before I'd give another nickel to a community of drug addicts who will happily ruin the city for our families. Ringtail, you've got your values all mixed up.
@@WillyPDX94 not to mention the clear implications if Ukraine is allowed to fall. No one believes Putin will stop there. And when (not if) he attacks Poland, the USA is under contractual obligation to defend. Meaning we will be directly involved in military ops.