On street parking problems Portland
Hi Folks, I find this quite sad. https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2017/07/19/portland-is-towing-caravans-of-rvs-off-the-streets-heres-what-its-like-inside-those-motor-homes/?fbclid=IwAR386UmlsfQ9...
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4x4van wrote:
........... Sorry, but you cannot care more for people than they care for themselves, and you cannot help people who don't want to be helped.
This pretty much sums it up, there is a percentage of homeless that are not that way by choice, it isn't a large percentage. It is those that are not drug addicted leaches on society. They have lost a job, due to covid, or other and can't afford to pay rent.
Most will avoid the large group camps of the drug addicted due to the bad situation and filth.
As to the drug addicted, for years now government has continued to enable their issues, needle exchanges, safe places to shoot up, and now Oregon and Washington have passed laws decriminalizing the possession and use of small amounts of illegal drugs!
Maybe keep the drugs illegal in all quantities, and offer drug treatment as part of prison sentence.
