A homeless camp along a Portland, Oregon, street is spilling over into the RV park across the fence. Residents of the park say people from the homeless camp are stealing from them and threatening them with weapons.
The sidewalk on Southeast 157th Avenue is covered in trash, tents and broken-down cars and RVs. Piles of clothes and old bikes line a chain link fence—the only separation between Tall Firs Mobile Home & RV Park and the camp.
“My ability to get new tenants in there is basically zero because nobody wants to live next to everything that’s going on over there,” said Jeremy Robeson, who owns the park.
“It’s horrendous. I’ve lived here 13 years, never once has this ever been like this,” said Darla Sheets. “Junk everywhere, rats, no respect whatsoever— taking over the street.” She put up barricades behind her home to stop people from camping there.
Watch this video from KGW-TV. Be warned: It’s disturbing.
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All of these residents should remember this at voting time. Your city’s mayor and city council allowed people to run lawless through the streets, burning and looting and called it “peaceful protest”.
The “media” never seems to bring this up. Gee, I wonder why?
Just like the “peaceful protest” on January 6th.
Some of you here, I imagine, would protect that action.
That peaceful protest was infiltrated by the fbi which has instigated events for decades. Enjoy your Stockholm Syndrome.
I thank God I live in Maine. If we have a homeless camp set up its a few tents with a few people living in a treed area or under a bridge far away from the mainstream of permanent folks. The homeless only come here in the summer to get away from the heat of places like Oregon and California. Come fall most are gone.
Right in the cops don’t bother them so they can stay there unlike other commenters have said they take pride in their little community no trash no raising hell it just looking for a place to call home
With all the kids that are with them too I suppose?
Oregon and California voted for that mess, let them live with it now and maybe they’ll think twice about the next person they vote for.
Just exactly what will the next person voted in going to do? Nothing! Yes, this is a major problem, a highly expensive one the politicians in cities won’t address. Arresting them, towing their cars and RV’s and cleaning up the mess is a major chore. Don’t know what piece of legislation Oregon and California voted on for this mess that you are referring to.
Hey now, not all of us Californians support this mess in any way. I did not vote for any of the current local or state office holders. Governor N******* needs to just go away. Please see my other post. I am fed up. I wish I were in a position to move to another state, but my husband is settled here. We’re 70 and 75 and just glad we’re old and, while we don’t plan to croak any time soon, are glad we aren’t in our 30s to have to endure this another 50 or 60 years.
Agree. Those states have made their beds, with laws protecting the lawless. Now it’s time to for them to lay in them.
Correct.
That is terrible. There are lots of them in Oregon. The city of Eugene keeps moving them. But I hope they stay in the city or they will set fire to the woods. Everywhere they go looks worse than a garbage dump. One day, I was driving through and wanted to go to a nice park to get my dog out for a minute. It was no longer a nice park by the river. Old broken down RVs lined the street on both sides. Teenagers who should be in school were standing around in groups. I went on to the parking area, got out with the dog, strange looking people watched every move. I stayed close to the car and got back in quickly, and left. When they go to the edge of town, it is quickly a muddy, rat infested mess.
I’m a country dweller with no near neighbors, on a narrow gravel road, and each time one tries to set up camp along the road, residents get together and get the county or forest owners to move them out as quickly as possible.
Sacramento and most of California looks just like this. I won’t go to San Francisco anymore because you have to pick your way through encampments full of trash, feces, urine, needles, drug paraphernalia, broken bicycles and parts, and anything else you can think of just to walk down the sidewalk. Sacramento’s recently thriving downtown area now looks like a version of the video above. It’s ridiculous. Our mayor keeps telling the populace how they’ve spent millions to help the homeless and now wants to throw more of our tax dollars at it – all to no avail. The governor and legislators are even worse and now want us to pay yet more taxes to throw at the homeless. I’m disgusted with them all – the homeless who can’t even police their own areas and even more, the politicians who think money is the solution.
Yep, sooner or later the crying and bleeding stops.
Por*land has bought and paid for this with their liberal politics. It is sad to see such a once beautiful city devolve into an urban nightmare simply because the leadership of the city refuse to address the issues that have created this mess.
Well, in some ways it’s hard to see where the homeless camp ends. I’m sure the rv park provides a cheaper rent alternative for people who need it but that whole area looks depressing.
Nice censorship disclaimer.
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Diane…..agree 1000%.
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Great response. Something similar should be standard on any site that doesn’t want to become a sewer of trash.
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So what you are saying is if the liberal censors don’t like what is said and it doesn’t jive with their misguided P.C. thoughts then it will be deleted..Got it… Thank God for Elon Musk!
Yep, you got it, Frank. Well, not quite. Have you seen the almost-1,000 comments that have been posted here just in the past couple of days? Uhhh, they’re pretty outspoken and yet there they are, for you and everyone else to read. And here is your snarky comment – for everyone to read and be impressed with your [bleeped]. Ha ha! I bleeped myself. Shame on me! BTW, I am way more lenient than the other moderators on here, or else a lot of those comments, plus yours, would have been deleted. So, what was your point again? Go, Elon! –Diane
As a temporary solution, couldn’t the city enforce a law that the street rvs cannot collect objects around their RV? Also have the city pass by for trash pickup on a regular basis. Again, not a solution but I haven’t seen or heard of any either. Nothing is for free and people need to work as everyone else does. Does the city send people around to promote job search, unemployment benefits, and housing options? It appears they are totally ignoring the issue at hand.
As they did the riots.
Elections have consequences.
No surprise. Liberal-led cities and states. Carry on.
Maybe I’m missing the meaning of some of the comments. Homelessness affects all 50 states and other countries as well. It’s not just the blue states, but red states and other countries as well. Homelessness is a global issue as is mental illness, unemployment and poverty.
Stop trying to blame one political party for the World’s issues!
When you do a detailed analysis of “red and blue states” the overwhelming percentage of homeless occur in “blue states”. Since that is documented fact, i would suggest there is something present in those states, that have that causal relationship.
I would suggest a deeper review of policies in those states first. That would only be the logical course of action, in any attempt to solve the growing problem.
If it is determined, that inappropriate policies are the cause (pure conjecture), then a look at who is behind those polices would be in order.
This all came to me last night, as i got the best nights sleep on My Pillow.
Build a wall!
Motion detectors and alarms. Security dogs.
I’d feel sorry for them but wasn’t Portland the state who didnt want police involvement..guess you get what u asked for..TAKE BACK YOUR STATE PEOPLE!! VOTE 100% RED!! AND CLEAN UP THE PARK AS WELL..
IMO, It’s the philosophy of folks who tend to vote red that created this situation in the first place. I will also say that it appears to be a situation perpetuated by the folks who tend to vote blue.
Betty voting red voting blue is not going to solve anything. Yes there’s jobs and many with decent pay,but there are very few affordable places to rent live anymore. Property
Owners landlords know they can raise rents to what ever the traffic will bear unfortunately this prices out the majority of working class people. I Own my home but there’s no way l
could afford to rent a place or even think about buying a new home. I’ve had offers to buy my home from investors who will turn around and
Rent it for ridiculous prices.So then where do l move too? A camper? I think its make a buck greed mentality that drives alot of of this.
America has tens of thousands of unfilled jobs. These people should start applying for some of these jobs and maybe get off the homeless treadmill.
This is what you get when you absolve people of responsibility for their own actions and ordain them with rights they are not mentally competent to understand nor properly earned. A well ordered society needs to at least protect itself from those problems it can not solve.
Please read my comments below to know how much I am disgusted by all of this, but I thought I’d throw one other example out there as it was a philosophical eye opener for me. On my regular route across Folsom, there was an encampment set up under a freeway in an open area with trees around it. People on the freeway would never know it was there. The homeless living there set it up much like an RV park – everyone had their own area. In the center there was a large peace sign created with rocks. There were no fights, not one bit of trash, people regularly raked and swept, they asked the city for trash cans. I’ve stayed in RV parks that looked worse. Some were in tents, some had older RVs or trailers. The point is they had pride in their living conditions and I’m sure would take care of a home the same way. They were there for several months and eventually got rousted by CalTrans who owns the property – so if nothing else, it was a liability issue. Not such a bad place.
My point being that if the people outside the RV park in the video took care of their claimed spots like these people did, we’d all probably have more patience with them. Still don’t want them there, but would not have such a virulent response and would probably be more inclined to want to help them. In the case of the people I described above, when there was an accident on the freeway offramp, a large group from the encampment ran out to help those involved and cared for them until emergency responders got there. We need to stop thinking of the homeless as one group with the same needs for help. Some just need a hand up, some are mentally ill and can’t think so they need a different solution, and those that are just druggies and addicts need some other kind of help. Not one solution will work for all these people. Thanks for reading. I am not a liberal; I believe in earning your own way, but the freeway encampment showed me a different side that I hadn’t seen before.
Exactly! The complaints are about the violence and trash – not their income level.
Tens of thousands of jobs in America are unfilled. Get a job and stop being a burden on your neighbors. It’s the adult thing to do.
Who is going to hire a homeless person? They don’t have phones, they don’t have showers,etc etc etc….Getting a job is real easy to say! Not to mention having a job Doesnt mean you can afford housing!
What happened to Obama phones?
I sleep in a tent somebody hollered at me get a job I hollered back I didnt ask to be born
That’s Portland for you. People that live there condone it too because they keep voting in the same politicians. Just keep driving past that city. They really don’t want you there anyway.
They need more places for the homeless to live they used to go in sneakily hide and camp near the bridges and Little parks but then the police started harassing them what they would get attacked if they were single and this 10-year RV rule is crap if you RV runs and passes inspection you should be able to go to any RV Park and not have to worry about who mines in 1998 I wonder if they’ll let me in in even if it’s beautiful and we need mental health facilities in this country to help people that need it and want it throwing people in jail for having a mental illness isn’t right and doesn’t do anything to help anybody
The homeless are increasing all across the nation. This is a socio-economic problem that will grow exponentially given current economic conditions. “Getting a job” does not mean getting housing. Many had jobs and became homeless. Many have jobs and remain homeless. Housing is too scarce and too expensive. As for jobs, how many will hire a homeless person? So, get realistic. It is not a crime (yet!) to be homeless. Nor can a homeless family disappear into thin air. They, like you, must eat, sleep, and live — somewhere.
Go away? Where? There are unused public lands in Nevada. Are we advocating that the homeless be herded into camps like the Japanese internees of WWII? Is that what you all want? Out of sight, out of mind? Perhaps to be added to the prison/industrial labor force?
If you should suddenly, through no fault of your own, become homeless, does that make you _vermin_ to be shunned and persecuted? Perhaps America no longer has a heart but an iron fist in place of a heart.
Move them to Delaware, and Washington DC. I guarantee that will light a fire. Wait, some wise man already started doing that. Guess the experiment is underway. Popcorn anyone!
Perhaps you should get out your history comic book and read up on what happens when there is so much social inequality, political division, tribal conflict, and media rabble rousing — combined with opportunistic power-seekers who strut to the podium while their thugs slip in behind to destroy Constitutional institutions: has it ever ended well? Even the smug SOB’s who denigrate the victims end up in the same fix, and it ain’t pretty.
Valid points about rent becoming too high to afford for location you’d like to live; or more importantly derived your income. The main problem is the tipping point(s) in this situation that leads to violent anarchy. (insufficient income; mental health; drug and alcohol dependent; or simple unwillingness to be a productive member of society or follow the rules.
However, the path to “equality” for all is also the path to slavery for nearly all, except a few elites.
The five pillars of Communism:
Abolition of Private Property.
Collective Ownership of Means of Production.
Central Planning.
Elimination of Unfair Gaps in Incomes.
Provision of Necessaries of Life.
Get and except help. Follow the rules. Be productive where you can afford to be.
Because your homeless dosent mean you have to be dirty. Have you seen a homless camp orhet than driving by in your car they are filthy i havent seen one that hasnt had trash and clothes and rotten food everywhere not to mention they urinate and deficate anywhere they please. Im not one to judge or dislike someone for the hand theyve been dealt i know many homeless and they are just people down on their luck but the filth is so unnecessary if they would clean up after themselves ppl wouldnt mind them so much
People have nowhere to go. Rent is too high. Where are people suppose to go?
The issue isn’t “homeless”, it’s crime and violence, respect and decency.
Is this horror a result of OPEN BORDERS? Not long ago I toured Mexico and noticed people (communities) living in what appeared to me to be cardboard boxes. In the center of their CAMPGROUNDS they had a Huge fire on which they cooked.
That’s the way most of the world lives.
They should go to work, maybe go to work at 2 jobs if they need to. Does that answer your question of where they should go?
They should go back to where they came from! If you can’t carry your own weight you don’t belong in the USA!!!
And I suggest you go back to school and get a better education. Work is not the problem. Wages, or rather unliveable wages, is the problem. Inability to afford healthcare is the problem. Those in authority turning their backs on the people is the problem. And the biggest problem, is the ignorant masses who think the problem is a case of laziness on the part of the homeless.
Not all desire employment to pay rent. I do know the problem has its complexity.
Go to the polls and vote Republican!
Most homeless folk come from at least 45 other states across the good old USA to Long Beach Ca where I live…so I suggest it’s a national problem….
How is it a national problem It’s a Gavin ****** problem by making it to where he gives them everything for free here and doesn’t put them in jail for any of the crimes that they do and lets them hang out in front of businesses and houses and everything else and basically destroy neighborhoods destroy businesses destroy everything that they touch and we all have to front the bill for all of that but yet ******* will give them $4,000 a month to stay in a hotel and they trash the hotels even at that So it’s not a national problem this is a California problem and ******* is the head of the class for it
It ain’t his problem, he defeated the recall. He’s only going to feel embolden now. I suggest you make some popcorn, and just watch the show.
Uhhhhh, this is in Oregon.
No it’s a problem in Democrat run areas, not allowed in nice places, enjoy California BTW don’t tell me the typical cali garbage of what a huge economy it is, the whole place is old and trashy, Hollywood now looks like a bodega from Harlem. YUCK!
Why is there only a chain link fence around the RV park? Many parks in congested areas I have been to have solid concrete or cinder block walls to shut out what is going on beyond the walls. This RV park owner ought to be thinking about how to secure his park with proper fencing shielding his renters to make the park more palatable.
As for the homeless, and the comments about them working? As several commenters said, they need multiple solutions. Working 2 jobs at minimum wage (often, jobs without benefits like medical insurance) is not enough to pay for an apartment at today’s rates…much less food, a vehicle and insurance to get back and forth to work, or a telephone that employers require. The over-simplified solution of “get a job” is ignorant because it ignores the reality that many homeless do work.
Scratch portland off your summer travel plans!!!
Already did when BLM took over, I’ll never go to any Democrat run city again, unless it’s to switch planes going to somewhere nice.
Very interesting take. What are your positives for your stand? I know a negative is denying ones opportunity to interact with persons of same and differing ideas unless one expects all to agree with one.
Already did. But I live in washington state. Its just as bad. We have one of those liberal govs also. If i was young, I’d be headed out of here!
This is what happens when the government turns its back on the mentally ill .
I remember growing up there were State mental hospitals they can help housing care for people who could not care for themselves. these people would be in those institutions, but they shut them all down and turned them all out into the street.
this is what your government does , it didn’t care about them then, it doesn’t care about them now.
they cost money, they don’t produce it (tax’s)…… bottom line.
So consider that when you look at them and realize that that might be the best they can possibly do in life . that’s all they’ve got and to them it’s important , to them it’s a sense of security and safety, it’s survival .
there but for the grace of God……
If you remember why, Reagan signed a bill in 1967 that got rid of Against-will institutionalization, a lot of them were caught doing electroshock therapy and other experimental treatments and abuse. Many families after hearing of this refuse to send their family members to places like that. So the government didn’t turn their back. I wanna say mental health wasn’t completely understood and the institutions needed a huge reform.
Mental hospitals were getting shut down and phased out in the decades to come after that signing.
Yes It is incredibly expensive, incredibly difficult and frustrating to try to get someone the mental health they need when they’re just competent enough to check themselves out. (And where do you think the government is getting the money to pay for that, our taxes)
//Some inpatient rehabs may cost around $6,000 for a 30-day program. Well-known centers often cost up to $20,000 for a 30-day program. For those requiring 60- or 90-day programs, the total average of costs could range anywhere from $12,000 to $60,000. Per person
A lot of those folks on the street -we know they need the help- but they’re still competent to choose not to go in for help or continue treatment when it gets too rough and uncomfortable. At that point I’m all for Against-will institutionalization if it will help them become functional in society again.
It’s truly heartbreaking and a difficult situation. With regard to rving, there no way I’d choose to stay at an rv park like this, but it is partly self inflicted. These “rv parks” really are long term places with a mix of mobile homes and rvs that have been allowed to build semi permanent structures around rvs. These parks should be classified as something else, because they aren’t rv parks, at least not the resort kind it seems.
Here in Tucson, there are homeless everywhere. Most suffer from mental illness. Many refuse help in the form of a place to stay and a job…. because most are addicted to drugs and just want cash which is why I stopped giving any of them any cash. The few who are trying to get back on their feet receive plenty of assistance here.
Perhaps we need to limit tax benefits for real estate that isn’t lived in full time by the owners. Too much speculative investing is driving rent up and people on the edge out.
Re-read what you wrote. You raise taxes and other fees on non- owner occupied structures, you are going to force them to raise the rents. You have it backwards. You don’t penalize someone for their hard work to become successful.
I live in utah and the homeless problem here is huge. Across the street from my elderly moms house is a huge honeless camp. Its a disgusting mess i try to explain if they would clean up after themselves. Ppl wouldnt mind the camping.
Sadly, people WOULD still mind, even if their camp was the cleanest place on Earth. It has nothing to do with cleanliness, etc. Instead it’s the classic “get rid of those who have less than us; they don’t deserve to…..” Mentality
These kind of people make it impossible for a respectful nomad man. I’ll go join these people camping to show them how it done.
The widening divide between the haves and the have-nots continues to manifest in ways the wealthy will never really give a hoot about from the security of their mansions and gated communities…
Would that include a chain link fence between all the “haves” have in their RV’s and those people who made decisions in their lives that put them in squalor? Why should those “haves” have their lives ruined because of the ones who want others to pay their freight.
What makes you think ANY of these poor souls caused themselves to be in this situation? I gaurantee you less than 1% of the homeless cause themselves to become homeless. For many, it’s mental health issues that they can’t get help for, because they aren’t “enough” to be able to have health insurance. For the majority, it is lack of income and housing costs.
It appears the “homeless” may camp wherever and those who appear of means may not. Does public property camping include community legislators or administrators homefronts?
Unfortunately, liberal city govt is useless and LE has its hands tied.
I’m afraid that good, paying citizens will eventually get fed up and take drastic measures into their own hands. Some will may even take deadly action without worrying about the consequences.
I empathize fully with the law abiding and see them snapping. Liberal city govt, such as Los Angeles, does nothing and the city now stinks, disease ridden, human sewage and rubbish is everywhere.
When cities loose money maybe they will get off the pot, so to speak and take action.
Maybe find out where all the out of staters are and bus them home.
Calif gives money and funding away as freebies to the homeless
Ship the squatters back home to their tax payers.
We shouldn’t have to pay for everyone else’s homeless in our area.
Sure, it’s a liberal city problem. Unless it’s Dallas, Omaha , Tulsa, Lincoln, Jacksonville, or any other big city. But it’s easier to blame liberals. Fox news will turn your brain to mush.
But it isn’t Omaha, Tulsa, Lincoln, Jax, and other cities in Red states…it on you Libbie.
Fox News has nothing to do with this buddy. I live in Dallas. Sure we have homeless there too but they would never be allowed to just set up wherever, we just are NOT as welcoming.
You haven’t had massive fires wipe out whole towns either
Fox news pounds their listeners over and over and over with misinformation and half truths. Kinda sounds like what Putin is doing with his state run propaganda news
Instead of the nasty people making it harder for the mother with 3 kids that lives in her car the kids go to school the mother goes to work these people want a home but how can she rent is too much.I have to think about my grandson that lives with me our trailer court is for sale and we will be on the streets next
Call the Orkin Man, BIG PEST PROBLEM that needs total extermination.
Let’s learn from mental health in US/European History-Either way, the government pays for this. Perhaps we need to re-open the massive amounts of state hospitals that used to house them. Go back to old methods the government used to use in the 50s-80’s which is call for the men in white suits to round ‘em up, lock them up, get them off street drugs, lobotomize, shock therapy, keep them medicated on Haloperidol so they can’t cause problems. Those that are more manageable can be released & housed in disability apartments, given simple jobs. It’s either go back to that or keep the current situation of letting them run over us like rats. Law abiding citizens should not be forced to look at this garbage. Or shall Uncle Joe build hundreds of thousands of condos for them and send them a few thousand a month? Which option do you West Coasters vote for? In any society in the world at any given time there will be a mentally ill segment unable to care for themselves that needs handling.
It is referred to as “mess down their neck”. Show them the same lack of respect. What goes around comes around. Enough is enough. How do you want to word it. People have to deal with it because they don’t deal with it.
It is sad that that many are homeless. But with all the help needed signs all over .. Why
The RV park residents need to make sure they call the police and report every single incident that happens, flood local law enforcement(911) with phone calls and reports and force their hand to do something. But remember, thru all this the homeless are people too, so like any group of people don’t let these few ruin your outlook of all of them.
I get it that people are homeless but come on why does a person need to make places nasty . Put trash in trash cans take the cars to the junkyard that are not good . It’s sad that you are homeless but what is even worse is people don’t care about what other people have worked hard for . I get it that you guys don’t want that mess there . The city needs to find an old hotel or something to help the homeless get on their feet and out of the streets . Sending hugs and prayers for you and the homeless
When our Government gives billions to other less fortunate country for food and housing , Why do they forget the ones that live here? I don’t think any of these people want to be homeless. They need a great deal of money left here for our own people. If there’s a will theres a way. People of America please will this to happen.
Darwin was RIGHT!