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I talk to people on the street all the time . It's not all Drug and mental illness, there are some pretty coherent people running around with just a tent and bike and make pretty good conversation with.This is the stuff said by people who have NEVER had any interaction with "homeless". The houseless here are not people who can't afford rent. For every hundred with no home you "might" find 1 who really is in trouble and wants help. What you see in the real world here is people who want drugs. They do NOT want a job, or a home, they want drugs. Offer them a home where they can't do drugs and they walk away. So it becomes a HUGE money sucking entity. They who run it throw out numbers like millions of dollars spent and then admit it helped a few. They could buy a damn house for all of them for that. The rest want drugs and to be allowed to steal to buy more drugs. Can't afford to live and work in Seattle? MOVE. A lot of people who work with me work in Seattle. They live on the other side of the water and commute. This making excuses for the scum just makes it worse and attracts more of them. It does make a handful of people a LOT of money though.
Earlier this week I grabbed a piece of cheep pizza at Winco w. Hillsboro. then went over to the side across Street where the now empty/closed fenced-in Pod camp sits. I sat down on sidewalk and we ate and talked about that particular camp set-up and why it closed, where the evicted homeless went, and what motels were offered to those who choose to go .
The game of popup a Homeless camp for profit is a real thing.
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I also used to work down Portland for several years. worked and talked to lot of the I seen more despair with mental illness there in Portland than here in the Tuality valley, more drug also. Portland just lays it all out in the open, especially in the public theater from Broadway Br. to Pioneer square.
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