piles.
Is this a homeless 'Pod' setup ? , did Washington county purchase that property ?If you are looking for an urban campground in the Metro area, I would highly recommend the Wilsonville City Campground. It is free to all campers. Check In is at 9pm and Check Out is 7am. Portable toilet available. Car camping is in loop AH (City hall parking lot). Tent camping is in Loop BS (field across the street from city hall parking lot). I will post pictures tomorrow. Watch out for needles and
It is city property.
I hope they still hold air after you lay them down on some used needles.
so this is Not another temporary systematic fenced-in homeless 'Pod' structures set-up ? .
Yep, no fences. They planted some trees an bushes.
Believe me when I say this, it NOT a handout or handup . Washington County has financial incentive as their primary working goal . It is centered around the 'Management ' of the local homeless, and is just the working formula for local government financial enrichment and growth. If the Homeless receive any level of betterment, that is just secondary to the Counties first order of business, a business model of 'Management' .I've been suggesting they do this kind of thing all along. Though stupid they put hours on it.
This is a great example.
The city and county have vacant properties all over the place. Let people "Live" on some pf these properties, and police them. Have some rules. Make them be responsible, to some degree, for themselves.
I'm a fricken MORON compared to these highly educated, so called, public servants, and I know what should/could be done to help the situation! Don't make F'ing excuses. Just DO IT!
What is so difficult to understand about giving a hand up rather than a hand out?
Just living in my area with eyes wide open over here in Hillsboro, Cornelious, Forest Grove area of Washington County . What I already stated, I am pretty sure is similar copied model of management popping up used in other different City/Counties in other State governments with significant local homeless population to draw Grant Funding and their State funding.
This is just warped. I can't say for sure, but if it is, it's really effed up.
OK .. quit thinking about managing the Homeless by Washington County for it's financial enrichment and it's growth .
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.
He's not talking solely about the homeless/transients/bums. He's talking about the fact that most working families are unable to afford actual home ownership/building their own homes with mortgages because of the fees involved with such. Look at how many families are living in rentals versus how many are owning homes and you'll see it's almost always a very different demographic between the renters and the homeowners. The exorbitant fees also help developers since they can afford to spend that money to make cookie cutter millionaire homes in specific neighborhoods, and forces the real estate companies to either sell unsold urban homes to developers or to raise prices on the properties in order to get the profit margins needed to stay in the black. It's more profitable for the State and County to develop high density housing than to sell old homes affordable, because tearing down old houses to make room for condos and apartment complexes also gives them tax write-offs and increased city service fees and taxes from property management companies.
