Portland, Oregon Just Outlawed Homeless Camps!
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 3. 06. 2024
- Portland, Oregon Just Outlawed Homeless Camps!
Portland, Oregon has been fighting a homeless epidemic for years. Recently the people have had enough and have decided to outlaw street camping. This has been going on for a few months now and in this video, we will look at the progress. Next video we will look at the neighborhoods around Oaks Park
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The tents are goneâŠbut so are the businesses.
Good observation. He was walking down the sidewalk of boarded up buildings to illustrate the homeless being gone.
That will return in time, once the tourists start coming back in.
Now that I know itâs not tent city I want to visit again.
they'll be back, it wont happen overnight
True
I live in NE Portland and all they have done is pushed the homeless out into the suburbs. The problem has not gone away.
It has for "those people".
Define "the problem."
Itâs a relief that theyâre out of your neighborhood.
The one thing I noticed in your video and noticed being down there in person last Fall for a concert, a lot of the mom and pop businesses are permanently shuttered already. The damage is done to the working class. It really saddened me because I grew up watching, from just across the WA border, how hard everyone in Portland worked back in the eighties to clean up and revitalize the downtown. Everyone from the politicians to individuals within the community chipped in. They made a lot of sacrifices and paid a lot of excess money in tax to build infrastructure and pay for extra police. They made it happen, but then in one year the current government in that area undid all their hard work. Even if they do get it cleaned up again, all the old blocks formerly populated by family-owned businesses will get bought up by developers. It will never be the same. There will be no place for working-class families, much like Seattle. Maybe that's what the politicians wanted all along.
YUP and government policies let it get torn down in a few short years instead of policing them and arresting the rioters etc.. they just destroyed hard working tax paying entrepreneurs left and right. And allowing homeless free rein. this should have been cleaned up in a few months instead of taking years and all this funding totally wasted tax payer money with nothing getting fixed.. but then when your the head of some homeless out reach making 200k a year your probably not all the motivated to kill your own job by solving this issue permanently.
Corporate buy off, "you will own nothing and be happy ", Klaus Shwab . The Socialist communist takeover is upon us..Question is , will we just keep acquiescencing ? Or will we take this country back? Living free , or living under the boot of communism.. We have a choice... I have great hope in this country, that we will unite, and collectively brainstorm and right this sinking ship .. it's now or never.. We've got to make the hard choices, and do what is necessary to stop these malevolent nefarious oligarchs... At all costs, or what do we have? More of this ? No thanks.
Yep those people that were run out I doubt would ever come back. The damage is done. And it is sad.
Sad, but most likely, true. Look at what happened to Maui..đ
That's okay, now the rich Chinese can swoop it all up for pennies on the dollar and they'll do fine! (Sarcasm.)
Go .5 miles out in any direction, you'll find the tent cities. They've moved into residential neighborhoods.
Maybe that's appropriate. Lol, residential neighborhoods are for residing, perhaps even residing outside đ
Don't mean jack if the businesses have all left or gone broke. It's curtains baby, ain't no curtain call!
You got that right!
@@lostinthedesert-hp4bw YUP Briggs totally missed that part of his presntation and selective videoing.. just go by any of the freeways they are still there..
lower the rents in downtown so business can come back.
@@jonyjoe8464 its not rental rates its crime and homeless and the public does not want to come downtown we used to go a few times a month downtown to eat etc.. have not been downtown to eat in about 4 years now other than to go the Mat club which is private.
@@jlh9910 Man, it's a real pity, too, because in 2010-2016 or so, Portland was an AMAZING city to live in. And everyone back then told me it had gone massively downhill already.
Multnomah County government purchased more than 22,000 tents and more than 69,000 tarps for the homeless over the past two years. for 6,500 homeless
Where did the tents go?
@@deborahharvey854 back to Wall Street
Some just wanted to be multi tent owners
Purchasing tents for the homeless bit putting illegals in hotels somethings wrong with that picture
Then they sweep the camps so they can replace all of the stuff they just gave them, continuing the cycle.
I was homeless for a couple of months in Evansville Indiana. I'm not anymore, I'm working and have my own place again. I don't know about Portland, but here, mental illness is a huge problem among the homeless
It's hard to be mentally healthy when you are homeless.
@@jessicaanderson7885 yes it is, but a lot of the people I was homeless with had severe mental problems before they were homeless
It seems to me that people who aren't mentally ill are much better equipped to be able to find and keep a home. I dont think that's coincidence.
@@kitsuneneko2567 it's no coincidence
It's a huge problem with the people they elect too !
I have a heart for any person who is unwillingly pressed to homelessness. On the other hand, I believe that any person who willingly refuses shelter is willingly homeless and should not be taking the safety of public sidewalks, parks, and allies away from safe public use.
That sounds logical, until you realize that most of the shelters have rules that will further prevent you from getting housed. I was one of them for over a decade. in by 6pm(so no night jobs) nowhere to store belongings(so you have to take everything with you where ever you go) and The most common and insidious(in my opinion) you might not even get in.
The rules and regulations are often bad like another replier said
And even then shelters are often underfunded and have many problems of their own. I've known a handful of homeless who insisted their spots around town are always much safer than the shelter, if weather permits. I've never heard a good thing about the shelters. Never.
It's one more thing in the US that can't do what it's intended to do because the situation has been so mishandled for so long.
All of the housing funds is going towards housing illegal immigrants. There is absolutely no reason Americans should be made to live in homeless shelters, all while our government is housing those that do not deserve, nor, ever paid into our system. Pretty sure this comment will be removed, as American have also lost our 1st amendment right.
i saw a video where a homeless couple refused shelter coz they would be separated - gender segregation.
Shelter for your freedom? No thanks. There's an awful lot of homeless vets out there for that very same reason. We are the richest nation on earth and the best solution we can come up with is worse than the mission ...they don't care! It doesn't take a genius to figure that out. But I suspect the reason that they don't care is that there's an ongoing concerted effort to extract us all from our homes so that the powers the be can control/develop all the land. But just how many people can actually afford to live in those newly developed homes controlled by HOA's where their freedom and their rights don't mean shit? How many people are rich enough to live in a totally gentrified world? Or worse even, who can afford to live in an air b&b for thousands of dollars a night?
Portland is getting rid of the homeless but they're sending them out to the rural communities now because where I live in Newberg Oregon we're seeing more more of them
Some states like Montana and Wyoming are also suddenly getting homeless people.
That's OK. Rural areas also have hog farms. Problem solved.
@@LuckyBaldwin777Hog farms donât stink nearly as bad or create nearly the mess as the âhomelessâ aka bums, do.
@@juleswins3 I recommend the movie Snatch. Should clear things up.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 Yeah, there's an old episode of Deadwood that clears that up.
I have to admit Portland has done a good job cleaning up the "targeted areas". The problem is they're moving to every empty space they can find. They're not removing them they are shuffling them. The city shouldn't have let this happen in the first place. I appreciate your enthusiasm for Portland, but the politics need to change to make things great again. No more free stuff.
You are so very right modern-day Portland is a very sad city. It is much politics as it is the homeless.
Like the police department, fire department, public schools, ect? Or you mean just nothing for homeless people?
@@angieann8916 Not sure what you are saying.
@@justincase2291 They're saying you're an idiot because all those services they mentioned are free. So you're just trying to screw over the homeless or everyone? Have more compassion for people struggling. You might be one of them someday. How would you like to be treated?
@@fuzzytigercatthey arenât free. They use our hard earned tax dollars.
All the same homeless people are still out there Being homeless, they just move to other areas of town,lmao
No, you are wrong Portland is the first state to officially end homelessness
You seem to be easily amused @nancysasso4380. Please tell me what it is about homelessness makes you laugh your âbuttâ off ? I can understand being unsympathetic and not caring about others. The humor in this escapes me however.
Better somewhere other than the busiest and most heavily foot-trafficked parts of town.
They should use the free drug rehabs that we waste million$ on annually, and get a job!
Yeah, not! A bunch have moved to my street and the kids are afraid to play outside and we're finding drug stuff all over! â@@AUniqueHandleName444
People are being priced out of Portland and most other places by corporate fees. Wages have stagnated, rents continue to rise, "corporate investors" keep buying up more of the real estate. None of this is sustainable but the wealthiest among us don't care as long as they have another Tesla. There is literally no consideration for your fellow human. Hey, but if it looks good, it must be fixed right?
Two bedroom apartment in decent area 3k or less?
Runaway capitalism is evil
What can the wealthy among us actually do about it? Serious question. This guy walked through my neighborhood and I see their suffering.
As someone who lives in that area in a low income housing and didn't exactly like walking past someone's smelly tent or latrine, this feels like a bit of a ignorant statement. I don't feel like this is full proof solution, but it at least did something. I'm not waking up every night to gun shots or my home being blocked off by yellow tape and surrounded by cops. When I can, I try to help the homeless by getting them food, water, and finding a place to stay. What are you doing to actually help find a better solution?
@@MYRRHfamily Pay taxes?
We were just in downtown for the Matt Rife show and it was nice to see some glimmer of old Portland. Quite a few people out and about and it was much cleaner, we absolutely felt safe. We had a great time walking around after the show and hit up some bomb food carts. Hoping for the best and looking forward to our next trip to P-Town!
I â€ïž Portland!!! So good to see this. I watched a video where outreach group was offering the homeless housing and rehab. Only 1 person agreed to get off the street. So it was time to make it illegal. Thank you for the video!
I miss my dear Portland. Late nights running around from club to club and just having fun. I know things change but it's just lost it's vibe.
Many parts of So Cal, same thing. SFV I grew up in...turned into a chithole yrs ago got sick of it and left.
Overpriced gridlock traffic crazy high rents crime like theres no tomorrow.
I attended a convention in Portland 15 years ago. Worst city I went to as far as safety. We had stoned kids coming into the hotel area and stealing food. Some of us tried to take a walk in the downtown area and visit shops but we were constantly bothered by stoned kids wanting money. We just decided to stay in our hotel rooms. Seems that Portland government created and nurtured the problem.
How dya figure? You actually think the city government is responsible for addiction, mental illness and skyrocketing housing costs?
I do agree that some of PDX government's decisions exacerbated these problems for a time. But this has occurred in cities all over the US. Portland may have got hit hard sooner, but its figuring out solutions that apparently are working sooner.
You were scared of stoned kids?
@@rachelinman4638 more than weed. This was toward the beginning of hard drug use. If the city could have started programs for these kids at that time, perhaps they could have been helped. Scared. No, I taught school in Philly. But, we were warned about muggings and robberies that often happened after dark. Why take the chance, right?
@@rachelinman4638 Group of hard up 20 soemthings? If just him, his wife he better be on guard.
I fail to understand why or how they plan on enforcing this new law when they've made it abundantly clear to the residents of Portland that the laws may be freely ignored without consequence.
Iâm curious as to why the politicians finally did anything about the problem. They allowed it to grow for years, largely ignoring the tax paying citizens, homeowners, and businesses, all while they virtue signaled that they âcaredâ about the homeless. Homeless were setting up tents in residentâs yards, and the owners were helpless to get the situation changed. They couldnât get rid of the camps, nor could they sell their properties. So what happened? Did the homeless finally encroach on the politiciansâ properties?
Democrats have no plan. Propaganda film from the start!
@@melissaa152: Itâs an election year. Dems are getting nervous about staying in power.
This video makes me remember what portland used to look like before all the craziness. Looking hopeful
Me too!
They are making progress. I hope it keeos going.
â@@WorldAccordingToBriggs
Don't hold your breath.
Miss those times. Saturday market was fun on a nice day.
@@ramses8847 o ya Saturdays were the best. All these vendors with products they made. Some real talent out there. Sometimes I'd take the train into the downtown part to avoid the traffic and spend the whole day.
Thatâs absolutely wonderful news! I hope the businesses start flowing back in and they feel comfortable
If Portland wants business to come back, they need to make a concerted effort to go after shoplifters and those who break windows and damage property.
One can only hope. Maybe if they can address encampments, they can address the crime problem
I think this is the only logical end-result for most big cities (including those in California). Sure things got weird during the pandemic (and a couple years after) but eventually things will slowly but surely return to normal. ALOT of these dumbass progressive cities are rethinking their ideas and starting to return to reason and logic.
not likely to happen anytime soon. What does it say when woke company Nike closes due to theft?
You're viewing the ultra left as non evil, when in fact, they are.
I traveled across the country last year, and Portland was my favorite city. People are so compassionate. I'm glad it's getting better. Thank you for making this video.
Thank you for watching
Oh bless your heart.
I think you were in a different Portland.
Too much compassion and tolerance is what got Portland in the homeless mess in the first place. Hopefully it is a lesson learned.
@@FlintIronstag23 I prefer to live in a community where people are compassionate and tolerant of people who are down on their luck. There are many good people in Portland who are doing what they can to help people in need such as building new shelters, etc. I donât expect any community to eradicate homelessness, but itâs kinda nice to see so many people pitching in to help out even when some of the city policies didnât work out⊠I didnât see that in too many other cities in the US. KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD!
Maybe Portland Oregon finally put 2 and 2 together, and figured out why their population has been declining. People don't want this crap in their neighborhoods.
The drug decriminalization drew some homeless too. I'm a Libertarian, so I don't think drugs should be illegal, but you can't have that Libertarian stance while not prosecuting actual crimes like shoplifting, assault, defacating in public...etc. Anything that infringes on other's rights and freedoms needs to still be illegal.
Not providing mental health care and affordable housing are major contributors. Without family support many working people would be on the streets because of housing.
Libertarians donât believe you donât persecute crime, more that less regulation that would make such acts crimes. Once theyâre law, whatâs done is done.
I used to be libertarian, but I saw how drugs absolutely destroy communities, even those with government enforcing laws against actual crimes.
It just doesnât work. Look at the data and how rampant drug abuse and societal decay correlate perfectly. Itâs just wishful thinking. I once saw a comment that got under my skin that read, âLibertarians are just conservatives who havenât grown up yet!â That stuck with me, but looking back now, my goodness how true that was đ
Libertarians donât believe in rules and regulations other than the rules and regulations that they believe in. đ”âđ«đđ
@@bobnas Correct. Because people on drugs don't care. They'll sleep in a puddle of piss with a smile on their face.
Good for you, Portland!!
Let's hope this spreads to other areas!! Good luck!!
I hope so too!
@@WorldAccordingToBriggs The homeless problem is much larger than whether they are living in tents in Portland. All Portland has accomplished is pushing the homeless to other areas of the state and country. This entire country is in trouble. Painting it with a new coat of paint isn't going to fix what is wrong with this country. Don't believe me? take a gander at Salt Lake City.
Shove kate brown and her council out of office.
Eugene next...PLEASE!
They cleaned up the down town, but homeless everywhere in East side. It was scary when I visited the area last month. Why you think homeless disappeared just because Portland outlawed. They just moved to outskirts.
Thanks Briggs for making me want to visit the place I was born. â€ïž
Whatâs most obvious is how empty and quiet the streets of Portland are. Thatâs a beautiful day and itâs a ghost town
maybe itâs a workday?
That area can get busy on the weekends. Most of the foot traffic during the weekdays is going to be around Pioneer Square.
i currently live in happy valley, but when i lived closer to downtown is one of the things i LOVED! its quiet over the weekends, mostly you see tourists, locals walking their dogs or out walking and shopping. the weekdays when you see all the office workers come but its really nice!
Cause antifa are sleeping until the next riot
On âworkdaysâ prepandemic the city had a vibe. It was buzzin. Big lunchtime and happy hour crowds. Tourists on the streets every day. Now itâs noticeably quieter. Really quiet. NE 23rd area is definitely âbackâ. But I think this is the next big challenge for Portland after cleaning up the city. Generating the workforce and tourist critical mass to make it a vibrant city again đ€
Born and raised in PDX.....what has happened to my home breaks my heart. I'm glad they're finally getting their shit together...the destruction of our beautiful elk statue was unbelievable. PDX needs to heal still.
Lol im also a portlander. Why tf are people still talking about the damn elk statue? If thats our biggest problem, then we are doing pretty damn good compared to most of the world
Itâs not the biggest problem but it symbolizes the willful destruction of the city (I was down at the protests when that area got trashed. Something I was massively enthusiastic about and now deeply regret being part of in hindsight)
Ever since those Californian invasion in the late 80s. Portland has been destroyed
I unfortunately think we're never coming back from this my hometown too
You keep voting the same losers in to office...
Portland is still beautiful there is still hope !!
I remember hearing on OPB that the Joint Office of Homeless Services handed out tens of thousands of tarps and tents early on in the pandemic.
They basically encouraged it.
During covid that was the humane thing to do for crying out loud. Think about it.
Thank you for this on-the-ground coverage! Nice to see some balance retuning. â€
You are so welcome!
Glad to see your city trying hard to stop it now, and wash it self back off. Portland, Maine also has this same problem. Theyâre now fencing areas under bridges and overpasses here.
It won't last.
This shit got started, not in spite of how people voted, but BECAUSE of who they put into office.
Fuxk PDX!
They setting laws that make it legal, for them to repossess the public sidewalks when, & ever they want, they can take their little funky sidewalk, & whatever other âcarrot,â theyâre âdanglingâ over freedom to get people move/do against their/our willâŠ
âŠthey only wanna see people who arenât obliged to be modern-slaves as âhomeless,â in a perfect system, if you donât live how everyone else wants you to live, you shouldnât live on the streetsâŠ
âŠbut in âthe broken system,â that makes your life impossible whenever, & if you donât wanna do, what they say do, even if what theyâre demanding you to do, isnât in your best interest, itâs either be a modern-slave, or stand alone hence, living outside of the ânormalizations,â that make âunnecessarily vulnerabilitiesâ more beneficial to employers, than being âunnecessarily vulnerableâ is to those, who succumb to being âunnecessarily vulnerable!â
#ThePerksOfResidingindoorsShouldntComeWithTheCaviatOfNormalizedUnnecessaryVulnerabilitiesignoringUnnecessaryVulnernabilitiesBecomingThePreyOfUnnecessaryVulnerabilitirsAndOrNotBeingAbleToDefendSelfAgaisntTheNormalizationsOfUnnecessaryVulnerabilities
#LiveFreeOrDieinAPrisonDisquisedAsALowToNoincomeGhettoProjectConcentrationCampUnderTheVeilOfAffordableHousing
My city didn't allow it to happen. How hard is that for lefties to understand?
I will be flying into Portland Maine soon heading up to Rockland. Wife loves Lobster. Blueberry pie for me.
Ca has been this way for yrs. From the border to Nor Cal its one giant homeless mess. Its not getting any better only worse
Hey Briggs, the tents are now up and down Sandy from Parkrose to 181st, especially around 148th and 158th. I pass a few on Airport Way on the way to work. But I am encouraged by your video and will check out Burnside from Powell's Books to the Max Gold Line.
thanks a lot for the before and after photos and video. And very glad to see big improvements in Portland because I really love Portland and hope to visit there again.
After all the Portland street scenes broadcast by the media over the past couple of years, it was great seeing what the before-Portland looked like! You make the best vids!
Thank you so much.
except it is fake. Try driving around the freeways. They are not gone, just shifting.
Thatâs good, finally a little bit of progress
its almost time to vote i guess.
This isn't progress. Called robbing Peter to pay Paul. They're going SOMEWHERE right? Political theater.
Hail from VA Briggs! Thanks for the update. Portland has done a great job so far! I've been there many times, back before 2014. Glad they are taking this fine city back!!!
Born and raised in Vancouver. Have worked there and that city sucks. We lived there for 15 months and sold the house in 1976. Couldn't wait to get back to Vancouver. Now we live in cowlitz County as Multnomah County has over flowed into clark county. Was married there, had 3 out of 4 kids there, and can't stand it!
Right here right now, let's check it out.
Those are some shockingly empty streets you were walking Briggs.
Right?
As an Oregon resident, I am shocked, shocked I tell ya! That wheeler voted yes and unanimous by the city council. That is twice now I have seen them do something right. First was reversing the decriminalizing of narcotics. Wow. Itâs almost like they are understanding that their policies werenât working. Shocked! đł
I live in Eugene and our streets are terrible with the homeless. I donât even go downtown. Iâve lived here for 37 years and I would move away in a heartbeat if I could. I have family here that I care for. When the city council is so out of touch with reality itâs hard to love where you live.
they keep voting democrat, everytime, no trump sign anywhere to be found.
Briggs, there still are many tents hanging around. Check the Skidmore Fountain MAX stop. Also, the old bus station is now a shelter called "Do Good." In order to ride Greyhound, you go to a nearby storefront and get the bus underneath the Steel (or Broadway?) Bridge.
As an outreach worker partnered with Trimet, we try to get people into shelters.
In order for them to enforced this law they would need to fund their police and have cops doing their Jobs. Last time I check they do not have cops doing their jobs.
I love this city and and happy they are solving this problem. Thank you!!
Thank you for the update
So if Portland's homeless population has dropped by ~1,000, and they aren't camping in the city's designated safe spaces or on the streets, where did they go? Did they freeze to death over winter? Did they hop on a freight train and head out of town?
They put them on buses and shipped them to other city's. Astoria Or. is one of the places they sent them... Little city's need funds so they use their mental health as a revenue sorce...
Astoria on the coast? So portland is paying astoria to take mental patients? @@SusanHenry-kx2cm
Gone to another city to suck up resources and dirty the streets. Gotta be a real solution at some point.
I live a few hours South. Every time the bigger cities do something about vagrant camping, they just head South on I5 and swarm smaller towns or wherever their "lifestyle" is enabled. Kicking the can down the road. Portland voting trends have ruined the rest of Oregon. I hope people learn the error of their ways...
@@SusanHenry-kx2cm Who's "they"? And do you have any evidence that "they" sent them anywhere? Sounds like another conspiracy theory.
Portland can be a pretty cool little city. I'm glad you guys are starting to get it back. I only hope all of the great west coast cities (San Diego, San Franciso, Seattle ...) can regain a little of their former glory as well.
Nice thought but its hopeless out here.
Briggs; you have a great voice! It's nice to see a video where you put your face with it. Love your content! Keep up the great work!
Great to hear! I had a brief stint in PDX from March 2021 - Oct 2022 and I must say that Portland kinda made me rethink my home. I had first visited in 2012 and thatâs what made me fall in love with it. Hope itâs going back to that same old kind of place.
I'm really liking this in the street type recording, especially incorporating before and after shots of the same location.
Too bad that they didn't bother doing this, before so many small businesses suffered, closed and left... Go figure...
I appreciate the video briggs, my wife and I love Portland and want to move back when we can. It's nice to see that since it's lowest point in 2022 things are getting better.
When I was there in the early 2000s, there was no homeless problem (or a very minor one) and the city was very clean and beautiful. I loved the Chinese Gardens, the Rose Gardens, the zoo and the parks, the restaurants and theaters, and especially, Powell's Books. I thought the public transportation marvelous and the Farmers Market on Saturdays great. And this was also before the Portlandia vibe took place.
Looking forward to visiting Portland in July. Hoping my car isnât vandalized.
Don't leave anything inside visible.
That is in every city. Most the homeless don't do that unless you leave a laptop or wads of cash in open view.
â@@WorldAccordingToBriggs Are you sure about that? I saw a piece on skid row and the homeless there had stolen a new Maserati and were parting it out. They kept it hidden under a tarp.
â @@LuckyBaldwin777well thereâs your answer. A Maserati in Skid Row of all places? Not a good sign
They're drug addicts, not just homeless. Staying ignorant to that fact is not helpful and will lead to the situation happening all over again.
Nice work Briggs â€! Good for you Portland and praying for your city! Iâd actually visit Portland now! â€
You should! I think it is fine now, but, if it keeps going like it is with the improvements I would say next sumer will be great.
Thanks Briggsy. I lived in the Portland area from '05 to '17. Portland was a great city. I've been disgusted with what I've seen since I moved. It's a relief to see what you put in this video, Make Portland great again.
Thank you for the update on downtown.
Im glad i left portland, and im glad theyre finally cleaning it up... A little.
Theyâre not cleaning up anything. The smart people and businesses LEFT, so now itâs just turning into another Gary, Indiana.
It's not a "homelessness" situation, it's a drug addiction crime problem.
No, that is part of the problem. A majority of the people are suffering from addiction or mental illness but that isnât everyone. One thing that covers this whole situation is the word homelessness.
I have friends who choose to live in their car. Most by choice for a number of different reasons. Drugs for most of them isn't the reason. Some just got tired of working 60 plus hours a week on a mortgage and other bills. Stress was killing them. They still work but at their pace. Me/wife was thinking of selling our house and purchasing a rv to live in. But i would rather rent apartment. Can still be mobile after lease is up.
@@WorldAccordingToBriggs Drug addiction and the accompanying crime has NOTHING to do with homelessness. Oregon wastes millions on unused drug treatment centers. They DO NOT WANT to get sober/clean!
This is a democrat situation. Every state democrats control is in shambles and people always think things will change and they keep voting the same POS party in over and over. Oregon was a red state up to 1988 and life was good here. Ever since the democrats have taken over it has been a shit show! Case in point, look at the state of the entire country! Nuff said!
It should be forced to get clean but apparently they have rights in this case
I appreciate this videoâŠcoming from a Seattle resident. We need more videos showcasing the positives of our PNW cities. Are they as bad as 2021-2022? No. Are they perfectly spotless & clean like a gated suburb in the middle of podunk nowhere? No. But we need more acknowledgment of improvement. Even if theyâre on the side of the highways & in the city elsewhere, the fact theyâre out of the most for traffic heavy part of the city is a plus. Businesses canât come back or stay alive if thereâs tents blocking the sidewalks. This is a major step in the right direction! đ
I like your âregularâ videos but I really appreciate your report on a city I love! Thank you!
Wow, as a Vietnamese university student, I have never been to USA đșđž but Portland is so beautiful and its Chinatown's street is so clean đ impressed đ
It really is!
Lol i live in chinatown. It is not clean at all. I love it and its chill. But nah its mostly needles and drug tin foil and blood from people getting shot and piss staining the steeets. Still love my neighborhood tho!
Do not visit the USA. It's a lost cause.
â@@BreadLobbyđ€Łlmao.. needles, drugs, blood and piss.. but I †itđ
Our Chinatown is NOT clean. I had to dodge poop today.
You seem to be just concentrating on downtown. I'm in SE near Foster/77th & work in SE near Raymond/26th. There are still quite a few homeless in both these areas. At work I have to navigate a filthy/cluttered sidewalk to get to my work place. If people refuse to go to a shelter because of the rules (no booze/drugs etc) just how is the no sleeping on sidewalks going to be enforced?
Narrative, yo!
You think anyone in YOUR neighborhood thinks shit is looking up?
Not likely.
@@danros6530 ????
I live further east and itâs gotten much worse in the past couple of years.
On my first trip to Europe in 1998, I went to Barcelona...I fell in love....the wide sidewalks, plentiful availability of public transportation, pedestrian culture...and I didn't see ANY HOMELESS people, like I did in San Diego....So, I asked a local...and they said the police do not tolerate people sleeping on the street.....cultural shock!
Great video Braggs. Shows you have a healthy concern for your community. Good to see.
Great job Briggs â€â€â€
Thank you!!
THIS IS AWESOME!!!!! Already seeing improvement!!
It looks great now. At least compared to 2020 to 2022
Improvements? Tents everywhere, busted up buss stops, crazy people running amok, abandoned buildings and closed up businesses everywhere lol đ€Ł! Summer is arriving, so Iâm sure crime will spike and all the ANTIFA clowns will be âprotesting.â Thatâs code for ârioting.â đ
Still living in 2020 I see. Antifa? Really? đ Let it go.
Interesting departure from your usual fare. Nice effort. Thanks for the video Jimmy !
Why Portland mayor look like Portlandiaâs Portland mayor?
Liberal diet, they look weird without eating proteins.đ
WOW! I was there 2 years ago and it was SCARY.
praying other cities take notice!
I was too. As I left the airport, in my rental car, I was questioning my judgement because I'd taken the extra insurance. That didn't last long. At every stop light, through down town, there were homeless guys eyeing my car like the family dog eyes the Thanksgiving turkey. I was really glad my destination was far on the outskirts of town.
@@M.Campbell totally!!!
It's still scary.
Thanks for another great video. I have always loved the Portland area. Glad to hear things are changing for the better.
Thanks for watching!
Keep up the good work and progress, Portland. We in Seattle are seeing similar results, post-pandemic. Part of it had to do with the severe limitations that COVID put on the number of people who could be in various facilities. Now, there are more beds available and fewer people who think that letting people live outdoors is the best we as a community can do. Obviously, we can do and expect better.
Hey Briggs, you showed us where the homeless no longer are but, where are they now? You should do a video on that⊠Are they just indoors in Portland or are they moved out of the city to another scenic part of the state?
Must be an election year.
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Iâm so ecstatic to see my favorite city returning to some sanity- Iâm an Alaskan bred in Oregon who spent most summers of the coast camping near Garibaldi with my grandparents- my folks left Oregon 2019 because of the insanity
Im glad this happened when i moved back to portland from florida i couldnt believe how bad it gotten up here..but i moved out of Portland last year to the country part of oregon cause i couldnt handle all the violence and homeless.. good video brother
I've been to Portland three times in my life. Twice while I was in the Navy, my ship sailed up the Columbia for the rose festival. Once later with my family. I, we loved the place. I'm not conservative, I've voted both ways, but from what I can tell, the city government and the people have become so woke, you couldn't drag me back to that city!
It took Mayor Ted how many years to figure this out? Also wonder what Portland's tolerance of drug use is for the public housing? Still, vast improvement.
I was downtown Portland earlier today and yes it seems to have cleaned up some. Hopefully they can encourage more businesses to come back around. Oregon is a beautiful place outside of downtown.
This is a beautifully-put-together video. I love your use of music, current street footage, glimpses into the past - that sequence showing the 2023 explosion of tents at that one underpass - and your pacing and narration. You are a real pro, Briggs.
Unfortunately. You only focus on Downtown Portland. How's life out in outer Southeast Portland? How about Northeast Portland? My friend in Southeast Portland (Morrison) is surrounded by homeless people in his neighborhood. What about areas other than downtown?
We will be looking at that next month
Come on over to the lents area
Iâm staying at a home in Lents and thereâs homeless in the alley
Thatâs sad you have to put âno AI voice over everâ. Guess it just shows how rare & genuine itâll be to have a person doing their own channel with their own voice one day. Weâve got to appreciate all your hard work.
I hope all the human voiced channels start putting it on their thumbnails.
It's more personal when you do the leg work yourself, including the narration of the video. Imo it shows you care
@@WorldAccordingToBriggs I think youtube and other media outlets need to get ahead of the curve and start separating human and ai made content.
I think they are heading that way. I am hearing rumors. I understand they have to really study the situation before they pull the plaug on AI. One person brought up what if you are disabled and need the AI voice. It just sucks for now.
@@WorldAccordingToBriggs love your content and if I suspect a channel is AI I wonât follow it. Thereâs too much real content with great information and entertainment to go for out there. And stop making fun of captain Americaâs wife.đ
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Thanks for posting about this. Iâm in Medford and wanted to come back up but didnât feel very safe last time so Iâll have to head up there soon.
If I was ever forced into extreme poverty, the last place I would want to be is living on the street in an urban center. It's not easy to live off the land but it is possible with only minimal skills.
A lot of the chronic homeless are drug addicts. You can't readily get meth or fentanyl living in the middle of the woods as you can in a city. You can't panhandle or shoplift in the woods either.
Glad to see Portland has finally had enough. Sympathy, for others, is a good thing but when it becomes enabling then it is harming far more than helping. When tax payers, businesses and customers are leaving, due to the homeless, then that hits the financial bottom line and that is something guaranteed to get the attention of city government.
Now, if San Francisco could finally get a clue and get their act together.
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I'm heading to Portland In June to drive the Coast! The timing of this post is perfect. Thank you â€â€
I'm 47yrs old. $73,000 biweekly and I'm retired, this video have inspired me greatly in many ways that I remember my past of how I struggled with many things in life to be where I am today!!!!â€ïž
How did you do it? Do explain please đŻ
My family have been into series of sufferings lately
All thanks to Renee Marie Harrison
After I raised up to 325k trading with her I bought a new House and a car here in the states đșđžđșđž also paid for my son's surgery (Oscar). Glory to God.shalom.
Absolutely! I've heard stories of people who started with little to no knowledge but made it out victoriously thanks to Renee Marie Harrison.
I do know Renee M. Harrison, I also have even become successful....
Former PDX resident- visited last year for the first time in years and Naito still had some tents. Iâm happy to see it cleaned up. Seattle has some work to do. I live in Kitsap now, and theyâve cleaned up the streets a bit, but itâs like whackamole. Iâm not heartless, and have been close to street living myself at times. Peeps gotta go somewhere
We were in PtOrchard about 12 yrs ago.
Sadly I've seen the sickness of Seattle spread across the sound.
Didn't used to be that way.
I always enjoyed visiting Portland. I can see why you would be proud to live there.
Thank you for the video.
Thank you for watching.
So they stopped handing out 2 week "eviction notices"?.. I always felt "eviction notices" for someone camped out on a sidewalk gave them the right to be there.. like they've leased or own that piece of concrete.
Thank God.... finally.... Outlaw homelessness and all their crap that goes with it in our communities...
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Would you still feel like that if you were homeless???
Tbf homelessness is mostly a choice. That is what drugs do to you. There are exceptions where there are people who are really down on their luck but for the most part drugs=homelessness
I wonder how much is mental illness among adults. One of my good friends has (had) a daughter that just stopped going to college. Started living out of her car. Refused help. Cut off contact. Itâs so, so heartbreaking for her family. She is out there homeless somewhere. Apparently (at least in TN) you canât force an adult to get help.
Those is how they will fill the fema camps lose your job go to jail.
My partner and I were down that way the other day. We noticed a big improvement too, but wondered what the city did with them. Hopefully they gave them the help they need to be off the streets and self-sufficient. But that takes years, not days, when most have suffered from trauma, abuse, and neglect.
Wow, that's a Huge improvement. I remember your earlier video's.
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I can't believe how long that's been going on.
So like happened so many other times in so many other places, homeless get moved out of one area just to move to another area. "Hoovervilles" moved rather than the root problems address. I do understand the problem seems overwhelming but NIMBY is not the answer. The "Hoovervilles/tent cities" started in the 1980s and advocates called them "Raygunvilles" . 40 years later and the problem just grew.
Glad to see improvement! I don't live there anymore, but I worked security all over downtown in 2022... not an easy security job.
Thanks for this . I've lived in inner SE Portland for 16 years now, and I agree.
During the pandemic, it really was starting to feel like a zombie horror movie. But I have to get on Belmont under the bridge to get home. The mess that's down there on the road has diminished and been cleaned up quicker. In the past year. I have coworkers that don't seem to believe me. Buy they live in the burbs and don't go downtown at all. So I'm glad to hear someone agree with me. đ
Middle of the day. The city looks dead. Where are all the people? Downtown has a long way to go. Not the festive Portland I used to live in.
Everyone left due to failed liberal policies