How about we prioritize long term affordable housing for veterans? People who have served the country should not be left to wither on our sidewalks.

This is a law that Oregon really wanted and they gave it to you. Now you are complaining that you have it.

I used to live and work in areas with a lot of homeless. Most have money. But they would rather spend their money on drugs and alcohol. And they don’t care what you think and don’t want to be sober. Good luck fixing that.

Portland is going to naturally select themselves into a ghost town at this point.

Grants Pass homeless camping law wasn't abusive, they allow homeless to camp in designated parks but they must move to a new park every week, this distinction means they are camping and the park is NOT their home. Homeless advocates think making them move every week was criminalizing homelessness, it is not, they would only get a ticket if they wouldn't move, some resisted moving to test the law, they failed. Volunteers help homeless move every week, this volunteer help is direct contact with the homeless as they try to assist them with moving, getting into rehab, improving their situation.

If local governments like Portland really cared about the homeless, they would set aside green areas for homeless to camp out for a small fee outside of downtown. It would get them out of the streets and away from businesses and customers who are trying to keep public places clean, drug free, and functional.

Blair Best is giving us a gun show with that sleeveless shirt

Providing tiny homes is a solution - not arresting the mentally ill that want to camp in cities. More than 20% of homeless are mentally ill - it is a fact !

Theres a lot of empty church pews at night that should be used as beds for the needy. Like this would be Jesus stuff they preach about, right?

I can’t believe this these people shouldn’t be like this. Most homeless people are veterans. It makes me sick to think what’s happening to our nation

I got an idea! How about let’s make laws and criminalize the scumbags that keep raising the cost of rent and mortgages!

They’re still supposed to have medical insurance. I don’t know why you can’t at least mandate 1 year of long term treatment then have a lot more Oxford houses for them when they’re sober. If they have mental disabilities they should be able to get into dementia wards and mental health facilities.

Clarence Thomas has a job. I suggest you get one too

I was homeless for 35 years across 46 states! NEVER succumbed to drugs , alcohol or vices, and possess a 147 IQ! I can see the vast picture that no one seems capable of but me!

Throw the addicts in rehab or jail if they dont go and help the actual homeless, mentally ill veterans, hard times etc, help them get housing and income

When you've been homeless for years, that's a choice. Taxpayers are footing the bill for all the social services available which means at some point you have to follow rules. Accept drug rehab, clean up your act, get a job or dry out in prison. No more reckless unaccountability. Homeless advocates are enablers, not problem solvers.

I am a person who has served my/our country. I served four years Honorably, including two short tours in the Gulf War. I work for $18.75 an hour. I do not sleep on the hard street. I sleep in my cargo van, shielded from rain, snow and insects. I'm free from crime, drugs and alcohol. The thing about shelters is you are given time limits you can live there. Some cities only allow staying there a month. Home mortgages are unattainable for most folks. Hotel stay is unaffordable now. Apartment rent is tough to make in our day. We are damed by the rich if we pay rent, or damed by them if we fail to pay, meaning we will be fined because we live outside and do not pay them rent. Wekcome to the new American normal. 🇲🇾

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to fccking bad...do not violate VAGRANCY laws and ruin the city for the actual taxpayers...

Who the heck is that reporter? Isn't there a professional dress code? She looks like she just ran out of the gym to do an intro. Ya, someone you can trust for 'news'.

Why don't you take them home with you?! Donate your salary to help homeless people. It's easy to use our money to do whatever it's serving your public image rather than public interest.

What happened to UN equitable and just transition, no one left behind

i don't see this decision as a punishment but to help all others to live as well. The business and the handicap people also can use the sidewalk. The decision didn't ban the homeless to sleep on the street, to carry their own sleeping bag, clothes, personal belonging but they can't camp outside your business 24/7 or sidewalk and they give the city the right to manage the city. Where is the punishment?

Just give them some land to camp on outside of the business district. Seems pretty simple. VOTE BLUE!!

Basically - you can hobo, but you can't bum.

I just left affordable housing after 5 months housing is a really bad idea for a bunch of drug addicts

Baton Rouge has a place provided for the homeless.

Every city needs to figure out how to change the homeless situation,,it's everywhere...

Prioritize the temporary homeless people that are not druggies first.

What needs to happen is affordable housing for min wage workers. Many people make min wages, or just a little more. So paying 1000 a month on rent is very difficult.

They can get free money/housing from the government. They don’t have to sleep outside. It’s disgusting. 😮

THE HOMELESS GOT TO FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHT TO "BE" !

They choose this. They turn down shelter because they have to be clean. I agree they should be punished especially because they turn down shelter.

I love this Supreme Court!!! Maybe let’s FORCE people to get off drugs

You build it they will come, you allow camping on the streets they will come.

Voters get what they vote for

1:22 Gov Kotex 🤢🤮

You voted for Kotex you get more of the same…

Thanks OR. The other 49 states resent this act. They told us to leave, but bet they can't make us. OCCUPY OR.

This is gonna create a revolution

And not ONE interview of someone paying property taxes that might say it's about time. I say let's move all the homeless to the news organizations and see how they like it.

Blair I'll marry you in a heart beat

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If sleeping on public property is a right cuz homeless people has no where to sleep, then is stealing for food a right cuz hungry people has no food eat? What a stupid argument. The homeless advocates should house the homeless in their own home if they care for the homeless people so much. The homeless issue will disappear if all the homeless advocates out there adopt one and house them in their own home. Taxpayers deserve to enjoy the public area that their tax dollars paid for without putting up with the filthy & dangerous conditions caused by homeless encampments. Instead, the homeless advocates just take the grant monies from the gov to pretend like they care about homeless people while laughing all the way to the bank. Homeless advocates just want more homeless people because they profit from them. These homeless advocates are only crying now cuz their revenue stream might become smaller after this ruling. We have lots of shelter spaces that the homeless refuses to sleep in then go around & complains that they don't get help, this ruling should address this problem.

Move them to lake oswego ! The news needs to stop acting as if all the homeless are victims..,

This is *BAD TIMING* for Joe Biden! _After last night, he'll be homeless soon!_ 🤣

Good.

Gov't could buy several skyscrapers and turn them into open air prisons for the thousands of homeless. Nobody gets a UBI because nobody is working.

Too many clueless women in OR. War on poverty-what absolute nonsense. That “veteran” was especially stupid.

Smart thing to do is give the homeless one way bus tickets east. I'm thinking Florida.

From the looks of it, Clarence Thomas has made better decisions.

No. Homelessness has cause more PROBLEMS in Portland along with drugs. If they had stricter rules about homeless camps, then sure, but portland has gone to shit because of Homelessness being every where which caused more theft and drug abuse. It needs to go, and the governor needs to get off her scrawny ass and actually do something like stop allowing rent and housing to go up. Both are at fault.

This is disgusting, literally hiding homelessness or throwing them in jail for being poor.

You know, and I think that most would agree, the homeless should be able to camp in Portland anywhere that they want. It's just the right thing to do.

Bums be Gone!!

Clean it up

Get a job

There are crazy people out there and veterans that definitely need help with housing. Then they’re just a lot of people who are out there because well it’s just the way they wanna live. I believe the punishment might actually have them have to get up and get a job and find a place to live like all of us who pay over taxes who are middle income who basically have all their tax money going to help the poor and the homeless. Isn’t it funny though how rich never have to pay shit??