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 it’s not tent city I want to visit again.

they'll be back, it wont happen overnight

True

It has for "those people".

Define "the problem."

It’s a relief that they’re out of your neighborhood.

Maybe that's appropriate. Lol, residential neighborhoods are for residing, perhaps even residing outside 😂

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..😞

That's okay, now the rich Chinese can swoop it all up for pennies on the dollar and they'll do fine! (Sarcasm.)

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.

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.

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 “butt” 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! ​@@AUniqueHandleName444

No, that is part of the problem. A majority of the people are suffering from addiction or mental illness but that isn’t 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

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 !

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 don’t believe you don’t persecute crime, more that less regulation that would make such acts crimes. Once they’re law, what’s 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 doesn’t work. Look at the data and how rampant drug abuse and societal decay correlate perfectly. It’s just wishful thinking. I once saw a comment that got under my skin that read, “Libertarians are just conservatives who haven’t grown up yet!” That stuck with me, but looking back now, my goodness how true that was 😂

Libertarians don’t believe in rules and regulations other than the rules and regulations that they believe in. 😵‍💫😂😂

@@bobnas Correct. Because people on drugs don't care. They'll sleep in a puddle of piss with a smile on their face.

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?

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?

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 don’t stink nearly as bad or create nearly the mess as the “homeless” 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.

Me too!

They are making progress. I hope it keeos going.

​@@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.

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 aren’t free. They use our hard earned tax dollars.

I’m 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 “cared” about the homeless. Homeless were setting up tents in resident’s yards, and the owners were helpless to get the situation changed. They couldn’t get rid of the camps, nor could they sell their properties. So what happened? Did the homeless finally encroach on the politicians’ properties?

Democrats have no plan. Propaganda film from the start!

@@melissaa152: It’s an election year. Dems are getting nervous about staying in power.

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.

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.

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.

You are so welcome!

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 don’t expect any community to eradicate homelessness, but it’s kinda nice to see so many people pitching in to help out even when some of the city policies didn’t work out… I didn’t 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.

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!

maybe it’s 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 ‘workdays’ prepandemic the city had a vibe. It was buzzin. Big lunchtime and happy hour crowds. Tourists on the streets every day. Now it’s noticeably quieter. Really quiet. NE 23rd area is definitely ‘back’. 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 🤞

During covid that was the humane thing to do for crying out loud. Think about it.

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

It’s 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...

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 “carrot,” they’re “dangling” over freedom to get people move/do against their/our will… …they only wanna see people who aren’t obliged to be modern-slaves as “homeless,” in a perfect system, if you don’t live how everyone else wants you to live, you shouldn’t live on the streets… …but in “the broken system,” that makes your life impossible whenever, & if you don’t wanna do, what they say do, even if what they’re demanding you to do, isn’t in your best interest, it’s either be a modern-slave, or stand alone hence, living outside of the “normalizations,” that make “unnecessarily vulnerabilities” more beneficial to employers, than being “unnecessarily vulnerable” is to those, who succumb to being “unnecessarily vulnerable!” #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

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.

its almost time to vote i guess.

This isn't progress. Called robbing Peter to pay Paul. They're going SOMEWHERE right? Political theater.

Thank you so much.

except it is fake. Try driving around the freeways. They are not gone, just shifting.

they keep voting democrat, everytime, no trump sign anywhere to be found.

Right?

Nice thought but its hopeless out here.

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.

​@@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.

⁠@@LuckyBaldwin777well there’s 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.

They’re not cleaning up anything. The smart people and businesses LEFT, so now it’s just turning into another Gary, Indiana.

Narrative, yo! You think anyone in YOUR neighborhood thinks shit is looking up? Not likely.

@@danros6530 ????

I live further east and it’s gotten much worse in the past couple of years.

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.

Liberal diet, they look weird without eating proteins.😂

Thank you!!

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.

​@@BreadLobby🤣lmao.. needles, drugs, blood and piss.. but I ❤ it😅

Our Chinatown is NOT clean. I had to dodge poop today.

I would say if they keep going next summer I will start suggesting people visit again.

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.

😂

How did you do it? Do explain please 😯 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 🇺🇸🇺🇸 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....

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 🤣! Summer is arriving, so I’m sure crime will spike and all the ANTIFA clowns will be “protesting.” That’s code for “rioting.” 😉

Still living in 2020 I see. Antifa? Really? 😂 Let it go.

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.

Do you know why they almost always chose Chinatown? Same deal in Seattle, the I.D. is ground zero. I have a theory but it's not PC and would get my comment deleted.

We will be looking at that next month

Come on over to the lents area

I’m staying at a home in Lents and there’s homeless in the alley

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 won’t follow it. There’s too much real content with great information and entertainment to go for out there. And stop making fun of captain America’s wife.😂

Progress? You mean like all the businesses that left because of the lawlessness? Portland is DEAD 💀.

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. It’s so, so heartbreaking for her family. She is out there homeless somewhere. Apparently (at least in TN) you can’t force an adult to get help.

Those is how they will fill the fema camps lose your job go to jail.

Ha. No more comments needed after this statement.

Thanks for watching!

I assume you mean the multi-talented, multi-lingual Theodore Roosevelt Jr., ex president of the USA? The interesting thing is that Teddy was no racist but, hey, that doesn’t save a guy’s reputation these days.

I mean, I'm certainly no TR fan. But that's what the left has always done throughout history. Ban books, change and manipulate history. It's how they corrupt the youth.

not yet. this dude is full of shit.

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.

Yup. Doesn't fix the actual problem. Just pisses them off and makes them more erratic/dangerous.

​@MrHmm...2024 I'm just about over this idea that it's everyone else's responsibility to pull these junky scumfucks out of theor rut and hold their hand while they find the will to stop being a burden to society. I have been homeless! I spent a michigan winter living in an abandoned building, saving the money i made from the FIRST job I could get, and I got out of that life. THIS! This STUPID idea that it's on society to subsidize the bad decisions of the individual is PRECISELY why Portland is a homeless DESTINATION! They INVITE this into the city!

@@MrHmm...2024 Or it pisses them off enough that they leave for LA or some other city that won't hassle them as much. It is not meant as a fix but as incentive to get them to move on.