@@really2345 judgemental a little? My comment was in regards to how my mother lost her home and why help is needed to those homeless with mental health issues. 1st amendment, so eat 💩 and go away!

@really2345 Judgmental a little? 1st amendment, eat 💩 and go away! Quit trying to feel better about yourself using stupid comments.

@@really2345 Who the fuck are you to presume she didn’t help, or that her mother spent more than a day homeless, or that she was ever in a position to help in the first place? Or that this didn't happen before she was ever born? That's the problem with fucking cons. Zero empathy or thought and 100% presumptuous and judgemental assholery.

Fire that man. From life.

No because the jails are owned by the rich and they want the money back that’s why these demons go around throwing people in jail to siphon tax dollars to the rich! Jails are money mills for the rich

Exactly.

$180 of that 200 goes in cops pockets . Multiply that by thousands . Policing for profit

I wonder how much we paid these so call non profit every year for homeless people?

Just give them to the homeless . So who pays for all of the 911 overdose calls, toxic clean ups and stolen bike parts that will pile up ? Not the homeless tge property owner will be on the hook.

@@MUUKOW3 It will be the same civil services that take care of them now on the street. The only difference is they have an address and have an opportunity at a job, something they can work themselves out of.

Is that the only place to rent? Owners can charge what they want to rent their Property out. Be that a house or an Apartment or even a car. Remember it is not YOUR property it belongs to someone else.

$800 a month for rent anywhere is cheap by today's standards, especially in San Francisco (Lombard St).

Yes, they never see that part, they sit in an Office and probably make 3 figures. 800$ is to much for People on fixed incomes. 300 to 450 is more affordable, but You hear about all these private equity firms buying up thousands of Apartments just to make big profits. They raise the rent drastically and force lower income People out. Also they buy rentals in places that have the least tenant protection laws. They do it intentionally. No one in Congress in either party is addressing this and they really need to.

@@amercanmade2685 It's cheaper than anywhere else, so effectively the answer to your first question is probably. I also think MilePost 5 is a cooperative, or state subsidized. I dated a girl who lived there in college. It's pretty much a hostel that rents rooms. Everything is communal except your bedroom. Your last sentence, is this sort of a "to the victors go the spoils" kind of comment? Sort of seems like you're defending the principle of price gouging.

@@BETTERWORLDSGT And, now it's effectively illegal to be homeless. If you are unable to find work, or housing, you face prison. I wonder if they will require you to have gainful employment before they allow you out of prison if you were picked up off the streets?

That’s true. Many vagrants flat-out refuse to stay in shelters. They disagree with the shelters’ bans on drugs and weapons, so they will not stay there.

Your tresspassing too

​@@JackTorrance-qd9upTrespassing on public property? Better for them to just commit suicide, right?

What opportunity are they given? Shelters are too few, dangerous and ridiculously regimented. Just what "opportunity" are you referring to? You think someone is offering housing or employment or mental health services to these PEOPLE in a way they can utilize it?

I'm not homeless. I can loiter all I want without being persecuted for it by anyone. Is that what we have come to? Only propertied, white, christian males should have the right to "loiter". Right?

You need to lighten your load pal You got many responsibilities Thats your CHOICE Thats not MINE

Thank you JC. Maybe you should have tried harder to get your GED. Obviously you have no concept of homeless people.

Homeless shelters are a blight in itself..t

You don't know Jack about anyone but your pathetic little self. Stfu

As someone who was homeless, this is extremely incorrect

The abusive part is that they can now issue fines whether, or not the city's shelters are over capacity. Whether, or not they have another place to go. This does make homelessness illegal. The idea that something is ok because it isn't being enforced the way that it is allowed to be in plain English, baffles me.

When did they get defunded?? With MEDICARE/MEDICAID 😮

@@dargonkhurvas5548 Nurse Ratched, that’s why.

This ruling says the government doesn't have to provide any services to jail people. They even talked about redistributing the funds which were already set to help the problem. There will be a reduction in services not an increase.

The ordinance of Grants Pass, which was just now ruled constitutional, forbids that.

Most wooded areas are properties that belong to people. You clearly don’t understand what private property is

​@@MB-xv7erThis state has more federal public land than private .

Seriously.

Prison need more people in them too stay open.so why not put all homeless people into prison ok.there they will have a bed and bars too.ok seems ok too me.

This is everywhere actually Where are you from?

@@cliftonvasquez3688 I am in Florida where public drug use was never decriminalized. Oregon decriminalized drugs, and the streets were overtaken by drug addicts.

@@cliftonvasquez3688 I am in Florida where public drug use was never decriminalized.

AMEN!

Allowing city governments to provide clean and safer spaces for their representatives is their duty and is common sense. The alternative option has been tried and clearly failed.

It's not hate against the poor. It's about a lifestyle that's been allowed and encouraged . You can be poor without being a menace to your city.

@@MUUKOW3 I disagree. It is about trying to hide the consequences of 5 decades of being trickled on by the rich by demonizing the victims so no one minds getting them out of view of the rest of us. We will never solve the problem that has led to the increase in homelessness since we decided to stop taxing corporate greed and exploitation, if most of us can't see it.

@@MUUKOW3 about what years do you think our economy worked for the middle class? I am talking middle class white people. Evil social issues aside when do you think the economy was working for you? When our debt was under control? What was the corporate tax rate at the time? What is it now? That is the reason the upper middle class business owners and resident are having these issues, not because of the victims.

Just give it to them at everyone else's expense, what are they going to do in return for free housing ? Oh I know spend the money on drugs and have zero responsibility.

You seem pretty out of touch. Do you even know how much money most people pay in rent every month? Drugs aren't that expensive. While there may be many people hooked on serious drugs who are homeless, it absolutely does not reflect the experience of most people. I know more than one person who works 50 hours a week who are homeless. People with degrees and work ethic. They've just been screwed over by circumstances, and now they're being marked as criminals. I wish you wouldn't stir up hate against them by insinuating that they're all drug addicts.

@@richm368 Can't work when you are high all the time . . . Can't get room mates to reduce your rent when you are on drugs . . . if you're not on drugs, family would let you live with them until a job is found.. Drugs are expensive if you use them 5 to 10 times a day!

​@@richm368They are not being marked as criminals unless they behave like one . Put this down as things that didn't hsppen.

@@MUUKOW3 Sleeping on the street is a criminal offense now. So, sleeping on the street "marks" them as a criminal. I don't know anywhere that it is legal to sleep on the streets when there is a place you can go. The only difference is now it doesn't matter if there is a place to go.

Watch me

You do realize that was never allowed right? Did it occur to you that this is saying they don't have a right to put up camp anywhere, period? It's ok, go ahead and clap for cruelty. I'm sure that could never backfire.

F*** your business community..

you forgot a few more important human traits: SELFISH AND GREEDY

Your one medical condition, house fire or other tragedy away from the streets, pal.

@@davysteak not me

@@lisakelley4583 Yeah, sure.

There's no law saying you must be housed, either.

@@bogeysbaby in 1948 the United States signed the universal declaration of human rights (udhr) recognizing adequate housing as a component of the human right to a adequate standard of living!! (Everyone has the right to adequate housing!) Now don't you feel stupid??

@@bogeysbaby Now you know what the law is for housing!!

@@ferdinandcastagnera794 too bad they dont respect your constitution

@@Hundr_ it's not "MY" constitution, it's the American Constitution!! Play stupid games,win stupid prizes!!

Where did you come up with that idea? This ruling says that cities DO NOT have to provide shelters. It only allows them to ticket, or imprison people camping on the street, which was already the case, but before the city was required to ensure that the person had a place to go before issuing a citation, or performing an arrest. That restriction has been removed.

I never seen high rent costs on the Bible . In the Bible they just rebuilt homes wherever they went . Maybe the problem is the rent and not the tents

Rent is just our government trying to make money off our people . Read the Bible . Where did the beginning of the world have thousand dollar rent .....they didn't it's greed in our society . It's what Americans have caused . Our rent is worse than all other countries .

lolololol

You're kidding, right? Do you have any idea how many homeless did work? How many still do? Get off your high horse, or should I say high jackass?

It's coming, check out what's happening in Chicago and New York.

Don't be scared when the homeless break into your home with knives

@@Diaryofannefrankpt2 😂i hope they do!🤣

careful with that statement 😜

Bring the guy over to your house then.

I'm okay with your imaginary friend's disapproval.

Who??? lololol

Some of them do actually choose that lifestyle. Plenty of local interviews with them proving that, so stop saying all don't want to be homeless, or implying it. Or they choose to not give up their drugs to get into a shelter or assisted living. Or choose not to go into rehab when after literally saving their lives from their overdose with narcan... so, some are choosing to be this way. A lot, actually.

Let them stay at your house then!

@@dawnbliesener7679 if I had a house then I would most definitely let one stay at a time till I could find them a home, that is a great idea!. But As it is I make them dinner or lunch and give their animals food.

I am reposting my personal story because Steve had it taken down. I was homeless as a teenager because my mom got a divorce and there was nowhere for me to go, it was not due to drugs. I was homeless when I was in a car accident and lost everything due to my injuries. Again not my fault and not due to drugs. I was homeless again due to the wildfire that burned my house down and my whole neighborhood. Again no fault of my own. Alot of people are disabled they cannot afford housing. Or fell on hard times but unless you have a family member or partner to take you in then you are homeless. I am not living in the Portland Area so am not seeing the giant numbers of people homeless like you are, and I know that alot of homeless people are from other states and alot have felonies that limit their being able to get work or housing again or have drug addictions. Alot have mental health stuff but that is not a shameful I don't understand criminalizing people who are already vulnerable. Regan did away with all the federal funding for mental health sanitariums and shut down all the hospitals and that has put alot of people on the street. Look for the solution to the problem and then fix that, putting them in jail is not a productive solution but with Repubs "cruelty is the point" and THAT IS shameful

Actually if you think about it it does because who's causing all the chaos the homeless people

And yet it is under democratic party rule homelessness has exploded.

Invite them over to your house then!

@@dawnbliesener7679 - I actually have when i had my own apartment, that wasn't partially compensated by the state!