Portland will enforce new homeless camping ban July 1, Mayor Ted Wheeler says

Under the new ordinance, someone camping on public property will face fines and jail time only if they turn down an offer of available shelter. That said, there are some areas and circumstances which are banned entirely.

[grantbradley]

All talk, no action. Way to go Ted, the worse mayor Portland has ever had. I’m sure Vera Katz is rolling in her grave.

[df]

We’ll see if he follows through on this empty promise.

[thedreamqueen]

City of PDX is coping hard with that list of rules. Junkies and homeless dont care about anything past their addictions and sorrows . He is speaking to the woke bleeding heart codependent mobs. Mayor looked straight up terrified. Best would have been to ban street vagrancy. No way to live. Arrest drug dealers and bosses. Enforce laws. Prosecute.

[IamME-hw]

The mayor is confident?
Don't you mean incompetent?
Useless as can be.

[TimCleese]

all that virtue signaling goes away pretty quick once it hits their bottom line

[williamlockard]

Teds batting average is pretty dismal so far, not likely it's going to change much if anything.

[mictos]

Hopefully they’ll stop spending our tax dollars on tents now

[jjeKKell]

According to that graphic, "if shelter is not available campers cannot - take apart or sell multiple bikes or automobiles" 😂 Excuse me, why was this ever allowed in the first place!?!?

[johnellis]

The main problem in Portland is the rents too high.. these rental companies think this place is Dubai or something.. believe me Portland doesn't have that much to offer.. rents about twice as high as it should be

[forgottenman]

a SC decision is expected this week that can put 'vagrancy' back on the books and surely will put 'public' back into 'public property'...

[tamigreene]

They are not campers get it right.
The homeless and the addicts bring in to much money for the government so I wouldn't count on them doing to much to solve the problem. I believe there was something like 95m in the pot at the end of last year give or take a few million. That's in Multnomah county's pot.

[tanhvan]

Wow, the city clowns are going to fines them. 😂😂😂😂

[sacredstarclairvoyantkat]

This is not a solution to help homeless people. Oregon leadership literally are failing homeless people. Meanwhile Denver gave $1, 000 dollars a month to homeless people for a year and at the end of the year 50% of the homeless that received the money were living in actual long-term housing. When is Oregon going to help homeless people into long-term housing?

[JS-yjow]

Again? Really Wheeler?
Far too little, far too late.
I’ll believe it when I see it.

[seanlinne]

It`s about time! I look forward to a zombie-free environment

[kaythegardener]

if they don't havc the money to pay for an apartment, how are they going to pay the repeated fines??

[kattycat]

Democrats in Portland believe this again? 💯🤣😅

[signalstrength]

The overwhelming reason these camps have proliferated is drugs. Camps provide the perfect supply chain for low cost meth and fentanyl. Camps also tolerate the violent behavior of amped up meth addicts who would get evicted from any shelter or apartment. The insatiable desire for drugs is why a well funded program like "Housing Multnomah Now" was such a spectacular failure. I have my doubts as to how serious the city is in enforcing a camping ban. If a ban is enforced, the biggest and most visible impact will be campers determined to continue the drug-using lifestyle that the camps enabled.

[Charles-deb]

Wait you passed an ordinance that says they can’t commit felonies? Oh. Okay. Can you pass an ordinance that awards me a billion euros

[colinyandon]

Housing should be a basic human right!