Residents of a Southeast Portland neighborhood have grown increasingly frustrated after a series of sweeps in their area created a cycle of homelessness on their street that never ends.
Here to tell you that Mapps, Gonzales and Ryan are worthless commissioners and I’ll be glad when they are flushed.
Nobody gets housing for free and thanks to measure 110, we enabled every junkie in the country to come here.
That’s the larger problem. We don’t have treatment programs and we lack the laws to commit people against their will. Portland Street Response in particular doesn’t even have the ability to put people on holds.
Nobody gets housing for free and thanks to measure 110, we enabled every junkie in the country to come here.
That’s the larger problem. We don’t have treatment programs and we lack the laws to commit people against their will. Portland Street Response in particular doesn’t even have the ability to put people on holds.
https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/06/21/portland-street-response-futilely-sought-authority-to-hold-distressed-people-against-their-will/