In Portland, it costs $25,000 a year to maintain the status quo. A recent point in time count report revealed that 1,887 people were unsheltered, 872 people were sleeping in an emergency shelter, and 1,042 people were sleeping in transitional housing. In all, 3,801 people met HUD’s definition of homelessness.
If we do the math (3,801 homeless at $25,000 a year), Portland is spending more than 95 million a year, Portland is already paying out for the homeless and Portland is paying too much to maintain the status quo.
LOL!!! Where the hell is my $25,000?? I – like many hobos – resent enslavement of missions and ESPECIALLY SLAVEMASTER TPI who I have nothing to do with. TPI by the way is where most of that money is going (much of it to their execs??), that and a years worth of free housing for a small fraction of the homeless population.
And this advocate is advocating to MAKE MONEY (see the link) off the issue rather than throwing more and more money at it. Funny thing is when I show up to city hall the place is PACKED with middle class yelling the same old unsustainable shit; walls walls and more walls. Your all addicts of walls and you use possessing a lack of walls as an excuse to enslave homeless people and take away their rights until they seek “shelter” in the sanctity of your charity service. you WANT to throw money at the issue, because the only other alternative (that you – an addict) can think of is to let them congregate and establish themselves outside in the world that was given to us free of charge.
You want to break them/us up and herd us like rats when outside without proposing intelligent and sustainable alternatives then yes, you can foot the bill. But for the record, no one – at least not many of us – want your box.
http://ecapdx.weebly.com/de-partitioned-ho…
I think the churches should provide the homeless with a place to sleep. They places are empty at night and they don’t pay taxes (no more money wasted on a solution for the homeless). Isn’t that what religion is all about? Helping the needy?
Where’s my 25k? Fuck you I want to punch you in your pussy. … Sorry to owners of pussies.
lazaar- you are invited to try.
– waynewignes88@gmail
..ohh never mind sorry thought you were hating on my comment.
For the “fuck You’s”…and the “where’s my $25,000”, I get it. I was homeless for 24+ months after my wifes suicide in 2009. Wapato will not be everything to everyone – no one is suggesting that. But, for 525 of those who are wanting, willing, and needing, I think it can do some good. Where’s all the anti-Hales rhetoric over opening Portland’s largest shelter for 200 WOMEN ONLY? Hales loves to discriminate – all year long its been “we’re ending Veteran homelessness”. Now its dropping a shelter for 200 in the middle of three grade schools and 1.5 miles away from a bus stop…AND, their going to be shuttling these 200 women back and forth to and from downtown and the shelter EVERYDAY!!! The former Sear armory has failed before the doors have even opened. PLEASE – pick your battles and choice Hales latest debacle in SW PDX called the Sears Women’s Shelter…
https://www.change.org/p/mayor-hales-portland-or-use-the-empty-wapato-correctional-facility-for-the-homeless-in-portland-oregon?recruiter=321267547&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink
For ten grand I can rehabilitate my student loans and resume borrowing twenty-five grand per year. Pay me twenty grand, and I’ll leave Orygun.
^ Thought you were in Hawaii you fucking tool.
For ten grand I’ll leave any town. I’ll even come back to Portland to leave town for ten grand.