Knute's campaign is based around his desire to emulate his hero, the lazy orange blob currently occupying our Oval Office. That orange blob managed to activate the angry and the stupid, and Knute wants to do the same thing here.

Run spellcheck and republish! Multiple big obvious typos in here.

"That may be because every past iteration of this plan has been proven far too costly for taxpayers to support"

This is patently untrue, Alex. This was never on offer to taxpayers. Plenty of people would pay extra to make this happen, rather than squandering money on costly conversions of old strip clubs to shelters (the Black Cauldron project, for those who don't know) that end up not opening for safety and structural reasons.

Just because Knute pubestache Beuhler doesn't have a ready-made plan doesn't mean it's not feasible. It just doesn't have the support of existing providers because a) they don't want to commute, and b) it would risk diverting some of their gravy train of funding to something that might actually be effective. Look at the state of homelessness in Portland. If this is the best these "experts" can do, it's time to find some new experts...

David Bikman - typos would be completely forgivable if the writing/reporting itself weren't such utter shit.

Why won't this idiotic zombie idea die? Wapato will never be a homeless shelter! It would cost millions just to get it up and running. Maintenance costs would be astronomical. There's not even regular bus service out there. This idea has been thoroughly studied and rejected. Time to move on!

Remember: The failed "Village of Hope" (near Airport Way and 182nd) was highly endorsed by the homeless advocates extremists and The Portland Mercury. It was approximately 9 miles (as the crow flies) from downtown and "essential services," was outside, had no electricity, plumbing, beds, WALLS or anything like that.

Wapato is approximately 7 miles from downtown (as the crow flies) from downtown and is an actual facility with WALLS, electricity, plumbing, beds, a kitchen, hospital...etc.

Makes you wonder why the homeless advocates extremists and The Mercury were in favor of an illegal outdoor camp waaaaay out near Rockwood, yet oppose the use of Wapato? Hmm...

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While I heartily concur with ZOOkeeper, Douglas_Banter is asking a question that deserves an answer. Why DO Portland's homeless advocates seem to prefer the shantytown approach to shelter for people who live on our streets? Dignity Village seems to make this style of community work for its residents, but how many of Portland's most needy people would actually thrive in similar circumstances?

Z00keeper, what facility that would house even close to the same number of people NOT cost millions just to get up and running and maintain? And no such facilities currently exist outside of Wapato, so we're talking tens of millions in land and construction costs right there, in addition to the operation and maintenance costs. This is not an objection! There isn't another alternative that you can point to that would be less costly to get up and running!

No "advocates" ever have any answers, all they have are platitudes and stating over and over again why Wapato "wouldn't" work despite the fact that the only real barriers are logistical, and easily overcome relative to even costlier alternatives. Why not give it a shot? Set a budget, give it a 5, 7, or 10 year timeline, and see how it works out. If it doesn't work, then scrap it and sell it off for office/industrial purposes. If it does work, then we have a good model for future expenditures on this issue.