This is good reporting. And on a side note (and a completely biased one), they'll cut the addiction treatment then spend three times as much incarcerating the junkies when they get busted for possession or robbery or assault...They could probably cut half their budget with no noticeable change in services and keep programs like this. Let's start with elected officials' salaries.
Over the years there have been ballot initiatives to tax us in order to help pay for these programs for mental health, drug addiction and homelessness.
They never got enough votes to pass, although it was close.
Maybe the rich, anti-tax conservatives and others who refuse to pay taxes on these programs to keep our community more livable and beautiful will get car-jacked, mugged, or their houses burglarized. This is what they ultimately deserve for turning their backs on their own community when it needed help most.
To bad there won't be enough police to save you when your getting robbed.
Portland needs hooper all cities need a program like hooper they should look to cut other things and if needed tax all the residents of portland to keep the program going
They never got enough votes to pass, although it was close.
Maybe the rich, anti-tax conservatives and others who refuse to pay taxes on these programs to keep our community more livable and beautiful will get car-jacked, mugged, or their houses burglarized. This is what they ultimately deserve for turning their backs on their own community when it needed help most.
To bad there won't be enough police to save you when your getting robbed.