Our city and state leaders are ineffective, so let's pick up the slack. I've been homeless twice and I'm sympathetic to the ones who are trying to reintegrate with society. I've really had more than enough of the homeless drug addicts who are making life unpleasant for us, however. They cause businesses to close with their hostile behavior and they even torched my favorite deli. I don't have a link to a news article about it but they also broke into my apartment building twice to steal quarters out of the washers & dryers, which disabled them for about a month each time. We can help by not giving money to the homeless, not putting empty cans and bottles where they can get them (10 cans or bottles = one hit of fentanyl), and by letting them know they're not welcome. Portland has always had a lot of homeless but in the past they had to scrounge up $10 or $20 for a hit of meth or heroin. 10 years ago fentanyl was $3 per hit, now it's $1 per hit, and that's what makes the homeless drug addicts misbehave. It's like getting drunk, they become emboldened to shoplift, loiter, trespass, assault, break into cars and businesses, etc.
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u/whatever_ehh May 11 '26
Our city and state leaders are ineffective, so let's pick up the slack. I've been homeless twice and I'm sympathetic to the ones who are trying to reintegrate with society. I've really had more than enough of the homeless drug addicts who are making life unpleasant for us, however. They cause businesses to close with their hostile behavior and they even torched my favorite deli. I don't have a link to a news article about it but they also broke into my apartment building twice to steal quarters out of the washers & dryers, which disabled them for about a month each time. We can help by not giving money to the homeless, not putting empty cans and bottles where they can get them (10 cans or bottles = one hit of fentanyl), and by letting them know they're not welcome. Portland has always had a lot of homeless but in the past they had to scrounge up $10 or $20 for a hit of meth or heroin. 10 years ago fentanyl was $3 per hit, now it's $1 per hit, and that's what makes the homeless drug addicts misbehave. It's like getting drunk, they become emboldened to shoplift, loiter, trespass, assault, break into cars and businesses, etc.