Portland has green-lighted a 260 million dollar project where houses will be placed in volunteer’s backyards and homeless people will live there.
The houses are 200 square feet. After 5 years the houses are turned over to the volunteers.
Just because you don’t have housing, it doesn’t make you a bad person or more likely to be a bad tenant. In fact, you’d be a better tenant because you’d appreciate it,’ said Becca Love.
People are so, so, so stupid.
When is the left coast going to fall off?
Then they start all of the new regulations against
the property owners and make them BLEED.
This money will fall down the same rathole as solar welfare.
Lot of money spent with little to show for it.
Wonder what your insurance company will think of this?
Where will they do the 3 S’ in that dog kennel, your bathroom?
Guess it makes them feel good, that’s all that matters to a Prog, that and spending somebody else’s money.
Insanity on display
These people aren’t homeless, they are apartment less. Owning and maintaining a home is a huge expense.
By the way in the end it will have been cheaper to give them an income of $15,000 a year and build a multi floor skyscraper type apartment building.
Liberals are blinded by their self righteousness. They are like little children
It will be interesting if this half-baked idea spreads to California, where I’ve heard they have some crazy laws that protect even deadbeat renters who hold back month after month. That would be fun trying to get the nightmare out of your back yard.
It does say the agreement lays out what behaviors won’t be tolerated, but some possibilities don’t even deserve a chance to occur–they are too life shattering.
Please, in the end, prove me wrong. There are a number of instances in which I would dearly love to be wrong, and this is one of them.
I’m not a psychic, but I foresee some of the “homeless houses” accidentally catching fire.
Nothing like having your property value immediately tank in the toilet with new tenant Hobo Bob out in front of your driveway holding a cardboard sign which reads, “Will work for a hand job.”
One behavior should be having a bath once a week.
And of course no drugs or alcohol or tobacco products
The little houses will be uninhabitable in a few weeks. The back yards will trashed and vandalized, and the hosts homes will be robbed. The hosts will be assaulted, raped and murdered. And they’ll call it a success.
“Just because you don’t have housing, it doesn’t make you a bad person or more likely to be a bad tenant. In fact, you’d be a better tenant because you’d appreciate it,’ said Becca Love”
Ummm, they’re bums, Love. They’re gonna do what bums do. Beg, steal and leave litter… if yer lucky.
This is so predictable and preventable, but the Portland Cement Headed Libtards aren’t able to figure it out because they think everyone thinks like they do. Just wait until the muzloids get wind of this and start screaming equality. It’s gonna get nasty! Then they’ll blame Trump.
Guaranteed to draw the best, brightest and most motivated to the area…
Sum ten wong, 4 units for $365,000.00 someone on the city council is the contractor
From the linked article:
“a homeless crisis that’s gotten so bad the government last year declared a state of emergency and made it legal to sleep on the street”
Which means that, at some point, the government first had to actually pass, and likely incur the expense of defending the suit(s) against, a law that made it illegal to fall asleep on a public street. Should the government call this a major failure? Fire the bureaucrats involved? Remove from office the elected officials involved? Revoke the law that caused the newly “discovered” problem? At least grandstand an “investigation” to “discover” what happened? Of course not! What the government did caused what the government describes as a calamity. So they now pass a “state of emergency” law, to temporarily abate the damage (according to them) they’re causing (not caused, but are actively, still, causing) by enacting the first law.
The government plans to allow people who rent land from the government… Oh, I’m sorry, if you thought you “owned” the property “your” house squats on. You’re clearly not mentally capable of participating, here. Here’s a “magic” cookie. Why don’t you go nom nom it, over there?… now… people who rent land from the government, to share that space, and charge rent for sharing that space, with people the government decides to place in buildings the government places on the government land. I know those of you left can guess the answer to the following: Why don’t the people with access to off street yards just “rent” camping privileges to whomever wants them, at whatever rate they negotiate? Why don’t the people with access to off street yards just install “sheds”, and rent them to whomever wants them, at whatever rate they negotiate? Why don’t the people with access to off street yards just install “sheds” and commercial “porta-potties”, and rent to whomever wants them, at whatever rate they negotiate? Why don’t the people with access to off street yards just build actual, though smaller than their own (gotta’ keep up appearances), houses, and rent to whomever wants them, at whatever rate they negotiate?
Oh, good. Are you all done with your cookies? Wonderful! It’s time to vote! Majority, as the current government decides to count, wins! And, remember, those of you who read through the questions, agreed to abide by the election decision rendered by the current government currently implementing your lives, by agreeing, yourselves, to vote. Here’s your cookie.
Obviously these people have no problem solving skills.
First and foremost, you are supposed to solve problems, not cater to them!
As far as the cost goes, obviously these first four units will be on ocean-front estates…
“These people aren’t homeless, they are apartment less.”
– I voted for Trump
You’re confusing house with home.
To you, they are the same. They’re not.
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Becca Love is fantasizing when she says they’ll appreciate it more.
If you dare – talk to some of the homeless living under bridges and such. I have several times over the years because they beg at the intersections and come up to my truck when I’m having lunch in a parking lot.
All of the homeless I’ve met and talked to – bar none – are incapable of following rules and doing the right thing to take care of themselves. They refuse.
Talk to them and you’ll find their excuses of why they are not at a facility getting help. The particulars will vary, but the result is the same. Some are even proud to be rebellious to the norm, at least a “fuckit” attitude. Most say they don’t want anyone telling them what to do. Often it’s the inability to stay sober, but, generally, it’s a mental health problem they have.
People that are only down on their luck take advantage of programs that were designed to help people back on their feet. They don’t stay homeless.
I think the best you can do is anything that can give them shelter and food. Expecting anything out of the mentally unhealthy is mental in itself. You really don’t get the problem, if you do.
The one thing this idea does is automatically have site supervisors. People that would, most likely, care the most about what’s going on at the property.
Someone very famous once said the poor will always be with us. I think these things are why some can’t rise above being poor and homeless.
So, go for it! Let’s find out through experience if it’s a workable thing.
I predict mayhem, more suffering and loss of property values, plus loss of this money – and nothing really different except otherwise normal people suffering personally, when they weren’t before, by putting their own property and well-being at risk.
All across the country there are hitchhikers with their thumbs pointed towards Seattle.
And I thought that Portland couldn’t get any more nuts than when I lived there in 1971-72 when I was 18-19 years old.
Why should it cost anything?
The Kulaks should be more than happy to build the “homes” in their backyards at their own expense – thus alleviating the burden of taxation on those poor unfortunates who don’t have backyards!
Power to the Parasites!
izlamo delenda est …
The victims of this insanity are going to be young innocent girls with liberal, imbecile parents. Remember Elizabeth Smart? Didn’t her mother go seek out a savage to bring to their home under the guise that she was “doing good?” What kind of mother puts their deranged liberalism before their child’s safety?
Never go full Portland.
“Hi. My name’s Bob. I hate my neighbors on both sides, so I signed up for this program. Immediately, housing values for my neighbors on the left and right fell 30%!”
I’m coining a new term for this type of progressive: Suicidally Enlightened. The term also covers white people who hate themselves for being born white and those who want to welcome with open arms Middle Eastern “refugee” men between the ages of 18 and 30.
@Dadof4 March 19, 2017 at 7:28 am
I agree with your assessment of the forces driving the “problem” (scare quotes only because it seems natural, like lightning ignited fires).
But I don’t think your conclusion holds. People who live in Portland (or any city), and have open ground space adjacent to their house, large enough to accommodate another 200 square foot structure (even if that’s as 100 square feet stacked over 100 square feet, plus the usually uncounted stairs between them), and the government mandated empty space required between buildings in such residential areas, will not allow their own, personal, space to be sullied by legally protected (as with a lease) others, for less than commercial rates. And they will lawfare any neighbors within sight, that do allow such invasion, before they, themselves, decide to do so, out of the neighborhood, with the government as their mercenaries. When the options are the government actively telling all the residents “You can complain all you want about the people around you that also rent space from us. We don’t care!” and formally revoke all zoning and permitting laws (that don’t apply to interconnection with directly government owned utilities), or keep everything that’s currently generating revenue in place, I expect a great deal of applause (and votes) for the money being spend on “study and planning”, and self-satisfaction that “somebody” else, away from where I live my life, is doing this.
@Racer X March 19, 2017 at 9:11 am
> I hate my neighbors
It would be a good plan. If, but only if, the government was extending it’s own immunity to anyone who becomes it’s agent in the plan. “Do what we ask, but you’re on your own when we come back at you.” would seem to be absurd. But it has a long pedigree in statecraft.
Why don’t they just build a high-rise full of tiny 200 sq ft “apartments” for the *ahem* “homeless?” They could call it Cabrini Green – West! What could go wrong!
Shouldn’t that be Cabrweenie Green?
So, whatever happened to the whole idea of getting a job?
I wonder how much the “volunteers” will be paid, because libs only volunteer if there is free money involved. Like ‘volunteering’ to help ‘refugee’ groups.
Show me the sign up sheet.
Property values may go down, but the number of bedbugs migrating into middle class homes will definitely go up.
I have no problem if people are doing this voluntarily. After a couple months they will probably turn into conservatives.
@Irate Nate March 19, 2017 at 9:53 am
@Dadof4 covered that pretty well, for many (most?) homeless.
For the rest, including the borderline “I’m here today, but who knows where I’ll be the second of next month.”, you’d have to expect honest answers from “your” government. The government decides who to allow access, and for what purpose, to all geography in their domain. The government decides (broadly) the exchange pricing of the super-majority of geography in their domain. The government decides (precisely) the rental rate of all geography in their domain. The government decides (broadly) the pricing of the super-majority of immobile changes to all geography in their domain. The government decides (precisely) the economics of all immobile changes to all geography in their domain. And the government sets the lower limit of what a person legally working within their domain must be paid (which shifts the pay of many of the rest of the chattel). The numbers are of the “fuzzy” “this much, plus or minus that” kind, but for the majority of chattel, the government sets how much to write into “their” account, and how much to take out, before they are allowed access to what’s left – by design.
“So, whatever happened to the whole idea of getting a job?” What it pays, versus what it will cost to live as the government demands, is completely up to the government demanding it. Maybe you should ask them. (Just stand a bit a way from me. “We” keep buying them drones.)
I use to work with someone who owned a house that used to belong to his parents. He didn’t want to live in it himself, so he let a homeless couple ‘caretake’ the house. Within a year, the place was unlivable. He then spent another year or more trying to evict them because they refused to leave and NYC laws protect the ‘tenant’s’ rights. Once they were finally out, he started assessing the damage that had been done, including cement poured down all the drain pipes. He could not sell the house at that point and it would cost more to gut and repair than the house would ever be worth. All for being a ‘nice guy.’
This just might be what tips the left over the edge. Real estate in Portland is horribly over priced, over taxed. Property values are going to dive while crime rate is going to sky rocket. We refuse to go downtown, refuse to do business with anyone downtown. Too disgusting. Traffic nightmare. Way too many degenerates.
Call your Insurance Agent and ask how that’s going to work.
By inviting others onto your property they are guests.
If they cut themselves chopping kale for a healthful salad on your property, guess what? You get sued.
I worked a theft claim where a little old lady had all her jewelry stolen by the carpet installers. The carrier refused (rightly) to pay because she invited them in and failed to secure her belongings. It sucked, but if you let them onto your property, you have accepted responsibility for their actions.
What I see coming is a big ass lawsuit on someone who takes this program on, because some homeless bastard will rape the neighbor’s 10 year old daughter.
This madness (no pun) needs to stop.
The majority of Homeless are drug addicted, mentally ill and unable to care for themselves. We need to bring back large scale institutions where these people can be warehoused. They infest the cities, committing crimes of opportunity, and dying of preventable diseases.
At least in an institution they will be off the alcohol and have a better shot at regaining their lives than getting worse on the street.
OK I admit I want to see the white coats with a net rounding up the crazies. But it needs to be done.
Won’t be long they will float the idea of the unused space in your home. Will try incentives like tax breaks then will come the bullying tactics, higher taxes for living space not utilized.
Tom@drum just like Doctor Zhivago
All this and more was predicted by The Moynihan Institute
Sounds like an episode or Portlandia. This is almost guaranteed to end badly then Ms. Love and her friends will blame it on Trump.
Portland Announces, “I Love My Next Door Neighbor Program” . . .
@ Kilroy
That was a prediction, not a conclusion.
Like I said, go for it! Let’s see what happens.
I have no skin in the outcome either way.
True. Best thing about it, IMO.
The chewy golden nougat at the center of this – this is how conservatives are made, when the rubber hits the road and they pay a price for their erroneous beliefs.
Like leaving your muddy hiking shoes outside the tent at night and getting stung by a scorpion when you put them on in the morning. You’ll never trust a pair of shoes left out over night again.
Oh boy oh boy oh boy! Nothing like housing potential predators and drug addicts right in your very own backyard! No way is this going to result in a spike in child molestation and rape… or robbery and murder… NAH. Those homeless people in HUGE numbers aren’t homeless bc they’re crazy or addicted to drugs, NAH. LET’S PUT ‘EM RIGHT NEXT TO OUR WOMAN AND CHILDREN, I HOPE THAT THE DOG DOESN’T GET ABUSED. 😀
[I’m never moving back to oregon, at this point, it isn’t worth it.]