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Downtown Portland experimented with its own tiny home community. The homes were cute, I wouldn’t have minded one myself. However reportedly due to drug use and
by Skyos 3y ago
Downtown Portland experimented with its own tiny home community.
The homes were cute, I wouldn’t have minded one myself.
However reportedly due to drug use and violence it became too dangerous for the community service workers to enter the area. The situation quickly turned into a tiny home slum.
The city not long after demolished the little time home community and moved the residents “elsewhere”.
I sincerely hope Austin has a better plan and studies the failed attempt in Portland.
https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/portland-oregon-old-town-homeless-village-closing-due-to-gun-violence-fears/ https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/portland-oregon-...
- foxyv 3y agoCities have learned this the hard way over and over again. You can't just concentrate your homeless population in a single camp or shelter. You need to put them up in normal homes and apartments. It's almost a fundamental law of community policing. You need to surround your vulnerable and dangerous persons with communities that will help police themselves.