Hundreds of millions in affordable housing bonds and more on the docket and the best we can do as a city is a tiny pod village with communal plumbing and kitchen on rented land?
That this was sprung on neighbors with little input is outrageous. I understand you cannot put everything up for a vote, but the complete disregard for our concerns has been scandalous and the responses woefully inadequate. How are we to trust the city to respond to any issues that may develop when its been completely inadequate in addressing these issues so far? Have you been to Delta Park or Jantzen Beach lately?
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Jaymeson Parry
6 years ago
I often feel uneasy/unsafe leaving my car parked next to or even walking downtown past all of the encampments near my work. We should not be putting that feeling or pressure on young children.
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Jason Hawkins
6 years ago
NO drug camps or sex offenders near schools!!!! James Jon has an open campus.
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Michelle Hall
6 years ago
I love the idea of tiny home villages as a solution to homelessness BUT this project is not well thought out. The partner organizations are not well organized in the planning and communication phase so how can they possibly deal with the systemic issues that come with housing people with addiction? It will be awful and that awful experiment should NOT be this close to so many schools. No other neighborhood would be asked to make this choice and the city is taking advantage.
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Patrick Jurney
6 years ago
Terrible location chosen with offensively little input from members (residents) of the St John's community.
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Barbara OKeefe
6 years ago
Why St. Johns? Why not Kelly Point Park? Why not downtown? WHY should we, as taxpayers, keep giving the homeless stuff for free? Why don't you ask them to get jobs instead? I, and many others, will INDEED get a lawyer and sue the city if there is one child harmed, one child becomes the victim of indecent exposure, one child exposed to drug paraphernalia or being harmed by dirty needles. Who in their right mind would want any child exposed to the crap you are asking of parents? Why not build this closer to your homes, schools, stores? Oh wait it's because you think N. Portland is the "ghetto" of Multnomah county and we are nothing except losers who live in a low income area. Well let me fill you in on something here... WE are intelligent, educated and do not wish to spend all of our money getting AIDS medication, PTSD counseling, OD hospital bills or LEGAL fees because of the poor choices you decided to inflict upon our community.
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Rory leonard
6 years ago
This community should be at the vacant terminal 1 sight where they want to build a baseball stadium
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Anonymous
6 years ago
great idea wrong location
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Anonymous
6 years ago
Strongly agree homeless need support, but this location does not offer that.
It is far out with little public transportation, no jobs, and nobody will be holding them accountable. St. Johns can't be treated as a dump for portland. We pay multnomah county property taxes and this will push our property values and safety down without offering what the transitioning homeless need to improve their life. It's also not a good location because of the school. I would feel bad for parents that have kids which used to be able to walk home from school.
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Kevin James
6 years ago
Giving our community's tax dollars to an organization that doesn't pay taxes so they can profit off addiction and that also puts our most vulnerable community members, our children, in direct contact with addicts and felons is not serving the St Johns Community well. I oppose this homeless camp, I support our children.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
Ridiculous. The neighbors have spoken, and the church goes right ahead anyway, ignoring any issues that the neighbors bring to the table. It is the epitome of irresponsibility and callousness. The church is not solving any problem, but creating a new, bigger one, and destroying a neighborhood in the process.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
This is highly irresponsible to put in a neighborhood with schools. Our city needs to make sure it is not transferring the stress of this sociopolitical problem onto its middle class citizens who are already supporting most of this countries economic stability. We need to address poverty while not making parents, children, and the general public feel unsafe. We have many homeless setting up camp all over north Portland and the amount of needles, fights, and drinking has made it so people don’t feel safe enough to go to certain parks, green spaces, churches, and bus stops anymore. This petition would put all of that right next to our most vulnerable population; children. Absolutely unethical.
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Michael Degroat
6 years ago
We are residents that have bought a new home on Richmond. If this goes through we have decided that we will sell our house and move out of St. Johns
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Alex Stegner
6 years ago
I appreciate the discussion from everyone in our community on this issue. And I urge those in opposition to this project to re-examine your position. Communities like Hazelnut Grove and Right 2 Dream Too are some of the best things that we have going in this city when it comes to homelessness. I teach about homelessness and poverty and studies show that they have very low instances of crime and that they are empowering for the people who need their services. This project is only going to make our community more safe and secure. It’s outrageous that in our country - the wealthiest in the world - anyone is forced to live on the streets. We need to demand that our city, county, state and federal governments build housing for people. That’s where our time and energy should be going. In the meantime, projects like the one coming to our neighborhood are the most humane option. Let’s take a stand that is rooted in compassion, creativity and courage, not fear and classism.
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Katharine Reeg
6 years ago
This is a terrible idea to put this camp here. Not only does it bring potentially dangerous people near schools, but it brings an influx of homeless to the heart of downtown St.Johns. Locals won’t want to go to downtown St. John’s to shop or visit restaurants if there is an influx of homeless people loitering around and they don’t feel safe. Tourists will especially not want to visit. It will kill our already struggling little downtown that is trying so hard to succeed. In addition, putting this camp here will effectively bring all of our property values down in a market where they are going up in every other neighborhood. This is just a bad decision all around. The church should be ashamed of their involvement and the city needs to start thinking about its tax-paying citizens, their kids and their businesses over a few dozen homeless people. Making decisions like this is actively driving long time citizens out of Portland. Please do not put this homeless camp here. I want to feel safe in my home and my neighborhood, and putting this camp in to the heart of downtown St. John’s will kill the neighborhood.
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James Wisner
6 years ago
I am adamantly opposed to the homless camp.
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Tanya J Cherones
6 years ago
Please stop pushing the homeless out to St John's!
Terrible, horrible location. Think about the kids. The neighborhood residents feel as if they have no voice in this at all.
No, not this plan
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSei6m0hvjoRY_QgUy49_nbqHV64okGhEFNeb8nTEn4yzbJIRQ/viewform
Hundreds of millions in affordable housing bonds and more on the docket and the best we can do as a city is a tiny pod village with communal plumbing and kitchen on rented land? That this was sprung on neighbors with little input is outrageous. I understand you cannot put everything up for a vote, but the complete disregard for our concerns has been scandalous and the responses woefully inadequate. How are we to trust the city to respond to any issues that may develop when its been completely inadequate in addressing these issues so far? Have you been to Delta Park or Jantzen Beach lately?
I often feel uneasy/unsafe leaving my car parked next to or even walking downtown past all of the encampments near my work. We should not be putting that feeling or pressure on young children.
NO drug camps or sex offenders near schools!!!! James Jon has an open campus.
I love the idea of tiny home villages as a solution to homelessness BUT this project is not well thought out. The partner organizations are not well organized in the planning and communication phase so how can they possibly deal with the systemic issues that come with housing people with addiction? It will be awful and that awful experiment should NOT be this close to so many schools. No other neighborhood would be asked to make this choice and the city is taking advantage.
Terrible location chosen with offensively little input from members (residents) of the St John's community.
Why St. Johns? Why not Kelly Point Park? Why not downtown? WHY should we, as taxpayers, keep giving the homeless stuff for free? Why don't you ask them to get jobs instead? I, and many others, will INDEED get a lawyer and sue the city if there is one child harmed, one child becomes the victim of indecent exposure, one child exposed to drug paraphernalia or being harmed by dirty needles. Who in their right mind would want any child exposed to the crap you are asking of parents? Why not build this closer to your homes, schools, stores? Oh wait it's because you think N. Portland is the "ghetto" of Multnomah county and we are nothing except losers who live in a low income area. Well let me fill you in on something here... WE are intelligent, educated and do not wish to spend all of our money getting AIDS medication, PTSD counseling, OD hospital bills or LEGAL fees because of the poor choices you decided to inflict upon our community.
This community should be at the vacant terminal 1 sight where they want to build a baseball stadium
great idea wrong location
Strongly agree homeless need support, but this location does not offer that. It is far out with little public transportation, no jobs, and nobody will be holding them accountable. St. Johns can't be treated as a dump for portland. We pay multnomah county property taxes and this will push our property values and safety down without offering what the transitioning homeless need to improve their life. It's also not a good location because of the school. I would feel bad for parents that have kids which used to be able to walk home from school.
Giving our community's tax dollars to an organization that doesn't pay taxes so they can profit off addiction and that also puts our most vulnerable community members, our children, in direct contact with addicts and felons is not serving the St Johns Community well. I oppose this homeless camp, I support our children.
Ridiculous. The neighbors have spoken, and the church goes right ahead anyway, ignoring any issues that the neighbors bring to the table. It is the epitome of irresponsibility and callousness. The church is not solving any problem, but creating a new, bigger one, and destroying a neighborhood in the process.
This is highly irresponsible to put in a neighborhood with schools. Our city needs to make sure it is not transferring the stress of this sociopolitical problem onto its middle class citizens who are already supporting most of this countries economic stability. We need to address poverty while not making parents, children, and the general public feel unsafe. We have many homeless setting up camp all over north Portland and the amount of needles, fights, and drinking has made it so people don’t feel safe enough to go to certain parks, green spaces, churches, and bus stops anymore. This petition would put all of that right next to our most vulnerable population; children. Absolutely unethical.
We are residents that have bought a new home on Richmond. If this goes through we have decided that we will sell our house and move out of St. Johns
I appreciate the discussion from everyone in our community on this issue. And I urge those in opposition to this project to re-examine your position. Communities like Hazelnut Grove and Right 2 Dream Too are some of the best things that we have going in this city when it comes to homelessness. I teach about homelessness and poverty and studies show that they have very low instances of crime and that they are empowering for the people who need their services. This project is only going to make our community more safe and secure. It’s outrageous that in our country - the wealthiest in the world - anyone is forced to live on the streets. We need to demand that our city, county, state and federal governments build housing for people. That’s where our time and energy should be going. In the meantime, projects like the one coming to our neighborhood are the most humane option. Let’s take a stand that is rooted in compassion, creativity and courage, not fear and classism.
This is a terrible idea to put this camp here. Not only does it bring potentially dangerous people near schools, but it brings an influx of homeless to the heart of downtown St.Johns. Locals won’t want to go to downtown St. John’s to shop or visit restaurants if there is an influx of homeless people loitering around and they don’t feel safe. Tourists will especially not want to visit. It will kill our already struggling little downtown that is trying so hard to succeed. In addition, putting this camp here will effectively bring all of our property values down in a market where they are going up in every other neighborhood. This is just a bad decision all around. The church should be ashamed of their involvement and the city needs to start thinking about its tax-paying citizens, their kids and their businesses over a few dozen homeless people. Making decisions like this is actively driving long time citizens out of Portland. Please do not put this homeless camp here. I want to feel safe in my home and my neighborhood, and putting this camp in to the heart of downtown St. John’s will kill the neighborhood.
I am adamantly opposed to the homless camp.
Please stop pushing the homeless out to St John's!