The tent cities across the United States are filled with homeless people not due to the lack of housing but because they are hard core drug users and can't get or don't want a job. Here in Portland they keep going on about affordable housing being the cause. You could charge $200 a month for a two bedroom apartment and they still couldn't come up with the rent because they spend every dime on drugs. And even if they did pay the rent these pack rats would destroy the property and become a nuisance with all the garbage they collect and trash they leave laying around.
It's not a housing issue it's a drug addiction issue. Unfortunately here in Oregon they legalized possession of the drugs causing these addictions. There was some nonsense about treatment instead of jail and hundreds of millions of dollars have already been spent and the problem has only gotten worse.
They're spread out all over with rats infested camps set up in what used to be nice residential neighbourhoods. They steal, harass, expose themselves in public. Some of these camps are near schools and there have been children sexually assaulted by drugged out scumbags. They need to take a convoy of garbage trucks and clean that crap up followed by some water trucks to wash all the filth away.
I was just across the river in Vancouver WA and saw this. This has become a lifestyle. It's the way some people have chosen to live and they have no desire to change. Look at how they live. Now imagine that mentality inside an affordable residence. Guaranteed property damage and what might have once been a nice apartment would soon become a cockroach infested smelly mess of dog and cat feces, rotten food, and piles of trash dug out of garbage dumpsters. These people cannot be helped because they will always choose drugs.
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