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Economy
Homeless in Portland: A deepening crisis on the streets of America
2018-10-08
[BBC] They seem to be almost everywhere, in places old and new, no age spared. Sleeping on cardboard or bare ground, the homeless come together under bridges and trees, their belongings in plastic bags symbolising lives on the move.

Many have arrived on the streets just recently, victims of the same prosperity that has transformed cities across the US West Coast. As officials struggle to respond to this growing crisis, some say things are likely to get worse.

Vibrant Portland, Oregon's largest city, has long lured many. It is the City of Roses, of pleasant climate, rich culture and progressive thinking. It is also an innovation hub, part of what is called Silicon Forest, and new residents have moved here in these post-recession years attracted by its high-tech companies and their well-paid jobs.

But the bonanza, unsurprisingly, has not come to everyone.
Posted by:Besoeker

#14  income inequality increased during the Clinton and Obama years

Democrats were expanding their base in both directions. They are the party of the poor and the rich and the blue collar Dems were just slow to realize it and jump ship.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-10-08 15:05  

#13  I had to read the Trotskyist newspaper "Solidarity" to discover that income inequality increased during the Clinton and Obama years. The Democrats are not liberals. They are FASCISTS concerned only with helping a small group of fantastically rich and connected colleagues.

They're all Ostensibly Good Marxists except their policies seem designed to explicitly hurt any proletariat that are actually employed or seeking employment. Hence why they have to scream about race and/or sex for sixteen hours a day (assuming they ever go off shift, as the Oddfather used to do).
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2018-10-08 13:55  

#12  This is the Left's vision for the future of America. Themselves who are well-off and price everyone out of housing, and the deplorables.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2018-10-08 13:18  

#11  HAPPILY, the hop crops are unaffected.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-10-08 12:09  

#10  The globalist elitists are neo-Feudalists and their rent-seeking is largely enabled by "progressivism".
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-10-08 12:03  

#9  Mayor Ted Wheeler, a Democrat, said, "inequality [is] growing at an alarming rate and the benefits from a [growing] economy are increasingly concentrated in fewer and fewer hands

I had to read the Trotskyist newspaper "Solidarity" to discover that income inequality increased during the Clinton and Obama years. The Democrats are not liberals. They are FASCISTS concerned only with helping a small group of fantastically rich and connected colleagues.
Posted by: Frozen Al   2018-10-08 11:49  

#8  Considering Portland is one of the very most leftist cities in the USA this is kind of rich and proof the left doesn't care about the poor.
Posted by: 3dc   2018-10-08 11:13  

#7  Colonials!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-10-08 10:29  

#6  The BBC guys comment reads as snark against America. Either Americans are lazy or our racism or something is a factor in not everybody having a job despite opportunity.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-10-08 10:02  

#5  But the bonanza, unsurprisingly, has not come to everyone.

Does the BBC Guy somehow expect the 'bonanza' to just miraculously float down from the sky and land in everybody's lap? Because that's how that sentence reads.
Posted by: Raj   2018-10-08 09:58  

#4  With jobs going wanting especially in construction, there are few excuses to not be working. I work in construction and with the Davis-Bacon Rates, we have to pay people $20.00 an hour plus fringes to lean on a broom and pick up scrap lumber.

Just saying.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-10-08 09:43  

#3  Wonder what the homeless situation is compared by red and blue states and red and blue cities.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-10-08 08:18  

#2  Amazing how the homeless are invisible during Democrat administrations.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2018-10-08 07:27  

#1  Please DO NOT come here. It is simply no longer safe.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-10-08 07:15  

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