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-Land of the Free
Portland Considers 'Mandatory Rest Spaces' For The Homeless On Private Property
2019-12-08
[Hot Air] Portland, Oregon, like many cities on the left coast, is struggling with a growing homelessness crisis. But what can they do about it? One idea that’s now being floated is to change the building codes so that all new structures (including private property, not just government buildings) include spaces for people to "rest" and "feel welcome and safe."

This understandably has prospective property owners concerned, since the wording is all quite vague and suggests that they will be forced to allow the homeless to camp in and around their buildings. (KATU News)

The obvious questions are already being raised. What specifically does "rest" mean in this context? Does that mean that new buildings will have to include spaces for the "unhoused" (their word) where they will be "protected from the weather?" That’s basically just an invitation for people to come trespass and stay there.

Posted by:Besoeker

#19  Start this communist eminent domain, it will get to be spicy times.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2019-12-08 20:30  

#18  No point owning property in Portland. I expect the housing prices will plunge as a result as people move or just decide to rent.
Posted by: ruprecht   2019-12-08 19:15  

#17  <3 You know I adore you, USN, Ret.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-12-08 19:03  

#16  if i wanted to be a hotelier, i would have left the light on for ya (sorry TW, it sort of writ itself, bur you are the inspiration behind the crayon)
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2019-12-08 18:37  

#15  If I wanted to be a hotelier, I would have married a Trump.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-12-08 14:59  

#14  Comrade, the Housing Commissar has determined that you have excess capacity in your house. Therefore, you will make adequate space available for a homeless individual who will arrive this evening. We fully expect that you will welcome this individual with open arms in the spirit of socialist brotherhood.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-12-08 14:39  

#13  When I first saw this post I thought it was about grave sites. Restful, welcoming, and safe.
Posted by: BrujoTejano    2019-12-08 14:18  

#12  this will not end well. And i fear the property owner will be on the short end.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2019-12-08 11:46  

#11  We seem to be living through a saucy melange of 1765 and 1854.

With a skosh of the Great Terror and the Cultural Revolution thrown in for good measure.
Posted by: charger   2019-12-08 11:36  

#10  My dad used to say "Eventually they will tell you who is coming into your house when, how long they will stay and what you will have to do for them while they are there."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-12-08 09:04  

#9  #4 Good catch.

It will be a very small step from the current Sanctuary Cities to future municipal policies of "Mandatory Home Sanctuary."
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-08 07:51  

#8  #6 Correct. It was only a matter of time. Our idiot political class shows, daily, their ignorance of and outright contempt for the Bill of Rights.

Case in point: we now routinely hear that the 1st Amendmant protects slander and other forms of malicious, reckless, harmful defamatory speech.

This line of reasoning is being parroted by even those with degrees from our best law schools - cf the president of Oberlin College and its multi-year war against a neighboring family bakery.
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-08 07:47  

#7  Mandatory Communism.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454   2019-12-08 05:19  

#6  I had a libertarian friend in the 90es - when I lived in USA*, who claimed that US Gov broke every amendment except the third. I guess it's time.

*Well, not actually USA, New Mexico.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-12-08 02:57  

#5  Third Amendment. If you can't make me house soldiers, you can't make me house drug addicts.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2019-12-08 02:14  

#4  Why not? We are already required to support illegal aliens thru benefits. Being forced to host them in our homes isn’t much of a leap.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2019-12-08 01:53  

#3  "You didn't beshat build that Shithole..."
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-08 01:45  

#2  'You don't own that property, somebody else built that house and owns that property.'
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-12-08 01:26  

#1  The Shitshow has a new act: The Mandatory Shithole.
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-08 01:23  

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