Neighbors say they've had enough of squatters living in vacant SE Portland house

Give them a choice of mental hospital, drug recovery, shelter, or jail. By all means, just force them out.

4 years? How is the owner not sorting this out? Even if it's a bank owned home-? Come on.. get it together.

"That's a matter for law enforcement to deal with." And when police show up over squatters they're told "it's a civil matter." If you're a squatter you're a TRESSPASSER!

Calling someone “house less” doesn’t give them any more dignity. Homeless, house less, squatters, or vagrants. Yes they’re people, but let’s not pretend that a softer label is helping anything.

THAT PORTLAND LADY SAID IT ALL = "THEY DONT DO ANYTHING"

For heavens sakes who trained this reporter? She missed a key part of this entire story. Who owns the house? It should be easy to look up on the public records. Why didn’t the reporter ask the woman living there who owned the house? Track that person down. Follow up on the story. Did she miss journalism 101? Does KGW have no editors? No news director? Apparently not.

They had to have falsified documents to have the electric turned on and who is paying the water bill?

Squatter: “There are no squatters here”. Reporter: “Do you pay anything to stay here?” Squatter: “Yeah. I pay the electric.”

I can’t imagine just taking my crap and moving in to someone else’s house! Ludicrous!

No one on the news team thought to look up deed records to find the owner?

Poor reporting: (1) Who is the property owner? (2) Who is paying for water? (3) Crudely photographing the woman's breasts like that.

That lady with the headlights must’ve been a real hussy in her day

You know I just don’t get it. I don’t understand how somebody can break into a home, get rights and can’t be forcibly removed. They STOLE a home! If I steal a damn RV….do I get squatters rights on the RV if I live out of it? Hell no!

Lawless city sums it up. Portland is just awful

Why buy a house or rent. Apparently in Portland you can just squat!

I love how everyone thinks this is a new thing going on- the S.E. area has been plagued with squatters for decades now and if you pay attention you'll quickly see what houses are doing what and when. The "lady" at the house was clearly gakd out of her mind during the interview- probably coming down after a three day trip. I do not miss that area of town at all, that whole situation will never change.

Enough of the compassionate tolerance. It's time to demand trespassers are removed. We must be protected from these criminals.

Thank you guys for covering this stuff. At least these stories are getting out. Hopefully the city starts doing something about all this.

We had a simple solution in our neighborhood. The vacant house mysteriously went up in smoke and became inhabitable.

I live in a small town in Colorado and had a homeless encampment in my neighbor's backyard. Our property line is drawn an inch or two from the side of our house so their yard comes right up next to our house. They'd blast music, scream at each other, fight, an explosion went off...etc. We'd wake up in the middle of the night to them threatening to kill each other. They also used the back of my garage as a restroom and would piss all over my garage door. Weird burning smells came from the house also. I have a lot of empathy for homeless people but the people next door were taking advantage of the situation and didn't care at all about being courteous to their neighbors. The house was sold, so they were kicked out after 4 or 5 months of this going on. Even found out that before we bought our house that someone had been squatting in our cellar beneath our house.