Portland population and income loss, housing and crime woes centered in task force briefing

Repeal measure 110.

Another note : I very , VERY much do not believe crime is down! The police can't keep up with all the calls , and all the calls they can't make it to , don't get reported. This is what happens when your police force is 1/2 the size it should be.

I'm sick of homeless people and their excuses why they need to commit crimes to survive! I'm sick of gang violence and I'm sick of elected officials that are completely worthless!

What I'm hearing is that they need another committee for the taskforce.

I llived in Portland my whole life and sold my house and moved out in 2021. Bad governance, crime, graffiti, and high taxes were all factors. I had expected to live in Portland my entire life. I hope things get better, but the trend seems to still be down.

Hard to believe that the data shows crime a little lower than the previous year... I think a lot of crime doesn't get reported or counted. That statistics is bothering me, just doesn't seem accounted right.

can you show a graph of the crime rates AFTER the passing of the measure that allowed drug use out in the open? Id be interested in understanding how portland did with drug addiction before that law passed, and after

Keep reporting what we're all seeing. That income left on the table should be an eye opener for everyone. When the money leaves, everyone suffers. This should help with the gaslighting that happens way too often here.

Oh! Another task force? More meetings, no press? More words, and I’m still stepping in human urine and feces. It’s not sanitary enough to spend any time downtown. This is sad. I will eat/shop when there is not one homeless drug addict left in Portland, and when the ill and mentally ill are safely housed in hospitals, or supervised housing. There are extremely severe biohazard risks in Portland. Think of hepatitis and tb to name a couple. So- I’ll return to Portland when it is free of health hazards. It’s like an open Petri dish there.

When all reasonable, honest people flee, what will be left?

"Plan, meet, evaluate, and assess." ad nauseum. A good way to get paid and accomplish nothing at the same time!

A 40 person task force sounds way too big to be effective and transparent.

poor viewer joe as simple minded as ever "very impressed with tina.".. I am not surprised she won considering 50% of portland is "joe"

The problem is that ‘ they’ need a “ task force “

How the situation in Multnomah County is perceived depends largely upon worldview, I notice. Those on the ideological Right see everything the statistics show, while those on the ideological Left see things as either "improving," or "needs more time to improve." The latter seem to go by feelings and appearances. In other words, they will say that downtown is not a mess at all, and things are improving. Then you remind them that it only looks that way because the homeless have been swept across the river into SE and NE, and once the problem has been swept outward, it's only a matter of time before it comes back in force. They still don't believe it, and then deflect by saying, "What are you doing to help the situation except COMPLAIN?" My answer is always, "Um, I work 40 hours a week so that state and local governments can steal money from my paycheck in order to pay their huge salaries and then divvy whatever's left over to open up a new homeless encampment." That's what I do. That usually shuts them up. I should also add as well that Jamaica tried over-taxing their wealthiest residents in order to pay for social programs. What happened? The rich moved away. That's what always what happens. They move AWAY. Now there isn't enough money to fund all the social programs that were supposed to help the poor! The Robinhood-style tax scheme NEVER works, and yet they try it OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. And they wonder why people are leaving?

No big deal, I read that most of the people who moved out of Portland were nerds and dorks.

A very simple first step would be to force drug addicts sleeping on the streets who refuse housing into treatment. If they continue to pose a risk to themselves and the public then they go to jail for a while until theyre given another chance. If Portland did this I bet a good amount of homeless would be off the streets.

You are very good, I enjoy listening to you.

The trend of income growth in Multnomah County reversed in 2017, not 2020. Look at the negative values, in 2020 where the reporter stated we brought in $230M we actually lost close to $400M since the net income in the other three categories totals to around -$520M.

What about other parts of town like Beaverton, Hillsboro and Tigard? And the SE part of town? Where are these people moving? Do we have statistics on that?