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Are you worried about a managed homeless camp near your neighborhood?
KTVZ Asked by KTVZ
843 Votes

Are you worried about a managed homeless camp near your neighborhood?

Yes, I am worried!

20

No, I'm not worried!

2

Yes, I am worried!

16 Comments
💛🖤 RAG 💛🖤
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💛🖤 RAG 💛🖤

The city council should listen to the people!! 80% of the responses of the city poll on homeless camps are negative, People do NOT want homeless camps or homeless campers in their neighborhoods.

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Ben Hargis
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Ben Hargis

Don't know who honestly would not be worried about drug use, mentally unstable, mounds of trash, theft, shootings, and various other crime and illegal activities across the street. What kind of stupid question is this?

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Sarah Oren
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Sarah Oren

I paid alot of money for my home in Bend. I want a safe and beautiful environment to walk my dogs and enjoy the beauty Bend still resonates. Building a homeless camp in my neighborhood will definitely decrease our home value, I worry about the local children as well. This is not a solution.

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Carol Page
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Carol Page

Last year's fire at Juniper Ridge was started by a homeless person. Several neighborhoods were evacuated and at least one business destroyed. The fire could had reached the near-by chemical plant and with two nearby schools this could have been worst. The City thinks this is a good site...NOT

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Char Theiss
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Char Theiss

The lack of comments here shows that people are afraid to speak out due to being labeled as uncaring. I care about people but know there must be solutions better than installing homeless camps near our neighborhoods and schools. Business owners, homeowners, renters and tax payers must be considered,

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Jacob Wilton
Jacob Wilton

Clearly a lack of people speaking up.

Brandi K.
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Brandi K.

The homeless need to work with local agencies to get a job and housing. No permanent homeless camps. Its disgusting, dangerous, and makes our city look like trash!

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jill leonard
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jill leonard

I'm not so concerned about what happens inside the camp boundaries, but what happens outside. The loitering of people, we see this already at the recycling center, businesses by the sleeping shelter on 2nd street. Kids walk freely through these areas, safety is the #1 priority. NOT BY OUR SCHOOLS!

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Sandra Butcher
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Sandra Butcher

Putting the homeless camp on the NW side of Bend at Juniper Ridge is an irresponsible solution because there are no facilities, not close to shopping, and with car fires and drive by shootings it is to close to Cascade Village a 55+community.

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HLH *
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HLH *

Since the city owns all the parking strips iin Bend , how about letting them pitch their tentsthere ?

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Melissa Rivera
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Melissa Rivera

How we've been trying to help the homeless is not and has not been working for a very long time. Camps are not helping them, it is enabling them. It is time for Oregon to look to other state/countries who have proven success in truly helping and rehabilitating the homeless.

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John Philo
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John Philo

I don't need drugs, random shootings and lawlessness any closer to my house. I don't believe the cities so called "managed" plan is viable.

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Rozy Arno
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Rozy Arno

No one wants a homeless camp in their backyard. We are concerned about drugs, mental illness, safety, fires, and thefts. You need to come up with sustainable options that doesn't negatively impact tax paying homeowners. Soon Bend will be a home for every homeless person in the nw and we'll all leave

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Bob Majka
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Bob Majka

What a freaking stupid question. Who in their right mind would want a homeless camp next to their house.

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k san
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k san

Yes! These camps should not be put near n'hoods or schools! I am empathetic; however, some camps can house some unsavory folk which would undoubtedly drag down property values within their proximity, and be dangerous to children if put near schools. There is plenty of open land in CO for such camps.

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Jacob Wilton
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Jacob Wilton

What is with the City's obsession with proposing homeless camps near areas with high densities of children? Shame on you for forcing parents to consider a change of location in exchange for peace of mind of for the safety of their kids.

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Latterdaysaint
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Latterdaysaint

Why don't they build more homeless shelters!?

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No, I'm not worried!

2 Comments
Shamra D Wampler
2
Shamra D Wampler

These people need places to go. They did not choose to be in the situation that they are in, and they need help. The people that are against it should live in that situation, with no money, no family, and nowhere to go. Then what would THEY do? They need to learn to give, not just take.

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Ben Hargis
Ben Hargis

They most certainly choose to live this way. I refuse to live like that. These people do need help, a lot, but I don't want the consequences of their poor decisions in my back yard. And don't worry I give plenty in the form of taxes, not my fault our pathetic leaders can't manage it correctly.

Sandra Butcher
Sandra Butcher

Then you need to find a place that you can provide them mental, health, and shopping facilities nearby. I am not against homeless, but I am concerned where you want to drop them so you don't have to think about the problem again.

Latterdaysaint
Latterdaysaint

Bend needs more shelters

Summer Sears
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Summer Sears

I'm willing to take a potential hit to the rediculously high value of my property in exchange for shelter for houseless neighbors. I believe that local nonprofits and public safety folks can find a way to provide shelters for our houseless neighbors, while maintaining safety and other priorities.

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Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?
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179 Votes

Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?

YES

0

NO

0

YES

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No one has commented yet

NO

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No one has commented yet
    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?
KTVZ Asked by KTVZ
1,338 Votes

    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?

YES

12

NO

1

YES

12 Comments
Barb Hayden
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Barb Hayden

Never should have been allowed in the first place! Bend needs to develop a site with bathrooms, showers and rules,like NO drugs and NO trash. At least Redmond is trying to help these people. Take a. Lesson from them. Get off the dime and solve the problem

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Cheri Trettin
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Cheri Trettin

I say move the campers off forest land and onto main street if you want public funding for homelessness in Bend to become an immediate priority!!!

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Latterdaysaint
1
Latterdaysaint

Yes and build more homeless shelters or provide jobs for them

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Tylor Meyer
1
Tylor Meyer

They have had excessive amount of time to move off land they are not even allowed to live on!

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Just a voice Figg
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Just a voice Figg

They have had ample time to move. Vegetation reduction helps slow and or stop wildfires that will eventually hit that area and destroy millions of dollars worth of homes and people's lives.

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Jeff Sanders
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Jeff Sanders

Living in SE Bend I really enjoyed going to China Hat with my Jeep to off road and walk with my dogs. The thought of being shot has kept me from doing that for a while now. Good riddance to the homeless and make it where they can't come back.

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Joe Dillon
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Joe Dillon

it is public land, NOT someones home! The public cannot use it without fear of saftey. We DONT need another human caused fire that happens EVERY year out there, we have enough to worry about with mother nature fires. Time to move on!

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Linda Knowlton
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Linda Knowlton

Fire danger and trash in the forest

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jennifer stenkamp
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jennifer stenkamp

Being homeless is usually the result of bad choices. My taxes help pay for government land. Living there rent free and creating tons of garbage, being a true threat to causing wildfires, behaving in a lawless manner angers too many of us who manage to pay for real housing. Move them out now.

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Erin E Yates
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Erin E Yates

We all have problems in life why do they think it is ok to do what they are doing, when the rest of us pay our taxes, go to work, get counseling if we have problems. The amount they spend on drugs, they could pay rent. It’s a choice and their choice is to do drugs and not work. DEATH and TAXES!!!

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Goth Gaga
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Goth Gaga

This homeless problem is a choice. These people are drug addicts that need to get clean and go back to work. They should be put into rehab while being counseled for their personal problems. Once clean they should be put to work doing tasks that prisoners do. If they refuse, then jail them.

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Ron Rommel
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Ron Rommel

The Homeless Campers are the wrong people on the wrong landscape due to their lack of cognitive awareness of fire. I and many others are willing to share grace for their position in life when they are willing to improve their situation through counseling, accepting shelter to transition life.

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NO

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Diana Cockerill
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Diana Cockerill

They are humans and have no other options.We try not to let that happen to unwanted pets, yet have no problem in letting it happen to, what many consider, unwanted people!

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