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Do you think Central Oregon is making progress addressing homelessness?
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980 Votes

Do you think Central Oregon is making progress addressing homelessness?

Yes

2

No

16

Yes

2 Comments
Foster Fell
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Foster Fell

Success so far in Bend with Veterans Village, Lighthouse, safe parking program, St. Vincent dePaul. More expected with Central Oregon Villages 27th St. facility and Rainbow Motel. Still more needs to be done, of course. But that's a promising start. This is a national humanitarian crisis.

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Larry Weinberg
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Larry Weinberg

I see the movement of groups and the numbers are manageable. Things can be improved by having no tolerance for illegal drug abuse. The young drug addicted should be put into forced programs to recover. Mentally ill need to be institutionalized if they cannot care for themselves. Economic get help

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CB
CB

Sadly, republicans won't put one cent towards social programs. The GOP loves to control their masses by keeping them uneducated and poor.

No

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💛🖤 RAG 💛🖤
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💛🖤 RAG 💛🖤

Guess I'm not the only one who answers NO, 97% does! Did you get that Bend city council? YOU and your buddies in Salem are ENABLING HOMELESSNESS and making Bend the Premier Homeless & Fentanyl Resort in the country.

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Steven Huillet
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Steven Huillet

Too many soft hearted liberals in charge.

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RL Nellis
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RL Nellis

It's getting worse.

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Bob Majka
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Bob Majka

Hell no, liberals are the great enablers..

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Matt Stickler
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Matt Stickler

California and many other states offer nothing. So the more Oregon offers them, the more of these out of state homeless will be drawn here.

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Oppivy7
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Oppivy7

more homeless people seem to be a symptom of a larger problem

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Tracy Evans
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Tracy Evans

Have you seen Hunnell Road?

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Paul Bianchina
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Paul Bianchina

Mary Rose Place is the latest Bend Street being taken over by the homeless, with more derelict RVs and mounting garbage. How many more streets will the City donate to the homeless? Progress? The exact opposite!!!!

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Mark Mueller
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Mark Mueller

If you build it they will come! Seems like Bend is trying to become the Portland of Central Oregon.

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Patrick Mcgowan
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Patrick Mcgowan

110, ruined this state what a joke.

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Kimmy Wasatch
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Kimmy Wasatch

Throwing good money after bad will not solve the problem. Until drugs are a criminal offence, people are held accountable and free services are stopped, problem will just become worse.

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Latterdaysaint
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Latterdaysaint

Notice only red cities don't have problems

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Oppivy7
Oppivy7

Did you know that there are more empty, perfectly good, houses in this country than there are homeless people?

CB
CB

That is absolutely untrue. And as a man of God and Jesus, instead of acting holier than thou, get off your butt and do something to help them.

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

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

YES

0

NO

0

YES

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    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?
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1,334 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
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Latterdaysaint

Yes and build more homeless shelters or provide jobs for them

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Tylor Meyer
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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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