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Where in Bend would you propose a homeless camp?
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1,350 Votes

Where in Bend would you propose a homeless camp?

Tell us your ideas

18

No permanent homeless camps

10

Tell us your ideas

16 Comments
Ben Hargis
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Ben Hargis

Away from residential areas, schools, and churches.

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DeBacker Melis
DeBacker Melis

😂😂😂

Latterdaysaint
Latterdaysaint

Not a good idea

Dixon Rose
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Dixon Rose

Put it on the west side of town. Lotsa wide open spaces over there.

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John Philo
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John Philo

Vacant land by COCC.

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Brad Livsey
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Brad Livsey

KENTUCKY on the coast in the sand!

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Paul Owen
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Paul Owen

West side at 9th and Wilson 3.5 acres available close to services and utilities.

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Pamela Joe
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Pamela Joe

In the country away from home owners, farms, businesses. Unless this facility is strickly monitored there will be trash and drugs everywhere. Make a homeless city. With garbage. Water, shower and sewer services and let them go. Daily shuttle might be a good idea.

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Jain Eisenbeis Wilson
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Jain Eisenbeis Wilson

East of town and have a few shuttles throughout the day & evening

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k san
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k san

Yes, Ben Hargis: Away from residential areas churches, schools. NO ONE wants that in their back yard. I realize there needs to be managed camps for homeless people, and I hope some of the planned tiny-house-villages (away from established n'hoods) can provide for them on vast empty land in Redmond.

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Rick Allen
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Rick Allen

I would put it in Kate Browns yard!!!

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Justine Lowry
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Justine Lowry

Adjacent to Fire and Police services, crisis counseling services and safety as a focus.

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Franklin Bullwheel
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Franklin Bullwheel

Reed Mkt road ROW east of 27th. Already fenced, sidewalks on Reed Mkt and 27th, easy access, treed, Utilities on 27th. 1.3 acres or much larger with cooperation of adjacent property owner.

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No permanent homeless camps

8 Comments
J
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J

All in favor of helping. Fine line between helping and enabling. If you build it they will come

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M F
M F

If the rent and housing situation would become more affordable for the people who work here, maybe then the people living in their cars or tents that have a job will be able to get back into a place of their own and off the street. As for the rest? Why keep giving them incentives?

Christena
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Christena

Don't cover up the problem, find ways to help those that want help and for those that don't discurage camping in town.

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Kimmy Wasatch
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Kimmy Wasatch

More freebies equal more homeless. Lots of work out there.

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Latterdaysaint
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Latterdaysaint

Homeless shelter not homeless camp!

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Vernon Budd
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Vernon Budd

Run them out of Oregon period

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Johnny Mooney
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Johnny Mooney

I believe in a hand up, not a hand out. I believe permanent state/local government sponsored camp(s) enable bad decisions and bad behavior. Limited time for assistance motivates change. Everyone needs a hand up sometimes.

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Judy Ostrom-Dixon
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Judy Ostrom-Dixon

We must address addiction and mental illness, otherwise the problem will just continue to grow!

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Kenneth Emmrich
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Kenneth Emmrich

The more you do for the homeless the more homeless there are. The more homeless there are, the more they do. Do you you see a pattern? The vast percentage of the homeless population is a chosen lifestyle. If you cut off all services the homeless get there would little to no homeless.

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

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NO

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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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