Do you think permanent shelters will help the chronically homeless?

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945 Votes

Do you think permanent shelters will help the chronically homeless?

21%

Yes, it's a good solution. Yes, it's a good solution.

79%

No, it won't help. No, it won't help.

21%

Yes, it's a good solution.

I think it's a good solution because it would be beneficial for the chronically homeless.

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4 Comments

k san

It will help those who want to be helped, but the percentage of those is unknown. Those with mental illness and/or drug addictions need help with those issues first before they can appreciate a safer place to live.

Lynn Huntley

As long as they are managed by responsible people to help the people living there.

Shamra D Wampler

Absolutely! I do not think people should be allowed to live there for more than a couple of years, until they are on their feet though. They can then move to low income housing, and move up from there. A lot of this is needed, and it works. Look at how much it helped in Utah! It saved a lot of money

Gabe West

It will help keep them off the streets and causing trouble

79%

No, it won't help.

I don't think it will benefit the situation.

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5 Comments

💛🖤 RAG 💛🖤

Unless you screen them you'll end up with addicts and free loaders instead of people who need and want to be helped to get back on their feet.

Sussie Due

As long as we continue to support them they will never get back on their feet and work at many of the 1000's of jobs available out there.

Robert Northrup

You can't give people anything. They will destroy it because they don't care.

Kenneth Emmrich

The vast majority of homeless people want to be homeless. It is like a badge of honor for them. The more you do for the homeless the more there will be. The dogooders are creating another society of dependents. How has LBJ's "Great Society" worked out?

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

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161 Votes

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

15%

YES YES

85%

NO NO

15%

YES

0 Comment

No one has commented yet

85%

NO

0 Comment

No one has commented yet

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

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1,328 Votes

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

93%

YES YES

7%

NO NO

93%

YES

12 Comments

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

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!!!

Latterdaysaint

Yes and build more homeless shelters or provide jobs for them

Tylor Meyer

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

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.

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.

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!

Linda Knowlton

Fire danger and trash in the forest

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.

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!!!

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.

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.

7%

NO

1 Comment

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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Do you think permanent shelters will help the chronically homeless?

21% Yes, it's a good solution. Yes, it's a good solution.

79% No, it won't help. No, it won't help.

21% Yes, it's a good solution.

79% No, it won't help.

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

15% YES YES

85% NO NO

15% YES

85% NO

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

93% YES YES

7% NO NO

93% YES

7% NO

21%

Yes, it's a good solution. Yes, it's a good solution.

79%

No, it won't help. No, it won't help.

21%

Yes, it's a good solution.

79%

No, it won't help.

15%

YES YES

85%

NO NO

15%

YES

85%

NO

93%

YES YES

7%

NO NO

93%

YES

7%

NO