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What do you think is the best solution to address the homeless situation?
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561 Votes

What do you think is the best solution to address the homeless situation?

Solutions?

11

Nothing needs to be done.

1

Solutions?

11 Comments
Robert Northrup
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Robert Northrup

Make people responsible for their actions. Why do parks have signs warning us not to feed animals. Same with humans. Are they receiving aid so they can live off the public? Will we be like SF and let them steal up to $1000 without penalty.

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Lysa Williamsen
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Lysa Williamsen

The problem is not going to go away and most likely only get worse, so viable solutions is what we must do to keep Bend beautiful for us all including those less fortunate.

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💛🖤 RAG 💛🖤
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💛🖤 RAG 💛🖤

Solutions are NOT wild camping or tent camps in the city, managed or not but treatment centers for drug and mental issues!!!

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Terri Holm
2
Terri Holm

The “homeless” need to be screened so that the people that want and need help will get it. The people that “choose” to be homeless as a way of life and the evil doers need to leave town.

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J
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J

Psychiatric counseling, drug counseling and employment counseling. God helps those who help themselves. If they will help themselves, we are all there for them.

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Judi Vanderpool
2
Judi Vanderpool

Believe both city and county commissioners have made it too easy for homeless to settle here. They need to take the city owned land in Juniper Ridge area and build the camps they’re wanting to put in neighborhood there. This is a problem they’ve created so let them use their land to fix it.

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Jon Krutsch
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Jon Krutsch

Need to put some focus on root cause.130 person increase over last year with all the covid money and eviction moritoriums. What will the increase be when those programs are history?

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James Grube
0
James Grube

Stop enabling bad behaviors and consequences for bad decisions!

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Ben Hargis
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Ben Hargis

Enforce existing laws.

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k san
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k san

We need to follow the Utah model. Such camps, whether "managed" or not, should never be put near established neighborhoods or schools. They drag down property values and create danger for school kids. There is plenty of land in CO in which to place these camps where they won't infringe on anyone.

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Latterdaysaint
0
Latterdaysaint

Would a conservative state government be the solution?

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Nothing needs to be done.

1 Comment
Brad Livsey
0
Brad Livsey

Ask this question in conversation!.......Why is it that having a slovenly-slipshod-dirty lifestyle reflection a prerequisite for most all homeless and their camps?

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Have you been experiencing more stress after the 2024 election?
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291 Votes

Have you been experiencing more stress after the 2024 election?

YES

0

NO

2

YES

0 Comment
No one has commented yet

NO

2 Comments
Latterdaysaint
1
Latterdaysaint

Of course not, trump will make America great again!

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Jeff Sanders
0
Jeff Sanders

I am glad that we were Blue over all on the West coast. Those flyover states have too much say.

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Do you support a traffic light at the Reed Market and Bond St roundabout?
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540 Votes

Do you support a traffic light at the Reed Market and Bond St roundabout?

YES

4

NO

9

YES

2 Comments
Kit Cohan
0
Kit Cohan

I prefer metering to increasing the number of lanes. More than one lane makes roundabouts much more dangerous to navigate, especially with drivers who are not locals and do not understand how roundabouts work. 2 lanes = many more accidents plus 2 lanes need to be a much larger diameter for safety.

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Jeff Sanders
0
Jeff Sanders

You're literally bumper to bumper from the Bill Healy bridge. The people from the Old Mill Never Cease coming.

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NO

9 Comments
Dave Krajczynski
2
Dave Krajczynski

If people used the roundabout correctly and actually filled in the gaps and went when there was an opening it would flow just fine. People wait for a bus sized gap before they go.

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Jeff Sanders
Jeff Sanders

The people coming from the Old Mill Never Cease coming. Traffic is backed up to Bill Healy bridge everyday. At least in the winter.

Dennis Douglas
1
Dennis Douglas

If it weren’t so maddening, our City counselors would make for a cast in a Monty Python show. They befuddle themselves with ludicrous ideas and foist them onto the taxpayers. Bend is becoming a laughing stock to outsiders and a source of continual angst for the residents.

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SUE ABERNATHY
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SUE ABERNATHY

Isn't that why they put the round about in because stop lights were going to cost to much????? Just saying.

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sara kreps
1
sara kreps

doesn't this defeat the purpose of a roundabout? might as well make it a regular intersection with lights.

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Kathy Brown
0
Kathy Brown

Make a LARGER round-about!! A stop light will only make it worse!!

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Chris Gonzales
0
Chris Gonzales

A roundabout's primary purpose in traffic management is to improve safety and traffic flow, resulting in less congestion and fewer accidents compared to traditional stoplight intersections. Key words: Flow, less congestion and Stoplights. Now they want to add Stoplights!!! City waste at its Best!

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Latterdaysaint
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Latterdaysaint

The point of the roundabouts was to get rid of lights

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Fletcher Jackson
0
Fletcher Jackson

What's the point of having a light at a roundabout? The point of a roundabout is to get rid of the lights. Widen it and start growing for the people coming here. The way bend builds, everything is obsolete by the time it's done.

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Tim Walker
0
Tim Walker

I drive through this around about several times everyday and it is never an issue very rarely. Is it an issue? The reason they put roundabouts in for the first place was to get rid of stop lights and stop signs

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Jeff Sanders
Jeff Sanders

It's bumper to bumper from the Bill Healy bridge.

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