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Tax Payer subsidized housing projects have been tried before... They Don't Work because government taxes/subsidies run out (New York). Get rid of Urban Growth Boundaries.
As an airline pilot and someone who previously walked in that area on the East side of Bend, I am totally against the city ruining yet another nice area of town. And the discounted homes for teachers is BS, These are the same people who ditched our kids during Covid while everyone else had to work.
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Right, that's why property values are plummeting and people are leaving in droves. 🙄
Sounds like a nice socialist housing project planned by government Marxist subsidized by hard working TAX Payers. Oregon needs to get rid of Urban Growth Boundaries and open land up for investment and create competition so contractors can build witch would increase supply & bring down some cost.
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Bend is already overpopulated and has lost much of what made it such a nice place to live - namely, the beautiful natural areas in and around it that have been covered over with roads, subdivisions and businesses. If we stop building more neighborhoods and businesses, people will stop moving here.
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Because I believe everybody deserves a chance to be housed when they have fallen because it's not how many times you fall as how many times you get up that counts and sometimes you just might be a helping hand
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More freebies won't solve the problem, just create more recipients! It is becoming more apparent that the city council wants Bend to be more like Portland.
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If you give homeless people free stuff, more will come. Where is the personal responsibility to work, save and buy your own home or pay rent some place. You are rewarding drug use. Stop it and enforce the law and homelessness will drop.
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You cannot force transients to get help. Our worthless city council and mayor have destroyed our city by allowing transients to terrorize the community with crime, fires, robbery, rape, drug use and destruction of property. They will not use places with rules and restrictions. Wake up Bend!
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Couldn't agree more. The liberals have spent years trying to make Bend into liberal Portland. If we don't get these city councilors and mayor out of office we will soon become the state that everyone fled to move here.
Many of these people are older and have paid into the system, so your ignorance is pointless yet again.
That's not solving the underlying issue of homelessness witch is mental health and drug use
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Supportive housing is intended to address those issues. Sobriety is mandatory and mental health counseling is among the services provided.
Homelessness is becoming an industry. Once we get thousands of people dependent on jobs there will be no going back.
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More people are in the homeless business than are truly homeless. Help families and the working poor that can truly benefit.
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They seem to receive more opportunities then I do. I have worked all my life since I was 12, and for them to get free housing and free $1000.00 a month, that's more then I make. I think this bill failed, but it was in the works.
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Only if they have a 40 hour job and are willing to pay some rent or have social security and pay some rent. Handouts don't help people, they enable them.
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