Link to Portland resignation regarding the plan
In another chapter of the city of Portland’s protracted struggle to address homelessness, a senior policy advisor for Commissioner Dan Ryan resigned the night before Ryan and Mayor Ted Wheeler announced a controversial plan to construct compulsory mass encampments for homeless Portlanders Oct. 21.
Portland City Council approved the plan Nov. 3, which also included banning unsanctioned homeless encampments.
In an email obtained by Street Roots via public record request, Margaux Weeke, Ryan’s then-communication director and senior policy advisor, announced her intent to resign in response to the proposed ban “due to a moral conflict.”
“It is my strong belief that forcing hundreds of unhoused people into large, sanctioned camping sites with minimal services will cause irreparable trauma and unnecessary deaths,” Weeke wrote. “I am deeply concerned that the involvement of law enforcement in relocating unhoused people to sanctioned camps will result in violence and the further criminalization of houselessness. I hope that I am wrong, but I cannot in good conscience work to advance this initiative in partnership with the Mayor’s office. I appreciate your understanding of my position.”
NYC to involuntarily commit more homeless people.
Don’t get me wrong—I don’t support the hubs of criminal chaos these cities have become.
I support the creation of mass camps and at will involuntary hospitalizations less, though, given what they have been used for in the past.
Well they used to have state Mental Hospitals for the mentally ill. I would state those were the mass camps of the past for degenerates. When they closed they released the patients in them onto the streets.
I know bc I used to work in one of them.
I grew up near Pennhurst.
They’ve turned a site of atrocity into a Halloween haunted house.
None of what occurred in those places was okay, either.
You buy into the propaganda. We can’t have a functioning society without a system of mental asylums. Otherwise they spill out into the streets and seek self medication. Bring back the mental hospitals
There are mental hospitals run by good people. With moral and ethical oversight.
And there are the atrocities that were run by the state.
I used to believe that. Now I’m not so sure. There were probably some bad doctors but on the whole is it worse than life on the streets for these people? As it is they would be better off dead. A mental institute is better in every way. We can’t have a society without them. I think they got black washed by the deep state so they could be shut down and the money redirected toward wars and other bullshit