Spencer certainly comes off as an asshole but he's certainly not alone. Everyone who visits Portland (from famous chefs to famous landscape designers) comments on the problem and wonders why some of Portland's best real estate is not home to tax producing retail, homes, and offices but instead filled with crack heads and drunks. Of course they add that at least it’s not as bad as San Francisco. It's funny, the same people who bitch and whine about gentrification also complain that schools are a mess or we don't have enough parks, etc. My only problem with the homeless is the land they are given. It’s prime fucking real estate. The money that comes from gentrification and redevelopment could be used to combat root causes. You can’t have it both ways-no development and money for the homeless. One homeless person on average costs 50,000 a year between repeated police calls, hospital visits, etc. There has to be a better way to spend that money, I don’t make that much a year. No doubt Portland’s downtown is sleepy, but I’ve actually seen more homeless on the street than people midday in old town, a sad sight indeed.

Skidmore, ah, you are saying everyone visiting Portland is blaming the homeless for Old Town not being revitalized. Hmm, everyone?

First off, when you refer to the homeless as crackheads, and drunks you discredit yourself - come on, that's a little extreme, a? It wasn't so long ago that people said the same thing about the Pearl, but look at it now... it's a real pleasure for "everyone" that comes and visits, right?

It is true that both San Fran and Seattle have a much larger homeless population in the downtown core than p-town - the only difference is both of those cities continue to revitalize regardless of a homeless population.

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