the homeless flooding the east side immediately after the sweeps get initiated?

i called that shit months ago. the city knew it would happen too. but at least now they're not scaring saks shoppers, but only people going to the montage.

now we just need the city to rezone it so that a bunch of soul-less condominiums get built, and then we can pass a whole new 'get them out of inner east side' ordinance.

Sweeping both the east and west sides of transients is the official kickoff for the annual Rose Festival, and has been a Portland Police tradition for decades.

We no longer sacrifice virgins princesses to the river gods, but expect every hooker from Troutdale to Klickatat County to be coming in on Greyhound this week to meet those erstwhile sailors.

Have you seen the mug on Greg Oden? He looks like he could be working the Burnside panhandle. Hope he doesn't get caught up in the downtown homeless sweep. Could be another 5 years of missing the playoffs.

Chop!

Kungfu,

Keep your head high.

now we just need the city to rezone it so that a bunch of soul-less condominiums get built, and then we can pass a whole new 'get them out of inner east side' ordinance.

You are probably trying to be ironic, but that is exactly what the city is going to do next, starting with the "Burnside Bridgehead." I'm sure the condo developers are salivating over that warehouse district as we sit here...they are gonna make millions.

Hey, is Infill/Density great, or what ?

I don't have a problem with infill, per se. Just as long as there's a high-rise day access center for the homeless thrown into the mix ;)

I suppose it's a lost cause. This town used to be pretty seedy and run-down. Cheap. A good place for artists.

There are still a lot of prime industrial ruins up along the NW Hwy 30 corridor out towards Linnton. A passenger was explaining the other day that the reason that so much of that part of the Willamette is still a Superfund site, is that huge amounts of Agent Orange and other terrible chemicals were manufactured there in the 60s.

Supposedly, the ground itself is so toxic out there that the condo pimps have been shut out, for now. People have a way of forgetting, though, you know ?

As Flipper used to say, we are all sailing down the Love Canal...

One year when the homeless folks were swept to the east side for Rose Festival, a large amount of them ended up parking it in the I-5 embankment near the Rose Garden. This HIGHLY visible location was the perfect welcome wagon for those traveling through and into our fair city. One day as I was driving on I-5 I looked up and there was a group hangin' out, passing the bottle around, and nearby and a little closer to the freeway was one of them totally out of his gourd with his pants down, hangin' his ass at the freeway takin' a big dump. Welcome to the Rose Festival folks!

Displacement is the predictable outcome of both homeless sweeps and drug and prostitution exclusion zones. Problems are not solved, they are just moved elsewhere. The hookers that used to work Sandy are now out on 82nd.

And with the price of gas these days who can afford to drive that far out.