I built a graph covering the last 10 years in the Portland Metro area, and the pattern is impossible to ignore. Homelessness and the homeless-service budget rise almost identically—two lines climbing at the same pace. Instead of showing progress, it shows something far more troubling: massive spending with no measurable improvement. When a crisis grows in direct proportion to the money meant to solve it, you have to question the structure of the system itself. At this

Public transportation in Portland is no longer safe. This man boarded the bus, immediately accused someone of staring at him, then got tried to start a fight. A worker stepped to de-escalate, but the man then claimed he was being targeted because he was Black. The bus driver tried to calm things down. Transit police were called and removed him at the next stop. But even with a strong response, this is exactly why so many people have stopped using public transportation. In this video a homeless man has his pants down and is nodded out on fentanyl

Warning Graphic. A young homeless woman overdosing on fentanyl on the streets of Portland minutes after Harm Reduction activists came by and handed out pipes. I don’t know if they gave anybody Narcan, but when we realized the young lady was dying. I was the only one there who had it. Her face pretty quickly turned purple and she became completely unresponsive. A few others around her were also nodded out and I credit her friend for noticing her purple lips. I called 911 twice and it was hard to reach them. After a few minutes of CPR and

BREAKING: I found the origin site of the massive wildfire that is so far burned 23,000 acres of the Deschutes national forest. It is a large homeless encampment with over a dozen RVs, tents, some makeshift shacks built out of scrap wood, shipping containers, abandoned cars, and newer cars without license plates, a few old boats and a lot of trash. There is no plumbing or electricity. This fire has destroyed 23,000 acres, five homes and multiple buildings. There has oddly been a debate whether this was a homeless encampment or not.

In summer 2023 I met with the Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon in Deschutes County and literally warned him of the high risk of a fire in the woods due to homeless activity. He changed the subject to climate change causes. The wildfire in Sisters, Oregon is shocking. The fire spread quickly because these are extremely dry woods, we are in the hottest month of the year in due to its isolation. The emergency response was slower than it would’ve been in a major city.

In 2019 I restored/reclaimed/cleaned almost five miles of the Springwater Corridor that was filled with over 400 Homeless people surrounded by millions of pounds of trash. Today there is zero Homeless and virtually no trash. How did I do that? The springwater corridor is 22 miles long and is a multi use path that goes through Portland, Gresham and Boring, Oregon. I was hired by the city of Gresham after writing the Mayor letter with my ideas and how to significantly reduce homelessness. Two

I got a tour of a notorious street occupied by the highest concentrated group of drug dealers in Portland. It looks like a regular occupied street of homeless people but I spoke to security that monitor the area 24-7 and shared the reality. With that many drug dealers, you can only imagine how many customers show up every day and what this has done to the neighborhood. I was told the police are overwhelmed by the area and are going to leave it be for the time being. The further we walked down this one-way street the sketchier it

Is somebody at the City Of Portland deliberately violating the law in hopes that the city gets sued by the ACLU to prevent homeless sweeps? Somebody at the City of Portland is posting ‘Illegal Campsite’ notices on blocks with zero homeless activity. These posts give the city the legal authority after three days to remove the campsite. The problem is this is violating city ordinance and also the ninth circuit ruling Martin versus Boise. If the city is interested in getting sued by the ACLU which would stop all camp

A pedestrian underpass get sealed shut with cement after the city ran out of ideas of how to permanently remove a homeless man who had lived in there for three years. This, of course, now prevents everybody in the community from using it. The homeless man’s name is Michael. @tarafaul503 had worked with him extensively over the last two years. We successively reach out to his family and friends. This is a video of him from an old friend telling him she misses him. He had a severe mental break when he

I debated posting this, but I believe it’s important to raise awareness. I went to 82nd last night to prepare a project I’m working on with @tarafaul503. Within a minute of arriving, I found a half naked woman running down the sidewalk screaming. She had just been bear maced and learned soon after sexually assaulted. I got her to put on a shirt and did my best to calm her. Two other cars stopped and tried to help. She was frantic and disorganized. Just as someone called emergency services she ran away. 82nd Ave. in Portland is a notorious location

I rowed to Ross Island to meet the Homeless that live there. Ross Island is approximately 400 acres and rests in the middle of the Willamette river which separates the east side and downtown Portland. I rented a kayak from a nice homeless man. I thought there would be many more people living over there, but after exploring for about an hour I saw no more than five. The lady I met was actually just visiting. I got a few cases of waters for the humans and the dogs and I got food for a homeless man with broken ribs. I rowed by floating waterworlds.

I visited a tiny home, village built by the homeless and managed by the homeless. They have a strict, no drug policy and everybody chips in and does chores. Yes they are technically not supposed to be there, but I’ve never seen a better managed Tiny home village. Far better than any NGO run one. The lady that gave me the tour said no nonprofits come by ever. I thought that was odd

We got accused of staging one of our videos. Recently @tarafaul503 and I intervened when one homeless man was threatening to stab another one with a hypodermic needle. We were accused of staging it by a Homeless nonprofit worker. It happened outside their agency and one of them approached us and made the accusation. It was so ludicrous, but also not surprising. Every so often we get accused of hiring actors to portray homeless people. Accusations always comes from so-called advocates who refuse to accept the truth of the streets.

Warning Graphic. A young homeless woman overdosing on fentanyl twenty minutes after Harm Reduction activists came by and handed out pipes, foil, straws and alcohol swabs. I don’t know if they gave anybody Narcan, but when we realized the young lady was dying. I was the only one there who had it. Her face pretty quickly turned purple and she became completely unresponsive. A few others around her were also nodded out and I credit her friend for noticing her purple lips. I called 911 twice and it was hard to reach them. After a few minutes of CPR and

I interviewed a homeless man selling his methadone. Methadone is a prescribed opioid distributed by the county to drug addicts. It’s used as a substitute to street drugs with the ultimate goal to taper off and get clean. A methadone client has to show up five days a week and drink it in front of nurse. On a Friday you are given to additional doses for the weekend because methadone clinics close. More often than not those doses are then sold on the streets so the user can buy their preferred opioid such

When did we stop caring about the environment? One thing the Pacific Northwest had always been known for was its beauty. Over the last two decades, though turned into one large trash dump. It happens slowly that many people didn’t even notice until it reached a point of unmanageability. There are many reasons that happened, but I believe the number one reason is radicalized progressive policies. By turning Oregon, Washington, California. Into mostly lawless states

Homeless man with his face painted as the joker uses a drumstick to place a spell on a young pregnant addict, causing her boyfriend to try and stab him with a syringe filled with heroin. This was all happening as @tarafaul503 and and I were interviewing a 20 year old across the street who’s newly Homeless and not by choice and had just been attacked by a man with an axe who was not happy that he stared at his bike. A great example of just how insane the streets are sometimes. Tara and I have broken up dozens of fights which we can do

A shocking visual representation of radicalized progressive policies. @tarafaul503 were absolutely speechless over the devastation. The land is owned by the state and has been managed by the county. Both notoriously radical. They have knowingly allowed hundreds of homeless to live in these woods for many years and have completely ignored the destruction. It is both heartbreaking and infuriating. I spoke to former Troutdale Mayor @RandyLauer (population 15,000) that borders the park who expressed his frustration with the county and state.

I tied up emergency service for an hour. While driving home, I heard someone screaming under a bridge. I investigated and found a developmentally delayed homeless woman with some kind of leg injury. I called paramedics and then kept her company until they arrived. She told me she’s been homeless since she was 17 years old and is now 41. Paramedics arrived, and she became ambivalent whether she wanted to go or not. She crawled out from under the bridge and started yelling at the paramedics. She refused help and limped

Homeless sweeps are big business for the Homeless Industrial Complex. Portland conducted a major homeless sweep yesterday. Approximately 90% of the homeless I observed dragged their tents exactly two blocks away. Three clean teams were involved from three different agencies, a Portland outreach team and a few police officers. I would calculate the sweep cost about $30-40k when you consider there were at least forty employees involved from various agencies, insurance, dump costs, etc. As for positive results, I saw none other than

Witnessing the anti Trump and anti @elonmusk protest yesterday with @tarafaul503 I realized I was surrounded by thousands of delusional people that lacked any sense of self-awareness, critical thinking or rational thought. Many were just lemmings doing what everybody else was doing in order to feel connected to their community not to mention the fear of ever having a dissenting voice. Nobody could really explain why they were there or what they were fighting for. All they did was chant the same things over and over again