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

Addicted to the streets. Over 60% of the homeless population choose the streets. In fact many have told @tarafaul503 and I they already have access to housing, but still choose to live outdoors. The Homeless Industrial Complex and more specifically the NGOs that benefit the most from homelessness have
convinced the public and lawmakers that housing ends homelessness. The two biggest reasons for this is either they don’t know the truth because they’ve never actually extensively studied the homeless or they do know the truth, but refuse

I get a lot of hate from Housing First activists because I’m critical of the model. This is why. One of their components is Voluntary Personalized Services. Translation: A person is placed in state/county funded housing for free and often times for life and are not expected or required to make any changes whatsoever that led them or kept them on the streets. This means other than being indoors, nothing about them has changed. While some do voluntarily utilize services most do not because they don’t have to. And now

We found twin autistic children in a homeless camp surrounded by active drug users, trash and uncapped used hypodermic needles on the ground. @tarafaul503 and I stumbled upon the first child eating bark off a tree. He told me it was harmless, but also that he was hungry. I immediately went and got them pizza which maybe isn’t much healthier than charcoal but at least it’s food. We met their aunt that was very sweet and is working on getting Social Security due to partial blindness and

“It’s all an illusion” I asked a homeless woman when was the last time a trained professional offered real help and she laughed out loud. She told @tarafaul503 and I she hears and reads about services all the time, but said the way they’re set up, they are almost impossible to access or when you do access them, it’s nothing but long waitlists. I’m well aware there are two sides to every story but I have heard this identical complaint easily thousands of times. Not hundreds but thousands. So at the very least our current system

A year in photos. In 2024 @tarafaul503 and I did the most extensive documentation of the homeless population of a major city ever. We met and documented thousands of people currently living on the streets. We photographed them, we interviewed them


and we helped them. I believe what we have now is one of the strongest understandings of why they ended up on the streets and why they stay on the streets. Most people choose to ignore this population. Tara and I have an immersed ourselves in this population and

Housing will never end homelessness. A homeless man who has chosen to live on the streets for 37 years. He told @tarafaul503 and I that throughout his life, he has been offered help many times and has always declined. The current narrative by the Homeless Industrial Complex is that housing ends homelessness and
why we have literally spent billions of dollars on housing. I have done extensive homeless outreach for decades and just over the last year I easily met/interviewed 40-50% of the homeless population in Portland, Oregon. I can confidently

Shanty town cliff dwellings in Portland Oregon. They are starting to pop up everywhere and are in plain sight.@tarafaul503 and are seeing these in multiple neighborhoods. This is the natural result when you have a system unable or unwilling to end the homeless crisis. I discovered these Hobbit like houses five years ago. They were in the deep woods though and nearly impossible to see.

The moment I realized the Harm Reduction movement cared less about the person and more about the Social Justice cause. My second position working/volunteering in social services was doing needle exchange in Portland, Oregon 25-26 years ago. I had graduated from college and joined a nonprofit and one of the first places they sent me was with a team to do needle exchange in downtown Portland in the middle of the night. I knew very little about harm reduction and was eager to learn more. Our team encountered a family. A mother and father

WARNING GRAPHIC. An addict afflicted with the flesh eating drug xylazine that is cut into fentanyl. Nearly his entire body is rotting away. On parts of his body @tarafaul503 and I could see his bones. Soon he will start losing his limbs and then eventually die. Xylazine is a horse tranquilizer that is added to fentanyl to enhance it. It’s a tranquilizer only meant for horses. It first appeared on the East Coast a few years ago and is now almost everywhere. We begged him to go to the hospital, which he insists he has.

We found a fentanyl addict who was overdosing and we saved his life. @tarafaul503 and I found him sitting in an unnatural position with labored breathing and we knew immediately what was happening. His friend was right next to him and had no idea. He briefly tried to wake him and seconds later Tara administered Narcan. After thirty seconds of chest rubbing and and talking to him, he came to. He was confused for a moment, then quickly recovered. He was very happy we only gave him one Narcan. If you give a person multiple