Woohoo! Yet ANOTHER Homeless shelter in Portland. WARNING runnah rant.

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The homeless situation is getting out of control in Portland. If you go into any wooded area you'll find "tent cities". These areas are dangerous to women and kids. Also the crazy amount of homeless is such a drain on police resouces and community resources. But yet here we are setting up MORE for these folks, most of who don't want help and don't try to better themselves. I am all for helping those who are less fortunate, but not at the high cost its causing us now.

Solution, make it harder for those who take advantage of the situation. I(ncrease the minimum resident requirements (which there are currently none). Don't make Portland so damn attractive to homeless who come from all over the country to suckle off the Portland teat.

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link to story.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=118442&ac=PHnws&com_full=1#begin

God forbid we improve the library, or clean up some of the crappy areas or do something useful.

 
Me either. I don't mind helping people who need help, but to just give constant hand-outs to those that just want to live that way is ridiculous.

 
Me either. I don't mind helping people who need help, but to just give constant hand-outs to those that just want to live that way is ridiculous.
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Honestly this is the icing on the cake. Between raisin like this, lack of jobs, outragoues healthcare, insane housing costs, lack of business growth, Maine is just becomming unlivable.

 
Wow... and I thought I was Anti-Maine.

I think they should just take Peaks Island and make it a self sustained homeless community. There would be a weekly airlift of basic necessities but other than that they're on their own. Put some mines in the water around the island. "You wanna come to maine? You gotta stay on Peaks."

Quite "Escape from New York"ish

 
It is a beautiful state... It is just run poorly because people are resistant to change.
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Indeed and those running it are...well for want of a better word, idiots.

I wish we would focus our efforts to rewards those who contribute to society with more than just tax increases and empty promises.

 
"The People's Republic of Maine"

I'm not going to say anymore than that in fear of starting a political discussion....
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"The People's Republic of Maine"

I'm not going to say anymore than that in fear of starting a political discussion....
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hehe, I see what you did there...
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All I can say that when the ship is heading towards rocks you can only blame the captain.

 
I sometimes feel the same way, but see the other side as well. For a time I prosecuted involuntary commitments for Spring Harbor. One thing I learned is that the vast majority of homeless folks suffer from mental illness. Thus, for the vast majority, it is not a choice, they simply do not have the mental tools to help themselves and the number of homeless on the streets is really a product of inadequate mental health support/resources.

The result stinks though, you have to be careful around here walking by a bush as it may have someone living in it, who is off their meds and likely intoxicated....

 
The result stinks though, you have to be careful around here walking by a bush as it may have someone living in it, who is off their meds and likely intoxicated....
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Keeps you on your toes!

I know what you're saying about mental illness, but the band-aid approach and lax rules make Portland a hot spot for homeless of all kinds. Too much so for a city our size.

 
kind of ironic that the kerfluffle involves a home for the homeless people who need shelter most--young women. they are the ones least suited to living in the bushes or under a bridge. they are the ones with the bleakest job prospects. they are the ones who likely have infants and no socially acceptable way to support them. they are the ones for whom life on the streets means being subjected to constant threat of sexual issues nastier than you ever want to know about.

my ex was a former social worker, and the stories she had to deal with on a daily basis and the hopelessness of the typical homeless female's situation were so horrid it eventually freaked her out. That explains the desctiption as a FORMER social worker. she got to the point where she'd say, "if I'd see some squeegee guy come up to the car, I wanted to shoot him. If I'd see some poor homeless girl panhandling, I wanted to shoot myself because there's so little we can do to help." Nice, huh?

no doubt--there are a lot of lazy worthless deadbeat sh*theads on the streets. but there are also lots of people with noplace else to go. the system is so profoundly screwed it's fast becoming as hopeless for the social providers as it is for the people with mental and/or social issues that have kicked them to the bottom rung. No matter how or why they're there, it's the young women at the bottom of the ladder who are the MOST screwed, literally and figuratively.

 
NP is right, women and children are the forgotten victims in this.

+1 on the system being screwed. Its easy for politicians to band-aid these problems with tax dollars. Which last until their term is up and the next in line cuts the funding etc..

 
Next time voting time comes, tell your friends to stop voting in liberals! Only Mainers can change Maine, but everyone here (in the state) seems inclined to grandma about the things that are wrong and vote the same people into office anyway. The next time the KJ or PPH tells you that Baldacci balanced the budget last term, simply refuse to buy the paper and send a message. Just remember to vote!

 
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