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‘It really is a piece of cake, that’s why you have so many here’: Portland homeless woman boasts about how Wake City feeds her three meals a day and she can stay in her store all day and do drugs.
- Wendy, a homeless woman, was candid about the benefits of living on the streets of Portland, including free meals and the possibility of using drugs.
- The almost open-air drug policy has led to more tents on the streets, he said.
- Portland decriminalized small amounts of methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin in 2020
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A homeless woman on the streets of Portland bragged about the perks of living on the streets, including free meals and the ability to stay stoned all day.
Wendy, a homeless woman, dove into the city’s homelessness crisis in a new way by explaining how near-open drug policies are bringing more tents onto the streets.
Portland currently has more than 700 homeless encampments across the city within less than 150 square miles, and the ordeal has also led to the dizzying use of cocaine, heroin, LCD and methamphetamine that officials decriminalized in 2020.
“It’s a piece of cake, which is probably why you have so many here because they feed you three meals a day and you don’t have to do shit but stay in your tent and party,” Wendy told Kevin Dahlgren with community engagement organization We are the heart of Seattle.
To which Dahlgren replied, “I appreciate the honesty, I don’t feel like that’s helping anyone.”
“It’s not, that’s why you see all the tents – people are up all night and sleeping all day,” Wendy said.
Wendy, a homeless woman, was candid about the benefits of living on the streets of Portland, Oregon. The city’s open-air drug policy has led to more tents on the streets, she said.
Wendy is a hairdresser who has been living on the street for months. She is formally from Florida and was left homeless when she divorced her husband.
He said someone had stolen his dentures about six months ago and he hasn’t been able to go back to work.
“They do that here,” Wendy said. ‘I can’t get new ones because I only go with the first one I paid for, so I don’t know what I’m going to do.
‘I can’t go to work without teeth.’
Days later, Dahlgren returned to Wendy’s store and told her that her story inspired others to organize a fundraiser to buy her new dentures.
“I used to be like everyone else, I had a really good job… I had a salon in Washington state, I drove a Lexus and a house, and I loved to do my hair,” she said.
Wendy’s video saga posted by Dahlgren on Twitter led her brother and ex-husband to find her. Now they are in the reconnection works.
“You found my sister,” John Mitchell wrote in a Tweet to Dahgren. ‘Thank you Kevin for posting this. We knew he was homeless and probably in Portland, but that’s about it. Thanks for being nice to her.
There are several homeless organizations in Portland that serve the homeless and provide them with meals.
Wendy’s video saga posted by Dahlgren on Twitter led her brother and ex-husband to find her
Portland decriminalized small amounts of methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin in 2020
Some of the most charming, hip, and expensive neighborhoods in the Pacific Northwest city are now overrun with tent cities lining residential sidewalks.
Portland currently has more than 700 homeless encampments throughout the city.
Residents of Democratic-led Portland said in November that escalating crime and homelessness is affecting their way of life and security.
Some of the city’s most charming, hip and expensive neighborhoods in the Pacific Northwest are now overrun by tent cities littering residential sidewalks and littered with trash, and the problem is scaring locals and tourists alike. .
In 2019, the city recorded just over 2,000 homeless people.
Three years later, that number has increased by 50 percent, now with more than 3,000 living on the streets.
The increase in homelessness has also led to increased crime in the city.
Portland set a murder record in 2021. It reported 90 homicides, breaking the previous high of 66.