Liberalism has made city unlivable

 Daily Wire:

Families Are Fleeing Portland Because It’s A Hellhole

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According to the local NBC affiliate, there are at least 6,633 homeless people in the Portland metro area, but it’s likely that number is higher. During the city’s federally mandated count of vagabonds in 2022, the city ran into a staffing problem.

“Teams were unexpectedly forced to quarantine or were faced with lost staff the week of the Count,” the Joint Office of Homeless Services explained in a statement.

One real estate agent named Lauren Iaquinta told the press that the problem of vagrants is a “pretty testy subject,” but that she has seen the impact firsthand.

“I would say the migration to the suburbs, I’ve seen quite a bit in the last two years,” Iaquinta explained. “Most people don’t want to have to worry about if they can leave their car parked in their driveway overnight without maybe having it broken into.”

According to data compiled by realtor Stephen FitzMaurice, “The U.S. Census Bureau for Portland city proper says Portland (not its suburbs) lost 11,000 residents from July 2020 to July 2021.”

One homeless man actually defended his fellow drifters, essentially telling the homeful people to get over themselves.
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This seems to be a mostly left-coast phenomenon.  San Francisco and LA are both experiencing high populations of homeless.  We are not seeing anything like this much homelessness in Texas cities.

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