The Homeless Problem in Portland, Oregon EXPOSED

This is unbelievable! How can we have this happen in a major US city? I know you’ve heard about the homeless problem in Portland, Oregon. It’s a situation that’s just getting worse. We’re going to begin our look at how bad it is here in downtown, and then hop around to different areas of this city. In downtown proper, there’s tents all over the place, but on the week I was in town, most of the tents were set up in one area - off of Burnside near Chinatown. But check back a different week and who knows where they’ll be. They move around a lot, since the city does periodic sweeps to clear tent camps from the downtown area. For all the reasons you think they would. In 2015, the city estimated there were around 4,000 people who were homeless in Portland. At the time, it was announced that number was a 17% decrease from the last time they counted. We don’t have an updated number of homeless in Portland, but it’s clear there has been a huge spike here. It’s so bad, the city declared a homeless emergency. This