Dying Cities: Portland, Oregon
So, why is Portland, Oregon a dying city? Many theories float around the internet as to what happened, who’s to blame, and what needs to be fixed. I live in the Portland Metro Area and I spend a lot of time in Portland. I have lived here for almost 13 years and I can tell you if this ain’t a dying city I don’t know what is.
Is there hope? Can Portland turn it around? I think so. Will that happen in the next year? I doubt it. That is a hill that will take close to a decade to climb.
Today’s list is 10 things that are bringing Portland down and what needs to be fixed. A few of the things on this list sort of bleed into or overlap, but I think they are worthy of their own spot.
I am sure some of you will disagree with what is on the list, and the order they show up. I am sure you will disagree with what needs to be done. That is great, I would love to hear about it in the comment section. I’d also like to know if there is a city you’d like us to do next.
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keep trashing Portland…gotta keep the squares away….good work…..lots of whining about housing costs…if you can't make the grade here there are places elsewhere that will fit your life, you can go there…America has a very good road system.
Portland is the city that voters have chosen. Portland is exactly what the voters want. Leave Portland if you dont agree with the voters who have voted for the leaders who have transformed Portland into EXACTLY what the voters desire. This is what the voters want. They like it like this.
The number of dwellings needed this year is about equal to the 1/2 the number of births 25 years ago, plus a little for immigration. Look up Births 25 yrs ago, and housing units built in the current year. Then work it backwards a few years. You will find that EVERY SINGLE YEAR dwellings lag births by 15-30% year over year over year. Thats why rents are high. Limit Supply while Demand continues and prices rise. Simple economics. Everybody complains about growth, but I have NEVER seen a protester at a Maternity Ward.
Do Seattle next please
The violent leftist movements, protests, and riots every couple of years along with its Communist city council and mayor destroyed the city. Massive Homeless problems and Drug use is legalized so druggies and needles everywhere. Leftists wrecked Portland and there is NO other Excuse.
Portland will suck until voters decide to STOP ELECTING LEFTISTS
Portland, San Francisco, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago. All are textbook examples of LEFTIST leadership. Voters vote for what they like. Voters like Portland with rubbish, homeless, danger, high rents, traffic. This is how LEFTISTS brains think. This is what they like.
Liberalism
funny riots didn't make the list
Can you do Baltimore? Every city democrats take over turns into a shithole.
You left out drug use. Addicts come here because there are no consequences. Free services and food. The governor elect is going to implement injection sites. Homelessness is more that just job loss, economic hardship or mental illness. Enabling the addict is not help.
So you advocate rent control laws and then ask landlords to build more housing ? That will work….
Shocker that a Democratic run city like Portland has turned into a toilet (Literally) This is exactly what you get when you vote blue.
Yeah I'm from CA, LA is probably a lot worse. Be thankful
Portland is what happens when you stop holding people responsible for their own bad behavior.
City absolutely cut funding to police during COVID. That’s well documented. But, I think they have put money back into police. But, a crime rate that has increased to exponentially without commensurate increase to police budget is effectively a decrease in police budget because police have the same amount of workforce with way more crime to deal with.
"lets allow all the drugs be ok" ( crime goes fucking crazy ) It must be something else like the weather right?
When criminals and the homeless have more rights then you it's problem.
Seattle
Lived in Lake Oswego in September-November of 2020 as an evacuee of the "Holiday Farm Fire". Really went down hill from my memories of Portland any year prior to 2020. I blame the extremists running the city
PDX PD shut down a bunch of departments.
I like how the video is just avoiding the fact that it's the political left that has made things so much worse in Portland and in most major cities around the country.
Portland has AT LEAST the same amount of Homeless as New York City
You blame rent control? Try building more housing units. Why a housing shortage, try rent control. Nothing will drive housing investment away faster than that.
You raising crime rates. Yes, that will kill a city. Arrest and thru the criminals in jail! You should not arrest policemen who are doing their jobs.
Walking around downtown. Yeah right, the homeless will beat and rob you or the Social Justice Warriors will drag you out of your car and beat you up.
Ever been around people with mental health problems? Not an experience I care to repeat. They need help in a mental hospital or to get off the drugs.
Turn your city into a third world city is such a wonderful thing to experience. Anyone catch typhus or other diseases, get bite by a rat yet.
Get rid of the homeless camps, move them to a controlled area or they get out of town.
Right now Portland is a sucky place to move to.
It reminds me of Los Angeles.
I would usually say you get what you vote for. But there is no way of voting your self out of this with a corrupt voting system.
Why is the US a dying country?
Last year I was living in the st. John's area. Someone stole my car and ran me over with it irrevesablally crippling me and I had to move out. It broke my heart because Portland was my home for most of my life and now I just can't be anywhere near it and feel safe
Not that Vancouver, WA (across the Columbia) is all that fantastic, but the new Waterfront area is really nice. It's got great restaurants and wine bars and a fabulous view of the river. A lot of the folks here in Clark County that used to drive into Portland now go there instead.
Portland has not defunded police but they have de-fanged them.
Those are all just symptoms. The most basic problem is that the Woke culture that Portland adopted, as much or more than any other US city, destroys the relationship between healthy productive behavior and positive feedback and the relationship between unhealthy non-productive or destructive behavior and negative feedback.
I quit going into Portland. Been chased or attacked by one too many homeless people. It’s too bad because I use to enjoy the city. Now I just wait until I get to SLC or Vegas to do any shopping or sightseeing.
I have family in and around Portland, so I visit every now and then, and the one thing that has always stood out to me(being from a similar sized city in the south) is the lack of civic engagement and community pride. There has always been this (not my problem/ not my job) attitude. If a homeless guy sh!+s in front of a business, that business owner is irritated, but if the same homeless guy sh!+s in front of the business next door, it's there problem. If somone tags a storefront in my city, it makes the news, and if you throw trash on the ground somone might just beat you up. I don't remember where I heard this, but I think it's a good analogy. "If you get a flat on the east coast, somone might stop, and insult you for being clueless, while changing your tire. If you get a flat on the west coast, somone might stop, and say "damn, that sucks", and they will not help you change your tire."
Thanks for your insights. I moved to Portland in 2011 from Michigan because I thought that it was a great place. I never lived in the city proper, because I didn't need to. When traffic isn't bad I'm fifteen minutes away from downtown living on the edge of Troutdale. My commute to Beaverton takes less than a half hour (no traffic… ride home is double on weekdays). I drive though the center of Downtown every day I work. The pandemic made a mess of things. The protests and counter protests likewise. But even on the worst days at the peak of discontent it wasn't as bad as people who weren't here believed from the sensationalized media stories. But yeah, the vibe is different, and like you said has a feeling of being on high alert. And 100 percent the homeless situation is unsustainable. It's not as in your face as a year ago, so small steps? I wish I knew the right thing to do, because I'm from the Detroit area originally, and we don't want to be the next one.
Portland is pretty much The Division but IRL now.
Needs rent control, needs 100,000 more housing units. LOL Good luck with that. No one is going to build units that they won't make money on.