"The closure is just one small part of the reduction in #homeless #services in next year’s county and City of #Portland budgets because of revenue shortfalls. The approved county #budget will also close approximately 600# shelter beds to close a $67 million spending gap. Portland is on track to cut 30% of its #homelessservices, resulting in the combined loss of around 1,000 shelter #beds."

"The St. Johns #Boosters #business #association declined to comment.

...'Since it opened, neighbors have reported increasing problems they believe are caused by some of the homeless people [living in] the area. An online petition calling for the center to be closed had collected over 300 signatures by late December'..."

--Posted June 11, 2026 in #Features
by Jim Redden

https://northpeninsulareview.com/singleton-st-johns-homeless-day-center-to-close-in-october/

The warmongers spent eight trillion dollars to drop bombs on weddings, fatten defense contractors, and provide medical care for maimed soldiers ... but building homes for the homeless and poor would be evil socialism and we can't have that. In effect what is being implied is that we can't build homes for the poor, but we should instead use that money to bomb foreign nations for so-called democracy.

The money spent on military conquest could have built 80 million houses and provided millions of good, temporary jobs in construction.

In fact the money spent on the conquests in Iraq and Afghanistan could have made a quarter of Americans home owners.

The so-called government of this country HATES the people. And it shows. They are thieving, murdering liars and thugs full of active and chronic hatred and malice toward the people. We live in another Catholic-styled dark age, where the tax collectors and creditors rob the people and use the money to sniff out heretics.

I realize it is too much to ask. I realize you will all waste your energy whining about crap that doesn't matter, like entitlement programs and imaginary racism, instead of doing the things that actually build people up, like giving them a roof over their head free of the encumbrance of debt.

The government forces a fragmentation economy on the people that forces millions to move away from their families and home towns just to find work and housing, then calls it 'socialism' to build houses for the people they have intentionally uprooted. Sick. Just sick and evil.

#homeless #housing #war #economy