An angry Portland woman criticized the city for forcing her to evict her disabled son from her trailer while crowds of vagrants are allowed to live in nearby RVs.
Virgie Williams, 72, is confronting Portland officials who said she had to move the trailer to her front yard where her older, disabled son now lives.
Williams revealed that his two sons and their two boys had lived on his property for five years, two of them crowding into the trailer and the others sneaking inside his property.
She only has 936 square feet of house on her lot on 122nd Street and, according to the 72-year-old, it’s full.
Now the city of Portland is issuing citations to Williams for violating city code regarding where the trailer is placed.
“I received a bill for $363 per month until it ran out; and they’re going to put a lien on my house,” Williams told KOIN. “My home is all I have to give to my children when I die. I’m very afraid that they will take it from me.
An angry Portland woman criticized the city for forcing her to evict her disabled son from her trailer while crowds of vagrants are allowed to live in nearby RVs.
Virgie Williams, 72, is confronting Portland officials who said she had to move the trailer to her front yard where her older, disabled son now lives.
Williams revealed that his two sons and their two boys had lived on his property for five years, two of them crowding into the trailer and the others sneaking inside his property.
According to city code, trailers cannot be on the street-facing front of the house, but they are allowed to be hidden in backyards.
Her son, who has lived in the trailer for five years, is preparing to have heart surgery in June.
Williams barely makes ends meet on Social Security and a pension, so she can’t afford the $363 monthly payments required by the city.
“It’s so stupid to pay rent on my own property,” Williams said.
She hopes that her son will be able to continue to pay the fine required of him to be able to stay in his caravan.
Just around the corner from where Williams has lived for two decades, a whole row of dilapidated RVs are permanently parked.
“I think the city should work a little harder to find a way to help the homeless and not create more of them,” Williams said.
She only has 936 square feet of house on her 122nd Street lot and, according to the 72-year-old, it’s full
Just around the corner from where Williams has lived for the past two decades, a whole row of dilapidated RVs are permanently parked.
The crowds of RVs lining Portland’s streets come amid a crippling homeless crisis that is driving residents out of the city due to an increase in crime and lawlessness.
According to a 2023 census, more than 6,000 people are living homeless on Portland’s streets.
Alongside a drastic increase in the number of homeless people (65% increase between 2015 and 2023), there has been a drastic increase in crime, drugs and theft.
Portland lost its only two Walmart stores last year, along with several Starbucks stores, REI, Buffalo Wild Wings and even an iconic Nike store.
Portland has one of the worst crime rates in America, with more than 63,000 property thefts littering the city over the last year, according to official police statistics.
In 2020, Portland became one of the first regions in America to fall under the “defund the police” movement, slashing $15 million from its budget.
The move led Mayor Wheeler to make a desperate appeal to renew funding for the department after it led to a disastrous increase in crime.
But two years later, as rampant crime continues to tear the city apart, including an increase in the number of homeless people and serious crimes such as homicides and thefts, authorities are once again trying to stop the bleeding .
Both task forces are expected to be strengthened by the introduction of new assistant prosecutors and investigators, who would be responsible for building and prosecuting cases, according to Oregon Live.
However, Portland residents have criticized authorities for a lack of effort to pursue criminals in recent years.
Weary Portlanders have had to wake up to find tents on their lawns and drug dealers on every corner as homelessness spirals out of control in Oregon’s largest city.
This follows the announcement that Oregon Democratic lawmakers want to decriminalize homeless camps with a law that would allow people living there to sue for $1,000 if they are harassed or asked to leave.
The extremely controversial bill claims that “decriminalization of rest” would allow city leaders to “redirect” money from law enforcement to measures that “address the root causes of homelessness and poverty “.
Portland saw some of the craziest riots in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death — and then again on the anniversary — and things haven’t calmed down since.
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