Amy Harris of Clark County Matters encourages community members to take action to prevent Portland’s homeless crisis from spreading into Vancouver
Amy Harris
Clark County Matters
Long ago Portland politicians “lost the plot” on what actually made Portland quirky and cool. It isn’t 6,000 people living on the streets, hundreds dying each year from drug overdoses and neighborhoods and businesses ruined by crime and lawlessness.
Tent cities aren’t weird. Tent cities are inhumane and dangerous.
Recently, 64 percent of Vancouver voters told pollsters they wanted the mayor and city council to pass stronger regulations to limit homeless camps in our city. Sixty-four percent believe Portland’s homeless crisis could spread into Vancouver. Sixty-four percent just want to keep Vancouver normal.
If you take action today, Clark County Matters will send you your very own “KEEP VANCOUVER NORMAL” bumper sticker. For free. All you have to do is send an email to our mayor and City Council urging them to pass and enforce a tougher ban on public camping in our city.
TAKE ACTION:
TELL CITY OFFICIALS TO KEEP VANCOUVER NORMAL
Thank you for taking action.
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The proposed “normal” would jail Jesus…. Who was homeless. Ever heard of Henry David Thoreau? Ya the proposed normal would jail him also while taking his library of Congress level literature and throwing it in the trash… See the proposed “normal” is actually new which means not normal at all.i tire of the ridiculous diatribe based on hysteria… Does anyone even know that the year and half that the homeless day center that was open on Fourth plain and Grand actually lied to a 16% reduction in crime four the val Ogden, rosemere, Vancouver village, and Hough neighborhoods? That’s a 16% reduction in crime for over 90,000residents from a study the vpd did…. The police. Yet it was ignored and the false storyline of increased crime ran rampant and now the day center is long gone… I’ll tell you what? If a plan has pebal consequence for someone existing? Then the plan sucks.