Portland Considering Banning Homeless People from Being Homeless During the Day


The homeless are going to have to hibernate in the day.

They will have to hide in the dark alleys and only come out at night like that evil clown from the Spawn comic.

This will work.

Really great idea.

New York Post:

Portland officials are mulling a proposal to ban daytime homeless camps in most public spaces as the West Coast city struggles to get a handle on the ballooning number of people living on the streets.

Homeless people would need to clear their camps every morning by 8 a.m., picking up all their belongings and trash before they could settle down again at 8 p.m., according to the proposal.

The ban would extend to city parks, near schools, day cares, construction sites and some sidewalks, according to the plan brought forward by Mayor Ted Wheeler.

There are currently hundreds of unsanctioned, sometimes dangerous and often squalid homeless camps across all 146 square miles of the city of Portland,” Wheeler said at a Wednesday City Council meeting.

These homeless camps … represent nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe.”

Violators of the law, if enacted, would get two warnings. But after three violations, people could be fined up to $100 or get tossed in jail for as much as 30 days.

I mean, the obvious thing is to put these people in work camps.

I think that’s what any good leader would do – you would round them up and force them to work in a camp making furniture or boots.

I don’t think it’s possible to ban “daytime camping” under the current rules.

You would have to send cops in to beat these people. They’re not going to leave because you told them to. They’re certainly not going to pay any fines.

If you’re going to deal with the backlash of cleaning them off the street, you might as well just put them in busses and ship them to a concentration camp.