High powered business associations held press conferences demanding the city remove homeless people and touted self funded survey saying that without action, businesses and residents would flee the city by late spring 2021. The city committed to a new strategy that then Mayor Ted Wheeler said would, quote, reprioritize public health and safety among homeless Portlanders, ultimately allocating $1.3 billion by the end of 2024. Now let's see what the results were. Although the city spent roughly $200,000 per homeless resident, now let's stop and think 200 grand per homeless resident. You could house them and feed them. (26:58–27:14)
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States that Portland committed $1.3 billion to a strategy for homeless public health and safety by 2024.
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