Portland’s $27 million homeless park is failing.

Portland’s first sanctioned homeless ‘park’ is less than 20 percent full a month after opening as shocking new images show drug abuse and illegal campsites continue to plague its streets. Oregon’s largest city is in the midst of a devastating humanitarian crisis, with its homeless population up almost 50 percent since 2019 to more than …

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BLUE CITY BLUES: Portland’s Multnomah County lost $1 BILLION from 2020-2021, as high earners left city amid riots, pandemic.

via thepostmillennial: According to an analysis of data from the Internal Revenue Service by The Oregonian from income tax returns filed in 2020 and 2021, Multnomah County lost a net 14,257 tax filers and their dependents, many of whom were high earners who could do jobs remotely, resulting in a net income loss of over …

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