Portland will build a tiny home in your backyard if you allow a homeless family to live there rent free for 5 years.

Breaking: baby crackhouses built by governent popping up all over Portland.

LOL. Portland is fucking insane.

If you let them live there for five years, they can claim it as their own possession. Same as if you let people use your driveway, or cut across your yard to take a shortcut to school or whatever. They own the easement eventually.

Happened here. The driveway behind the house was part of the property on the old plans, but they let the neighbors behind use it, and then it was turned over to them, along with several hundred square yards of land around it.

Gone. Those rights will supercede any contract that Portland might promise a landowner, as they are ancient.

Aren't most tiny homes built with composting toilets? I wonder how many property owners wouldn't mind have a stranger's pee and poop being dumped around their backyard. I'm pretty sure they'll build these with "normal" toilets though.

This comment, and the one about how the state won't use their own square miles of state-owned land because they're desperate to avoid giving homesteading rights . . .

All great observations.

This about says it all. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I agree! Now, when can I move in?

the "tiny house" is nothing more than a zoo cage ... only the amimals - who refuse to work, get to roam around at night and isn't it funny how they always have money for cigs and drugs

That's because it is. I don't know how many middle or upper middle class families want a tiny house with homeless people in their backyard. What could possibly go wrong?

This is about again, the Left, being unable to think out a plan and actually follow something through. No common sense.

There literally is no reason for homelessness in this country. We could build buildings with one room efficiencies for these people, with the basic sanitary needs and a place to sit, sleep, store their meager belongings and maybe have a friend over. We called them rooming houses when I was a kid, and they were a very effective answer to the needs of whole classes of people who might otherwise be homeless - elderly without family, mentally ill vets, drug addicts & alkies, the extremely poor, etc. It was a way for them to live affordably with dignity and privacy. Because so many of these people now have drug or alkie or mental illness problems, there probably needs to be a security team and maybe a couple of case workers on site, but it's definitely manageable as long as we set realistic goals.

We now have big empty malls and box stores that could be converted over to a project like this and it would be much better than the crazy - and expensive - idea of building a small house in somebody's back yard.

Another great idea!

right ... self-deception is really the most destructive form of lying ... if they are such great people, why aren't their families taking care of them ... if they are mentally ill, why doesn't the state do something for them

these people BELIEVE that they are entitled to all the things that the rest of us WORK FOR - and even when you give them a great environment - they don't appreciate it - because they didn't earn it

THEY are what FEMA camps were built for

Not in Portland.

^^ but that's just it no one wants to take care of ANYTHING they just want NEW!!! Half our problem. White people need to stop fucking running when shit gets bad and stay and fight.

Here is the basic problem we face in America when it comes to solving any kind of issue:

We don't look to solve problems. We look to MAKE MONEY OFF PROBLEMS. If we end the problem, the money STOPS. Where's the incentive? NOT EVERYTHING CAN BE MONETIZED TO MAKE A PROFIT, SOME THINGS ARE RUN AT A LOSS SO WE CAN RETAIN OUR HUMANITY.

Portland LOL.

What a farce!

Its a horrible idea. Liberalism at its finest. Trying to solve a problem while chasing your own tail. The homelessness has to deal with the character of the individuals (most of them) rather than money or no home. The mental landscape of the individual needs to change, the behavior needs to change. If it doesn't, no amount of shelter will help.

Taking into account of disability, no family etc. MOST homelessness is due to other things. Especially in Portland where most privileged pieces of shit decide they want to be homeless for the look of it, the trend of it. I lived there, I saw it first hand.

LOL.... and when you continually operate at a loss, guess what happens?

Spoken like a true idealist with absolutely no business sense whatsoever.

p.s. - I can use BOLD AND COLOR!

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It looks like you'd have a chicken coop after five years time.

They won't have to. All the tiny bathrooms will have Captagon dispensers.

This. ^^^

If you let someone live on your property for free, you are basically ceding that property over to them. BAD IDEA.

Also, with all the rights and no responsibility of ownership or tenancy, I'll give you three guesses (and you only need one) what the property will look like after six months.

It's worth repeating: This is a new level of stupid.

Not ONE Portland libtard property owner is going to go for this. Not one. I can't think of a better way to prove that libtards are the hypocrites that they are.

Most of them are.

The sweet, loving family that is just down on their luck is the minority of the homeless.

Most are drunks, drug addicts and have mental illness.

Having said that. Women and children should receive first priority. Followed by Senior Citizens and Vets. Able bodied men helped last.

If this ridiculous idea should some how transpire, the homeless are going to FLOCK to Portland.

Even more so than they already do now.

OMG. That quote you quoted is beyond stupid. The truth is that most homeless problems in big cities are CAUSED by idiotic liberal policies like rent control. Did you know that NYC has more abandoned apartments (due to rent control) than homeless people?

Liberal thinking is absolute insanity. It hurts to even read comments like that.

Lol, no shit. Cue every city in the US to give its homeless people a free bus ticket to Portland. LOL.

Liberal thinking is insane.

yeah, it is pretty bad. Up there with having Hillary as a candidate for the highest office in the world!

Not to mention, most homeless people have a mental problem, alcohol problem, or drug problem (or all three).

Good luck housing that in your backyard.


This may in fact be the stupidest idea I have ever heard of in my life. Someone please tell me it's satire.

there goes the neighborhood

Yep. I said the same thing on the previous page. PROPERTY LAW 101.

Listen up, you stupid libtards, the idiots who come up with these ideas will literally have your property rights destroyed.

The stupid burns.

Will Portland also come around and pick up needlesome out of the yard?

LOL...a wood shed with sheetrock. Then the libs will have dirtbags camping out on their couches, growing weed in their yard, bringing in pitbulls, playing loud rap music, stealing, etc. This is epic! Only a stupid lib would fall for something like this. This might even convert them into conservatives!