Homeless camp near Portland mobile home park causes frustrations

PORTLAND, Ore. — A homeless camp on Southeast Division Road is using over an RV cell property park. Inhabitants of the cellular home park say individuals residing in the camp have damaged into the park, robbed tenants and threatened them with weapons. 

The people explained to KGW it feels as if they are living via a nightmare and they don’t feel safe leaving their residences.

The sidewalk on Southeast 157th Avenue is included in trash, tents and broken-down automobiles.

Piles of clothes and old bikes line a chain website link fence – the only separation in between Tall Firs RV mobile household park and the camp.

“It’s everybody above below on this facet of the park that is obtaining the most significant difficulties,” mentioned Jeremy Robeson, who owns the park.

He said the homeless camp moved into the space months ago, but the challenge is having even worse. Now he has tenants who are leaving, which puts his enterprise in jeopardy.

“My skill to get new tenants in there is mainly zero since nobody wishes to reside following to almost everything that is heading on over there,” he claimed. 

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Individuals from the homeless camp are breaking in, threatening tenants with weapons and environment things on fire, according to people. 

“It’s horrendous I’ve lived right here 13 a long time, under no circumstances after has this at any time been like this,” explained Darla Sheets. “Junk everywhere, rats, no respect whatsoever— getting around the avenue.” 

She put up barricades guiding her household to stop men and women from tenting there.

Another resident named Sandra Lundy stated her house was just broken into and now she’s fearful to depart. “I’m paranoid,” she added.  

Lundy claimed people at the homeless camp are going by way of her trash and plug into her energy. She needs to transfer but can’t find the money for it.

“We acquired, we paid out for it, we’re surviving and we’re performing every thing we can to survive— we do not want them to increase to it,” she stated.

“We keep getting them in the center aisles under people’s trailers taking nearly anything from cinder blocks to lawn mowers to children’s bicycles,” extra Louis Hanset who also lives at Tall Firs.

The residents are frustrated by the lack of response from the city and police.

“The law enforcement, even when they demonstrate up they say ‘Oh well they are homeless, we can give them a ticket but we genuinely can not arrest them or do nearly anything about that,’” Robeson additional.

Tenants have seemed into placing up a 6-foot fence but panic staying attacked if they get much too close to the camp.

KGW has reached out to the metropolis, law enforcement and fire departments and are nevertheless waiting on a reaction.