At several points, the wording also appears to suggest that being homeless is in itself a criminal act. There may well be a big problem, but this active seems quite callously written.

It's written by an Ayn Randian conservative think tank, so I wouldn't be that surprised by the tone.

They sell all those Rand books in Portland, at Powell's. Every one of them. It's no wonder that Portland is a hotbed for libertarian thought and free market propaganda. It's awful. Don't move there.

What you did in this thread is vandalism in its own right. Trying to defend one community by dropping crap in another doesn't seem very civil. Neither is the ingroup/outgroup subtext that seems to me to underly this sort of posting.

Edit: since you've done this before on HN, I've banned this account for trolling. If you don't want to be banned on HN, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the site rules in the future.

It is important to consider the lives of the homeless, but if mass homelessness is causing societal disruption to the point that economic development stops and causes bright flight and capital flight, wouldn't that just amplify homelessness in the long run?