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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by CydeWeys on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @10:40AM (#38613581)
> Portland is the only city in the country that is taking as aggressive an approach towards decriminalizing and formalizing encampments

Who the hell wants "formalized encampments"?! We going to turn our cities into third-world-style shanty towns now like you can find on the outskirts of Nairobi?

If you really want to destroy a city, I can't think of a better way to do it than going down this path.

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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use by lmm on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @12:31AM (#38623082)
> Who the hell wants "formalized encampments"?! We going to turn our cities into third-world-style shanty towns now like you can find on the outskirts of Nairobi?

I mean, it sounds like what you have now is worse. If your city is going to have an underclass either way, a formal shanty town seems less bad than a homeless encampment.

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