The city of Portland, Oregon, is preparing a regulation that
would potentially require all new homeowners to provide “rest
spaces” for the homeless, or the “unhoused,” as the politically
correct now refer to them. The city’s “planning and sustainability commission,”
the body responsible for writing and enforcing Portland’s building codes,
recently approved a change to building guidelines that mandates that all new
construction feature “opportunities to rest and be welcome” for those who don’t
live, work, or shop in the buildings.
According
to the Daily Wire, a member of the commission told local reporters that
the new requirement is meant to benefit the “unhoused,” who otherwise could be
kicked off of private property for loitering, sleeping, and camping, etc. The
member explained, when introducing the measure at a recent meeting, “Just one
of the realities of Portland right now is that we have a lot of folks who are
unhoused who benefit from some of these spaces that provide weather protection.”
Another
one of Portland’s current realities is that a staggering 34% of its residents
want to leave, according to a recent
survey, in large part due to the homeless crisis.
The
planning and sustainability commission reportedly considered “how private
development can provide places for people to feel welcome and safe, as well as
allow space for people to rest, especially in light of our current housing
shortage.” A housing shortage, it should be noted, that was created by the
city’s hyper-progressive social policies and ridiculously stringent
environmental regulations that drove the price of housing through the
proverbial roof. The city already refuses to enforce a prohibition on camping
and squatting in parks and on public ways and prohibits its police force from
breaking up tent cities and other encampments. The new regulation would
effectively give the home—I mean the unhoused-- the run of the city, on
both public and private land.
The
progressive’s bizarre desire to let anyone live anywhere they
want, regardless of logic, legality, income, or character, grows ever stronger.
It is not only on a macro scale now as regards illegal aliens entering the
country with impunity. Nor is it even limited to “sanctuary cities” on a much
smaller scale. Now they want it to apply
to a private business or individual’s home!
Imagine
a young newlywed couple living in an apartment:
“Honey, I’m home! Say, who’s this?”
“Oh, that’s Eduardo, dear. He’s
camping in our bathr—er, ‘rest space.’ By-the-way, he’s staying for dinner…and
would like to watch a movie later. And he says we’re out of beer.”
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