Portland is trashed. What is the solution to clean it up?

So bizzare, a city so concerned about the environment, pretty much just starts throwing trash everywhere.

I also do not believe that trash and homelessness is caused by COVID-19. This problem was here before COVID-19

The people of Portland are so proud of their city that they re-elected the same mayor. You can’t fix it.

I grew up in PDX and moved away about 11 years ago. I am saddened and shocked to see my once beloved city in shambles. The government is completely to blame and they need to take responsibility for it. I am seeing the same thing up here in Seattle. Sad.

Portland has been mismanaged for years. The city started to go downhill before COVID, the pandemic just sped things up.

The mayor does a GREAT JOB of describing the problem but a HORRIBLE JOB of doing something about it.

I live in Troutdale, just east of Portland, and I never go into Portland anymore. If we want our city back it must start from the top down. I put most of the blame on the mayor and the city council. I mean the whole city council. We need leaders who have the courage to do what needs to be done. If we keep listening to the cry babies, Portland will end up making old Detroit look like Santa’s Village. It breaks my heart to see that beautiful city dying and the so called leaders just stand there ringing their hands.

Portland and Oregon as a whole is getting what they voted for. I guess it takes some hard lessons in reality to figure it out.

Being homeless is one thing. Being a slob is another.

How about those who make the trash, clean up the trash. I know, holding people responsible for their actions, is not a Portland thing.

The solution is: Enforce the laws on the books!

Time to take every single convicted criminal out in chain-gangs and clean it all up for no charge!!!

Worrying about all the "feelings", Ted, is what got us here. The leadership is the problem, the leadership is the trash, the leadership needs an overhaul.

Who the hell in the right mind will move to Portland now.

I lived in the Portland metro area for 24 years and raised my family there. We loved everything about it. But I saw a real decline as the homeless situation got out of control with no viable plan to deal with it. Now the non-stop rioting has made it intolerable. When I was offered a job on the East Coast last October, I put my home on the market as fast as I could and left that city. I still have family in the area (Beaverton, Tigard, Salem) so I will return for brief visits.

May 2021. The mayor has just announced that there's "anarchists" causing trouble in town. It took ONE YEAR.

It's totally unacceptable and yet the people of Portland seem to accept it. Meanwhile a restaurant owner who hands out an unauthorized plastic straw can expect a fine from the government.

The first load of trash that needs to go is conveniently located at City Hall.

After 28 years living in the beautiful Oregon, we have moved. I see no hope in clean-up while Oregonians vote in the same politicians. We lived in Lake Oswego (20 min. from Downtown) and the attitude was "oh it won't come here". It's a cancer it will spread. This was filmed in January, it's MUCH worse now.

Give a 90 day notice in flyers, news, radio, what ever. If you don't pack up your camp it will be thrown away. In that 90 days setup either a community or shelter. After that 90 days any camps or trash is getting picked up and thrown away. Then every week keep hitting any campsite and keep tossing things away. They will get the message. Is it harsh, yeah it is. But if you got options for them then it's on them.