{"id":1959562,"date":"2023-06-28T16:54:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-residents-flee-city-citing-crime-and-homelessness\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T16:55:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T20:55:55","slug":"portland-residents-flee-city-citing-crime-and-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-residents-flee-city-citing-crime-and-homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland residents leave city due to crime and homelessness."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fportland-residents-flee-city-citing-crime-and-homelessness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1959562&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Portland Residents Flee City, Citing Crime and Homelessness\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/vivek-ramaswamy-tells-voter-hes-open-to-ending-foreign-aid-to-israel-says-it-was-misunderstanding\" data-post-url id=\"print-1759818\">\n<div>\n<figure>\n      <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Portland Residents Flee City, Citing Crime and Homelessness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Portland residents are leaving the Oregon city at record rates, driven out by rising homelessness and rampant crime, according to a <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/portland-ore-is-losing-residents-weary-of-crime-and-high-housing-prices-7b57eec3\">report<\/a> published Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After the city&#8217;s population rose 23 percent in the two decades before the pandemic, Portland lost almost 3 percent of its population between 2020 and 2022, according to U.S. Census data.<\/p>\n<p>In one alarming anecdote in the <em>Journal<\/em>&#8216;s report, a 50-year-old woman recalled being chased by a homeless man while on a jog through a wealthy neighborhood. She and her husband moved out of the city in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It never felt unsafe before,&#8221; Derek Lamprecht, the woman\u2019s husband, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/portland-ore-is-losing-residents-weary-of-crime-and-high-housing-prices-7b57eec3\">told<\/a> the <em>Journal<\/em>. &#8220;The character of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-passes-bill-for-more-safe-drug-use-sites-after-san-franciscos-failed\/\" title=\"California Passes Bill For More \u2018Safe\u2019 Drug Use Sites After San Francisco\u2019s Failed\">city changed<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mass exodus comes as Portland faces public drug use, rampant crime, and out-of-control homelessness. The Oregon city saw a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/oregons-biggest-city-struggles-to-cut-homicide-rate-11661176800?mod=article_inline\">record number<\/a> of homicides in 2021 as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/okla-gov-kevin-stitt-outlines-plan-to-combat-inflation\/\" title=\"Okla. Gov. Kevin Stitt outlines plan to combat inflation\">law enforcement receives<\/a> little support from the city government. The <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/in-crime-ridden-portland-weed-industry-gets-twice-as-much-funding-as-new-cops\/\">reported<\/a> earlier this month that Mayor Ted Wheeler (D.) allocated more than $10 million to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-residents-flee-city-citing-crime-and-homelessness\/\" title=\"Portland residents leave city due to crime and homelessness.\">marijuana-related initiatives<\/a> in the upcoming year in his proposed budget, nearly double the amount requested to hire new police officers.<\/p>\n<p>The state passed a ballot measure in 2020 to decriminalize the use of hard drugs, the <em>Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/portland-ore-is-losing-residents-weary-of-crime-and-high-housing-prices-7b57eec3\">report<\/a> notes, which has led to increased public use. Fentanyl-related fatalities have spiked 210 percent since 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/portland\/2023\/05\/30\/fentanyl-overdoses-rise-portland-oregon\">according<\/a> to state authorities.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The city recently <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/portland-rolls-back-sidewalk-camping-ban-it-didnt-enforce-anyway\/\">rolled back<\/a> a 24-hour camping ban on city property though it was unenforced. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/idaho-churchgoers-sue-police-city-government-after-being-arrested-for-not-wearing-masks-outside\/\" title=\"Idaho Churchgoers Sue Police, City Government After Being Arrested For Not Wearing Masks Outside\">city council changed<\/a> the ordinance to an 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. rule in order to comply with a state law that required &#8220;objectively reasonable&#8221; public property guidelines but has branded the rollback as a crackdown on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/from-vermont-ben-jerrys-screams-against-texas-bill-targeting-homeless\/\" title=\"From Vermont, Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s Screams Against Texas Bill Targeting Homeless\">public camping<\/a> that blocks sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p>Other Democrat-run cities across the United States are also experiencing sharp drops in population. Between 2020 and 2022, San Francisco lost 7.5 percent of its population and New York City lost more than 5 percent, according to Census data.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland residents are fleeing the city due to surging homelessness and widespread crime, leading to a record exodus. The city&#8217;s population grew by 23% before the pandemic, but between 2020 and 2022, it experienced a decline of nearly 3%, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2083,"featured_media":1959563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}