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Understanding homelessness in Portland
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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 664827" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>It's the aroma. I'm not saying that to be mean, I say that from experience. I worked 8 years at a large grocery store on W 20th & Burnside, where to the near West are the most wealthy in the city, and everywhere around is people sleeping under a bush or an overpass - entire families sometimes. You know the smell of homelessness when you encounter it. In the winter it's infused with campfire. In the summer it's just damp and sweat. It's often accompanied by a fair amount of vomit and urine and worse.</p><p></p><p>People have to live, people have to sleep, and people have to go to the bathroom. When we turn our backs on them because they're losing the battle, they do those things in our yards, parks, and in our streets. It's not pretty, it's just the "home" that we have made for them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 664827, member: 99"] It's the aroma. I'm not saying that to be mean, I say that from experience. I worked 8 years at a large grocery store on W 20th & Burnside, where to the near West are the most wealthy in the city, and everywhere around is people sleeping under a bush or an overpass - entire families sometimes. You know the smell of homelessness when you encounter it. In the winter it's infused with campfire. In the summer it's just damp and sweat. It's often accompanied by a fair amount of vomit and urine and worse. People have to live, people have to sleep, and people have to go to the bathroom. When we turn our backs on them because they're losing the battle, they do those things in our yards, parks, and in our streets. It's not pretty, it's just the "home" that we have made for them. [/QUOTE]
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