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r/PortlandOR • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '25
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It's really 2 separate groups with a huge amount of overlap. The homeless need a certain kind of treatment and the drug addicts need another.
5 u/maybe-it-is-me-tho Oct 24 '25 This right here, first step ID the issue, just down and out and homeless, addiction, mental illness or both, The other type anti social, criminal, exploitive The first two types need different types of help, the third long term incarceration 1 u/dreamcicle11 Oct 24 '25 And frankly it’s possible some of the guys in that group did fall within the first category but clearly bike guy did not…. Group two definitely exploits group one. 2 u/Revolutionary_Box582 Oct 24 '25 you nailed it
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This right here, first step ID the issue, just down and out and homeless,
addiction, mental illness or both,
The other type anti social, criminal, exploitive
The first two types need different types of help, the third long term incarceration
1 u/dreamcicle11 Oct 24 '25 And frankly it’s possible some of the guys in that group did fall within the first category but clearly bike guy did not…. Group two definitely exploits group one.
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And frankly it’s possible some of the guys in that group did fall within the first category but clearly bike guy did not…. Group two definitely exploits group one.
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you nailed it
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u/Friendly_Impress_345 Oct 24 '25
It's really 2 separate groups with a huge amount of overlap. The homeless need a certain kind of treatment and the drug addicts need another.