All Twelve Portland City Councilors Support Allowing Illegal Camping On Public Property

Voters Were Promised ACTION On REMOVING ILLEGAL HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS Not Endless Unproductive Arguments

Mayor Wilson to County Leaders on Homelessness: “We Do an Awful Lot of Talking"

Mayor Wilson appears to be getting frustrated in discussions with Multnomah County.

https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2025/07/27/mayor-wilson-to-county-leaders-on-homelessness-we-do-an-awful-lot-of-talking/

Wilson seemed to take issue with the vagueness and repetition of the discussion around outcomes. [No surprise here. It is very difficult for a group to move toward a common destination if everyone in that group has a different idea about its location and how to get there.]

Posted Comment

Upstream preventive measures-first OR shelter-first OR a housing-first policy? It depends.

The VOTERS in Portland and throughout Oregon have made it very clear what THEIR priorities are:

#1 Get all those illegally camping on public property removed from those properties.

The Portland City Council, which is now in control of Homeless policy, has chosen to deliberately ignore this citizen mandate. All twelve Portland City Councilors support allowing illegal camping on public property.

Unless and until that policy changes arguments among Portland, Multnomah County and Metro leaders about spending and resource allocations are pointless.

Richard Ellmyer

Portland resident since 1975.

Oregon Voter since 1971. NAV, Non Affiliated Voter. Citizen Activist.

Campaign manager and legislative assistant to state senator Bill McCoy 1980-1981.

Campaign manager and senior staff to Multnomah county commissioner Gladys McCoy 1981-1984.

Celebrate North Portland award 2016 for Volunteer Work and Service with Political and Social Issues Impacting North Portland.

Certified Oregon Change Agent by Governor John Kitzhaber 2011.

PSU Senior Adult Learner, Spring 2021 - Public Participation GiS, 500 level class

PSU Senior Adult Learner, Spring 2024 - Planning and Housing Markets, 500 level class

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GIS for Activism conference, May 23, 2022, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

Richard Ellmyer - How I, A Citizen Activist, Used GIS To Effectively Tell A Necessary Yet Unavailable Truth About Public Housing

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LET KNOWLEDGE SERVE THE CITY [Section] “Richard used a course he audited at PSU to create a citizen activist mapping tool to benefit Oregon residents, stakeholders, and policy makers…His interest in mapping as a tool for change began when he noticed that public housing was not being distributed equitably”

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