Portland’s image is being damaged by the number of homeless people in the urban core, tourism experts say.
Portland’s image is being damaged by the number of homeless people in the urban core, tourism experts say.
“It’s a huge problem. You hear, ‘Your panhandlers are very nice,’ but it’s a problem,” said Jeff Miller, president and chief operating officer of Travel Portland, a tourism promotion organization.
“New York City put them in jail and we can’t do that, but there’s a lack of infrastructure for addressing these problems,” said [Feast Portland co-founder Carrie] Welch.
Read more at The Portland Tribune.
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