Homelessness crisis in Portland; Viral homelessness tweet goes viral, "Loving us to death"

Описание: If you're on Twitter, there's a good chance you've seen it. A tweet about homelessness in Portland has touched a nerve around the world, viewed nearly 8 million times and with thousands of likes and retweets.

It features a woman named Wendy who lives in a tent in Old Town. A man asks her what it's like being homeless in Portland, and she replies, "It's a piece of cake, really. I mean, that's why we've got so many out here. They feed you three meals a day. You don't have to do (expletive) but stay in your tent or party. If you smoke a lot of dope, you can do that."

KATU talked with Wendy and the man who shared that candid conversation, Kevin Dahlgren. We met them five days after he posted it to Twitter, in the same spot where he interviewed Wendy. It wasn't hard to peel back the layers of her message.

Wendy told us it had been misinterpreted as her personal experience rather than her hyperbolic observation of what's happening all around her: people are doing whatever they want, whenever they want, and no one is stopping them. Wendy said she doesn't get high all day and have fun, and of course, homelessness is hard.

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00:00 Homelessness crisis in Portland; Viral homelessness tweet goes viral, "Loving us to death"
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