Oregon woman says homeless man threatened to burn down her house after she asked him to move store
Police have refused to move a homeless man living in a tent out of a woman’s home in Portland, Oregon, after he allegedly threatened to burn down her home.
Vivica Elliot approached the man to express concern about how close his store was to her house, at which point he allegedly said “I’m going to burn your house down” four times.
the woman said KPTV Police said they could not arrest him or force him to move his tent, which was provided to him by an Antifa group, because no crime had been committed.
According to Elliot, the tent had been provided by People’s Housing Project LLC, an organization that provides tents to the homeless and is reportedly run by various “self-proclaimed communists.”
In a statement, People’s Housing Project representatives said they are “aware that not everyone supports efforts to provide services to the homeless.”
An investigation of one exit revealed that the organization has been accused of being a “phony charity scam” and that at least one member of the group was arrested during an Antifa protest in October 2020.
Vivica Elliot of Portland, Oregon, says she was verbally attacked by a homeless man living in a tent outside her home after she confronted him about the tent’s proximity to her residence.
During the incident, Elliot told KPTV that he reached out to the man to express his concerns and that’s when he said, “I’m going to burn your house down.” He said it four times’
“I don’t know what to do,” Elliot told FOX 12. Pictured: The homeless tent near Elliot’s house.
According to research by The Post Millennial, the People’s Housing Project is run by ‘self-proclaimed communists’ Bryan Kim, Zachary Forster, Breeze Pollard and Joseph Cambroni (pictured left to right)
Video shot by the news outlet shows the orange tent just inches from Elliot’s property.
He said he noticed the big tent early Monday morning and after having had problems with nearby campsites in the past, he wanted to approach the man and tell them he was too close.
After the terrifying interaction with the man, a police officer was dispatched, but was ultimately unable to do anything.
After researching it, Elliot said he discovered that the carp came from a group called People’s Housing Project which “provides emergency shelters for members of the homeless community,” according to its website.
She said that while she means well, the group doesn’t fully recognize the extent of her actions.
‘I think you are wrong. I don’t think they really see what they’re doing to the neighborhoods and the people who live here,” Elliott said.
Elliot now said he fears for his safety and the safety of his neighbors.
‘It makes me nervous. It makes me very nervous. They have been in my garden. They drop needles in my garden. They throw garbage in my garden, ”he said.
“I don’t know what to do,” the woman told the outlet.
‘It makes me nervous. It makes me very nervous. They have been in my garden. They drop needles in my garden. They litter my yard,” Elliot told KPTV.
After researching it, Elliot said he discovered the tent came from a group called People’s Housing Project that “provides emergency shelters for homeless community members.”
In a statement, a representative for the People’s Housing Project LLC acknowledged the problem but blamed the city’s overall failure on the homelessness epidemic.
“As an organization that provides shelters and emergency services to the homeless, we are all too familiar with neighbors who are frustrated with the city’s failure to address the housing crisis,” the statement read.
“We are also aware that not everyone supports efforts to provide services to the homeless,” said a representative of the Popular Housing Project.
While the group has focused on distributing tents for many years, efforts increased during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 after Portland Street Response was told to stop distributing tents.
At the time, city commissioner René González cited several tent fires.
According to research conducted by The Post Millennial Popular Housing Project is led by Bryan Kim, Zachary Forster, Breeze Pollard, and Joseph Cambroni.
The Post Millennial claims that Forster, a self-identifying ‘communist’ on Instagram, was once arrested at an Antifa protest in 2020 where the The Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was attacked by protesters.
Another member of the group, Pollard, was once arrested in Florida on suspicion of resisting a police officer, according to the report.
Furthermore, members of the group have repeatedly posted about being ‘communists’.
“Biggest fear on the right: a Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy against whiteness and capitalism,” Kim wrote in an October 2021 Instagram post.
Kim also used the hashtags ‘cultural Marxism’ and ‘revolution’.
This is the statement that People’s Housing Project officials issued to KPTV
The group has been accused of fraudulently raising funds in the past.
In November, a homeless resident also asked Kim to stop using her photo in a cease and desist letter.
Natasha Melton, through her lawyer Kimberly Pray, argued that the People’s Housing Project is a “phony charity scam” to “exploit the homeless for profit.”
In November, a homeless resident also asked Kim to stop using her photo in a cease and desist letter.
Natasha Melton, through her lawyer Kimberly Pray, argued that the People’s Housing Project is a “phony charity scam” to “exploit the homeless for profit.”
Pray alleged that the organization “fraudulently collected at least $60,000 on behalf of homeless communities throughout the city of Portland” through donations.
The lawyer said that most of that money, about 80 percent, went to “personal and other expenses, such as T-shirts.”
At the time, People’s Housing Project LLC was not registered with the Oregon Department of Justice’s Charitable Activities Section, Pray’s letter says.