Katrina Walling stands amid trash from homeless camping near Beggar's Tick Wildlife Refuge in Southeast Portland. She says she's moving because she fears for her safety. (KATU Photo)

The homeless emergency has brought drugs, crime and a lot of extra garbage to areas of Southeast Portland, but it’s also chased a woman from her home.

Katrina Walling lives on the edge of the Beggar’s Tick Wildlife Refuge, which until this month had a huge illegal homeless camp.

She says she endured the drug dealing, the begging, and the trash, but when people cut the lock on her gate and kicked in her door, she felt she had to move for her safety.

“I don’t feel safe in my home at all,” she said. “I’ve called the police numerous times. I called the police, I called the mayor hotline, I called the illegal camping hotline, I called every other day and they say they’ll try to do something and it’s the same the very next day.”

She’s now living elsewhere and says she won’t be coming back until the area around her home is safer.

She says she wants to sell her home but doubts anyone would want to buy a home where beggars approach you before you’re even out of your car.