Imagine a city that has been gentrified attacking the unhoused to the point that HALF of all arrests in that city are of unhoused people.
That is the reality here in Portland Oregon.
Our budgets are wrecked by the horrifying policy of criminalizing the unhoused. The jails are packed with nonviolent offenders who have done nothing worse than try to cope with crushing housing prices and inhumane attacks by politicians, prosecutors and fn pigs.
We have a situation where it costs more to imprison a person than connect them with affordable housing. Yet we prefer to fund police and jails over housing.
