While I'm no RFKtheLesser, I think I've discovered the cause of Portland's "homeless epidemic" in even less that six months:
Poverty.
For all the insane bloviation about the Homeless Zombie Apocalypse, the bottom line remains that housing is too fucking expensive if you're poor. All the treatment, sweeps, jail time, laws, rules, regulations...nothing's going to change that until it gets cheaper to put a fucking roof over your head.
The Trumpy "solution" - concentration camps for the homeless - dumps a frothy frosting of pure MAGAt hate and viciousness on top of all the other stupidity.
But the Good People of Portland - and the folks in the City and counties ARE good people trying to help - can't change the remorseless metrics of poverty. You homeless, you po'. You po', you likely to be homeless.
The sorts of Hooverville shacks we used to have to hide the poor in the Before Times have disappeared as zoning and inspections chased them out. Those shacks are now tents, cars, RVs, and knocked-together plywood hootches.
It's really Just. That. Simple.
Can I be HHS Secretary now..?
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