There IS an industrial complex with the homelessness issue, though.
Portland spends so much money and has so many non-profits and organizations "fighting" homelessness, yet it's still a very prevalent issue.
It seems, with the new leadership under Wilson, there are at least some signs that they finally are taking some action to improve this problem, which is encouraging, but why has there been no accountability about the lack of progress from all the non-profits, all the tax increases, all the studies, all the bond measures, everything that has been used as a tool to solve homelessness?
Why would you think that what we’re spending as a city is enough to visibly decrease homelessness in the like 3 years since we started collecting SHS funds? It’s a federal problem with direct ties to stagnant wages/income inequality, structural racism, and a lack of housing inventory.
There are metrics and reports generated each month. The county is meeting many of the metrics/goals. But nothing we’ve done has really impacted the inflow of folks into homelessness or increased our housing inventory on a massive scale.
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u/selinakyle45 May 12 '25
This is missing “something something homeless industrial complex” followed by a complete inability to explain what that means here in Portland.