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The homelessness issue in the West is quite complicated. Homeless camps have been tolerated in western liberal cities in a way that people from the rest of the country would find rather jarring if you haven’t seen it. Unlike, say, Boston or Philadelphia or Atlanta, the homeless are just everywhere in Portland and Eugene and […]

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On August 5, 2020

Republicans wanting to use the COVID crisis to punish the poor for being poor is going to work out great for so many people: Kelyn Yanez used to clean homes during the day and wait tables at night in

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Today in NIMBYism

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On May 28, 2019
With Trump still talking about dumping undocumented immigrants on left-leaning voting districts as a classic example of the central Republican governing doctrine of fuck liberals, I am awaiting two responses. The first is that people in San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Miami, New York, etc., will talk a big game about welcoming these people to their […]
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With two relatively small caveats, this Monica Potts profile of the homeless of the Silicon Valley is outstanding. A majority of the homeless population in Palo Alto—93 percent—ends up sleeping outside or in their cars. In part, that’s because Palo Alto, a technology boomtown that boasts a per capita income well over twice the average […]
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