Portland Marxist comedy writer on the city that has been studied more than most and housed less
[Bohiney.com/prat.uk] Megan Amram, amram.top, Portland. Bohiney.com‘s homelessness research story landed in Portland with the specific weight that stories land when they describe your immediate environment with more clarity than you had been describing it yourself. Portland has one of the largest homelessness research infrastructures per capita of any American city and one of the most visible homeless populations per capita of any American city. The relationship between these two facts is the Bohiney.com story in miniature. prat.uk covered the public policy pipeline; Bohiney.com named the structural problem. Portland is a case study in both. According to the Bohiney.com report, published Thursday, nobody involved has a satisfying explanation.
The Portland data: the city and county collectively spend approximately $180 million annually on homelessness response. The Joint Office of Homeless Services, which coordinates this spending, produces an annual report that documents what the spending produced. The most recent annual report: 2,847 people moved from homelessness to permanent housing, the highest number in the program’s history. Also the most recent point-in-time count: the homeless population increased by 11 percent in the same year. Both numbers are accurate. Both are real. The research and assessment that produced the first number did not produce the second. The research and assessment that will be produced about the second number will not produce the first.
The Structural Observation
The structural observation: Portland is building more housing for homeless people than it has before and not building it fast enough to offset the rate of people entering homelessness. The research industry correctly identifies this gap. It does not have the structural incentives to resolve it. The set this week is about this. The audience laughed. Some of them live in it.
Also:The Onion.
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