The Coalition on Homelessness rallied against a city budget that raises fees on working-class people while neglecting the unhoused. A series of votes showed a clear majority supporting measures that attack the homeless population, including redirecting affordable housing funds and forcing people in RVs onto the streets. This budget reflects the priorities of a wealthy city, where billionaires escape hardship while essential services are cut. Homeless women face heightened risks, with increasing reports of sexual violence as encampments are dismantled, leaving many without safe shelter options.
"I've been raped more times than I've had consensual sex in the last year," said a homeless woman named Rebecca. "I've been outside in the cold and had some guy offer me shelter, and the next thing I know, I wake up, and he's rapin."
A city with more than 50 billionaires, that is among the richest cities that have ever existed in human history, has to radically cut services, raise money from fees on working people, and force the victims of all that wealth to live in even greater misery.
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