BEING TRANS AND HOMELESS IN PORTLAND
MEANS BEING CRIMINALIZED
TWICE
ONCE FOR WHO I AM, AND ONCE FOR WHERE I SLEEP.

🚨Rapid Response is a private, for-profit company paid for by the City of Portland to sweep camps. That means destroying tents, throwing away life-saving supplies, and displacing the most vulnerable.

This isn’t cleanup. It’s state violence in a safety vest.

We need housing, not harassment.

• Houseless people deserve housing.
• Houseless people deserve safety.
• Houseless people deserve rest.
• Houseless people deserve warmth.
• Houseless people deserve love.
• Houseless people deserve joy.
• Houseless people deserve respect

Being poor is not a crime.

Being ignored is.

Portland is not in crisis because people are houseless.

Portland is in crisis because our city continues to criminalize poverty instead of solving it.