If you haven’t visited Israel or the Gaza Strip or spent much time thinking about their geography, it can be hard to understand how compact they are and how violence in one spot can feel immediate and personal throughout the area.
Maps of the region often look like this: Israel fills the frame. To people who are used to looking at maps of the United States, there seems to be plenty of space between major cities.
The housing crisis is really bad, and a lot of those homeless people in Portland are refugees from other States. I know a trans woman who had to live out of a trailer on airBNB for a while after fleeing west