There's a brand new 600-room hotel and parking garage at the convention center that's sitting empty.

Key facts to know:
- $64 million from Metro + $32 million from Prosper Portland + $10 million from the State Legislature = a crap ton of the public's money
- the day it opened two months ago, our private partner took a $40+ million profit and walked away

Let's review: 600 rooms sitting empty, purchased by all of us as a gift, apparently, to developers and the Hyatt corporation, while our homeless neighbors are in parking lots, perhaps being exposed to a deadly disease.

My neighbors aren't homeless and the homeless sure aren't my fucking neighbors.