My family is sponsoring a refugee family and rest assured they are not being given nice homes and cars. They are barely scraping by and working as hard as they can to learn English and to work so they and their children don't become homeless after spending years in refugee camps after fleeing violence. I pay for their phone bill. My family has paid for food, driven them to medical appointments. We do need to do more to support the homeless in Portland, but it's not refugees vs. homeless. They're all people who need help.