Column: Is your bank accelerating the climate crisis?

Imagine being unhoused during a recent Lane County heat wave, a freezing weather event, or when wildfires created some of the unhealthiest conditions on planet Earth in 2020.

The climate crisis will have a disproportionate impact on our most vulnerable community members: the unhoused. This recognition—climate change impacts marginalized communities much more severely than others—is often called “climate justice.”

So, who makes up the unhoused population? 

Per a National Alliance to End Homelessness article: “Most…