"The esteemed Mayor decided to try to make a pitch for public love by getting all the homeless kids into foster homes, or prisons, whatever let it look like he cared. There's not enough to put me in a prison, and I'm not 'foster home material.'"

Translation: she got ripped out of the life she loved so someone could pretend he cared about kids to get reelected. She's not young enough, safe enough, or human enough to be given a real home she could just run away from in a few weeks when the Mayor doesn't need to pretend anymore.

Oh, right, information is useful. "You?"