“Why spend $684 million on preventing homelessness and homeless shelters without putting at least that much into infrastructure for permanent housing?”
Huh? Spending all the money on permanent housing is what the incompetent Deb Kafoury and now Jessica Vega Pedesrson (instead of the much needed emergency shelter) have been doing in Multnomah County. All that has happened is that unsheltered homelessness and its cruelty and negative impacts have increased dramatically in Multnomah County while enriching the developers of the Homeless Industrial Complex. Meanwhile the County and its nonprofit sycophants have filled the subsidized housing with active drug users and those with inadequately treated severe mental illness. Look up the Willamette Week article on the Buri Building if you want to understand the mess.
We need to offer shelter now. It’s time to get people OFF the streets, not use them as a cruel, unsanitary waiting room for an expensive pipe dream of taxpayer funded housing for all.
Thanks for sharing—you’re absolutely right that we need to focus on getting people off the streets now. Emergency shelters and transitional housing should be the top priority, not just permanent housing that’s poorly managed, like the issues at the Buri Building.
We need a balanced approach: immediate shelter, transitional options with oversight, and permanent housing only where it’s done responsibly with addiction and mental health support.
“Why spend $684 million on preventing homelessness and homeless shelters without putting at least that much into infrastructure for permanent housing?”
Huh? Spending all the money on permanent housing is what the incompetent Deb Kafoury and now Jessica Vega Pedesrson (instead of the much needed emergency shelter) have been doing in Multnomah County. All that has happened is that unsheltered homelessness and its cruelty and negative impacts have increased dramatically in Multnomah County while enriching the developers of the Homeless Industrial Complex. Meanwhile the County and its nonprofit sycophants have filled the subsidized housing with active drug users and those with inadequately treated severe mental illness. Look up the Willamette Week article on the Buri Building if you want to understand the mess.
We need to offer shelter now. It’s time to get people OFF the streets, not use them as a cruel, unsanitary waiting room for an expensive pipe dream of taxpayer funded housing for all.
https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/06/07/a-28-million-low-income-apartment-complex-descends-into-chaos-in-just-two-and-a-half-years/
Thanks for sharing—you’re absolutely right that we need to focus on getting people off the streets now. Emergency shelters and transitional housing should be the top priority, not just permanent housing that’s poorly managed, like the issues at the Buri Building.
We need a balanced approach: immediate shelter, transitional options with oversight, and permanent housing only where it’s done responsibly with addiction and mental health support.
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