Tents are replacing homes. If we want to end homelessness, then we need more homes. How many more, we got numbers for that too. voiceofsandiego.org/2022/04/14/sma… nlihc.org/gap/state/or #housepeople #endhomelessness

Be a part of the solution, join the BBPDX Challenge! Learn more from BBPDX member Dave Otte, of Holst Architecture, about how the Supportive Housing Services measure is already making progress and how we can continue to support solutions to homelessness. bbpdx.org/updates/2022/4…

Mercedes Elizalde yes, to end homelessness, we need many more homes, ASAP, not just services eg #MetroSHS measure or reallocation eg in #3000challenge. As Nicholas Kristof well argues, this must include new ways like homeshare, small lots, alternative building; I'd add co-op, village, #mobiledwellings

Business For A Better Portland • BBPDX Holst Architecture welcome, #BBPDXchallenge! It seems like we could use an open platform/fora to help track, explain, evaluate, expand upon, invite, develop these various approaches

Is People For Portland funded by the Cicero Institute? #3000Challenge, @mkaiasand what do you think? Commissioner Dan Ryan and Ted Wheeler is this The Pew Trusts report familiar? pewtrusts.org/en/research-an…

Sue Gemmell People For Portland Cicero Institute #3000Challenge @mkaiasand Commissioner Dan Ryan Ted Wheeler The Pew Trusts don't know but doubt Cicero Institute funding or even particularly informing People For Portland. I'd say pervasive & perennial practice, to restrict urban camping/dwelling if unpermitted, direct it to some areas; informally or formally. c/Judge Glock @Mayfield4MultCo Tristia Bauman

Sue Gemmell People For Portland Cicero Institute #3000Challenge @mkaiasand Commissioner Dan Ryan Ted Wheeler The Pew Trusts Judge Glock @Mayfield4MultCo Tristia Bauman we might ask inverse: when/where in US etc has urban, unpermitted public-space dwelling been allowed, or advocated, & why? In a lineage of settlement, squatting, shantytowns, political use eg 1932 #BonusArmy & 1968 #ResurrectionCity etc #tentcities. c/Kristian Hernández Eric Tars

Golden Retrievers Are My Favorite Dog Katrina Holland Rational in Portland @PdxMot the term "Nonprofit Industrial Complex" #NPIC came from #RuthWilsonGilmore, adapting Eisenhower's "Military-industrial complex"; from which "Homeless Industrial Complex" derived. c/@weheartprez (btw H.S. near-classmate). #NonProfitIndustrialComplex #HomelessIndustrialComplex

Katrina Holland fosters4future Golden Retrievers Are My Favorite Dog 3000challengepdx.org / 3000ChallengePDX is where to find the specific ideas of the #3000challenge 'official' campaign. It's definitely not where to find open discussion of them, or sharing of varied ideas/responses from many sources, an objective of open initiative #3000Challenge

@k_kaufman @mkaiasand Marc Jolin Home Forward Katrina Holland People For Portland HousingWiki Andy Miller #3000Challenge Andy Nelson Metro Portland Housing Bureau Oregon Housing and Community Services Ethan Stuckmayer Michael Andersen #masterleasing has been done for decades, has various issues/concerns to consider, vs just pitching as solution. Perhaps best-known system, in SF, I was around a lot while living there. See exposé by Trisha Thadani Joaquin Palomino below, & discussion mobile.twitter.com/search?q=sfchr…

Tim McCormick @k_kaufman @mkaiasand Marc Jolin Home Forward People For Portland HousingWiki Andy Miller #3000Challenge Andy Nelson Metro Portland Housing Bureau Oregon Housing and Community Services Ethan Stuckmayer Michael Andersen Trisha Thadani Joaquin Palomino No no, Tim. This was not housing first nor was it master leasing. The city owned these properties. Further, they were not housing units, they are hotels and some aren’t even as big as a parking space. We can’t compare SF to master leading. I read the whole article.

Katrina Holland @k_kaufman @mkaiasand Marc Jolin Home Forward People For Portland HousingWiki Andy Miller #3000Challenge Andy Nelson Metro Portland Housing Bureau Oregon Housing and Community Services Ethan Stuckmayer Michael Andersen Trisha Thadani Joaquin Palomino Much of SF's SRO-type housing is #masterlease: "generally" so among the 70-odd SROs used by city, according to article. See also National Low Income Housing Coalition report reports.nlihc.org/rental-program…. I've spent lots of time in SF Tenderloin where these mostly are, have friends in some of them. #3000challenge

Multnomah County has released their first count of the region's homeless population since 2019. The point in time count show 5,228 people experiencing homelessness on a night in January this year. That number was 4,015 in 2019.

Rebecca Ellis As one of the volunteers involved with this count I can say with 100% certainty that the numbers reported are no where close to accurate. Most people approached declined to be surveyed, and by the last day most people had still not been canvased.

Bradtheappguy Rebecca Ellis Yep. This is about half by my estimate. How do we get a better more accurate number? The tactics of PIT seem like the a way to get the smallest, least reliable number possible.

Thread: COVID economic fallout did a number! The 2022 PIT snapshot says houseless population increased by more than 1,000. Not surprised in the slightest, unfortunately. Now is the time to buckle down on evidence-based, data-driven solutions that have proven to end houselessness.

Katrina Holland it seems doubtful to me that solutions can come when key parties don't even acknowledge other key parties' goals and concerns. The mainstream homelessness sector keeps pointing to data on housedness outcomes from interventions, not aggregate results, and not other public concerns

OPB Lauren Dake for the thousandth time, does this media source mean to refer to "housing affordability" (the issue), or "affordable housing" (a product, and one possible response). Housing discussion is endlessly obfuscated & confused by this unhelpful & ambiguous terming.

want to know about PDX area homeless services tax #MetroSHS? Skip The Oregonian rookie's efforts, b/c a) paywalled, b) driven by obvious opposition & campaigning against some positions, like People For Portland; c) misrepresents as funding 'housing'; d) quotes same sources over & over

being flush with cash may work *against* results. Who needs to deliver results when you've ready been paid, and you're anyway tied up with matters like developing the new mgmt systems you say needed, and conducting extensive new hiring?