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Mar 24 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
(Thread). There are vacant apartments around our city, but they are mostly inaccessible to people experiencing homelessness. We can change that. streetroots.org/news/2022/03/1… #3000Challenge
There are two buildings on SE Gladstone that include a juice bar, a hair salon, a bakery — and apartments where people who exited homelessness live. It’s called Jolene’s First Cousin. streetroots.org/news/2022/03/1…
When Kevin Cavenaugh dreamed up this project, he expected neighborhood pushback. Instead: “these are going to be our neighbors and we’ll likely know their names.” streetroots.org/news/2022/03/1…
Here’s a key ingredient: @pdxjoin takes a master lease. That way, they piece together rent assistance w/ other services to help people stitch together life after homelessness. The Metro Housing Services measure supports hosing people in this way. @HereTogetherOR
Whether through master leases or “scattered site” rentals, nonprofits like @pdxjoin, @ULPDX & @NWPilotProject can work with landlords. Do you own empty units & are interested? https://3000challengepdx
“They’re not homeless when they are housed.” That’s what a Creston-Kenilworth neighbor told Kevin Cavenaugh of people moving into Jolene’s First Cousin. Housing solves homelessness. People deserve support to succeed. streetroots.org/news/2022/03/1…
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Feb 17
🧵Okay. @SamAdamsPDX proposed mass shelters for 3000 people. Putting aside what's alarming (national guard, warehousing): he’s thinking big — but not big enough. Transform that into something positive: create/open up good livable spaces for 3000 people w/out criminalizing them.
How about we as a community take up the challenge of finding livable spaces for 3000 people more quickly than – but alongside –the slow build of affordable housing. A lot of housing, even deemed affordable, still is focused on middle incomes (that’s how unaffordable our city is)
How would we do it? Project Turkey on a statewide level turned 19 motels into livable spaces — shelters, transition housing, apartments) within about six months thanks to the able-steering of the @TheOregonCF. Could we have a *Portland Turnkey*?
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Aug 3, 2021
(thread) This is why I write / this is why I fight:
More than an hour ago, I was biking home from @StreetRoots, southward on 3rd Avenue through downtown. I saw a man lying in the middle of the street.
He was sobbing. Blue hair, bright paint smudged on his face, a children’s rainbow-keyed toy piano next to him – he was a man covered in rainbow colors.
I am so extraordinarily fortunate to work at @StreetRoots because I work among many teachers: People impart lessons that I carry in my heart. One vendor told me that when his brain “itches” he needs someone to speak to him in a soothing voice – not with a badge and a gun.
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Sep 23, 2020
Thread. I have two concerns I’d like to highlight regarding @tedwheeler's comments in this article by @EvertonBailey – (1.) public health during COVID-19; (2.) policy that might be motivated by concerns other than the wellbeing of unhoused people… oregonlive.com/portland/2020/…
First, though, in the context of the grievous inequity around housing, I'll start with the fact that housing must be a right.
Over the last several years, voters passed housing bonds at the city of Portland and @oregonmetro levels, as well as a Metro tax measure for services to support people in their housing that will kick into action next year. These are important steps.
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Sep 5, 2020
Thread | It is important for more of us to know what the C3PO camp villages in @pdx actually are — to counter the reckless lies launched in a video (I’m not going to give it any more oxygen by linking to it). I’ll do my best to lay out some of what I know:
These three camp villages were set up in April through a grassroots coalition working with the city of #pdx. As services receded like the tide in the pandemic, many unhoused people were left, standing on barren land — no libraries or day spaces & few services.
The camps addressed public health needs — the need to shelter in place, the need to access hygiene support such as sinks and toilets, the need to physically distance, the need to have safety from violence, and the need so many of us have for both autonomy and community.
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May 16, 2020
Thread. Unhoused people should be sources in stories about them — not objects of disdain.
As services recede, unhoused people have been taking care of each other. With few places for recovery, one man set up tents for his neighbors trying to stay clean. Another feeds people all along his strip of tents.
The tents look more substantial because people don’t pack up during the day, able to go to the library or drop-in shelters or coffee shops. And they are sheltering in place.
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May 8, 2020
The phone calls started coming in this week: complaints about people in tents. I felt terrified. Defying public health needs, people antsy to open up business could infect unhoused people trying to shelter in place. So I wrote my column about this. 👇
news.streetroots.org/2020/05/08/has…
🤎 If people are in their tents, please don’t push for them to be moved. They need to shelter in place. Push instead for more options, such as opening up hotels and motels or opening up shelter-in-place camp villages like C3PO elsewhere in the region. news.streetroots.org/2020/04/10/3-t…
🤎 Insist that hotel and motel rooms be opened to unhoused folks — not just folks who are symptomatic. Join the Street Roots campaign to help make this happen: news.streetroots.org/2020/04/26/sr-…
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