while this sounds suspiciously like electioneering games, as County Chair Kafoury and Mayoral contender Sarah Ianarrone commented, on the other hand I think the situation does quite need a more "hones

To: PDX Shelter Forum, Bcc: LaQuida Landford. thanks Sean for sharing that support letter for AfroVillage, I signed. Also thanks LaQuida for leading this. There is more information about AfroVillage g

the Discussion Draft of this Portland regulation reform package was released yesterday, see announcement email below from the Bureau of Planning & Sustainability. The final version of this, to be appr

The "Lessons from Seattle" forum yesterday went excellently, with about 75 participants, really sharp insights from Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI)'s Andrew Constantino & Bradford Gerber, and good

thanks to Brian Hoop, Executive Director of Housing Oregon (statewide association for affordable housing field, https://housingoregon.org) for extending this offer to PDX Shelter Forum members. Please

To: PDX Shelter Forum pdxshelterforum.org Bcc: Marisa Kendall, Bay Area News Group, Lucas Hillier, City of Portland Homelessness/Urban Camping Impact Reduction Program (HUCIRP) Amid high controversy a

please join today for a 2nd information session, 6-7:30pm via Zoom regarding City of Portland's Shelter to Housing Continuum project, Discussion Draft. This policy reform project will crucially affect

Letter and easy co-sign form: http://s2hc-letter.pdxshelterforum.org/. Bureau of Planning staff are still accepting today (they told us) emailed input on the crucial Shelter to Housing Continuum (S2HC

> what is deadline for this co-sign form please? I'd say, 5pm, then Sean & I can amend the PDF letter with any new signatories and send it in. That's best but that said, if you absolutely couldn't get

Hi Keith, great point. Seems like the city should generally not be prohibiting shelters in places where they're currently operating them! (though prohibiting current uses is, sadly, what zoning has of

today at 2pm is the continuation session for last week's important City Council hearing on Fall Supplemental Budget (aka "Fall bump"). Notes on this are below in A), plus see below B) a call from Stre

At the houseless camp in Laurelhurst Park, reportedly a cleanup and "site removal" is planned for tomorrow (Tuesday) starting as early as 5am. (background: August 11th on KATU, and emails included in

today at 5pm is the 2nd hearing for Shelter to Housing Continuum (S2HC) project, at Portland Planning & Sustainability Commission. You're invited to watch, and also, add your comments & suggestions to

I would differ from Sean's proposal, in the joint letter draft as it stands, to defer passing Shelter to Housing Continuum (S2HC) program from the current April goal. Also generally I favor taking any

CONTENTS 1. Success! Our S2HC testimony submitted, thanks all around. 2. A note on Open Space and Public Land debates. 3. PARKING -> DWELLING -> HOUSING continuum 4. Allow shelters in multi-dwelling R

To: PDX Shelter Forum Bcc: Nigel Jaquiss (reporter, WW), Marc Jolin, JOHS Denis Theriault, Communications, JOHS / AHFE [inviting comment or to join forum if they wish. You can reply/post even if not a

You are invited to join and possibly testify at today's every-other-month Wednesdays 3-5pm public meeting of the Coordinating Board of A Home For Everyone. This is the wider committee, advising the Ex

The Planning and Sustainability Commission had a meeting today on which main item was a Work Session (no public comment) on Shelter to Housing Continuum. Basically, they and the city staff are honing

today 3-5om is the monthly, open meeting of the Safety Off the Streets Workgroup, a subcommittee of the Coordinating Board of A Home For Everyone: meet.google.com/svq-vkja-ykr. SOS Workground is the s

We look forward to seeing many of you at the PDX Shelter Forum 3 tomorrow Weds 10am-12pm, with special guests from SquareOne Villages in Eugene. There are still some tickets left, to join the Zoom mee