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A2 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2019 Should we close the southern border? “No. Because there’s no crisis, because it would adversely affect trade, and because it doesn’t represent our values as a country.” Nadine Faith, Astoria THE DAILY ASTORIAN // QUESTION OF THE WEEK “No. I don’t think so. It’s nationalis- tic, and we’re built on immigration.” Emily Geddes, Astoria “No, I don’t think so. Because we’re a coun- try entirely composed of immigrants. Humans are naturally nomadic, and we settle, but where are we all really from?” Zelda English, Astoria Portland considers helping tenants with criminal histories money to landlords. But 17 years ago, Schlappie pled guilty to serious felony charges. “Schlappie household has been denied … Criminal his- tory: manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance,” her housing caseworker, Mary Babcock, reads from the latest email denial Schlappie has received . They sit together in a small offi ce at Portland Homeless Family Solutions, A 17-year-old drug delivery where Schlappie is a client, charge has made it diffi cult and Babcock talks about for Dana Schlappie to get into Schlappie’s options for an rental housing. appeal. This application was for a two-bedroom in a new and I’d never heard that subsidized affordable apart- from him,” she said, her ment building in the Pearl voice catching. “It’s been District, owned by the non- really hard.” profi t Innovative Housing Schlappie says she’s sub- Inc. mitted eight applications Schlappie’s 17-year- for apartments to rent so old drug dealing charge far. Those applications have — delivery of metham- been denied, denied, denied, phetamine — triggers an denied, denied, denied, automatic denial in the denied and denied. screening policies used by She’s never been evicted most landlords, rental com- or damaged an apartment, panies and publicly funded and she doesn’t owe any housing. By AMELIA TEMPLETON Oregon Public Broadcasting PORTLAND — For Dana Schlappie, the worst part about having a criminal record is what it has meant for her 10-year-old son. Her family is homeless for the second time in the past few years. “Right now we’re sleep- ing at a friend’s house who’s letting him use his room. We’re sleeping in a bed. But we’ve been sleeping on the fl oor, sleeping on a couch. We sleep wherever we can,” she said. Schlappie worries that her family is a burden on the friends she’s staying with. So every few weeks, they move. That creates its own problems. She’s driving 40 minutes to get her youngest son to school in the morn- ing to try to maintain some normalcy for him. But she’s struggling to manage his moods. “Like, ‘I hate school’ one time, he said to the teacher, FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT THURSDAY FRIDAY 60 43 39 ALMANAC 57 40 Breezy with occasional rain Tillamook 42/58 Rain Salem 45/62 Newport 44/56 Full Apr 12 Coos Bay 48/59 Last Apr 19 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 7:59 a.m. 8:07 p.m. Low 1.0 ft. 0.7 ft. Ontario 42/68 Burns 37/58 ON THE RECORD Klamath Falls 37/54 Lakeview 36/50 Ashland 48/60 DUII • Around 1 a.m. on Tuesday, Justin Outten, 25, of Milwaukie, was arrested by Seaside police at the intersection of Broadway Street and Roosevelt Drive for driving under the infl uence of intoxicants, reckless driving and for driving while his license was suspended. His blood alcohol content was 0.17%. REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 61 57 58 63 55 55 63 60 56 57 Today Lo 36 39 49 45 44 37 48 43 44 47 W c c sh c sh c c sh sh sh Hi 61 58 56 61 58 54 61 59 56 60 Thu. Lo 41 39 47 47 47 36 45 47 47 47 W c c sh sh sh c sh sh sh sh City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 59 63 64 64 63 56 55 60 62 66 Today Lo 38 42 44 49 45 42 37 47 44 35 W r c sh c sh sh c c sh c Hi 63 61 65 64 62 59 57 59 62 61 Thu. Lo 41 46 48 48 48 47 44 46 48 42 W sh c c sh sh sh c sh c c MEMORIALS Saturday, April 6 DAVIES, Angela — Memorial at 11 a.m., Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, 120 Oceanway in Seaside. Recep- tion to follow. Sunday, April 7 BUCKMAN, Vicki Ann — Celebration of life from noon to 5 p.m., at Shively Hall, 1530 Shively Park Road. TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES Hi 72 63 59 57 54 53 80 30 83 60 63 77 67 73 81 74 75 64 65 66 67 57 64 59 69 Baker 36/61 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019 Tonight's Sky: Corvus is a small constellation in the southern sky, nestling to the south of Virgo. Today Lo 51 36 41 37 42 37 52 11 68 45 50 59 54 54 72 50 62 41 54 40 50 43 52 42 44 La Grande 38/59 Roseburg 49/64 Brookings 49/56 Apr 26 John Day 41/59 Bend 39/58 Medford 48/61 UNDER THE SKY High 8.2 ft. 8.0 ft. Prineville 40/61 Lebanon 46/58 Eugene 45/61 Sunset tonight ........................... 7:46 p.m. Sunrise Thursday ........................ 6:50 a.m. Moonrise today ........................... 6:40 a.m. Moonset today ........................... 6:13 p.m. First Pendleton 42/61 The Dalles 42/64 Portland 44/65 SUN AND MOON City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC 55 46 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 39/60 Precipitation Tuesday ............................................ 0.18" Month to date ................................... 0.18" Normal month to date ....................... 0.42" Year to date .................................... 15.23" Normal year to date ........................ 25.26" Time 1:50 a.m. 1:55 p.m. Breezy with periods of rain SUNDAY REGIONAL WEATHER Astoria through Tuesday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 55°/50° Normal high/low ........................... 55°/40° Record high ............................ 70° in 1942 Record low ............................. 29° in 2008 Apr 5 56 43 Cloudy with a couple of showers Mostly cloudy New SATURDAY This week, the Portland screening criteria to land- people were most likely City Council is debating an lords, so Duhamel found a to reoffend in the fi rst two years after their release, and ordinance that would change workaround. how landlords screen their “What our policy does is over time, the rates of recid- tenants. One major com- it sets up a two-track sys- ivism dropped. Deborah Imse, the exec- ponent of the proposal is it tem,” she said. makes it harder for landlords The ordinance creates utive director of Multifam- to deny a person’s rental “threshold criteria” for how ily Northwest, an industry application based on older far back landlords can con- association that represents criminal convictions. sider a person’s criminal his- apartment and rental home- It’s the latest effort to tory — seven years from owners, agrees that people reduce the stigma for people sentencing for felonies and who’ve been incarcerated who’ve been incarcerated, three years from sentencing need better access to rental housing. and it’s controversial. for misdemeanors. But she believes Euda- The proposal is from Com- Landlords could adopt missioner Chloe Eudaly, who more restrictive policies ly’s ordinance takes away was elected on a platform of that look further back. But too much discretion from advocating for tenant’s rights. if they do, the ordinance landlords, who have an obli- It would create new limits requires them to take a much gation to protect their ten- ants. She points out on how landlords can Oregon has more use a wide range of ‘IF YOU BEGIN TO MAKE than 400 different criteria that they have historically relied on to THINGS SO COMPLICAT- misdemeanors. “That includes estimate the risks asso- all kinds of sex ciated with a prospec- ED THAT SOMEBODY offense, theft, tive tenant, like a per- CAN’T BE A HOUSING arson,” she said. “I son’s income, credit that some- history and criminal PROVIDER UNLESS THEY believe body, a senior cit- background. izen, of a vulnera- Advocates argue HIRE A PROFESSIONAL ble population are that these screening TO DO IT, FOLKS ARE not going to think criteria, while appear- that somebody ing neutral, create bar- GOING TO LEAVE.’ with some of those riers to housing, in Deborah Imse, executive direc- offenses are mov- particular for low-in- tor of Multifamily Northwest ing in next door to come tenants and peo- you.” ple of color, who are Imse says the more likely to have been involved with the crim- deeper look at each individ- ordinance is so complex, inal justice system. ual applicant’s criminal his- most landlords will need to “They use those mecha- tory and consider mitigating consult an attorney if they want to use screening crite- nisms in order to fi lter peo- factors. ple out, and the people they Duhamel says there’s ria that are more restrictive end up fi ltering out are research to support the idea than the seven- and three- mostly people of color,” said that as time goes by, the risk year thresholds. She said landlords are Jamey Duhamel, Eudaly’s that a person with a criminal policy advisor. history will re-offend drops. selling their properties in In Oregon, for exam- “We feel very comfort- response to the increas- ple, African Americans are able that we’re not asking ing regulation of the rental fi ve times more likely than landlords to house anyone market. “If you begin to make white people to have spent who is dangerous, or will time in prison or in jail, present a risk to their proper- things so complicated that somebody can’t be a hous- according to The Sentenc- ties,” she said. ing Project. For example, a recent ing provider unless they hire State law prevents Port- study of people arrested on a professional to do it, folks land from dictating specifi c federal charges found that are going to leave,” she said. W s r pc c r s s s s s c pc pc s pc s s s c s pc sh pc r s Hi 74 53 45 64 54 45 79 34 84 60 61 80 66 64 81 67 75 58 71 63 59 66 63 63 67 Thu. Lo 57 32 40 42 43 37 54 18 67 50 45 57 52 58 73 56 66 38 49 42 51 50 54 48 50 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc s r pc c c s s s r c pc pc t pc sh t pc pc pc r c sh c pc Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. PUBLIC MEETINGS WEDNESDAY Gearhart City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 698 Pacifi c Way. THURSDAY Seaside Parks Advisory Committee, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway. LOTTERIES OREGON Tuesday’s Pick 4: 1 p.m.: 9-6-7-7 4 p.m.: 7-6-2-0 7 p.m.: 4-9-8-9 10 p.m.: 9-7-5-4 Tuesday’s Lucky Lines: 3-6- 11-15-18-21-27-32 Estimated jackpot: $29,000 Tuesday’s Mega Millions: 33-47-58-59-64, Mega Ball: 25 Estimated jackpot: $104 million WASHINGTON Tuesday’s Daily Game: 1-5-7 Tuesday’s Keno: 03-06-08-10- 11-17-18-20-35-36-39-42-44- 48-50-51-54-63-67-79 Tuesday’s Match 4: 05-08- 12-14 OBITUARY POLICY The Daily Astorian publishes paid obituaries. 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