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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
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39
ALMANAC
57
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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
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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
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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
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Tonight's Sky: Corvus is a small constellation in the
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Apr 26
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Bend
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Medford
48/61
UNDER THE SKY
High
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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
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Portland
44/65
SUN AND MOON
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Washington, DC
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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
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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.
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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.
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