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April 21, 2021 The Skanner Portland & Seattle Page 11 Bids & Classified To place your ad, email advertising@theskanner.com or go to www.TheSkanner.com and click on the “Ads” menu. Housing cont’d from pg 3 Northwest Pilot Project, told The Skanner. Espinoza’s organiza- tion connects low-in- come seniors in Mult- nomah County with housing. She said the Northwest Pilot Project supported HB 2100 in solidarity with cultural- ly specific organizations outside of Multnomah County, specifically those facing significant barriers to serving rural populations. “Just looking at it in aggregate, looking at the way White suprem- acy is so embedded in so many of our structures and systems -- especial- ly around housing, and especially around pro- grams being delivered to communities that have been marginalized or left out -- we just don’t think (the CAA-dominant sys- tem) is good enough,” Espinoza said. She de- scribed the NWPP as “more a White-dominant cultural organization” that delivers some ser- vices that are culturally responsive, but not cul- turally specific. She added, “As social service organizations, we envision ourselves as fully about what’s right, and fully about the com- munity, and fully about social justice, but the reality is that there are pieces that are deeply embedded in how we do things that we need to take a hard look at. “We need to look at how our systems that are designed to help people can also be harmful.” Holland voiced a simi- lar observation. “The most basic princi- ple is, if you’re from the community you’ll prob- ably know how to serve it better than your coun- Camp terparts,” she said. “Par- ticularly in the houseless system, it is not uncom- mon for us to hear sto- ries of people who have dealt with microaggres- sions or barriers to how services are provided, or trust issues,” she said. “And being from a culturally specific com- munity, or culturally responsive agency that’s built enough trust to be in a community, them being able to provide ser- vices without so much red tape, and without so much time passing by, is helpful. The very pur- “ I would say that from many service provid- ers, we’ve heard ‘We wish you would’ve done this earlier pose of the funds -- emer- gency housing assistance -- by its nature it’s meant to go out quickly. It’s meant to be a safety net.” An Issue of Timing Should HB 2100 pass, it would not go into effect until the next fiscal year begins on July 1, 2022. Still, it would provide a comparable fast-track for organizations who currently have to navi- gate unfamiliar and pro- tracted timelines with CAAs. “I would say that from many service provid- ers, we’ve heard ‘We wish you would’ve done this earlier. We wish it wouldn’t have taken the state so long to stand up and to actually be bold in policy,’” Andrea Bell, director of housing stabi- lization at OHCS, told The Skanner. “We are proud that we have this piece of policy, and we also are under no illusion that the state could have and probably should have done more a while ago.” Bell added, “One of the many things we learned through this process is to not make assumption around who or who does not have capacity. Cer- tainly at the state, that’s not our job to deem and determine and fill gaps with things that we may not know. And what we heard through this pro- cess was, some folks feeling like culturally specific agencies maybe wouldn’t be competitive, or maybe don’t have ca- pacity to do that. Our position is, well, wheth- er they do or do not have capacity, they are the ones to answer that. But if there’s no funding available, how would they have capacity? How would they be able to grow capacity without access to these funds? It sort of fundamentally brings up a larger ques- tion: what is the value to our system by statutori- ly excluding who can re- ceive the funds?” lack of resources avail- able, she explained. “Over the last now over a year, we have received hundreds of millions of dollars in COVID emer- gency response dollars,” Bell said. “We received dollars that by far triple what we normally re- ceive in a two-year allo- cation, typically.” Bell welcomed HB 2100 as an opportunity for the state to examine its fund- ing structures and to make some key reforms. “It creates perfor- mance expectations, it creates expectations around culturally re- sponsive and culturally specific service provid- ers. It actually has defini- tions around ‘culturally specific’ and ‘culturally responsive,’” she said. Espinoza, too, wel- comed the metrics the bill would codify. “The bill says to these regions, ‘What are you doing to end homeless- ness? What are you do- ing specifically to make year-over-year differ- ences in the racial dis- parities that we see in Gaining Traction Supporters of HB 2100 described the cur- rent moment as one of “concurrent crises” -- a long-established home- lessness crisis paired with a public health cri- sis and the ensuing eco- nomic fallout. “We’re talking about a trifecta here, and in the midst of looking at this data and what it’s telling us is that from a policy perspective, from an im- plementation perspec- tive, it’s not okay, it is not enough, it’s not sufficient to simply rely on the tools of yesterday to help us to ascend to a new place to- day,” Bell said. And there is hardly a REACH CDC is pleased to announce that our newly constructed Re- naissance Commons in North Portland is open. The waitlist for Renais- sance Commons will open on Thursday, April 22, 2021 for anyone who wishes to apply. The building has studio, one-bedroom, two-bed- room and three-bed- room units. The units are restricted for households with income at or below 60% of the Area Median Income. Rents start at $910 per month. Please visit http://reachproper- ties.org/wait-list/ for more information. RENAISSANCE COMMONS WAITLIST OPEN 4-21-21 Hillier said in written testimony that currently the program gives a 48- hour notice. “We have found that to be a good balance to pro- vide individuals enough advance notice while at the same time still al- lowing us to be response when necessary,” Hillier said. Hillier along with Re- publican Rep. Kim Wal- lan raised concerns that the extended 72-hour notice could create chal- lenges in intervening earlier in “severe” cir- cumstances. Under the proposed bill, a 72-hour notice would not be required when there are illegal activities at the site, pos- sible contamination by hazardous materials or when there is immediate danger to human life or safety. Hillier said in addition, holding property for an additional two months may not be feasible. “In the overwhelming majority of instances, people collect their be- longings within days of the cleanup,” Hillier said. “The City would need to triple the capacity of our current 5,500 (square foot) storage facility at a significant cost.” housing access?’ We just don’t think that’s going to be possible to do under the current structure that we’re in,” she told The Skanner. The state House Com- mittee on Housing last week recommended passing the bill with amendments and re- ferred the bill to the Joint Ways and Means Com- mittee. “It feels inevitable,” Holland said. “I would be very surprised if it dies.” OFFICE MANAGER/ BILLING SPECIALIST Office Manager/Bill- ing Specialist: Click the link to apply now! h t t p s : / / w w w. i n d e e d . com/cmp/Nw-Anx - iety-Institute,-LLC/ jobs?jk=c932ee30f7b- c8988&start=0 4-21-21 SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER Oregon Community Foundation is hiring a Senior Re- search Officer, who will work as part of a collaborative, innovative and dynamic team directing, conducting and disseminating research and analysis of Oregon’s press- ing issues and evaluation of OCF’s own programs and initiatives to inform OCF’s priorities, activities and oper- ations. For more info and to apply: https:/oregoncf.org/ about/careers. Closing date: 5/11/2021. 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