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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.
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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.”
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stolen or evidence of a
crime – would be stored
by the municipality for
90 days for the owners to
reclaim.
However, some ar-
gued that the extensions
would be challenging,
unnecessary and not fea-
sible.
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manager for the City of
Portland Homelessness
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