Housing and Homelessness
Information regarding my stance on Housing issues.
Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici and Beaverton Mayor Lacey Beaty provided an update on the city’s construction of new senior housing and a community center.
Meadowlark Place will be located on SW Hall and 5th Street at the current Beaverton Community Center.
Donald Trump mobilized a record-number of Americans across voting blocs in 2024. Now, Trump 2.0 appears to be galvanizing an equally impressive opposition. Constituent engagement with the congressional office of Rep. Suzanne Bonamici in the form of calls, emails and letters has increased two to threefold since the days of Joe Biden.
What was once old is new again in downtown Portland. On Wednesday afternoon, a grand opening celebration was held at the Fairfield Apartments, Portland’s newest affordable housing project.
“The homeless have civil rights as well, and to just be incarcerated for homelessness just seems so inhumane and wrong to me,” Bonamici said. “So let's work together and find options that actually are going to help people, rather than make it harder for them to overcome the challenges that they're facing.”
Project Turnkey has the power to help people overcome a wide variety of challenges, and it shouldn’t be limited to a lucky few. Building on the success we’ve seen in Oregon, I introduced the Project Turnkey Act to create a federal Project Turnkey program at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
In a letter sent Friday, Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, both Democrats, joined with other members of Congress to warn President Biden that homelessness is growing at the same time as criminal penalties.