Housing and Homelessness
Information regarding my stance on Housing issues.
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.
Bonamici said she hopes the program’s success in Oregon will attract bipartisan support and ultimately offer a scalable solution for the nationwide homelessness crisis.
“Housing is the foundation to people’s success. If we want to get people back in the workforce and off the streets, they need a place,” the Democrat from Beaverton said June 6 after meeting with local advocates at the foundation offices in Portland.