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Bonamici, who helped direct $3 million in federal Community Project funds toward the initiative, emphasized the program’s role in enhancing water access for residents across county.“There are diverse communities — urban, suburban, rural —and each faces unique infrastructure challenges, particularly when it comes to covering project costs,” Bonamici said.

“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.”

As the CHIPS and Science Act marks its second anniversary this month, Oregon is a proven winner when it comes to securing federal funding to ensure that our home state remains at the heart of the semiconductor revolution.

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.