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“When I saw Project Turnkey in Oregon, visited some of the sites, I thought this is a great idea. It’s turning around lives. Let’s scale it up and make it a national program,” said Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.).
Last month, Bonamici introduced a bill to give the Department of Housing and Urban Development a billion dollars a year to oversee the program. The legislation would also provide rental and homeownership assistance for those in need.
“When we invest in the creative economy, we see the whole community change,” Bonamici said in a call last week. “My office is in Beaverton at The Round and when the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts opened, it was incredible what that did. Now there are restaurants and gathering spaces and people coming together.”
“We heard the stories from homeowners about what it means to be able to get into a home, to have that home ownership opportunity," Bonamici said at the event. "It’s just wonderful to be able to be at the early stages of the process to get it up and going.”
Bonamici called out what she called the hypocrisy of Republicans who she said wouldn't denounce a video posted on former President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform that had Nazi language. The post was taken down the next day and the Trump campaign claimed it is not a campaign video but rather a random online video reposted by a staffer who did not see the phrase.
WASHINGTON, DC [05/15/24] – Local and national advocates for affordable housing are praising Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici’s Project Turnkey Act.