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Oregon Representative Suzanne Bonamici touted affordable housing solutions in Portland on Thursday during a visit to Terminal 2 in Slab Town.

“[They can] start building these prototype houses that will be able to help fill a desperate need for affordable housing,” said Rep. Bonamici. “They are working on six right now and hopefully do more mass production. So it's very exciting to be here and actually see the homes being built."
 

Speaking at a podium, Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, City Commissioner Carmen Rubio, Prosper Portland Executive Director Kimberly Branam and labor representative Twauna Hennessee touted the diversity of the workers involved in the demolition project. Mayor Ted Wheeler was a surprise addition to roster.

More battery-powered buses are coming to the Portland area, and Beaverton is where they’re beginning.

Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., and Susan Wild, D-Penn., introduced the Supporting the Mental Health of Educators and Staff Act in the House of Representatives last week. The bill would authorize funding and establish more resources to help teachers, principals, and other school staff members with mental health challenges like stress, anxiety, and depression.

RIDDLE: Suzanne Bonamici is a Democratic congresswoman in Oregon. She recently proposed legislation that would require colleges to let students know when they qualify for SNAP. She has personal experience with the issue.

BONAMICI: When I was a community college student years ago, if I had not had - was then called food stamps, I would have been really hungry.

LGBTQ topics and critical race theory in schools also proved to be sources of tension. 

“A real crisis in American education is that many of my colleagues in Congress and in state legislatures are applying a device of strategies rooted in discrimination towards an exclusion of LGBTQ students and students with disabilities,” said Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.).