TELL MULTNOMAH CO TO SUPPORT BYBEE LAKES

As you know, Multnomah County homeless services efforts are a disaster. The worse homeless problem in the nation with the greatest funding to help solve but they have spent little and on the wrong solutions. With all this money, they still refuse to support the Bybee Lakes Homeless Center that has a phenomenal track record of helping homeless recover and return to self sufficiency. Bybee Lakes Annual Report: https://helpinghandsreentry.org/annual-report?blm_aid=800768

PLEASE Email the Multnomah County Commission in support of Bybee Lakes programs and to provide operational financial support:

• Mult.chair@multco.us
• Susheela.jayapal@multco.us
• Lori.stegmann@multco.us
• Sharon.meieran@multco.us
• Julia.brim-edwards@multco.us

AND PLEASE SHARE WITH ALL YOU CAN TO BUILD PRESSURE ON THE COMMISSION

A long list of news stories outlining the disaster that Multnomah County homeless services is:

• Mar 19 - OPINION: Long-term homeless need more than shelter housing https://www.koin.com/nwpolitics/opinion-long-term-homeless-solutions-needed-to-thrive/
• Mar 29 - Gov. Kotek signs $200M homeless, affordable housing bill https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/gov-kotek-signs-200m-homeless-affordable-housing-bill-politics/
• May 30 - Poll: 75% of voters call Portland homeless issue a ‘disaster’ https://www.koin.com/news/portland/poll-75-of-voters-call-portland-homeless-issue-a-disaster/
• Apr 5 - OR, WA among states with largest increases in homelessness in U.S. https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/or-wa-among-states-with-largest-increases-in-homelessness-in-u-s/
• April 16 ‘We enable’: Portland drug counselor calls for new approach to homelessness https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/we-enable-portland-drug-counselor-calls-for-new-approach-to-homelessness/
• June 4 - Commissioner: MultCo, Portland have ‘no actual plan’ to address homelessness: https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/commissioner-multco-portland-have-no-actual-plan-to-address-homelessness/
• May 16 - ‘This is unacceptable’: Metro finds MultCo underspent on housing fund https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/this-is-unacceptable-metro-finds-multco-underspent-on-housing-fund/
• August 7 - Bybee Lakes in danger of closing doors? https://www.koin.com/news/homeless/bybee-lakes-in-danger-of-closing-doors-privately-owned-homeless-transition-center-says-it-needs-public-funds/?fbclid=IwAR1zH2SV6yfEAELMbEzdFWpaYw3u7QFntujp0M7cx-HinfNtCP2xHG4oCaI
• August 8 - Oregon homeless service providers report trouble making ends meet: https://www.koin.com/news/homeless/oregon-homeless-service-providers-report-trouble-making-ends-meet-study/
• August 17 - Oregon homeless service providers report trouble making ends meet: https://www.koin.com/news/homeless/oregon-homeless-service-providers-report-trouble-making-ends-meet-study/