

#3000Challenge
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@3000_challenge
open, lived-experience-led, community initiative gathering proposals to offer good livable spaces for 3000 people in PDX. Organizer: @tmccormick #3000Challenge



Thread: COVID economic fallout did a number! The 2022 PIT snapshot says houseless population increased by more than 1,000. Not surprised in the slightest, unfortunately. Now is the time to buckle down on evidence-based, data-driven solutions that have proven to end houselessness.

The easy part: Portland is flush with cash and its elected leaders are eager to bankroll a whole host of new programs & initiatives. The hard part: Actually producing measurable, meaningful results.


What to know about the Portland area’s homeless services tax oregonlive.com/clackamascount…


Oregon voters feel strongly about a lot of issues but homelessness and affordable housing top the list. What will the state's next governor do to help people and fix a chronic problem that some voters see as unfixable? @LaurenDake: opb.org/article/2022/0…





🚨TODAY a year-long investigation by @JoaquinPalomino and I publishes:We examined San Francisco's long practice of housing thousands of its most vulnerable homeless in run-down, century-old hotels called SROs In many cases, we found disastrous results sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/… 1/

@fosters4future @SuzLopez Best place to find out ideas is here: 3000challengepdx.org

@LeftistConnor Nonprofit Industrial Complex: "In the Shadow of the Shadow State," by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, from The Revolution Will Not be Funded: Beyond the #NonprofitIndustrialComplex (edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. 2009). sfonline.barnard.edu/navigating-neo… via @spiroferrer #NPIC


Is @People4Portland funded by the @InstituteCicero? @3000_challenge, @mkaiasand what do you think? @DanRyanPDX and @tedwheeler is this @pewtrusts report familiar? pewtrusts.org/en/research-an…


Be a part of the solution, join the BBPDX Challenge! Learn more from BBPDX member Dave Otte, of @Holst_Arch, about how the Supportive Housing Services measure is already making progress and how we can continue to support solutions to homelessness. bbpdx.org/updates/2022/4…
