Frann Michel talks with Molly Hogan of the Welcome Home Coalition about adjustments to the Supportive Housing Services Measure. Welcome Home members are calling on the Tri-county Metropolitan Regional Council to make sure that adjustments honor the initial intentions of the measure while improving its implementation using lessons learned since the tax was passed by voters in 2020 to better serve the needs of our community in addressing homelessness. Welcome Home has a call to action to protect investments in housing stability for all by contacting the the Metro President and Councilors.
You can send letters to Metro Councilors and sign up to find out more at welcomehomecoalition.org.
Related information on housing affordability:
Billionare Blowback on Housing: How Concentrated Wealth Disrupts Housing Markets and Worsens the Housing Affordability Crisis (The Institute for Policy Studies and Popular Democracy) (October 2024)
Independent homebuyers can’t compete with investors (Street Roots, 2022)
Wall Street Is Buying Up Entire Neighborhoods (Jacobin May 2024)
20%-plus of US spends entire paychecks on rent, poll says (Daily News, December 2024)
Images courtesy of Welcome Home Coalition: white lettering on black background saying "House the People / powered by Welcome Home Coaltion," above Welcome Home logo, which is a green-on-white line drawing suggesting the Portland area (bridge, view of Mt. Hood, various kinds of housing) and the words "Welcome Home," with a stylized house inside the O in Home.
- KBOO