Pamplin Media Group May 18 2021
A perfect storm of money and creativity is coming together, but we must have solid metrics to measure success.
Clarification: An earlier version of this editorial was unclear on the source of Multnomah County funding for homeless services. The money budgeted for the 1,300 housing placements and alternative shelters is coming from the county s share of the Metro funds, not federal dollars. Federal dollars are supporting motels and other temporary shelters; the continued distribution of food, water, sanitizer and supplies; funding for Portland Street Medicine; funding for new hygiene facilities; and increases in eviction prevention rent assistance.
The detective who knew too much: Don DuPay’s Portland police career haunts him. He’s still trying to get justice
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Don DuPay joined the Portland Police Bureau in 1961. He resigned in frustration 17 years later. (Photos courtesy of Don DuPay)
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When Don DuPay found her in the Plaid Pantry store, the woman was sprawled on her back, her clothes torn from her body. She’d been raped and then knifed to death.
A week earlier the first week of September in 1975 the Portland police detective had taken on another distressing case, this one involving a Black teenager shot to death in his bedroom. DuPay showed up late for the autopsy, hoping to avoid seeing the medical examiner saw into the boy’s skull.
The former Wapato Correctional Facility is transformed into a homeless shelter and services center.
Multnomah County Commission Chair Deborah Kafoury is proposing to spend $150 million next fiscal year to reduce homelessness, including creating more shelter capacity and supportive services. That does not yet include any funding for the county s former unused Wapato Jail, which is currently sheltering and serving the homeless, even as it is still being transformed into the Bybee Lakes Hope Center.
The remote North Portland facility opened last October with 76 shelter beds and 56 residential treatment beds. An additional 220 beds are under construction, along with medical facilities, an industrial-strength laundry, a covered kennel and a Victory Garden that includes 120 fruit trees. All of the work and operational costs have so far been paid by private donors and grants that support the vision local developer and philanthropist Jordan Schnitzer had for the property when he arrange
A jail no more
The former Wapato Correctional Facility is transformed into homeless shelter and services center.
Multnomah County Commission Chair Deborah Kafoury is proposing to spend $150 million next fiscal year to reduce homelessness, including creating more shelter capacity and supportive services. That does not yet include any funding for the county s former unused Wapato Jail, which is currently sheltering and serving the homeless, even as it is still being transformed into the Bybee Lakes Hope Center.
The remote North Portland facility opened last October with 76 shelter beds and 56 residential treatment beds. An additional 220 beds are under construction, along with medical facilities, an industrial-strength laundry, a covered kennel and a Victory Garden that includes 120 fruit trees. All of the work and operational costs have so far been paid by private donors and grants that support the vision local developer and philanthropist Jordan Schnitzer had for the pro
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