The McPherson Homeless Housing Campaign

Around Portland, various groups espouse the idea that they want to house the homeless. But currently, only a few hundred a year find housing at best, while the current housing crisis grows at a rate much faster than that. This will simply mask the problem for a while. Additionally, it will continue to exacerbate the issue of housed people blaming people on the streets, saying that they must be drug addicts or mentally ill if they do not want to live in shelters, villages, or apartments when such places are not available and new housing options are not being created fast enough to keep up with the housing crisis. Politicians are more interested in impressing their constituents by funding slowly-built standard apartments that rent at low cost and mask the problem rather than getting as many people off the streets efficiently. These currently proposed solutions can be later steps on the road to permanent housing.

This is just the beginning you may read the rest of my proposal and ongoing updates at McPherson Homeless Housing Campaign