{"id":11046,"date":"2024-04-30T12:36:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11046"},"modified":"2024-03-30T13:01:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T20:01:25","slug":"multnomah-homeless-plan-has-utterly-failed-and-cost-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11046","title":{"rendered":"Multnomah homeless plan has utterly failed and cost millions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yet another report has come out demonstrating the incompetence and failures of Oregon and Portland leadership – this time (again) due to Multnomah Vega Pederson. It’s a story of incompetent management, millions poured down the drain, doing things for political show, and hiding failures of leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The “Housing Multnomah Now\u201d initiative was supposed to use $14 million to house 300 people into apartments. A year later, however,\u00a0the program has only placed 37 individuals or households in apartments<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over the last month, Vega Pederson and other county officials repeatedly refused to answer questions on the record or provide details about how they set the program\u2019s initial targets, identify officials who set them or say whether any review or analysis was conducted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about how badly this has gone from this article on Oregon Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yet another report has come out demonstrating the incompetence and failures of Oregon and Portland leadership – this time (again) due to Multnomah Vega Pederson. It’s a story of incompetent management, millions poured down the drain, doing things for political show, and hiding failures of leadership. The “Housing Multnomah Now\u201d initiative was supposed to use $14 million to house 300 people into apartments. A year later, however,\u00a0the program has only placed 37 individuals or households in apartments. Over the last…<\/p>\n

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