Overloaded Or Underserved? New Public Housing Location Maps

Portland OR

17 October, 2021

4:11 PM

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Hi Fellow Oregonians Et. Al.: On behalf of the Metro/Oregon Public Housing Location Maps team*1 at Portland Sate University I am proud to announce a significant upgrade to the Metro/Oregon Public Housing Location Maps, the first of its kind in Oregon and the United States of America showing the types, numbers, percentages and locations of Public Housing Units in multiple public jurisdictions throughout Oregon. This enhanced set of interactive maps now includes: New Data a) Portland Public Housing Bond Allocations July 2021 b) Metro Public Housing Bond Allocations July 2021 c) Miscellaneous Metro NONSection 8 Units July 2021 d) Miscellaneous State NONSection 8 Units July 2021 e) Section 8 Voucher data incorporated into neighborhood, legislative and congressional districts f) Clackamas and Washington counties neighborhood overlay spreadsheets August 2021 g) Clackamas and Washington counties neighborhood housing units from 2020 Census August 2021 h) Complete map pop-up data sets for Clackamas and Washington counties neighborhood overlays August 2021 i) Multnomah county neighborhood housing units updated from 2020 Census August 2021 j) All counties Total Housing Units updated from 2020 Census August 2021 New Overlays a) Five Congressional districts July 2021 b) Ninety Legislative districts July 2021 These maps will be useful to every elected official and citizen of Oregon Click on the map image below or here to access. Surprising/Provocative Results - See map for details Congressional district with the highest percentage of Public Housing Units District 3, Earl Blumenauer - 12.04% Congressional district with the lowest percentage of Public Housing Units District 5, Kurt Schrader - 5.12% State senate districts with the highest percentage of Public Housing Units District 18, Ginny Burdick - 16.74% District 22, Lew Fredrick - 16.47% District 24, Kayse Jama - 13.04% State senate districts with the lowest percentage of Public Housing Units District 19, Rob Wagner - 3.31% District 4, Floyd Prozanski - 3.61% District 14, Kate Lieber - 3.62% State house districts with the highest percentage of Public Housing Units District 36, Lisa Reynolds - 24.92% District 43, Tawna D. Sanchez - 17.24% District 44, Tina Kotek - 15.54% State house districts with the lowest percentage of Public Housing Units District 27, Sheri Schouten - 1.37% District 11, Marty Wilde - 1.6% District 38, Andrea Salinas - 2.4% Counties with the highest percentage of Public Housing Units Multnomah - 11.44% Union - 8.76% Wasco - 8.36% Counties with the lowest percentage of Public Housing Units Wheeler - 0.11% Gilliam - 1.28% Lake - 2.22% Metro counties percentage of Public Housing Units (As a result of Metro's assertion, with voter approval, that Public Housing is a regional policy issue, Metro is now obliged to achieve parity (6.66%) of Public Housing units among the counties over which it now has Public Housing Location policy authority.) Multnomah - 11.44% Washington - 5.08% Clackamas - 3.45% Multnomah county neighborhood overlays with the highest percentage i.e. over 20% of Public Housing Units Old Town - 100.00% Hazelwood-Mill-Park - 100% Hollywood - 55.82% Eastmoreland- Reed - 50% Portsmouth - 42.67% Downtown - 40.75% Madison-South - 35.56% Humboldt - 31.51% Eliot - 29.61% Glenfair - 27.97% Lloyd-District - 26.25% Hazelwood - 23.34% Rockwood - 23.08% Columbia - 22.41% Central-City -22.21% King - 20.93% Boise - 20.48% Multnomah county neighborhood overlays with the lowest percentage i.e. ZERO percentage of Public Housing Units Alameda Alameda-Beaumont-Wilshire Alameda-Irvington Ardenwald-Johnson-Creek Ardenwald-Johnson-Creek-Woodstock Argay-Wilkes Arlington-Heights Arlington-Heights-Sylvan-Highlands Ashcreek-Crestwood Boise-Eliot Bridgeton Bridlemile-Southwest-Hills Centennial-Pleasant-Valley Collins-View Cpo-3-Garden-Home-Raleigh-Hills Crestwood East-Columbia Eastmoreland-Ardenwald-Johnson-Creek Forest-Park-Linnton Forest-Park-Northwest-District Goose-Hollow-Southwest-Hills Grant-Park-Hollywood Hayden-Island Healy-Heights-Southwest-Hills Hillside Hillside-Northwest-District Linnton Lloyd-District-Sullivans-Gulch Markham Marshall-Park Maywood-Park Mult-Co-Birdshill-Area Mult-Co-E-Sandy-River-Area Mult-Co-Englewood-Area Mult-Co-Interlachen-Area Mult-Co-Lake-Oswego-Area Mult-Co-Mt-Hood-Forest-Area Mult-Co-Riverdale-Area Mult-Co-Troutdale-Area Multnomah-Co-Unclaimed-14 North-Troutdale Northwest-District-Northwest-Industrial Northwest-Heights Northwest-Industrial Palisades Pleasant-Valley-Powellhurst-Gilbert Portland-Unclaimed-2 Portland-Unclaimed-5 Riverview-Cemetery-Area Roseway-Madison-South Sabin-Irvington Southwest-Hills Sullivans-Gulch-Grant-Park Sunderland Sweetbriar Sylvan-Highlands Sylvan-Highlands-Southwest-Hills Tryon-Creek-Area Woodland-Park Washington county neighborhood overlays with the highest percentage i.e. over 20% of Public Housing Units East-Tualatin - 64.10% Riverpark - 24.72% Washington county neighborhood overlays with the lowest percentage i.e. ZERO percentage of Public Housing Units Cpo-1-Cedar-Hills-Cedar-Mill-N Cpo-1-Cedar-Hills-Cedar-Mill-S Cpo-15 Cpo-3-Garden-Home-Raleigh-Hills Ibach Midwest West-Slope Clackamas county neighborhood overlays with the highest percentage i.e. over 20% of Public Housing Units Caufield - 26.94% Clackamas county neighborhood overlays with the lowest percentage i.e. ZERO percentage of Public Housing Units Barlow Beavercreek Bht Birdshill Blue-heron Bolton Bryant Bull-Run-Community-Association Canemah Carver-Logan Childs Clackamas-Co-Unclaimed-4 Clackamas-Co-Unclaimed-5 Clarkes-Highland East-Tualatin Evergreen Firwood-Neighbors Foothills Forest-Highlands Glenmorrie Grant-Park Hallinan Hazel-Grove-Westling-Farm Hidden-Springs Holly-Orchard Island-Station Johns-Woods Johnson-City Lakeview-Summit Lakewood Mcloughlin-Industrial Mcvey-South-Shore North-Shore-Country-Club Old-Town Other Parker-Crest Rhododendron Rivercrest Rivergrove Rock-Creek Rosemont-Summit Savanna-Oaks Skylands Skyline-Ridge Tower-Vista Two-Rivers Uplands Westlake Westridge Milwaukie-1 Is YOUR congressional district, state legislative senate district, state legislative house district, county/city/neighborhood OVERLOADED or UNDERSERVED with Public Housing? The Metro/Oregon Public Housing Location Maps will help give you an answer. The purpose of this map is to provide a common touchstone of Public Housing Location Data. Elected officials and all Oregonians can use these maps to discuss, debate and decide on the best, reasoned, defensible, equitable policy decisions related to Public Housing locations in Oregon. We can NOT have a credible, fact based public debate with defensible arguments for or against any Public Housing Policy without credible data. Now we Oregonians, all of us, have it. In fact, it gets better than that. We also have easy to understand interactive maps that visually tell us the story of Public Housing Locations within multiple level political and governmental jurisdictions in our Oregon. The Oregon Housing and Community Services department and other county housing authorities have identified approximately 110,688 Public Housing households connected to Public Housing Authorities and related agencies in the state of Oregon. All of these households meet the following criteria: PUBLIC HOUSING i.e. a class of housing defined as, Means Test (<=80%MFI) + Government Subsidy (any government any type) + Rental Agreement. There is no publicly available evidence that any of these 110,688 Public Housing households are currently occupied by households that meet the following criteria: AFFORDABLE HOUSING is a mathematical construct defined as, Rent/Mortgage + Insurance + Taxes + Utilities <=30% Household Income. Research has revealed that most Public Housing is NOT Affordable Housing. Government is in the Public Housing business NOT the Affordable Housing business. Metro/Oregon Public Housing Location Maps Enable Equity, Parity, NIMBY Debate Equity. Parity. NIMBY. These terms can and should be considered with every decision to spend public funds on Public Housing throughout Oregon. Where Public Housing is located has not been a consideration in the placement of Public Housing because there was no authoritative source that all parties could use as a common factual basis. The Metro/Oregon Public Housing Location Maps will make these conversations and decisions possible. We hope that after examining the Metro/Oregon Public Housing Location Maps and the included data files you will be motivated to ask yourself and your elected officials questions like the following: A. Which policy is more dominant among and within Oregon counties, Equitable Distribution of Public Housing OR Targeted, UNLIMITED neighborhood/city/county/legislative district concentration of Public Housing? B. Do you see parity of Public Housing locations among Oregon's counties, the Metro Regional Government counties and Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas county neighborhoods, Oregon's legislative and congressional districts? C. How do we explain/justify the percentage range of Public Housing units to total housing units within Multnomah county neighborhoods from zero to 100%? D. How do we explain/justify the percentage range of Public Housing units to total housing units within Metro's three counties from 3.45% to 11.44%? E. How do we explain/justify the remarkable number of neighborhoods under the Metro regional government's Public Housing Policy Jurisdiction, i.e. 119, that have ZERO public housing units? F. How do we explain/justify the percentage range of Public Housing units to total housing units within all Oregon counties from 0.11% to 11.44%? G. How do we explain/justify the percentage range of Public Housing units to total housing units among all House districts from 1.37% to 24.92%? H. How do we explain/justify the percentage range of Public Housing units to total housing units within all Senate districts from 3.31% to 16.74%? Wildfires, pandemic and eviction repercussions coupled with huge increases in funding for Public Housing from all government levels must put Public Housing location decision making high up on many Oregon government agendas. Their location decisions can and will have a dramatic effect on their constituencies. These debates and decisions must all begin with the question: Is YOUR congressional district, state legislative senate district, state legislative house district, county/city/neighborhood OVERLOADED or UNDERSERVED with Public Housing? Please feel free to copy and past the map image above or this URL, https://www.goodgrowthnw.org/m..., to public jurisdiction web sites or other places where interested citizens can easily find it. Thank you for your interest. Enjoy the exploration. Send comments to Richard Ellmyer<[email protected]> Richard Ellmyer Author of more stories on the politics, players and policies of Public Housing in Oregon over the last twenty years than all other journalists and elected officials combined. https://www.goodgrowthnw.org/m... Author of The Ellmyer Report, a newsletter that informs, educates and influences on public policy. Occasionally distributed to more than a quarter of million readers in Oregon and beyond. Facebook, Portland Politics Plus . Contributor: Patch news *1 Who's Responsible And Deserves Credit For This Public Service? The Metro/Oregon Public Housing Location Maps Team Claire Brumbaugh-Smith - Portland State University Masters Degree Program, Project Primary GIS Analyst and Cartographer Taylor Allen - Portland State University graduate, Former Project Primary GIS Analyst and Cartographer Richard Ellmyer - Portland State University Senior Adult Learner, Project Champion and Data Wrangler Randy Morris - Community GIS Project Leader Population Research Center Portland State University, Project Coordinator https://www.goodgrowthnw.org/maps */ /*-->*/