18:06:57 >> Welcome, everyone. I'm Kim 18:07:01 McCarty, the Portland Housing Bureau. We are 18:07:05 going too start the 18:07:07 Portland consortium public hearing regarding 18:07:12 the 2020 annual action man for the city of 18:07:15 Portland, city of 18:07:18 Gresham and Multnomah County. But, before 18:07:22 we start today, I want you to know that 18:07:25 this hearing will be recorded 18:07:28 as part of the public testimony for this 18:07:31 action plan, and it's public 18:07:34 record. And, before we get into 18:07:37 instructions about the public 18:07:40 testimony, there will 18:07:43 be a presentation and 18:07:47 introductions. So, first, we'll start with 18:07:50 introductions. If you have any 18:07:55 questions, and please know that the recording has 18:07:58 started. If you have any questions, you can put those 18:08:01 questions in the chat or you can 18:08:04 raise your hand, you can 18:08:08 find the way to raise your hand 18:08:11 by placing your cursor at the bottom of the 18:08:15 screen where it says participants and then you 18:08:18 will see at the bottom of the participant list 18:08:21 an option to raise your hand or you can unmute 18:08:24 yourself to ask a 18:08:28 question. 18:08:31 So I'll start can with introductions. 18:08:34 I'm awinker rental services manager 18:08:37 at the Portland Housing Bureau. There's about 14 18:08:40 participants here on the call and we expect a few more to join 18:08:44 us. What I will do 18:08:47 is ask in the order that I see you 18:08:50 on my participant list to introduce 18:08:53 yourself. If you could just tell 18:08:57 us briefly what agency, if any, that you 18:09:00 are associated with, your 18:09:03 personal pronoun being, if you would like. Mine are 18:09:07 she, hers, and 18:09:10 anything else that you would briefly like to say about 18:09:13 your interest in this meeting today. So 18:09:18 we'll start with Tawnya Harris, 18:09:21 our co-host. >> Good afternoon. Good evening, 18:09:24 everyone. My name is Tawnya Harris, I'm with the Portland Housing 18:09:27 Bureau administrative services here to support Kim 18:09:30 with this meeting, and my 18:09:34 pronouns are she, her and hers. >> Thank 18:09:37 you. 18:09:41 Next, Michelle Helm. >> 18:09:44 Hello, everybody. My name is Michelle 18:09:47 Helm, I am from the Portland Housing Bureau providing support in the 18:09:50 back ground for our zoom meeting. 18:09:53 My pronouns are 18:09:57 she, her. >> Aldo. >> Hi, everyone. 18:10:00 Good afternoon, may name is Aldo 18:10:04 Medena Martinez, I'm the programs 18:10:07 director. My pronouns are he, him. >> Thank 18:10:10 you. Ashley Miller. 18:10:13 >> Good evening, everyone. My name is Ashley 18:10:16 miller, I work for the city of Gresham where 18:10:20 I'm the community revitalsation manager and 18:10:23 I over see a 18:10:27 Hud, CDBG and HOME grants. 18:10:30 >> Thank you. 18:10:34 Ernesto Fonseca. >> 18:10:37 Hello, everyone. I'm 18:10:42 the chief executive 18:10:48 at CDC. >> 18:10:51 Thank you. Lane Thompson. >> Hello, 18:10:54 everyone. My name is Lane Thompson, 18:10:58 I work at -- Oregon in sherwood. I 18:11:01 use she, her and they, them 18:11:05 pronouns. >> Matthew 18:11:09 Tschabold. >> Good evening, my name is 18:11:12 Matthew, with the Portland Housing Bureau, the policy and planning manager, 18:11:15 he, him, I would just like to thank everyone for being 18:11:19 here this evening. >> Thank 18:11:23 you. Rachael 18:11:27 Nehse. >> Hi, I work for the city 18:11:30 of Gresham with Ashley Miller and I 18:11:33 support all of the CDBG and HOME 18:11:36 programs in Gresham, and my pronouns 18:11:39 are she, her, hers. 18:11:42 >> Steven Goldberg. 18:11:50 >> I'm simply a resident 18:11:53 of Portland and here 18:11:56 regarding the action plank and my pronouns are he, him. >> 18:11:59 Thanks for being 18:12:04 here Sydney 18:12:07 Roberts. >> Hi, with CDBG for 18:12:11 three more weeks and I'm their show my support for the city 18:12:14 and the consortium 18:12:18 . >> 18:12:29 Uma Krishnan. 18:12:36 We'll come back to you, Uma. 18:12:39 There's a caller on the line. Would you like to 18:12:42 identify yourself, 18:12:45 please. 18:12:51 >> Hi, it is Barbara 18:12:55 guyer, I'm also a resident of Portland, 18:12:58 Barbara guyer real estate and I'm 18:13:01 very interested in the Portland Housing Bureau and programs. Thank 18:13:04 you. >> Thank you, everyone. And if 18:13:07 I missed anyone, Uma, if 18:13:10 you wanted to chime in, you're welcome to. 18:13:17 >> Good evening, I'm sorry I can I must have been 18:13:20 in mute at my end. You can hear me? >> 18:13:23 Yes. >> Just wanted to say good evening to all of 18:13:27 you, and thank you so much for taking time to 18:13:30 be as part of this public hearing. I am 18:13:33 staff at the Portland Housing 18:13:36 Bureau, and I'm cysting Kim with this process 18:13:39 of action plan amendments and the action plan. 18:13:43 >> Thank you. Thanks, everyone. 18:13:52 Welcome this evening to the Portland Consortium Action 18:13:55 Plan hearings. Today we will give 18:13:58 a brief presentation regarding the annual 18:14:02 action plan. Also regarding an amendment to 18:14:06 the 20189 action plan 18:14:09 and an amendment to the citizen participation 18:14:13 plan. After 18:14:18 that, we'll give 18:14:21 additional I believe instructions how to offer testimony in writing or during 18:14:24 this hearing verbally. Again, everything is being 18:14:28 recorded, and we also have closed captioning. 18:14:33 And, then, after the testimony, 18:14:36 we'll just close the testimony at 18:14:39 that time. Any questions before we move on to the 18:14:42 presentation? 18:14:49 Okay, thank you. 18:14:53 Tawnya, can you put the presentation on the screen? 18:15:19 It will be just a moment. Thanks, 18:15:22 everyone, for being here. This is our first time conducting a 18:15:26 hearing in a virtual setting, so 18:15:29 we really appreciate you coming out in 18:15:32 the evening for this format so this 18:15:35 is our annual action plan of 18:15:39 the, for Portland, Multnomah County, and the city 18:15:42 of Gresham, where collectively these 18:15:45 jurisdictions are called the Portland consortium 18:15:48 because of our joint management of 18:15:51 our federal funding, specifically the HOME 18:15:55 funds for this region 18:15:58 . Today we 18:16:01 are going to talk 18:16:04 about -- let me just say this is also the fifth year of 18:16:08 a five-year plan called the consolidated 18:16:11 plan. We, as a consortium, 18:16:14 have been doing the five-year plans since 18:16:17 the 90s, so this will be the fifth 18:16:20 iteration and this particular set of action plans will be 18:16:23 the fifth set of plans for 18:16:27 the 2016-21 consolidated plan. 18:16:30 Next year, we will start the next 18:16:33 five-year planning process and the associated 18:16:36 annual action plans. You can move 18:16:39 forward to the next slide. 18:16:44 Thank you. 18:16:47 So today we will be 18:16:51 hearing public testimony. For your information, public 18:16:54 testimony is due back to the 18:16:57 consortium members by 18:17:01 July 7, and in particular, 18:17:04 for the CARES Act amendments to the 2019 action plan 18:17:07 for the city of Portland, public 18:17:10 testimony will be due by tomorrow, 18:17:13 June 12. And, today we're hearing 18:17:17 testimony about the 2020 action plan, the goal, 18:17:20 strategies and actions. The 2019 18:17:23 action plan substantial amendment to 18:17:26 receive the CARES Act federal formula grants, and 18:17:30 lastly the citizens participation plan 18:17:33 amendment, and I will go into more detail about each of 18:17:36 those. Move on to the next slide so, as part 18:17:39 of the and wall action plan process -- the 18:17:42 annual action plan process, it is part of the five-year 18:17:47 consolidated plan. Every year we come out to the community 18:17:50 to ask the community what are your needs. We 18:17:53 do this in the fall because most jurisdictions start 18:17:56 their budget process in the fall, so we source that 18:18:00 to inform how we'll be making 18:18:03 funding decisions and setting 18:18:06 priorities, and that all culminates after 18:18:09 approval of those budgets in the spring 18:18:12 with some specific actions for how we plan to spend 18:18:15 that money, and that's when we come back to the 18:18:18 community in the spring around this time to show the 18:18:22 community where the resources, especially the federal 18:18:25 funding, will be allocated. And, then, 18:18:28 after we do that, we 18:18:32 submit our plan and that becomes the basis of 18:18:35 an application for what we call the federal 18:18:39 formula grants. It's not an application that is 18:18:42 competitive, it is a formula for many 18:18:46 jurisdictions throughout the United States based on 18:18:49 population and some other criteria, and this process 18:18:53 enables us to get access to those resources. 18:19:07 Next slide, please. I wanted to give demographic 18:19:10 background, some of our thinking about where the priorities will 18:19:13 lie this particular 18:19:17 year as I said, the Portland consortium includes 18:19:20 all of Multnomah County, the main 18:19:23 jurisdictions that get specific federal allocation are the city of 18:19:26 Portland and the city of Gresham, in addition to the 18:19:30 county. The largest portion of that federal 18:19:33 funding formula goes to the city of Portland. And, 18:19:36 I'm showing this slide to you 18:19:40 to just show in Multnomah County, when 18:19:43 we look at median household income, you can see 18:19:46 around the 205 corridor 18:19:50 at the center of the county, that's 18:19:54 where we have probably the lowest 18:19:57 incomes between 12 and say $60,000 a year for the 18:20:01 median household income. 18:20:09 Advance the slide, please. And another way of looking 18:20:12 at that in terms of geographic distribution 18:20:15 of poverty in outer east Portland, we see the 18:20:18 highest rate of poverty at 22%. 18:20:22 18% in Gresham and 18:20:25 central east Portland, 18:20:28 it's 13%. Move 18:20:31 on, please. This information is coming from the Multnomah 18:20:34 County report on poverty. 18:20:38 And, we feel it is really important right 18:20:41 now, not only to look at the 18:20:44 poverty rates but also how it is affecting 18:20:47 our communities of color, specially what 18:20:50 we're seeing in terms of our Native 18:20:53 American and black communities, and from 18:20:57 the 2019 poverty report, we also know that, in 18:21:01 this time of covid there's some especially 18:21:04 urgent needs because of 18:21:07 issues surrounding employment. So this slide shows that, 18:21:10 for the Native American community, 18:21:13 there was a 18:21:16 2019, 11% unemployment. And for the African-American community it was 18:21:20 as high as 9%. Move on. 18:21:25 And, then, very recently, looking at the unemployment 18:21:28 claims in Multnomah County by industry, we 18:21:32 can see that the greatest number of 18:21:35 claims are coming from the accommodation 18:21:38 and food service industry. And, we know that here 18:21:42 locally, as well as nationally, 18:21:45 industries have -- these particular industries, have 18:21:49 a disproportionate black and indigenous and people of 18:21:52 color that are experiencing unemployment at the 18:21:55 highest portions. And this particular 18:21:59 data was pulled for the time between 18:22:02 march 21 and may 9, right at the 18:22:06 height of this covid public health crisis. Move 18:22:09 on, please. 18:22:19 And, then, most of our federal funding is 18:22:22 focused on house and community economic development. If we 18:22:25 look at our community in terms of impacts 18:22:28 on household expenses, the percent 18:22:31 of households that 18:22:35 are renting are 18:22:38 disproportionately our black community and, 18:22:41 indigenous communities, and those are the communities that are 18:22:45 also more vulnerable to issues of eviction 18:22:48 and housing displacement. And so many 18:22:51 of our programs are focused on 18:22:54 those issues. And we can move 18:22:57 on. So 18:23:00 I wanted to give you that snapshot 18:23:04 to just underscore much of the 18:23:08 thinking around where resources will be directed in 18:23:11 the coming year, so both to 18:23:14 address the public health 18:23:17 emergency and then also stabilization plans in 18:23:20 the future. The five-year 18:23:24 consolidated plan is structured around three main 18:23:27 goals. Affordable housing, homeless 18:23:31 services and economic opportunity. And, the way that 18:23:34 that plays out in the various plans for 18:23:37 the City of Portland, Multnomah County and city 18:23:41 of Gresham, for affordable housing, 18:23:43 we're looking to both increase the stock of 18:23:47 affordable housing and preserve affordable 18:23:50 housing through home repair grants 18:23:53 to people who are 18:23:56 looking for single family housing. But, 18:23:59 then, also a large portion of it is going to new rental 18:24:03 housing and affordable housing development. In 18:24:06 terms of homeless services, a large portion of 18:24:09 our federal gone specifically the emergency 18:24:12 solutions grant, and housing for percents 18:24:16 with AIDS, comes through the 18:24:19 Portland consortium but goes to the joint office of 18:24:23 homeless services, and they're looking to reduce 18:24:26 and prevent homelessness through supportive 18:24:29 services, transitional housing, housing 18:24:33 first model 18:24:36 and culturally appropriate delivery through 18:24:39 many services. 18:24:44 And lastly, much focuses on economic 18:24:47 opportunity, and that happens in a couple of ways. Through 18:24:50 the City of Portland 18:24:53 , it's going from us 18:24:56 to prosper Portland to support 18:25:01 projects 18:25:08 in 18:25:15 self-supporting and infrastructure investments in public 18:25:18 facilities, parks and transportation 18:25:21 improvements. Next slide, 18:25:25 please. So that gives you 18:25:28 an understanding of where these 18:25:32 resources are planned, where we plan to put them in 18:25:35 general. I wanted to let you know what the resource allocation 18:25:38 is specifically for 18:25:42 the 2020 action plan for the city of Gresham, 18:25:45 Portland and Multnomah County. So, city of 18:25:49 Gresham, received almost a million dollars in this 18:25:52 federal grant for the community development block 18:25:55 grant. Portland has received 18:25:59 almost 8 million, over 8 million, in 18:26:02 that community development block grant and Multnomah County received 18:26:06 over 300,000. You can see that, in addition to the 18:26:09 main source being the CDBG, 18:26:12 there is also an allocation of HOME 18:26:15 funds, the emergency solutions grant and then 18:26:19 housing for persons with AIDS and those are all coming through the housing 18:26:22 bureau, but the home, Multnomah County and Gresham, 18:26:25 do have access to the HOME dollars they passed 18:26:28 through the City of Portland. And, they be, the 18:26:32 housing for persons with AIDS is part of a 18:26:36 consortium that 18:26:39 extends beyond Multnomah County and a number of service providers that 18:26:43 specifically serve people and familiarlies with 18:26:46 AIDS. Next slide, please. 18:26:57 Specifically in the city of Portland, looking 18:27:00 at CDBG, 18:27:03 HOME, HOPWA 18:27:07 allocations, most of it is spent on housing 18:27:11 rehab, economic development, 18:27:14 housing development and services through housing for persons 18:27:17 with AIDS and the emergency solutions grant and then some 18:27:20 of it for home ownership. 18:27:23 Go on be to the next slide, please. 18:27:36 Looking at the Ski of Gresham, looking at 18:27:39 HOME allocations, at any moment, 18:27:42 Ashley or Sydney, if you have more to say, please do 18:27:47 interrupt. 18:27:50 Their focus is housing development 18:27:54 and rehab, economic development, public services, 18:27:57 public improvements, home 18:28:00 ownership, homeless and rental 18:28:03 assistance. Next slide, please. 18:28:07 Then, Multnomah County, sorry it says 18:28:11 HOME, it should be specifically CDBG, focus on 18:28:14 housing rehab, public services and also public 18:28:17 facility 18:28:20 improvements. So, 18:28:23 that is our overview of this year's 18:28:27 annual action plan 18:28:30 for our federal formula grants for 18:28:34 CDBG, HOME, ESG and HOPWA. 18:28:37 And now I'm going to move 18:28:40 on to our 18:28:43 conversation about the CARES 18:28:48 Act funds 18:28:53 and I want to prefast this with saying there 18:28:56 are a lot of resources coming into our 18:28:59 communities. There is an allocation that comes as formula 18:29:02 grant. It is not the only source of CARES Act funding 18:29:05 or other types of funding coming into Multnomah County, 18:29:09 Portland and 18:29:13 Gresham but it is something we 18:29:16 are specifically required to bring to the 18:29:19 community in this format. You can go to the next slide, please. 18:29:29 So the CARES Act formula 18:29:33 grants are specific to assist low income 18:29:36 households and businesses impacted by 18:29:39 covid-19. They are coming to this 18:29:42 community right now, 18:29:46 and they need to be spent between now, for some 18:29:49 of the resources, specifically HOME 18:29:52 will probably be spent before the end of this 18:29:55 calendar year and then the rest, the resources 18:29:59 we expect to spend in this coming 18:30:02 fiscal year, 2021. So, 18:30:05 for the city of Gresham, they received 18:30:09 over 600,000, in 18:30:13 CDBG. The City of Portland received 18:30:16 over 5 million in CDBG, an additional grant 18:30:19 of over 2 million in ESG. 18:30:24 And 250,000 in HOPWA. 18:30:27 And, then, for Multnomah County, it 18:30:30 is over 1 hunker 18:30:34 about 179,000 in CDBG. Next slide, please. 18:31:08 We intend to to this in shar ways with similar 18:31:13 partners so there is initiative, 18:31:16 opportunities with Prosper Portland and assistance with small 18:31:20 businesses, the emergency solutions grant will also 18:31:23 go through the joint office along with the HOPWA 18:31:27 resources and the CDBG and 18:31:30 HOME allocation will be focused on 18:31:33 tenant-based rent assistance with a wide range of partners, many 18:31:37 be of them are part of the straw 18:31:40 network and there is a lot of thinking that is going on 18:31:43 right now to focus on those key populations 18:31:47 that I mentioned earlier in this 18:31:50 presentation, our black and 18:31:53 indigenous 18:31:56 communities HOME 18:31:59 is not new dollars, this is a 18:32:03 reallocation of HOME dollars that were not spent 18:32:06 in 2018-2019 but will be spent on 18:32:10 rent assistance in this coming 18:32:13 fiscal year 20-21. Next 18:32:16 slide, please. 18:32:32 Rent assistance and public services. 18:32:35 Next slide, please. And Multnomah 18:32:38 County, their 179,000 allocation will be spent 18:32:41 on emergency rent assistance. 18:32:46 Next slide. 18:32:50 So, the third issue that we are here today 18:32:53 to discuss is the citizen 18:32:56 participation plan. This participation plan 18:32:59 is a part of -- it gets updated 18:33:02 about every five years 18:33:05 along with the five-year consolidated plan I mentioned earlier. It 18:33:08 needs to be amended now because, with 18:33:11 the CARES Act funding, because it's coming into our 18:33:14 community so quickly, some of the requirements 18:33:17 of our citizen participation plan could 18:33:20 not be met 18:33:24 so HUD, housing and 18:33:27 urban development, offers some wafers, they included 18:33:31 reducing the public comment period to five days, 18:33:35 allowing for virtual hearing formats like 18:33:38 you're seeing 18:33:43 today, reducing 18:33:47 out reach time for what we would 18:33:50 normally take, and 18:33:53 not requiring hard copies because 18:33:56 of the public health ramifications of providing hard 18:34:00 copties. These are some changes made, really restricting ourselves 18:34:04 to utilizing these wafers 18:34:08 wafer waivers when there is an 18:34:11 emergency. For this particular covid-19 18:34:14 health emergency or a future public health emergency we included 18:34:17 these new requirements in 18:34:21 our citizen participation plan 18:34:28 and we will likely up days these 18:34:31 again for the new five-year planning this 18:34:34 fall. So I just wanted to restate the time 18:34:38 frames for public comment. Because of 18:34:41 those changes in our public participation 18:34:46 plan, we are reducing the amount of 18:34:50 time for public comment on these specific 18:34:53 dollars, for the CARES Act that we 18:34:56 will be amending the 2019 action plan. So, 18:34:59 for the cities of Portland, the end 18:35:03 of the public comment period will be tomorrow, June 12, and this will help 18:35:07 facilitate us getting this resource into the community as 18:35:11 quickly as 18:35:15 possible 18:35:18 for Multnomah County and Gresham, their public comment period 18:35:21 will end July 7. For changes in the community participation 18:35:25 plan and the annual 18:35:28 2020-2021 action plans for all the jurisdictions, 18:35:31 Portland, City of Gresham and Multnomah 18:35:35 County, our public comment period will end July 18:35:38 7. Comments can be submitted online. 18:35:41 There's a link on 18:35:44 the Portland Housing Bureau on the 18:35:47 planning page, you can submit comments by e-mail to 18:35:51 myself at 18:35:59 Kim.Mccarty@portlandoregon.gov. You can call. You can submit your 18:36:02 comments today in the chat, 18:36:05 and you can 18:36:08 also give public 18:36:11 testimony here through this virtual 18:36:15 hearing. And, actually go 18:36:20 we'll go into a little bit more instructions on how to do 18:36:22 that. So thank you for listening to this 18:36:26 presentation, and now we're going to 18:36:29 transition to the question part of our agenda 18:36:33 and then the public comment 18:36:37 period. 18:36:42 Tawnya, can you put the agenda 18:36:45 back up? So, for 18:36:49 the public comment 18:36:52 here tonight, Tawnya is going to help me 18:36:55 by watching the chat. I'm sorry 18:36:58 if folks have put stuff in the chat and 18:37:02 I haven't observed it yet. And so 18:37:05 you can -- the testimony that you give in the chat 18:37:08 will be recorded, testimony 18:37:11 that's given verbally will be recorded. I 18:37:14 know that many of you said you would like to 18:37:17 testify. We don't have a particular 18:37:20 list yet, and because we are 18:37:23 a rather small enough group, I think 18:37:27 the best way to do this 18:37:30 is for folks to either raise 18:37:34 a hand and then Tawnya will see that and 18:37:37 say your name, and that will give you 18:37:41 an opportunity to give 18:37:44 testimony. There will be five minutes per person, if we have 18:37:48 additional time, we certainly will offer more 18:37:51 time. We can be here, we plan to be here until 18:37:54 8:00, if needed 18:37:57 , and so that's the strategy. But, before we 18:38:01 get into public testimony, are there any questions? 18:38:18 Okay. I'm looking at the chat and I'm not 18:38:22 hear,ing 18:38:25 any questions. Of course, if you have a question at 18:38:29 any time, feel free to ask or give it to 18:38:32 us in the 18:38:36 chat. We do want at 18:38:39 this time give an opportunity for folks to 18:38:42 give public testimony. If you could just raise your hand 18:38:45 or unmute yourself, the time 18:38:49 for public testimony is now 18:38:52 open. 18:39:24 While we're waiting for folks for testimony 18:39:27 or questions, I just wanted to 18:39:30 give Sydney and Ashley or 18:39:34 Rachel an opportunity to say more about the Portland 18:39:37 consortium. Sydney is representing Multnomah 18:39:41 County, Ashley is representing the city of 18:39:44 Gresham. Is there anything else that you would like to say? 18:39:53 >> Not from me, 18:39:56 no. Thank you. >> Not from me, you did a great 18:39:59 job. 18:40:16 Does anyone have questions about the 18:40:20 program areas or either the 18:40:23 amendment to the 2019 action plan or the annual 18:40:26 action plan? >> 18:40:29 So, this is Steve, I do 18:40:32 have a question if it is okay to raise it at 18:40:36 this point. The major question that I have 18:40:39 is, how do we measure 18:40:42 the effectiveness of the dollars that are 18:40:45 being spent here? So, what I'm not 18:40:49 seeing in the documents, I guess for example, if 18:40:52 I can come back next year to the 18:40:55 meeting and there's a report 18:40:58 back on how the funds have been spent and 18:41:02 what's happened as a result of spending those 18:41:05 funds, how do I measure that? In other 18:41:09 words, is there a matrix out there now 18:41:12 that will tell me how much the stock of affordable 18:41:15 housing has increased as a result of these funds 18:41:18 being spent. Is there something that l tell 18:41:21 me how many houses have been rehabilitated 18:41:26 because of this 18:41:29 . There are statistics all the time about the 18:41:32 homeless and the statistics generally shows 18:41:35 the numbers rarely go 18:41:38 down. Is there any measurement related to that. 18:41:41 Particularly regarding it seems like a lot of the money 18:41:44 is being spent on renter assist tax, 18:41:47 and that issue I think will become a very big 18:41:50 issue because we know, at this point, because of the rent 18:41:55 moratorium, that has been implemented by the cities and 18:41:58 also by the 18:42:02 county, there are 18:42:06 going to be arrearrages owed by probably a lot of 18:42:09 people. Again, if the rent assistance is going to be 18:42:12 paid to help people pay those and though avoid 18:42:15 evictions, how are we, again, measuring the 18:42:19 effectiveness of that? How 18:42:22 many people, are we measuring 18:42:25 people because of the renter assistance? 18:42:28 That's my, I'm kind of 18:42:31 blabbing on here, but I think what I'm interested in 18:42:34 most of all is how do we 18:42:37 measure the effectiveness of these millions of 18:42:41 dollars being spent? >> Thank you. 18:42:44 Thank you, that is a great question. 18:42:48 I'm going to attempt to answer it in a few 18:42:52 ways. And I'm going to say up front, Uma, 18:42:55 if you would like to chime in at any 18:42:59 point, please do. 18:43:02 So, the annual action 18:43:05 plan does have embedded in it, has 18:43:09 goals related both 18:43:12 to housing production and 18:43:15 people served. And we do 18:43:19 measure ourselves and HUD 18:43:22 requires us to measure who is being served, the 18:43:26 demographic profile, who was being served, how many 18:43:29 units are being 18:43:32 created, how much is spent 18:43:36 per unit, per individual. And we 18:43:39 compile all of that information in what we call 18:43:42 the caper report, and we send that to 18:43:46 HUD on an annual basis to hold 18:43:49 ourselves accountable to our 18:43:52 plans. And we plan both on that 18:43:56 five-year time frame that I mentioned earlier 18:43:58 and also on an annual time frame, and 18:44:01 we report on the outcomes on 18:44:05 an annual basis, so that simplistically is how we 18:44:08 do our reporting. We also ask our 18:44:12 partners to collect that information for us, so 18:44:15 in terms of homeless 18:44:18 services, you talked about how a lot of this, there is a lot 18:44:22 of service dollars, there is a 18:44:25 federal homeless, it's called 18:44:29 HMIS, it is a database where there is a lot of tracking 18:44:32 amongst all of the partners in terms of 18:44:35 where the resources are going, what are the 18:44:38 outcomes for individuals, and so 18:44:41 that's really important information and it 18:44:44 helps us to rebalance our efforts on 18:44:48 an annual basis so that's our other 18:44:52 reporting mechanism. 18:44:55 We also do some analysis of the marketplace 18:44:59 on an annual basis, so for the City of Portland, it 18:45:02 is called our, 18:45:06 the Portland housing report, state of housing, and then, 18:45:08 on a five-year basis, we do a market study for 18:45:11 what is called a consolidated plan, 18:45:14 which I mentioned earlier, it is the beginning of 18:45:17 the five-year consolidated planning process. 18:45:20 We do a market study and then in that, we also do 18:45:23 what we call fair housing analysis where 18:45:26 we look at 18:45:29 communities and ask ourselves who is most 18:45:33 impacted and how could our federal 18:45:36 resources be best directed to do 18:45:40 disparities and outcomes for what we have 18:45:43 observed to be largely our communities of color 18:45:46 and very recently, recently and 18:45:50 historically our black and indigenous communities 18:45:53 have been extremely 18:45:57 impacted. So, does that help answer your question? 18:46:05 >> So the caper report, is it 18:46:08 caper, 18:46:11 c-a-p-e-r, that you mentioned? >> Yes. >> Where is that? Is that 18:46:14 accessible or is that available to look at? >> Yes, it 18:46:18 is on our website. Ima, can you say a little 18:46:21 bit more about it. >> 18:46:26 Sure. Good afternoon, good evening, 18:46:29 Mr. Goldberg, a absolutely valid question. The short answer to your 18:46:32 question is, yes, in relation to 18:46:35 the action plan 18:46:39 goals and activities that we set up, the response 18:46:42 to that, with a lag of a 18:46:45 year, is the caper, the 18:46:48 consolidated annual performance evaluation report, and 18:46:53 though it is a 18:46:56 separate report path, we kind of do the reporting 18:47:00 on how we did in the past year's 18:47:03 action plan in the camer that 18:47:07 came caper that we submit by the end of 18:47:10 December. In that report, because it 18:47:13 follows pretty stringent guidelines, we 18:47:17 report specific goals, how we did, the 18:47:21 demographics of people who we helped. So 18:47:25 that's the higher level and that follows a very similar process 18:47:28 of, you 18:47:31 know, public comment 18:47:35 . So, in addition to that, because we get these 18:47:38 large amounts of money and pretty much most of the 18:47:41 project that is a combination 18:47:45 of funding, so there are multiple levels of 18:47:48 reports and evaluations, and depending on 18:47:51 the project, so there are 18:47:56 reports that are specific to a specific project, there are 18:47:59 reports that we ask from our 18:48:02 sub-recipients because we contract out. So there are these 18:48:06 multiple levels. But if your interest is how did we do in 18:48:09 terms of one-on-one correspondence, 18:48:12 ther Is a Really Good Please and I Am -- 18:48:16 the Caper Is a Really Good Place and 18:48:19 I'm Happy to share those materials and explain 18:48:22 any questions you may have. 18:48:33 >> This successry is posted as part of the 18:48:36 annual action plan. If you refer to the chat, if you 18:48:39 can see it today, there is a link 18:48:43 right now to the CAPER on 18:48:46 the Portland Housing Bureau website. >> Kim, there is a question in 18:48:49 the chat. It says I'm curious about how this action 18:48:52 plan interacts with 18:48:56 OHCS statewide housing plan, if at 18:49:00 all. 18:49:15 >> I'm not working directly working 18:49:19 with them on these plans, their plans. I 18:49:22 think just the realm of what 18:49:25 everybody is doing, we're certainly paying attention to 18:49:28 each other, the housing bureau is paying 18:49:31 attention to OHES with their plan and we 18:49:34 are always at some level trying to be responsive but 18:49:38 there isn't a direct correlation. >> And, 18:49:41 Kim, I just wanted to add to what 18:49:44 you just said. 18:49:49 The thing is with Portland and the consortium we 18:49:52 are in our own entitlement 18:49:55 jurisdiction so the money doesn't pat through the state so that's with we 18:49:59 have our own independent, separate 18:50:04 processes but we do work closely because we get other funding from 18:50:07 the state as they lay out their action plan and set their 18:50:10 goals. We kind of, we work closely with them in 18:50:13 terms of kind of following each other and trying to 18:50:16 be in alignment, but we don't directly, 18:50:19 you know, they don't set our goals or we 18:50:22 don't respond to them for this 18:50:25 particular source of funding. 18:50:29 >> Yes. 18:50:45 Other questions? These are great questions and 18:50:48 we're really happy to answer questions. 18:51:18 Just looking back through the chat to see if I missed 18:51:21 anything. 18:51:27 Again, there are opportunities for you to connect with us 18:51:31 directly, if you have comments, written testimony 18:51:35 is very 18:51:38 welcome. 18:51:41 And, we will, I think, stay on the line 18:51:44 just a few more minutes, but I don't want to 18:51:47 take up everyone's time if everyone feels like their 18:51:50 questions have been answered and 18:51:53 they understand this federal 18:51:57 funding -- this application for our federal funding. 18:52:08 >> And, again, feel free to unmute yourself 18:52:12 or place your question in the chat. 18:52:16 >> Thank you. 18:52:38 If anyone would like to just expand upon any of the 18:52:42 presentation, you're very welcome to 18:52:45 unmute yourself and offer 18:52:48 more information. 18:53:12 Not hearing any more 18:53:15 questions, or comments, I want to thank everyone 18:53:18 so much for coming out this 18:53:21 evening to City of Portland's 18:53:24 virtual hearing, or the Portland 18:53:27 consortium's virtual hearing on the annual action 18:53:31 plan for 2021, the 2019 action plan 18:53:34 amendment and the amendments to the 18:53:37 citizen participation plan. We appreciate your 18:53:41 comments and time. We will be concluding 18:53:45 this meeting, and if you need reach us 18:53:48 in the future, please don't hesitate 18:53:51 to reach out. And have 18:53:54 a very good evening and 18:53:57 we wish everybody to be well. 18:54:00 >> Have a great evening, everyone. Thank you. >> Thank 18:54:04 you, Kim. Thank you, Tawnya, and