{"id":1868,"date":"2005-10-04T01:16:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T08:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/04\/homeless-women-in-portland-losing-shelter-space\/"},"modified":"2005-10-04T01:16:27","modified_gmt":"2005-10-04T08:16:27","slug":"homeless-women-in-portland-losing-shelter-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1868","title":{"rendered":"Homeless Women In Portland Losing Shelter Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just recieved this via email… I encourage all my Portland readers – and, heck, anyone else who is interested – to email Mayor Potter and Erik Sten. And if you have a blog, please consider giving this post a link, because it might help. Unlike many politicians, Tom Potter and Erik Sten actually do have better sides that can be appealed to, so a deluge of emails might do some real good.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(And yes, obviously this email is a couple of days old. But the issue – the need for Portland to convert some of the existing unused shelters to emergency space for homeless women, as immediately as possible – has not gone away).<\/p>\n

HOMELESS WOMEN’S ACTION ALERT!<\/p>\n

TELL MAYOR POTTER AND ERIK STEN IT IS UNACCEPTABLE TO DUMP MORE HOMELESS WOMEN ON THE STREETS THIS WEEKEND!<\/p>\n

With the city pulling its funding from the Salvation Army’s Harbor Lights Program, beginning tomorrow night, October 1, an additional fourteen homeless women will be dumped on Portland’s streets. As of tomorrow, the city will be providing an unbelievably low THIRTY shelter spaces for homeless women (and this figure includes the twenty remaining cots at Harbor Lights, where women are provided with neither meals, nor showers and must leave each morning at 6:30 a.m.). Compared to the number of homeless women on the streets, this is a drop in the bucket. In addition, there are currently FAR fewer emergency beds for single women than for men!<\/p>\n

PHONE, E-MAIL AND TEXT MESSAGE Mayor Tom Potter and Erik Sten TODAY and tell them it is unacceptable for more homeless women to be dumped on the streets of this city. While the ultimate goal is affordable housing for all, until that goal is achieved, the City must provide adequate emergency housing. If Portland can open its heart to the recent Katrina evacuees (as well it should) why not to displaced persons in our own city?<\/p>\n

Mayor Tom Potter
\nPhone: 503-823-4120
\nE-Mail: mayorpotter@ci.portland.or.us<\/a><\/p>\n

Erik Sten
\nPhone: 503-823-3589
\nE-mail: erik@ci.portland.or.us<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UPDATE: Check out this excellent related post<\/a> (including the text of an email sent to Potter and Sten) over at Malice Aforethought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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