Hi Housing Authority of Portland Chair Lee Moore Et. Al.:
Portland police officer Willie Halliburton has engaged me in a public conversation regarding the quantity and kind of HAP clients at New Columbia and elsewhere* . To advance this public debate I am making, on officer Willie Halliburton's behalf, the following Public Records request:
Report #1. HAP Public Housing Program
A tab delimited text file with the following fields: 1. Age 2. Gender 3. Income 4. Neighborhood 5. Last Modification Date, for ALL clients in this database.
Report #2. HAP Section 8 Housing Voucher Program
A tab delimited text file with the following fields: 1. Age 2. Gender 3. Income 4. Neighborhood 5. Last Modification Date, for ALL clients in this database.
Report #3. New Columbia in North Portland's Portsmouth Neighborhood Program
A tab delimited text file with the following fields: 1. Age 2. Gender 3. Income 4. Neighborhood 5. Last Modification Date, for ALL HAP public housing clients (means test + government subsidy + rental agreement) living in New Columbia as of June 1, 2010.
Report #4. HAP Affordable Housing Program
A tab delimited text file, including the total number of public housing (means test + government subsidy + rental agreement) HAP clients living in all of HAP's 32 properties in Multnomah county as of June 1, 2010, with the following fields: 1. Age 2. Gender 3. Income 4. Neighborhood 5. Last Modification Date.
Despite the fact that the Multnomah County District Attorney, Mike Schrunk, has previously alerted you to the gaping loophole in the Oregon Public Records Law that says as long as HAP does NOT respond to a Public Records Law request the Multnomah County District Attorney will NOT get involved in enforcing the law, in this circumstance it would clearly be in HAP's interest to quickly respond.
I am quite sure that the charges to provide the Public Housing Statistical Data, which HAP has required in the past of individual citizen taxpayers, would be paid by officer Halliburton or the Portland Police Bureau or the mayor's office in their efforts to place all relevant material on the public table for discussion and debate regarding public safety in New Columbia, the Portsmouth neighborhood, North Portland and HAP housing wherever it may be in Multnomah county.
This information will also be not only useful but NECESSARY with regard to implementing the Obama administrations new Public Housing legislation designed to DECENTRALIZE Public Housing known as PETRA, the Preservation, Enhancement, and Transformation of Rental Assistance Act of 2010**.
Mayor Adams has promised a second public meeting on the matter of Public Safety in New Columbia, the Portsmouth neighborhood and North Portland next week. Considering that ALL of HAP's 33,000 client records would be reasonably expected as a matter of accountability and responsible business practices to be on computers under HAP's control, the request made on officer Halliburton's behalf should take only a matter of minutes to complete and then be distributed to interested parties and posted on HAP's website BEFORE this meeting.
Please forward your response to all recipients of this message.
Thank you.
Richard Ellmyer
35 Year Homeowner and Small Business Owner in Portsmouth Neighborhood.
Standards for Equitable Distribution of Public Housing Resolution author and project champion.
Writer/Publisher - HAP Watchers commentary - Published on the Internet (http://www.goodgrowthnw.org) and distributed to thousands of readers interested in public housing policy in Multnomah County. To subscribe send request to hwcomments@goodgrowthnw.org
* http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story_2nd.php?story_id=127791880831366000]