Nick Fish supports the discredited and abhorrent public policy of unlimited neighborhood concentration of public housing.

Nick Fish opposes the rights of Multnomah county taxpayers, voters and citizens to access public housing statistical data from the Housing Authority of Portland.

Nick Fish, a lawyer trained as a professional wordsmith, continues to purposely mislead the public by using the amorphous term "affordable" when he speaks about what he knows is, in fact, PUBLIC housing.

ALL of Nick Fish's promises below are irrelevant and designed to divert attention from his actual history of decisions which foster low-income public housing ghetto building.

Most of Nick Fish's so-called "housing advocates" listed below are people who make a living or otherwise benefit from tax dollars spent on public housing.

Nick Fish has no support from those demanding accountability for the annual spending of $200,000,000 of taxpayer contributions to the public treasury on public housing in Multnomah county.

Volume 9: April 10, 2008
Why So Many Housing Advocates Are Excited About Nick Fish
 
People throughout Portland, concerned about making the housing market affordable for families, older adults and the working-poor, are excited about Nick’s candidacy.

As Commissioner and Vice-Chair of the Housing Authority of Portland, Nick was a leader in the successful revitalization of Columbia Villa in North Portland, helping to secure a $35 million federal grant.  He also worked to deliver hundreds of units of housing in a more cost effective manner and to improve services for HAP clients.
 
Nick has a five point plan to address the housing crunch in Portland:
1. Build More Affordable Housing.  Expand the supply of housing affordable for working families, close the minority home ownership gap and preserve housing for older adults.
2. End Homelessness.  Lead the City-County 10-year Plan to End Homelessness.
3. Develop New Sources of Revenue for Housing.  Work with other housing advocates and our government partners to identify a new revenue source that can be targeted to housing.
4. End discrimination.  Bring industry and advocates together to end discrimination against low income renters.
5. Champion Innovation.  Restructure our social housing delivery system in Multnomah County to deliver affordable housing services more strategically, efficiently and at a lower cost.
That’s why Nick has been endorsed by community leaders and housing advocates across the city, including: Gretchen Kafoury, Susan Emmons, Steve Rudman, Sam Chase, Beth Kaye, Ted Gilbert, Peg Malloy and Dee Walsh.
 

If you want accountability from the Housing Authority of Portland you didn't get it from Nick Fish when he was on the HAP board and you won't get it from him if he is on the Portland city council.

If you want accountability from the Housing Authority of Portland then please send the following email to Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler, now!

To: Ted Wheeler<ted.wheeler@co.multnomah.or.us>
CC: Richard Ellmyer<ellmyer@macsolve.com>
Subject: HAP Candidacy

Dear Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler:
The interests of Multnomah county are served when authentic, accurate, complete and timely public housing statistical data from the Housing Authority of Portland is regularly placed on the public table for consideration by elected policy makers and the citizens of Multnomah county.

The interests of Multnomah county are served by a policy of equitable distribution of public housing throughout all of Multnomah county's neighborhoods.

Richard Ellmyer has demonstrated seven years of commitment to these policies. I encourage the Multnomah county commission to recommend him to the Portland city council for the position of HAP commissioner representing the interests of Multnomah county.

Sincerely,

Multnomah county voter


Richard Ellmyer
Community activist leading the campaign to stop all potentially new public housing (means test + government subsidy + rental agreement) in the Portsmouth neighborhood, especially the following:
1. Hacienda CDC public housing project on N. Newell Street (PDC ignores ICURAAC request to stop funding.)
2. The former John Ball School site (Portland Hope Meadows Corporation and commissioner Saltzman refuse to make available accurate and complete public data on funders and board members.)
3. The recently closed Clarendon School site (Temporarily defined by PPS as a "swing space.")
Standards for Equitable Distribution of Public Housing Resolution author and project champion
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: HAP-Watchers-on@goodgrowthnw.org
President, MacSolutions Inc. - A Macintosh computer consulting business providing web hosting for artists and very small businesses. Located in Portsmouth, the neighborhood with the second highest concentration of public housing clients, 30% and rising, within HAP's Multnomah county jurisdiction of 117 neighborhoods.