A former San Francisco housing official has been chosen as Baltimore’s director of the Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services, Mayor Brandon Scott announced Tuesday. Irene Agustin, the former director of coordinated entry and problem solving for San Francisco, will head the city’s office starting in June, Scott wrote in a news release. Agustin will replace Acting Director Tisha Edwards, who .
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Emotions Well Up in a Debate Over How to Best Help Portland’s Homeless Being flush with money brings problems, and city and county leaders are fighting over how to best use their share of the money that metro-area voters approved last May. Local officials are split on how best to aid people living on Portland streets. (Wesley Lapointe) Updated May 12 By now, no one is surprised when an argument about how to address homelessness in Portland spurs high emotions and harsh words. It’s more unusual for a public hearing to leave an elected official in tears.
A meeting of a community board that helps guide regional solutions to homelessness underscored concerns last week around a shelter proposal pitched by Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran. The virtual Wednesday meeting of the A Home For Everyone (AHFE) Coordinating Board—which oversees the collaborative work being done by governments in the Portland metro region to address homelessness—centered on Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury's proposed county budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year. That budget suggests using.