1818 SE 82nd Ave Site – Safe Rest PDX

Site: 1818 SE 82nd Ave

On SE 82nd & SE Mill St

Project Details:

Distance to closest school: 2 blocks – >1000 feet
Distance to closest residences: >20 feet
City Zone: CE Commercial
Other: >1 block from Harrison Park & Taborvilla Little League
Project owner: Multnomah County / Joint Office of Housing Services
Project phase: No current information updates since Spring 2023

Currently leased to an RV Center, Multnomah County purchased this lot in the summer / fall of 2022, and the site could support either a safe park site for non-RV passenger vehicles or a village-style shelter with small freestanding shed-style Pallet shelters. JOHS has yet to determine the type of alternative outdoor shelter planned for this location, and no details have been released to the public.

Residents are pre-selected for both types of alternative shelters. These sites will not support drop-in services, and site operators will discourage unsanctioned camping around the property. County staff point to another JOHS-funded shelter in the Montavilla, Beacon Village as an example of what they intend to create at this site. Beacon Village opened its 10-pod village to residents in 2022 on NE Glisan Street.

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Multnomah County and the City of Portland are actively planning projects that involve your neighborhood, without your input.

As citizens and tax payers, we need transparency and a say about solutions to this crisis that have affected us so gravely in SE Portland.

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Dear Mayor Wheeler, commissioners, and county & housing services leadership,

The residents and business owners of Montavilla oppose 333 SE 82nd Ave and 1818 SE 82nd as planned safe rest projects.

82nd has long been a hub of illicit drug activity and use, prostitution, theft, gun violence, and other illegal activity, and the community bears the brunt of the policies that enable it. It is clear that the county and city are incapable of running housing projects safely, or with consideration to the communities they are planned in and directly affect. No/low barrier SRV projects in the Portland area are effectively subsidizing and exacerbating the addiction and mental illness problems that effect our houseless neighbors. We do not want another poorly-planned, rushed bandaid to a situation that needs addiction and recovery services.

The anything is better than nothing approach is hurting our communities, endangering the people it was intended to help, and wasting millions of taxpayer dollars.
This location was not approved by our community, the taxpayers that it directly affects. 
We join with our neighbors in saying NO to the proposed SRV.

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Safe Rest PDX

3055 NW Yeon Ave #908
Portland, OR 97210
montavillaneighbors@gmail.com

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333 SE 82nd Ave
1818 SE 82nd Ave

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