Multnomah County, Oregon, which includes the majority of Portland, plans to spend nearly $300 million on explicitly race-conscious programs over the next year, documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show, including a program that aims to house minority veterans “at rates equal to or greater than their white peers.”
The documents, which include the county’s proposed FY2027 budget as well as internal “equity” metrics, illustrate the scale of taxpayer-funded race discrimination in the greater Portland area, where “BIPOC” residents receive priority access to counseling, housing assistance, and rent relief.
Nearly $50 million has been budgeted for programs that appear to exclude white people entirely, according to a Free Beacon analysis. An additional $248 million will go to programs that use racial preferences or are geared toward race-conscious outcomes, such as the county’s street outreach program, which indicates that “BIPOC” homeless people should be “referred to shelter at rates as high or higher than non-Hispanic whites.”
The budget also includes $1.5 million for a housing program that is “culturally specific to the Black/African American community”; $1.75 million for a program that connects black and Hispanic parolees with “culturally specific Corrections Counselors”; $2 million for a “Construction Diversity and Equity Fund” that “dismantles systemic barriers by redistributing resources to women and people of color”; and $18.4 million for “supportive housing for Native American, Black/African American, Latinx, Somali, and immigrant and Refugee populations.”
Another program, targeted at minority veterans in need of housing, will receive nearly $1 million if Multnomah’s Board of County Commissioners votes to approve the budget on June 4.
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A majority of the race-based spending—more than $200 million—flows through the county’s Homeless Services Department, which maintains detailed “equity” targets for all its programs. At least 28 programs aim to ensure that each of the five “BIPOC participant groups”—black, Asian, Hispanic, American Indian, and Pacific Islander—access services “at a rate equal to or greater than their share of the total homeless population,” according to data obtained by the Free Beacon. That number doesn’t include the street outreach program, which tracks how many “BIPOC” individuals are referred to shelters relative to whites, and whose budget is set to double this year.
The budget will also dole out $9.5 million on the health department director’s office, which measures the “# of culturally specific and multicultural community partners and events that promote health equity,” and $1.7 million on the Office of Sustainability, which attributes “climate destabilization” to the “historical and ongoing harms of racism and colonialism.”
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