On this day, May 5, 1903, James Beard, US culinary expert, author (Delights & Prejudices), was born in Portland, Ore.
Also on this day, May 5, 1945, A Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing Mrs. Elsie Mitchell, the pregnant wife of a minister, and five children after they attempted to drag it out the woods in Lakeview, Oregon. The balloon was armed, and exploded soon after they began tampering with it. They became the 1st and only known American civilians to be killed in the continental US during World War II.
Also on this day, May 5, 1945, Bly minister Archie Mitchell, his pregnant wife Elsie, and five children from Mitchell's Sunday school class were on a Saturday morning picnic. Thirteen miles northeast of Bly, or about sixty miles northeast of Klamath Falls, Mitchell parked the car, and Elsie and the children headed to Leonard Creek. Mitchell later remembered: "As I got out of the car to bring the lunch, the others were not far away and called to me they had found something that looked like a balloon. I heard of Japanese balloons so I shouted a warning not to touch it. But just then there was a big explosion. I ran up there--and they were all dead." It was a Japanese balloon bomb. They were 70 feet tall with a 33-foot diameter paper canopy connected to the main device by shroud lines. Balloons inflated with hydrogen followed the jet stream at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
Oregon wants to spend more on unpaid rent
Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) and Local Program
Administrators (LPAs) still
continue to process applications for the
Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program (OERAP).
As of Dec. 8, OHCS and LPAs have paid $170.2 million in federal emergency rental assistance
to 24,705 applicants, up from $157.5 million and 23,155 applicants from the previous week. OERAP is ranked 6th in the nation
nation for housing assistance, in the percentage of ERA funds paid out and obligated, as tracked by the
National Low Income Housing Coalition.
OHCS is partnered with Public Partnerships LLC (PPL) on the project.
Currently, 150 PPL staff are processing applications with a focus on applications outside the
60-/90-day safe harbor period. In the past week, PPL processed close to 850 applications,
exceeding their 500-application target. This is in addition to the applications paid out by
Community Action Agencies working across the state to finish paying out ERA 1 funds.
To date, OHCS and LPAs have:
- Paid $170,274,579 to landlords and tenants to help 24,705 Oregon households
- Processed and obligated an additional $21.1 million in funds for 2,465 households
- Received more than 58,849 completed applications
About 22,470 applications are in the review process. The 60-/90-day window of protection
begins when a tenant shows proof they applied for the program. However, this data is not
currently available.
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
As proxy, OHCS is tracking when a tenant completes an OERAP application
and the number of applicants who have not been paid outside of the 60-day window (90 days in
Multnomah County and unincorporated areas of Washington County). Applications outside the
60-/90-day window are being moved from the LPA in their county to PPL.
Multnomah County is not included in this as a comparison because they have a 90-day window.
Their average processing time is 75 days. On average, PPL processed applications within an
estimated 57 days from when they received the application.
--Bruce Armstrong| Post Date: 2021-12-13 14:46:11 | Last Update: 2021-12-13 21:11:15 |
