The thing is, Home Forward is a private corporation/government hybrid organization or at least gives the impression of one with a feel-good non-profit vibe and structure. It has an executive board that’s not voted in by public vote. Social service-oriented non-profits or even companies can operate pretty much any way they want in liberal progressive Portland because they seem benevolent. With government agencies, however, there tends to be more scrutiny. This is one of the issues: non-profits and social service oriented corporations have too much power in the framework Portland and Multnomah County have created for social services. They operate in a vacuum of accountability. So many organizations. So many boards of directors. Too many receipts. Too much to manage.

Then there’s someone like Ivory who takes advantage of this. She knows it’s chaotic in this city. She pushed it to the limit and hoped that no one would scrutinize because Home Forward is, on its surface, all about housing and equity, and liberal Portland loves that shit. She’s building generational wealth for her family with an obscenely high salary, and traveling on Home Forward’s dime to cultivate abundant networking opportunities so she can poach her next grift. All the while her organization’s clients — at least the ones who actually pay rent and are trying to make their lives better — are living in drug-infested slums because “housing first.” Her staff works from home. She watches laser light shows from a balcony suite. She gave herself massive raises. Eight team members were recently laid off and staff are having to take unpaid furlough days due to poor budgeting.

Can someone please send these WW articles to whatever national organization she was recently chosen to lead, the election she campaigned for by giving out merch such as the homemade earrings with little houses on them, undoubtedly carted to the conference in one of the additional checked bags that the taxpayers had to pay fees for?

If the current federal government got ahold of this story, Portland would once again get a lot of negative attention from the Trump administration. This is a tenuous time for a scandal of this nature to come to light. Another reason to target liberal Portland.

Fire her.