WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:01:44.6390000" NOTE recognizability:0.856 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.84109455 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.610 Brandi Tuck is the executive NOTE Confidence: 0.84109455 00:00:02.610 --> 00:00:05.220 director at Portland Homeless Family NOTE Confidence: 0.84109455 00:00:05.307 --> 00:00:07.876 Solutions and is on a mission to NOTE Confidence: 0.84109455 00:00:07.880 --> 00:00:10.328 empower homeless families with children to NOTE Confidence: 0.84109455 00:00:10.328 --> 00:00:13.380 get back into housing and stay there. Her NOTE Confidence: 0.84109455 00:00:13.380 --> 00:00:15.345 team helps with homeless prevention NOTE Confidence: 0.84109455 00:00:15.345 --> 00:00:17.308 programs, wrap around, support any NOTE Confidence: 0.84109455 00:00:17.308 --> 00:00:20.058 family village shelter. It is the first NOTE Confidence: 0.84109455 00:00:20.060 --> 00:00:22.418 shelter in Oregon designed using trauma, NOTE Confidence: 0.84109455 00:00:22.420 --> 00:00:23.992 informed design and architecture, NOTE Confidence: 0.84109455 00:00:23.992 --> 00:00:26.350 we have room for up to NOTE Confidence: 0.84109455 00:00:26.350 --> 00:00:28.320 17 families at a time. NOTE Confidence: 0.84109455 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:30.756 The nonprofit serves more than 1000 NOTE Confidence: 0.84109455 00:00:30.756 --> 00:00:33.138 kids and parents. Each year and NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:00:33.140 --> 00:00:35.450 she says the need has skyrocketed. NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:00:35.450 --> 00:00:37.380 Anecdotally, if you look around, NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:00:37.380 --> 00:00:40.674 it looks like there has been a huge increase NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:00:40.674 --> 00:00:43.528 our wait list for shelter has increased NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:00:43.528 --> 00:00:46.646 by 50% over the last couple of years. NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:00:46.646 --> 00:00:49.384 Now more cash is headed their way. NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:00:49.384 --> 00:00:53.208 This is by far the largest grant we have ever NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:00:53.210 --> 00:00:55.140 received in our organization's history. NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:00:55.140 --> 00:00:56.680 $2.5 million from the NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:00:56.680 --> 00:00:58.605 Basil's Day One Family fund, NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:00:58.610 --> 00:01:00.926 Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:01:00.930 --> 00:01:03.070 created the program in 2018. NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:01:03.070 --> 00:01:04.835 To fund organizations that help NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:01:04.835 --> 00:01:06.247 homeless families taxes Portland NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:01:06.247 --> 00:01:07.470 homeless family solutions. NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:01:07.470 --> 00:01:09.786 We use the grant over five NOTE Confidence: 0.84309894 00:01:09.786 --> 00:01:11.880 years is about $500,000 a year NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:11.880 --> 00:01:13.956 to scale up and serve more NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:13.956 --> 00:01:16.280 families than we ever have before. NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:18.255 And we're also increasing our NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:18.255 --> 00:01:19.835 housing rapid rehousing capacity NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:19.835 --> 00:01:22.404 to be able to help those families NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:22.404 --> 00:01:23.812 move from homelessness back NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:25.459 into housing and then stay NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:25.460 --> 00:01:26.924 there permanently. It's much NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:26.924 --> 00:01:28.754 needed support toward a solution. NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:30.600 I think housing is a NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:30.600 --> 00:01:32.430 basic human right and the NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:32.430 --> 00:01:33.528 solution to homelessness. NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:33.530 --> 00:01:35.226 While it can include. NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:35.226 --> 00:01:37.770 Things like shelter and organized camping. NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:37.770 --> 00:01:39.960 The solution to homelessness is NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:39.960 --> 00:01:42.150 helping people move back into NOTE Confidence: 0.8864508 00:01:42.227 --> 00:01:44.638 housing Crystal Conway. KGW news.