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In May the nonprofit Central City Concern shipped 175 of them to the city's newest affordable housing project, Bud Clark Commons in Old Town Chinatown. The beds keep bedbugs from crawling onto people while they sleep. Officials hope the beds are one more tool to slow the bedbug onslaught. Brand-new beds were unveiled at the housing project's grand opening Thursday. In the last few decades, bedbug infestations in Portland and across the country have shot up dramatically. The uptick has been particularly felt by organizations that provide affordable housing. Bugs often infest beds in affordable housing units or shelters and, in addition to making residents' lives miserable, can be so costly to control that the bed is often just thrown out. Which is why Central City teamed up with the Pesznecker Brothers, metal fabricators from Clackamas, to invent a solution. The bed features an ultra-slippery coating, splayed legs that push the bed away from walls that bedbugs might climb, an angled metal frame that the bugs can't bore into and a mattress sealed in medical-grade nylon.
Priced at about $500 for the frame and mattress, the bug-resistant beds cost about the same as any bed, said Paul Clithero , development and licensing adviser for Central City. "By word of mouth in the affordable housing community, we've been selling hundreds of these here in Portland," Clithero said. So far, the beds have also been sold to local nonprofits, including REACH Community Development, Innovative Housing, Cascadia Behavioral Health Care and Transition Projects Incorporated. With a patent in the works, Central City hopes eventually to market the beds nationwide. As creepy as bedbugs are, they haven't been found to spread diseases. No one knows precisely how much the population is exploding here. What is known is they now are resistant to many heavy-duty pesticides which had virtually wiped them out by the 1960s. With the resurgence, though, a lack of tracking has hampered government agencies, said Multnomah County Commissioner Deborah Kafoury. But with other officials Kafoury is working to craft a counter attack.
After a bedbug summit in March, the county put together a task force to educate the public on avoiding infestations. She said it begins with treating bedbugs as a public health issue. "There are people that have severe allergic reactions, there are negative physical and mental health aspects including anxiety and insomnia that can occur," she said. "Where is the one place that you want to feel safe? That's in your bed." But the bedbug-resistant bed won't be enough, said Robert McMaster, president of Halt Pest Control in Beaverton. He says that until people in affordable housing units understand how bedbugs spread and actively keep them out of a living area, infestations will continue to be a nuisance. Still, some groups are so beset by bedbugs, they are willing to give the beds a chance, even if they are only part of the answer. Jim Hlava, vice president of housing at Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, said one of their affordable housing buildings required $30,000 worth of treatment in one year after a particularly nasty infestation.
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