Home Forward, the city of Portland’s housing authority, has been unable to provide any details about its CEO’s attendance of a captive insurance conference in Hawaii in October 2024.
As WW reported last week, Home Forward CEO Ivory Mathews spent more than $100,000 over the last three years traveling to housing conferences and networking events across the country. One of those trips, in October of 2024, stood out: Mathews went to Hawaii for a six-day trip at a cost of $7,269 to the agency. She says she was there for a 4-day conference on captive insurance, a type of self-insurance that the agency adopted in 2021.
WW asked for Mathews’ itinerary for the conference, a list of which events she attended while at the conference, and any notes she took during the conference…