N/NE Neighborhood Housing Strategy: How should 20 million dollars be used?

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Mon, 09/15/2014 - 8:00am to 9:00am
N/NE Neighborhood Housing Strategy: How should 20 million dollars be used?

Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Traci Manning and Leslie A. Goodlow of the Portland Housing Bureau and Bishop Steven Holt, Lead Pastor of the The International Fellowship Family and member of the Community Advisory Committee to the North-Northeast Neighborhood Housing Strategy, about the the N/NE Neighborhood Housing Strategy.
 
The project is a $20 million financing initiative in North/Northeast Portland over the next five years. The effort is focused in the Interstate Corridor Urban Renewal Area in response to the community’s well documented need for affordable housing and other investments in neighborhoods most impacted by displacement.

While the funds, along with those previously budgeted and programmed, will mostly be used to invest in buildings, the process for determining how and where to spend the money provides an opportunity to engage community members in ways that begin to address a long history of institutional racism and displacement of residents and businesses.

You can attend a Community Forum:

Thursday 9/18/14 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at Highland Christian Center
Saturday 9/27/14 from 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. at Matt Dishman Community Center
Thursday 10/9/14 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at Gresham City Hall
Saturday 10/11/14 from 9:00 a.m. – Noon at New Song Community Church
 
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