WHAT: Native American Housing to Homeownership Fair
WHEN: Saturday, July 26th, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
WHERE: NAYA Family Center, 5135 NE Columbia Blvd., Portland, OR 97218
NAYA Family Center invites you to Portland’s Third Annual Native American Housing to Homeownership Fair!

• Win a $2,500 Down Payment Assistance Raffle.
• Win a $400 Rent Assistance Raffle.
• Attend workshops on affordable housing, first time home buying, foreclosure prevention and financial assistance programs.
• Meet with banks, realtors, homeownership professionals, & Tribal Housing Authorities - get info on the Section 184 Indian Home Loan Guarantee program.
• Find community resources and services you can use.
• Enjoy a free lunch, play at the kid’s corner, and enter the raffle for prizes and more!

For additional information please contact Sara Libby at the NAYA Family Center: 503-288-8177 X232, saral@nayapdx.org.

Click here for the flyer: Native American Housing to Homeownership Fair

Community volunteers and sponsoring companies will repair homes for senior and disabled homeowners in outer southeast Portland.

Looking for ways to get involved?  We need cash, trades and general labor skills for projects including:   Carpentry - Electrical - Plumbing - Painting - Yard Clean-up - Basic Home Repair - and More!

Visit our website for more details and to sign up online.

For questions regarding trades labor, contact Anastasia Howard 503-231-0682 ext 148.  

If your company would like to be an event sponsor, contact Laura Koch at ext. 131

REACH’s Community Builders Program:  For over a decade, the Community Builders Program has provided free home repairs for Portland’s seniors and persons with disabilities, helping them lead safe and fulfilling lives.  Our program has served more than 1,000 homeowners and completed over 3,500 repairs with the goal of improving 200 low-income homes annually.

The economy has changed and the housing market has gone through upheaval.But what hasn’t changed is this: Working families are still looking for homes where they can raise families and build lives.

On Saturday, June 7, from 1-3 p.m., ROSE Community Development Corp. will be staging an “Open House” showing of its recently completed Woodmere Condo Homes development on Southeast 81st Ave. www.rosecdc.org

These roomy new 3-bedroom homes are available to qualified buyers for just $185,000. That price includes a built in stove, refrigerator, dishwasher and garbage disposal, making them the ideal starter homes. The units have 3.5 bathrooms.

The Woodmere Condo Homes are located just three blocks from Woodmere Elementary School on SE 81st Avenue near Duke Street. The Portland Schools Foundation awarded Woodmere Elementary with the 2008 Excellence in Education Award.

ROSE Community Development has served Outer Southeast Portland since 1992, ROSE works to provide stable housing and help grow successful neighborhoods.

What: Open House tour of Woodmere Condo Homes
When: Saturday, June 7, 2008, from 1-3 p.m.
Where: 6738A SE 81st Ave.
Why: Everyone needs a safe, stable place to live.

Woodmere Condos Flyer

Lents Field of Dreams

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS
Thursdays
May 1st & May 22nd
7:00 PM
Wattles Boys & Girls Club
9330 SE Harold

ROSE Community Development, a community-based nonprofit, is planning a proposal for the re-development of the ball fields at SE 92nd & Harold. This site is currently owned by the Portland Development Commission, which will be making a decision on development proposals later this year.

Attend a workshop, find out what’s happening & tell us what you want to see…Homes? Shopping? Cafe? Community Center? Services? Something Else?

For more information, contact
Amie Diffenauer at ROSE:
503-788-8052 x105
amie@rosecdc.org
www.rosecdc.org

(This Community Workshop is not a PDC-sponsored event.  Rose has not been selected as the development team.  PDC will issue a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to solicit proposals from development teams no earlier than summer 2008.  The RFQ process is intended to generate interest from many development teams, all of whom will be rated competitively.)

From Sue Lewis and Justin Douglas at PDC:

It has recently come to PDC’s attention that Rose Community Development intends to host a “community workshop” regarding the PDC-owned property at SE 92nd Avenue and SE Harold Street in the Lents Town Center Urban Renewal Area.

We are encouraged to hear that Rose is interested in potential redevelopment of this site. However, we want to be very clear with the URAC that:

1. The Community Workshop is not a PDC-sponsored event.
2. Rose has not been selected as the development team.
3. PDC will issue a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to solicit proposals from development teams no earlier than summer 2008.
4. The RFQ process is intended to generate interest from many development teams, all of whom will be rated competitively.

If you have any questions about the RFQ process please contact Justin Douglas, 503-823-4579, or douglasj at pdc.us

The previous message is meant to clarify any confusion about PDCs involvement and progress regarding the 92nd and Harold site that may have resulted from Rose’s recent outreach effort. Rose is in the process of researching and gathering information in order to be considered as one of the potential developers for the 92nd and Harold site. They will be holding community forums on May 1st and 22nd at 7pm at the Wattles Boys and Girls club.

Justin Douglas of the PDC, area consultants and a Citizen’s Advisory Committee are currently in the process of organizing and advising about the future use of the 92nd and Harold site. No developer will be selected until this process is complete and the PDC issues the resulting Request for Qualifications.

Do you feel that our community is well ordered? Do you feel that local residents, associations and institutions each play their proper, balanced role in our community?

This introductory session will provide insights and ideas that local residents, neighborhood associations, churches, non-profit organizations, civic bodies and more can use to hone the role they play in the community.

“ABCD is like a closet organizer to make sense of the messiness of community life.” John McKnight, Co-Director, Asset-Based Community Development Institute http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/people/mcknight.html. “Strong communities know that they need everyone to give their gifts if the community is to thrive. It is true: there is no one we don’t need.” Mike Green, When People Care Enough to Act (2006 Inclusion Press)

ABCD: An Introduction is an early evening session with Mike Green, an ABCD Institute faculty member with over 20 years of community organizing, consulting and training experience, and an author of When People Care Enough to Act (2006 Inclusion Press).

When: Monday, April 28, 5pm to 7pm

Where: Parklane Church, 16001 SE Main St., Portland, OR 97233

Food: A light “pizza and salad” dinner will be available.

Cost: $10 at the door. Scholarships, group rates, and outright free admission is available. No one will be turned away.

Pre-Registration is required so we can have an appropriate amount of food available. Email info@epno.org or call Teresa at EPNO 503-823-4550.

This event is being hosted by the East Portland Asset Based Community Development Study Group, which is a new, growing circle of individuals, associations, and institutions that support the use ABCD in east Portland.

The study group first met on March 6th, 2008 and is currently made up of individuals tied to Imagine NW!, East Portland Neighborhood Office, Human Solutions, Centennial Community Association, Eastminster Presbyterian Church, ROSE CDC, Hazelwood Neighborhood Association, East Portland Action Plan Committee, Glenfair Neighborhood Association, Harold Oliver Primary SUN, Parklane Church, and Parkrose Neighborhood Association.

Learn more about Mike Green at: http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/abcd/faculty/green/ and http://www.mike-green.org/.

Sponsored by Imagine NW!, East Portland Neighborhood Office, and Parklane Church.

lents-flyer.pdf

There still is space available! Come have a say in what the area under I-205 between Foster and Woostock should look like.

Saturday, April 26th at 8:30 am - 3:30 pm at Lent Elementary school. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Please RSVP to lents2008 at yahoo.com

FREE workshop on lead poisoning prevention, toy lead screening, and blood lead testing.

Topics include:

• How to protect your children from lead.
• Get your toys tested for lead.
• How to clean lead-safe.
• Receive a FREE kit of cleaning and lead testing supplies worth over $30!
• Blood lead screening for children, pregnant women, and nursing mothers.

Sponsored by: Lents Homeownership Initiative, ROSE Community Development, Kelly SUN Community School, Portland Development Commission, Community Energy Project, and Josiah Hill III (Kelly SUN Community School is a collaborative effort of Portland Impact, Multnomah County and Portland Parks and Recreation)

Leave a legacy!
The space under I-205 between Foster and Woodstock is our canvas for establishing an icon for Lents. The Lents Community is having a design workshop for the community to develop possible gateway art pieces for Lents. This is really a capstone to all the efforts that have been going on to revitalize and renew the Lents Town Center. Now it is our turn as Lents community members to design a wonderful landmark.

What is it exactly?
The area under I-205 between Foster and Woodstock is probably one of the most high-traffic areas in Lents, but ever since the freeway was built, there has been nothing there but weeds. We have an opportunity to consider possible uses for this space and to give this icon the greatest visibility to the rest of the world. Thanks to the consent of ODOT, we have the opportunity to consider possible uses for this space.

How is it going to happen?
Metro Councilor Robert Liberty has secured a fellowship grant from Harvard University for two design experts to come to Lents and help facilitate our efforts. Charles McKinney is the Chief of Design of capital projects for the New York City Parks Department, and Craig Barton is the Chair of the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Virginia Barton and McKinney will be facilitating an all-day design workshop with 40-50 Lents community members on Saturday, April 26th. All Lents community (and a few select surrounding community) members are invited.

The details are:
When: Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 8:30 am until 3:30 pm
Where: Please note: THE LOCATION HAS CHANGED.
Lent Elementary School, 5105 SE 97th Ave.
Bring: an open-mind. We will go over the particulars about what can and cannot be done at the site.

From there, it is up to the unbridled creativity of Lents community members to come up with an icon for Lents.

RSVP: Send an e-mail to lents2008 at yahoo.com with your name, address and phone number