Community Caring Day at the Oak Leaf
Volunteers and folks from Living Cully, St. Charles Church, St Vincent De Paul and Habitat for Humanity came out and helped residents with some spring cleaning. Jobs included deconstructing mobile homes and unsafe or unnecessary structures, helping residents clean out their homes and space as well as yard work. We filled up dumpsters of debris … Read More >
Living Cully and Portland State Partner in Arts Capstone Project
By David Platt Living Cully is working in partnership with the Portland State University Capstone Program to integrate local arts into community development efforts. A diverse community of students has come together to create public art resources that build new relationships between neighborhood artists, and the Living Cully nonprofit alliance. Students have begun to … Read More >
55 homes at the Arbor mobile home park get new smoke detectors
By Gabe Triplett, St. Charles Church On April 22 St. Charles Church and Living Cully partnered with the Portland Fire Department and residents at the Arbor mobile home park to install smoke detectors in 55 homes at the Arbor. In January 2017, there was a fatal fire in a mobile home Cully, highlighting the … Read More >
Employment Needs in Cully
Portland State sociologists, in partnership with Living Cully and Verde, will be conducting research on the unmet employment needs of people in the Cully neighborhood. To better understand these needs, PSU researchers will be out in the Cully neighborhood holding brief 5 to 10 minute interviews with low-income residents. The interviews will discuss resident’s ideal … Read More >
Zumba, Sewing, Music and more!
Even though it might still look the same from the outside, Living Cully Plaza has been a hive of community activity since it was acquired by Living Cully partners in 2015. Most recently the Plaza has been home to free community classes including Zumba, free community Son Jarocho music classes, and sewing classes! Since November … Read More >
Active Transportation Curriculum Launched at NAYA
By Holly Swendig Nestor Campos, Verde Education Coordinator, in collaboration with OMSI and with funding from Metro’s Nature in Neighborhoods grant program, developed a series of classes called PATH, Promoting Active Transportation and Health for students in Cully. The series began as nine classes and has been adapted to be taught in High Schools and … Read More >
Cully Housing Action Team Recognized for Work on Successful Yes for Affordable Homes Campaign!
The Cully Housing Action Team (CHAT!) organized 129 volunteers to knock on doors and do outreach at community events in order to help pass Portland’s first-ever affordable housing bond, measure 26-179. Between July and election day in November, CHAT organized 7 canvasses and 9 outreach events. We knocked on over 1300 doors in Cully! The … Read More >
Verde Adds Four Women to Landscape Crew
November 2016. Rosalia Flores, Zoemy Tuz, Claudia Gonzalez and Manuela Interian all joined the Verde Lanscape crew as temporary on-call employees to work as a part of Verde’s social enterprise landscape crew. The majority of the work will be on the Cully Park project to help with the planting and earthscaping that is ramping up in the … Read More >
Oak Leaf Mobile Home Park purchased by non-profit partnership with funding from Portland Housing Bureau
Preservation of affordable housing in Cully neighborhood ends threat of eviction and homelessness for residents who organized to save their homes NE KILLINGSWORTH ST, PORTLAND – Residents of the Oak Leaf Mobile Home Park in Northeast Portland’s Cully neighborhood are breathing a sigh of relief after the park was purchased last week by a coalition … Read More >
Work, Live and Create Community: Habitat for Humanity’s Work-Live Project in Cully
Lizet Molina is thrilled that she will have a safe, stable home at Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East’s Helensview community in Cully. As she says “as a single mom, to be able to have a stable place for my son is a great starting point for both of us, my dream is for us to … Read More >