St. Vincent de Paul secures funding to purchase the Arbor Mobile Home Park!
We did it! On Friday, March 1st, the Oregon Housing Stability Council unanimously voted YES to approve $4.3 million in state funds for St. Vincent de Paul (SVDP) to purchase the Arbor Mobile Home Park and keep rents affordable. St. Vincent de Paul expects to become the owner of the Arbor at the end of … Read More >
Solar Power with a Social Purpose: Installing Solar Panels at St. Charles Church in Cully
Everyone deserves access to the solar energy movement that is sweeping across rooftops in Portland and nation-wide; however, this movement disproportionately benefits white neighborhoods, according to a recent study from Tufts University and University of California, Berkeley. That is why Verde, in collaboration with the Cully community, Living Cully Partners, St. Charles Church, and Pacific … Read More >
Brenna Bailey says farewell to Living Cully!
Dear Neighbors and Friends, Many of you may have heard by now that I am leaving my job with Living Cully as Community Organizer for the Mobile Home Program, and as the After-School Coordinator at Rigler Elementary school. For the next few months I am heading to Arizona to volunteer near the border, and then … Read More >
Verde Launches a New Solar Energy After School Program in Cully
In response to The Living Cully Community Energy plan, Verde and Hacienda CDC’s after school program Expresiones have teamed up to launch a pilot Solar energy curriculum here in the Cully Neighborhood. The Living Cully Community Energy Plan is a neighborhood-scale energy plan that identifies energy conservation and energy generation pilots for the Cully neighborhood. … Read More >
Verde presents the Living Cully Community Mobility Needs Assessment
EVs, Uber and Lyft, Bird, Autonomous Vehicles – our options for getting around are quickly changing and expanding. Living Cully is interested in understanding how these new technologies can help Cully residents meet community needs. For this reason, Living Cully developed the “Living Cully Community Mobility Needs Assessment.” The assessment focuses on “Clean Mobility.” Clean … Read More >
VICTORY! City Council said YES to Mobile Home Zoning
City Council voted 5-0 on August 22nd to adopt the manufactured housing park zoning ordinance! Thank you for your support throughout this campaign. The testimony and turnout at the public hearings and written testimony to the PSC and City Council were decisive. The new zoning went into effect immediately, and is already helping to protect 56 mobile home … Read More >
10 Tips for Preparing for Emergency
With increasing climate disasters and exposure to industry hazards, emergency scenarios are becoming a recurring reality. The five-alarm fire at a scrapyard in Cully last March was a grave reminder that low-income and people of color communities face these disasters more often, due to disproportionate exposure to hazards from the natural and built environments, like … Read More >
Mobile Home Zoning Approved by Planning Commission
Proposal to protect homes for 3,000 low-income families now goes to City Council for final adoption July 10, 2018 — The Portland Planning and Sustainability Commission (PSC) voted today to support a new zoning measure that would help preserve 56 manufactured housing parks in the City of Portland. If approved later this summer by City … Read More >
Cully Park Grand Opening: Celebrating Years of Community Leadership
Come celebrate the Grand Opening of Cully Park on Saturday, June 30th, from 11–4 p.m.! The event will feature live performances from groups like Dina y Los Rumberos, Native American drumming and storytelling, youth nature activities led by the Columbia Slough Watershed Council, soccer clinics and more! The event is free, family-friendly and open to … Read More >
Mobile Home Zoning Vote Postponed to July 10
On Tuesday June 12, approximately 200 mobile home residents and supporters packed a hearing of the Planning and Sustainability Commission (PSC) to call for a YES vote on a proposal to protect Portland’s 56 mobile home parks with a new zoning designation. At the end of the meeting, the PSC postponed the vote until its … Read More >