Monthly Archives: December 2016
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 >