In the News
May 30, 2018 // Next City: Local Artists Will Point the Way to Portland’s Newest Park
May 17, 2018 // Metro: 9 projects are awarded placemaking grants to enhance communities, share culture
March 30, 2017 // Metro: Cully calls for safe connections; Region responds with $2.2 million
July 4, 2018 // Willamette Week: A Five-Alarm Fire at a Junkyard Sent Toxic Smoke Billowing Through a Portland Residential Neighborhood.
June 14, 2018 // Grounded Podcast: A Community Energy Plan for Cully
May 28, 2018 // KBOO Community Radio: Building a Healthy Neighborhood in Cully
August 23, 2018 // The Oregonian: Portland approves plan to preserve mobile home parks
August 22, 2018 // Oregon Public Broadcasting: Portland Approves Protection for Mobile Home Parks
August 22, 2018 // Portland Tribune: Portland enacts new zone to prevent redevelopment of mobile home parks
August 22, 2018 // Oregon Public Broadcasting: Will Rezoning Portland’s Manufactured Home Parks Help Save Them?
August 21, 2018 // Portland Tribune: Council mulls rezoning to shield residents of affordable mobile home parks
July 17, 2018 // Portland Tribune: City rezone seeks to protect 3,000 families in mobile home parks
June 12, 2018 // The Oregonian: Portland zoning changes could help preserve affordable mobile home parks
May 16, 2018 // Willamette Week: Portland Planners Aim to Protect Trailer Parks From Being Developed for More Lucrative Uses
July 20, 2017 // Multnomah County: Rising rents force families into one move after another
May 31, 2017 // Multnomah County: Uprooted: How Portland’s roaring economy is pushing working families out
May 24, 2017 // Portland Tribune: Activist group shames landlord who hiked rent of 18 Northeast Portland families
May 10, 2017 // Oregon Public Broadcasting: After Rent Doubled, This Portland Family Found A New Home In Their Neighbor’s Backyard
May 2, 2017 // Associated Press: Prosperous Oregon considers historic renter protection law
February 25, 2017 // Portland Tribune: Cully residents march against rent spikes
February 25, 2017 // Oregon Public Broadcasting: Hundreds March In Northeast Portland Rally To Protest Rent Hikes
February 25, 2017 // KOIN: Renters march against rent increases in NE Portland
February 24, 2017 // KBOO: ICE, & renters in danger of losing their homes – the impacts on Latino families
February 12, 2017 // Oregon Public Broadcasting: Meet The Wealthy Investors Buying Cheap Portland Apartment Buildings
February 2, 2017 // The Oregonian: County to pay rent for 26 Portland children so they don’t have to change schools
February 2, 2017 // KOIN: Families get Multnomah Co help after rent doubles
January 25, 2017 // KATU: ‘I was brought to tears’: Tenants at Portland apartment complex face 100% rent hike
January 25, 2017 // KOIN: Families ‘could end up on street’ as rent is doubled
January 25, 2017 // KGW: Rent doubles in one day at NE Portland apartments
January 24, 2017 // Willamette Week: A 100 Percent Rent Hike at a Northeast Portland Apartment Building Could Force 26 Rigler Elementary School Students to Move
Jan 24, 2017 // The Oregonian: Northeast Portland families face tough choice after new owner more than doubles their rent
October 1, 2015 // Street Roots: Portland must choose to end displacement injustice
September 24, 2015 // Street Roots: Keep Portland renters in their homes; it’s an emergency
July 29, 2015 // Portland Business Journal: City will consider adopting affordable housing, anti-displacement language into comprehensive plan
July 29, 2015 // Oregon Public Broadcasting: Portland Leaders Support Anti-Displacement Proposals
June 25, 2015 // Oregon Public Broadcasting: Anti-Displacement Coalition Argues For City Changes
June 24, 2015 // Portland Tribune: Panel starts adding anti-gentrification planks in Portland comprehensive plan
June 18, 2015 // Portland Tribune: 11-point plan strives to slow gentrification
November 6, 2017: So long, Sugar Shack: Affordable housing planned at Living Cully Plaza
November 13, 2015: Community eyesore getting face-lift by women learning construction trade
November 10, 2015: Portland Business Journal, Tradeswomen deconstruct Sugar Shack strip club for neighborhood development in Cully
November 6, 2015: Daily Journal of Commerce, Women dismantle ex-strip club
November 5, 2015: KGW, Women break into construction industry with training program
October 1, 2015: Street Roots, Sugar Shack deal a sweet opportunity for Portland’s Cully neighborhood
August 11, 2015: Portland Tribune, Sour on Sugar Shack, Cully neighbors unite to shut it down
July 15, 2015: KATU, Community cleans up former strip club site
July 15, 2015: KOIN, Cully neighbors clean up Sugar Shack
July 8, 2015: Oregonian, Sugar Shack property in Northeast Portland sold to Cully group for $2.3 million
July 7, 2015: KOIN, Former strip club to become community space
July 6, 2015: OPB, Neighborhood coalition plans to redevelop Cully strip club
July 3, 2015: KATU, Sugar Shack Portland strip club building bought by Cully Neighborhood organization
June 30, 2015: El Hispanic News, Cully Neighborhood Coalition Purchases Former Sugar Shack Site
June 30, 2015: PDC, Cully neighborhood coalition purchases former sugar shack site
July 6, 2018: Street Roots, Celebrating a place for healing
July 2, 2018: Portland Tribune, Old 25-acre landfill officially becomes new Cully Park
June 18, 2018: Koin 6, From landfill to park: Cully Park made possible by community
September 13, 2017: Portland Tribune, Cully, other projects in works as Parks Foundation turns 15
February 16, 2017: The Oregonian, Portland Timbers, Portland Thorns invest $65,000 in Thomas Cully Park
November 3, 2016: Portland Tribune, Trash into treasure: Thomas Cully Park project gains traction
March 17, 2016: Next City, Portland Proves Parks Can Be Many Things to Many People
February 11, 2016: Portland Tribune, Cully Park One Step Closer to Reality
August 7, 2019 // KGW: ‘Palaces compared to what they were’: Portland trailer park residents get new homes
January 4, 2017 // Portland Tribune: Saving rundown mobile home park proves challenging
December 13, 2016 // Catholic Sentinel: Mobile homes saved from redevelopment
December 7, 2016 // Portland Tribune: Embattled mobile home park residents saved from eviction
December 4, 2016 // OPB: Portland Steps in to Save Oak Leaf Mobile Home Park from Redevelopment
October 27, 2016 // Portland Tribune Deal to preserve mobile home park has a catch
October 19, 2016 // Truthout: Going Deep Into the Oak Leaf Saga
September 23, 2016 // KOIN: Mobile home residents ask city for help saving homes
September 23, 2016 // KBOO: Evening News
June 28, 2016 // OPB: Mobile Home Life
June 21, 2016 // Portland Observer: Hope for Oak Leaf
June 16, 2016 // KPTV: Oak Leaf Residents Hopeful City Will Help Buy Mobile Park
June 16, 2016 // OPB: Portland Heads Toward Construction Tax to Fund More Housing
June 16, 2016 // Portland Tribune: Mobile Home Owners Unite to Thwart Eviction
June 14, 2016 // KBOO: Saving Oakleaf
June 14, 2016: OPB: How Portland’s Oak Leaf Mobile Home Park Organized to Save Itself
June 14, 2016 // Portland Tribune: Mobile Home Parks in Jeopardy
June 11, 2016 // Portland Tribune: Oak Leaf Mobile Home Residents Win Reprieve from Eviction
June 2, 2016 // Catholic Sentinel: Portland Parishes Support Neighbors
May 13, 2016 // Portland Tribune: Mobile home residents seek city aid, deal with owner, to stave off eviction
May 12, 2016 // KOIN: Mobile home residents try to stave off eviction
May 6, 2016 // KGW: Cully residents hope to save mobile home park
July 12, 2018 // Portland Mercury: City Selects Cully Neighborhood for New Affordable Housing Complex