Portland’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement (ONI) is sponsoring a community dialogue series relating to gentrification and change within our communities. The series is entitled “Polarized or Powerful? Now We’re Talking”, with it’s next discussion coming up April 30th. The series will run through June.
Thursday, April 30
6:30 – 8:30 PM
St. Andrews Community Center
806 NE Alberta and 8th Ave.
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Entries from April 2009
April 28, 2009
Community Dialogue Series under way
April 28, 2009
Portland hosts foreclosure prevention event
A number of housing groups are coming together May 2 to educate people about their options to prevent foreclosure. It’s called the Homeownership Preservation Event, and it’s free. For location and details, visit http://www.dfcs.oregon.gov/HOPE.html. Hope to see you there.
April 15, 2009
Portland’s Housing Bubble Deflated
As of March, the median value of a home in the Portland Metro area was $246,400. This figure, when placed in the context of the Case-Schiller trend line, suggests that the Portland market has worked off its inflated home values, and we are now at a stabilization point in the market in terms of values.
April 11, 2009
Metro offers build-a-transit system tool
Portland’s regional government, Metro, is so on top of their game. They have ascended beyond the boring open house format to gather input into regional plans. Instead, they’ve created an online tool worthy of a techie, where community members and advocates can customize a transit expansion plan while weighing estimates of capital costs, ridership, and environmental [...]
April 5, 2009
5 things to do in Portland today
I am so excited about the weather forecast for Portland today. Some are saying it will reach 75 degrees. Yesterday was glorious, at around 62 degrees, so my partner and I did massive landscaping work around our rental house.
But today, we have pure leisure on our minds for such a glorious day. How best to [...]
