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HUD “Best Practices” goes to EMO’s
Shared Housing for Innovative use
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CONTRIBUTED STORY
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A program that matches people who need homes with
people who need assistance in their homes - Ecumenical
Ministries ofO regon’s Shared Housing Program - is one
o f 18 Northwest area winners o f the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development “best practices” award.
The award, according to the Oregon’s HUD office, was
made because o f the program’s innovative approach to
the housing shortage in the Portland area. Shared
Housing serves people in Clackamas, Washington, Clark
and Multnomah counties.
In a metro region with a growing shortage o f affordable
housing, “the only solution is to make more effective use
o f existing housing stock,” said Lowen Berman, who
directed Shared Housing for the past two years. By
installing and fine-tuning a new computer program,
modifying policies and procedures, and substantially
increasing outreach, Shared Housing staff members
have increased the number o f home share matches from
an average o f six per month two years ago to a current
average o f 25 per month.
Berman and Laura Baumeister, who has worked with
Berman during the past year and who takes over as
program manager this month, believe in customer service.
They work hard to ensure that Shared Housing
partic ipants are served promptly and treated with respect.
A list o f potential home share matches, for example, is
generated immediately after a person has completed a
home share application.
Recently Shared Housing has reached statewide by
assisting in the establishment o f a home-share program
in Eugene. EMO also provides another kind ofcooperative
home share by handling the financial administration for
approximately 45 Oxford Houses in the Portland metro
area and an additional 25 elsewhere in the state.
Oxford Houses are self-run, self-supporting homes for
people in recovery from addictions. The Shared Housing
program is currently applying for funding to help establish
new recovery homes across the state, some that will
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become Oxford Houses and some that will be other models
ofcom m unity home living.
“W e’re excited about furthering our role as a statewide
program,” said Baumeister. “We also look forward to giving
the technical assistance to other groups so they can get off
the ground.”
In August, Shared Housing will partner with the Hispanic
A ccess Center o f the Oregon Human Development
Corporation (OHDC) to sublet a house to five low-income
Hispanic men. The men will run the home themselves and
pay their rent through a membership fee. This arrangement
will help meet the needs o f a growing number o f Hispanic
men who, according to the Hispanic Access Center, are
employed but unable to obtain housing. Shared Housing
will establish the procedures for addressing household
financial needs, assist in establishing w eekly house
meetings, and provide a life skills forum that includes
budgeting and money management. Shared Housing hopes
that this model ofcommunity cooperative housing will lead
to the establishment o f additional community cooperative
households for other populations o f Oregonians who face
common challenges in finding affordable housing.
In July, Shared Housing will also begin working with
Interfaith Caregivers o f East Multnomah County. Shared
Housing will provide the interfaith group with its software
and will train the group’s staff how to use the software to
offer opportunities to their volunteers, and Shared Housing
will expand its pool o f potential home providers in the
Gresham area.
“We don’t give housing to people as much as facilitate their
use o f their own energy, wisdom and creativity to solve their
own needs as they see them,” said Berman. “We leverage
a little bit o f public funding to allow them to solve their own
problems.”
Shared Housing is located at 1819 NW Everett in Portland.
It is a program o f EMO, a statewide association o f 15
Christian denominations including Catholic, Orthodox and
Protestant religious bodies that work together to improve
the lives ofOregonians. For more information about Shared
Housing, call Laura Baumeister at (503) 225-9924.
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The PROPER Event’s 2nd annual
community festival at Kenton Park:
nonstop live music and performance
arts with poetry, storytelling, drama
and dance. Featuring Celebration
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Paradigm; North Portland Music
Academy; Das PHAT Ministries;
Master Choi’s Taekwondo Y Karate,
Theatron Productions; the Drama
Queens ofProject Network; Bethesda
C hristian Church Senior Choir;
Imagen Latina, and Van Jackson.
Enjoy food, fun and new friends with
gam es and p riz e s. E sta b lish
relationships through the information
alley (spiritual, financial, legal, mental
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This festival’s got something for
everyone and it’s free. See you there!
Kenton Park is on bus line 4, North
Portland off o f Denver Avenue and
Cletus Moore
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Managers more accountable for their area ofexpertise,” Moore said. Examples
o f areas o f responsibility for about 20 o f these managers include Student
Services, the Registrar’s Office and Sports.
In addition to his post at Warner-Pacific, Moore is also an elected member of
the Board o f Directors for Mount Hood Community College, where he serves
on the Budget Committee and a Task Force for reviewing Management
Salaries. He will also be involved in a Search Committee to find a successor to
current MHCC President Joel Vela, who will be leaving Sept. 30.
The community leader is also active as a Board Member o f The Morrison
Center, a community service organization with a wide range o f activities
including a Children’s Family Center which deals with both teen and adult
family problems.
He is also involved with the Rosemont School for Girls, which helps young
ladies between 12 and 18 encountering personal problems such as being
molested by family members as well as the more positive aspects o f helping
families and working with parents.
In addition to his work with children and families, Moore is also a member of
the Board o f Directors for Downtown Community Housing, Inc. which aims to
provide low-income housing in the heart o f the city.
Major accomplishments o f this group include Alder House, a six story house
at 13th and Southwest Alder which provides low-income housing for single
adults. Another house run by the same group is Kearney House, located at
Northwest 20th and Keamey, a multi-family unit specifically geared to low-
income families. The facility has 6 stories o f very up-to date, modem facilities.
Other extracurricular activities include participating in the Roseway Lions Club
and the Oregon Taxpayer’s Association, which lobbies on behalf o f Oregon
taxpayers. The organization is also linked via internet to other tax advocacy
organization around Oregon through the site: oregonwatchdog.com.
Moore is married with two children from aprevious marriage. His wife Phyllis
works as an Office Manager for a tax consultant. His daughter Jennifer
graduated last year with a B.S. in Biotechnology from Chico State University
in Chico, Calif. She is now married and lives in San Francisco, and the couple
have had a 5-year-old girl.
His son Christopher recently was discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps, and
now lives in the Seattle area. Moore currently attends the First Baptist Church
He a singer with a three-and-a-half octave range, from tenor to first bass.
Local productions he has taken part in include My Fair Lady, The Merry
W 'dow, Hello Dolly, and Beauty and the Beast. He has acted and sang in the
Gallery Player’s Production o f A Three Act Play, Condensed, By Mozart.
Kilpatrick Street, across from Kenton
Station Post Office.
S pecial
Services
Sum m er
Special summer services are every
Friday afternoon at 4:00 pm located at
T he C hurch o f S cientology q f
Portland, 2636 NE Sandy Blvd. The
Sermon topics for July 21 is " Goals of
Man, and on July 28 is" Clean Hands
Make a Happy Life. " All are welcome,
formore information call 503.963.8121.
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Billie Sue Parker
A funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday,
July 8, 2000, in Killingsworth Little
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and a stroke at age 65. Ms. Parker was
bom June 1,1935, in Kiamichi, Okla.,
and was raised in Vancouver, Wash.
She graduated from Hudson’s Bay
High School and was a guard for the
Oregon State Penitentiary from 1975
until her retirement in 1992. She was
a former member o f Bethel A.M.E.
Church.
Survivors include her son, Lester;
sister, Priscilla Wiggins; brothers,
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three grandchildren.
Interm ent will be in Rose City
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