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WELLS
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The Next Stage
Housing Dreams Come True
RUN WITH US
Habitat for
Humanity built
on support
because progress
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Wells Fargo is helping the dream
of home ownership come true for 43
children and 20 adults in Gresham.
The Wells Fargo Housing Foun
d atio n p resen ted a cheek for
$157,500 to Mt. Hood Habitat for
Humanity Thursday, which is build
ing a 14-family affordable housing
development on one acre at 16842
S.E. Stark St.
The “Lillian’s Place” develop
ment includes 14 condos (2-4 bed
rooms each) and a community cen
ter. Construction began in January
and is expected to be completed on
time for the families to move in
before the next school year. The
project has an estimated value of
$1.7 million.
Wells Fargo team members have
been helping build the project since
the start. About 50 Wells Fargo
volunteers were on site Thursday
to paint, plant greenery and install
wiring. The grant amount is based
on the more than 2,480 volunteer
hours that Wells Fargo team mem
bers and their friends and family
m em bers have w orked on the
project so far.
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R eim bursem ent and m ore!
Run with a leader. Run with us.
Volunteer labor helps bring the dream ofhomeownership to
reality in Gresham.
“With housing prices soaring in
the Portland metro area, there is a
huge demand for affordable hous
ing for low- and moderate-income
residents,” said Meghan Mahaffy,
executive director o f Mt. Hood
Habitat for Humanity. "Wells Fargo
is helping us not only with a large
contribution of money but also with
an invaluable contribution of labor
to complete this development.”
Habitat for Humanity seeks to
elim inate poverty housing and
homelessness. People o f all back
grounds volunteer to build Habitat
homes with families in need. The
homes are sold to the families at no
profit, financed with affordable, no
interest loans. The mortgage pay
ments are used to bui Id more homes.
Nonprofit Hosts Homeowner Workshops
The Portland Com m unity Land their hom es at a price they can house for the PCLT condos, rang
Trust will host a series o f upcom afford, a land trust hom eow ner ing in price from $79,000 to
ing events on hom eow nership agrees to lim it the price at w hich $96,000, will be held at 3911 NE
throughout A ugust.
the home is resold, keeping the K illingsw orth on Sunday, August
The nonprofit, community orga house perm anently affordable for 28 from 1 to 4 p.m. The N ational
nization safeguards land to pro future generations.
C om m unity Land Trust C onfer
vide affordable homeownership op
PCLT H om eow nership O rien ence will be held at Portland State
portunities. H om es are sold to tation w orkshops will be held for U niversity from A ugust 17 to 19.
buyers with lim ited incom es at free at the office on 31O9B NE To register for the conference,
below m arket prices because the Broadw ay from 6 to 7 p.m . on visitcom m unitylots.org. For more
cost o f the land is not part o f the T h u r s d a y , A u g u s t 1 1 and inform ation on PCLT, call 503-
equation. In exchange for buying W ednesday, A ugust 31. An open 493-0293.
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