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that we were never even educated
on back in school. Portland Hous-
ing Center was able to give us that
ability to learn how to reach our
credit score, how to fix things and
to work forward, rather than stay-
ing in the same position or going
backwards."
The buyers were free to obtain
their mortgage from any lender ap-
proved by the Portland Housing
Center. For each year the buyer re-
mains in their home, Wells Fargo
forgives 20 percent of the grant. So
at the end of five years, they do not
have to repay a penny of their $15,000
grant.
Wells Fargo and the PHC were
careful to give the grants only to
people who could afford to maintain
their mortgage payments. The
homebuyers included teachers,
government employees, healthcare
workers and members of the news
media.
"The ability to provide $15,000 in
down payment assistance helps not
only the homebuyer, but also the
housing market, community and city
of Portland," said Kurt Hill of Port-
land, an area sales manager for Wells
Fargo Home Mortgage.
In addition to the almost $4.7
million in homebuyer grants and
program support, Wells Fargo also
donated $500,000 to nine local non-
profit groups that support youth,
education, diversity, homelessness,
affordable healthcare and afford-
able homeownership.
Wells Fargo also rented the Con-
vention Center and allocated a vast
amount of resources to hold the
two-day LIFT event.
"The
Portland
NeighborhoodLIFT was a huge
success for the city of Portland as
well as the real estate community
here," said Joseph Lai of Portland,
an area sales manager for Wells
Fargo Home Mortgage. "This col-
laborative effort helped make LIFT
an unforgettable event for our com-
munity."
The impact survey afterwards
also showed that 83 percent of the
grant recipients would have taken
at least one or more years to buy a
home if not for the LIFT program.
That was true for the Gani family.
"With the program, we were able
to get in sooner and buy a better
home," Nelson Gani said. "We were
lucky enough that everything
worked out and we were able to get
into it."
The Portland initiative was
among the 32 housing markets
across the country that will benefit
from a total of $230 million Wells
Fargo has committed through its
LIFT programs.
Since February 2012, LIFT pro-
grams nationally have helped cre-
ate more than 8,450 homeowners so
far in the communities where the
programs have been introduced,
officials said.
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Bashir is also the editor of Black
Women’s Erotica 2 (2003) and co-
editor of Role Call: A Generational
Anthology of Social & Political
Black Literature & Art (2002) an
anthology which included and set
the stage for most of the most well-
known black poets working today—
many of whom were first published
in Role Call.
This semester Bashir will be
teaching Writing Place, which fo-
cuses on a geographic place where
students get to turn the lens and
write further and further into spe-
cific details offered by a single loca-
tion, “much like Pulitzer Prize win-
ning poet Gwendolyn Brooks did
with Chicago or William Carlos
Williams did with Patterson, New
Jersey” she says.
She will also be teaching Flash
Mob: Making Multimedia Poetries,
where students are going to be cre-
ating poetry on and off the page,
focusing on the poetry of hand-
made objects.
Bashir is also in the midst of
starting a new reading series with
Wendy Chin-Tanner, starting later
this year, called Sunday Brunch,
which will take place debut at Glyph
Café and Art Space in the Pearl.
The goal of the series will be to
bring more diverse voices to the
poetry scene here in Portland. Each
reading will consist of a poet, a
prose writer, and a visual artist, fol-
lowed by a reading and a conversa-
tion.
“We want to hear multiple side of
the artist’s voice,” she says of the
project.
Bashir is also responsible for a
broadside series, through her po-
etry salon – making these beautiful
limited edition broadsides of the
visiting and local poets that pass
through her literary salon based at
Reed College.
The visiting writers series that
she helps curate at the college
brings world-class writers to the
writing community at Reed.
Bashir’s next reading will be
Black [Genus, Genesis, Genius],
with Brown Hall, an exciting new
collective of black artists and writ-
ers in Portland. Together they’ll be
having a month-long exhibit at the
Central Library, and Bashir will be
reading with others at the event’s
opening reception on Saturday, Feb.
7 at 2 p.m. (multcolib.org/events/
black-genus-genesis-genius-open-
ing-reception/35579). To learn more
about Bashir’s work, visit
samiyabashir.com.