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April 29, 2015
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Tiny House for Dignity Village
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nears completion
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Ted Morissette will pursue his
passion for film production when
he begins college next fall. But
before he graduates from Ore-
gon Episcopal School in June,
he’s satisfying his curiosity about
home building by leading a group
of fellow volunteer students in
construction of a “tiny house” to
be donated to Dignity Village in
northeast Portland.
Morissette, 19, along with Kris-
ten Dallum, a staff advisor from
the school, has been leading the
group for the last several months
in organizing volunteers, sched-
uling work parties and generating
donations of building materials,
food and other items to help the
project come together. The group
has been working since mid-Feb-
ruary — sawing lumber, beams,
flooring, trim and siding and piec-
ing and pounding it in place.
Now nearing completion, the
tiny home will be moved from its
building site on a dock at Pacific
Lumber in Beaverton to Dignity
Village on Wednesday, May 13.
When the students visited the
village at the beginning of their
project they found the camp, cre-
ated as a refuge for the homeless,
was always in need of more and
safer structures for their popula-
tion.
In recent years, tiny houses
have been seen as a way to combat
homelessness with many popping
up around the country in neigh-
borhoods designed for low- and
no-income housing similar to Dig- Oregon Episcopal School senior Ted Morissette leads fellow stu-
nity Village.
dents in building a ‘tiny house’ benefitting Dignity Village.
Leveraging Affordable Housing
Rent vouchers
committed to
South Waterfront
There has been little to cheer
about concerning affordable
housing in the new South Water-
front neighborhood, but now at
least 200 affordable homes are
coming to the district thanks to a
partnership between the Portland
Development Commission, Port-
land Housing Bureau and Home
Forward.
PDC, which owns the land,
has made a site near OHSU
available for a joint mixed-use
mixed-income development. As
many as 90 of the housing units
will be affordable to households
earning less than 30 percent
of the median family income
($24,250 or below for a fami-
ly of four) thanks to a commit-
ment from Home Forward, the
housing authority for Portland,
to dedicate 80 rent assistance
vouchers to the project, includ-
ing 10 for homeless veterans.
Home Forward’s contribution
will also leverage other resourc-
es to support deeply affordable
housing within the project, offi-
cials said.
“South Waterfront offers
many amenities and opportuni-
ties that should be available to
Portlanders of all income lev-
els,” said City Commissioner
Dan Saltzman.
The vouchers from Home
Forward are part of the agency’s
new initiative dedicating 500
rent assistance vouchers over the
next several years to projects that
provide housing opportunity for
low-income families in neigh-
borhoods with good schools and
amenities.
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