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The
October 14, 2015
Week in Review
Obama Meets with Families
President Barack Obama, faced
with protests over his meeting Fri-
day in Roseburg with victims of
the Umpqua Community College
shooting, held to his view that
something must be done about
deadly gun crimes. But given the
freshness of the week-old trage-
dy, he said, “Today, it’s about the
families, their grief and the love
we feel for them.
Indictment for Child Abuse
arrested in a Portland soup kitch-
en. Police say Michael Angold,
Morrison Haze Lampley and
Lila Scott Alligood killed one
man in San Francisco’s Golden
Gate Park on Oct. 3 and then
shot to death a 67-year-old yoga
teacher, whose body was found
Oct. 5 on a trail north of the city.
Deadly Fire Kills Two
Two elderly residents were
killed in a fire that broke out in a
southeast Portland home Friday
morning. The victims include
72-year-old Navy veteran Daryl
Knudtson and a roommate who
as of Monday was not named.
A former employee of the Boys
and Girls Club on Northeast Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. Boulevard was
indicted last week on multiple
charges of rape and sex abuse.
Shooting Death ‘Reasonable’
The case against Riante Ramon
The police shooting death of a
Badon, 25, involves the victimiza-
12-year-old African-American
tion of three teenage girls.
boy with a pellet gun in Ohio
Wrestling Coach Charged
was ‘reasonable,’ according to
Wyatt Ross DeRemer, a Gresham two experts in a report prepared
wrestling coach, pled not guilty for the Cuyahoga County Prose-
Monday to 10 counts of first-degree cutor. The boy, Tamir Rice, was
sexual abuse against four young killed by an officer in training
boys. The indictment comes after a outside a Cleveland recreation
mother reported to police that her center and sparked controversy
son had told her about inappropri- given the victim’s race and age.
ate sexual touching, according to a
Million Man March Anniversary
probable cause affidavit.
Thousands gathered in the na-
Killers Caught in Portland
tion’s capital Saturday, calling
Three transients accused of rob- for racial and socioeconomic
bing and killing a backpacker and equality and to mark 20 years
a yoga instructor with a stolen since the first Million Man
gun were sent back to Northern March organized by Minister
California this week after being Louis Farrakhan.
The Plaza Townhomes, a longtime housing complex for low income residents at North Michigan Ave-
nue and Jessup Street, will get a major upgrade and new ownership that guarantees the apartments
will remain affordable for the next 45 years.
Affordable Apartments Preserved
Plaza upgrade
comes with new
ownership
An affordable housing commu-
nity in north Portland is scheduled
to get much-needed renovations
thanks to a change in ownership.
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tional investor in housing serving
low income residents, entered into
an agreement earlier this month to
purchase Plaza Townhomes from
Home Forward, the housing au-
thority for Multnomah County,
and invest more than $3 million in
upgrades to the property.
“We are thrilled to expand
our reach to Portland, Oregon,
with this acquisition as we seek
to expand our preservation ef-
forts throughout the nation.”
said Anand Kannan, president of
WNC’s Community Preservation
Partners, LLC.
Michael Buonocore, Home
Forward’s executive director, said
he was confident in the transaction
and pointed out that the situation
would be a boon for the residents
because the new management
would have money and resources
to better renovate the homes, and
that Home Forward could then
use the money to reinvest into
the properties they already own
or start looking at acquiring new
properties and creating more af-
fordable housing.
“Everything we have done has
been to protect residents,” said
Buonocore.
Plaza Townhomes includes 68
two-and three-bedroom units and
is located near Portland Commu-
nity College’s Cascade Campus,
and just a few blocks from Jeffer-
son High School. The community
is available to families earning no
more than 50 percent of the area’s
median income level, and those
that meet requirements of the Sec-
tion 8 program. Current residents
will not have to move as a result
of the ownership change.
Officials said WNC, which has
a long history and commitment to
creating and preserving affordable
housing throughout the United
States, would be signing contracts
to keep the Plaza Townhomes
property affordable for at least the
next 45 years.