EDITION
HOUSING SPECIAL
April 27, 2016
INSIDE
The
Week in Review
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S PORTS
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O PINION
An artist’s rending shows the Miracles Central Apartments coming to the neighborhood just east of
the Rose Quarter.
Build for Miracles Central
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Second
housing site
for culturally
competent
alcohol recovery
M ETRO
Late this summer, The Mira-
cles Club and Central City Con-
cern will celebrate the opening of
Miracles Central Apartments, a
new affordable housing apartment
building located near the Rose
Quarter.
The two groups have worked
for the past few years on the proj-
ect that will bring affordable hous-
ing and services to adults and fam-
ilies who wish to live in an alcohol
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Arts &
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F OOD
eviction prevention, and work
closely with tenants to develop ac-
tion plans that may include steps
like workforce development or
education.
The Portland Housing Bureau
dedicated $7.1 million in capital
funding toward the building. Oth-
er major funders include Oregon
Housing & Community Services,
National Equity Fund and JP Mor-
gan Chase. Multicultural Devel-
opment Group is the project de-
veloper with Guardian Real Estate
Services LLC leading the project,
Carleton Hart Architecture is the
lead architect and LMC Construc-
tion is the general contractor.
For leasing information, con-
tact Amanda Clark at Guardian
Real Estate Services, 503-802-
3545.
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ENTERTAINMENT
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C ALENDAR
and drug-free building.
Miracles Central Apartments is
based on the Miracles Club Apart-
ments, a similar building on North-
east Martin Luther King Jr. Bou-
levard, specializing in culturally
competent recovery support for the
African American community.
The new apartments will con-
sist of 47 units of affordable
housing, including 28 apartments
affordable to lower-income house-
holds earning up to 50 percent of
the area median income (approxi-
mately $25,750 for an individual).
Families will also be welcomed
as tenants. The building’s ground
loor will be available for pro-
gram-related services, including
meetings and counseling. On-site
staff will help tenants with life-
skills, employment readiness, and
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Portland awards $47 million for construction
In an effort to counteract an
increasingly problematic hous-
ing crisis in Portland where soar-
ing rents and housing costs have
displaced thousands of residents,
the Portland Housing Bureau has
delivered its highest funding al-
location to date to support the
construction of affordable homes.
Roughly $47 million in both lo-
cal and federal funding was ear-
marked last week for eight pro-
posed affordable housing projects.
The city expects the support to
create 585 new affordable housing
units, as well as preserving anoth-
er 255 units through renovation.
Of the renovated projects, more
than 120 of them are speciically
targeted for the lowest-income
households, meaning those earn-
ing at most 30 percent of the me-
dian family income.
Last fall, Commissioner Dan
Saltzman ordered the Housing
Bureau to dispense all of its avail-
able resources into Portland’s
housing emergency, including ur-
ban renewal funds allocated for
future years.
The bureau will be working
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