Diversity in the Workplace
June 22, 2016
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O PINION
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Photo by C ervante P oPe /t he P ortland o bserver
Oak Leaf Mobile Home Park residents Rhonda Polk and Renae Corbett are organizing a massive
cleanup of grounds at the park to do away with the negative overtones that have been working
against them in a battle to keep the large parcel of property on Northeast Killingsworth Street as a
mobile home park.
Hope for Oak Leaf
M ETRO
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Affordable housing tax could save mobile home park
by C ervante P oPe
t he P ortland o bserver
A rally to save the Oak Leaf
Mobile Home Park serving low
income residents in the heart of
northeast Portland’s Cully neigh-
borhood and a face-to-face meet-
ing with city commissioners at
City Hall has given residents of
the park a bit more promise for a
solution to keep their homes.
A new excise tax on city de-
velopment is up for vote by the
City Council this week and if it
passes, some of that money could
go towards helping the Oak Leaf
residents in purchasing the prop-
erty as a collective to keep their
homes.
The tax is proposed as a means
to raise money to build and retain
affordable housing in the city, a
collection of revenue made legal
by the Oregon Legislature earlier
this year with the support of all of
Portland’s council members.
Renae Corbett, a resident of the
Oak Leaf Mobile Home Park, is
cautiously optimistic.
“We’re not the only people that
want some of the money from this
proposed tax, so the mayor may be
very earnest and true to his word
but he’s not the only cog in this
wheel,” says Corbett, who has
been living at Oak Leaf for two
years with her 80-year-old father
C ontinued on P age 5
Good in the Hood Weekend
Festival
promotes
unity in the
community
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ENTERTAINMENT
C LASSIFIEDS
C ALENDAR
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It’s time for the Good in the
Hood Festival and Parade and that
means neighbors, families and
friends connecting to the diversity
of inner north and northeast Port-
land with a multicultural celebra-
tion of music, arts and foods.
For over 20 years, the Good in
the Hood has been a Rose Festival
sanctioned event, with thousands
of community residents partici-
pating.
The festival kicks off Friday,
June 24 and continues through
Sunday, June 26 at Lillis Albina
Park at North Flint Avenue and
Russell Street. The fun activities
include entertainment, a kids’
space, puppet show, games, infor-
mational booths and a beer gar-
den. Festival hours are Saturday
from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sun-
day from 1 a.m. to 9 p.m. A Friday
mixer from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. will
include music by DJ Pryce Miy-
agi.
The fun-illed Good in the
Hood Parade is sponsored by the
Northeast Coalition of Neigh-
borhoods and will have candy to
throw out to the crowds along the
parade route.
The annual parade starts Satur-
day at 10:45 a.m. at King School
Park on Northeast Seventh Ave-
nue and Wygant Street and heads
south on Martin Luther King Jr.
Boulevard, turning west on Rus-
sell Street, ending at Lillis Albina
Park.