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A Pathway to Return
C ontinued froM p age 5
will be working with the Portland
Housing Bureau to revise the pol-
icy to be more effective and hopes
Pathway 1000 will also attract
more buyers.
A meeting between Mayor
Wheeler and the committee over-
seeing the strategy is scheduled
for later this month to discuss im-
provements that could be made.
The policy came in the wake
of a city-proposed Trader Joe’s
at the corner of Northeast Martin
Luther King Boulevard and Al-
berta Street four years ago, which
sparked community outcry of fur-
ther displacement, and prompted
City Commissioner Dan Saltzman
and then-Mayor Charlie Hales to
pledge $20 million for housing
initiatives.
“We can make amends for
some of the thing we’ve done in
the past, as a community,” Fitz-
patrick told the Portland Observer,
as to her aspirations for Pathway
1000. “If we can do this and do it
right and give them an opportunity
to return to their roots that would
be doing the community a good
service.”
A home-owner who was placed
into housing through PCRI shared
her journey at the ceremony of
buying her first home, a three bed-
room condominium in northeast
Portland in July.
Arika Bridgeman-Bunyoli, a
health educator for Multnomah
County, said she was paying about
45 percent of her income to rent
each month and was barely able
to keep herself and her two young
children afloat financially. In
2012, when she went to the offices
of PCRI for help, she was practi-
cally in tears.
“In case there is anyone out
there that is struggling on this
home-ownership journey, I want
you to know that it is possible,”
Bridgeman-Bunyoli said. “There
are going to be challenges, there’s
going to be set-backs, it’s hard.
But this is a phenomenal team
that’s really committed to the
community and that will get you
through to the other side.”
The building site on Williams
will accommodate four townho-
mes with two and three bedrooms,
two and three stories each, respec-
tively, and comply with Earth Ad-
vantage green building standards.
The homes are scheduled to
be completed late 2018 in part-
nership with locally owned Al-
bina Construction, Brett Schultz
Architect, and lender Beneficial
State Bank, with grants from
Wells Fargo Housing Founda-
tion and the Meyer Trust helping
to ensure the homes are afford-
able to low-and-medium-income
buyers.
Fitzpatrick thanked the Port-
land Housing Bureau, Mayor Ted
Wheeler, and Commissioner Dan
Saltzman, and the PCRI team for
their support.
More groundbreaking for Path-
way 1,000 homes are slated to oc-
cur in the coming months, one on
Balendena Avenue and one on the
corner of Martin Luther King and
Rosa Parks Way, Fitzpatrick said.
Together, we do good things.
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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
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5
Boston Massacre
(1770)
12
Anniversary of the
Death of Anne
Frank (1945)
6
Artist Michelangelo
born, 1475
Shaquille O’Neal
born, 1972; Four-
time NBA champion
13
Good Samaritan
Day
Uranus Discovered
(1781)
FRIDAY
SATURDAY SUNDAY
2
3
4
Share a Smile Day
Harry Belafonte born,
1927; Singer, actor
and civil and human
rights activist
Dr. Seuss born, 1904
Read Across Ameri-
ca Day
7
8
9
National Cereal Day
Telephone Patent
Granted (1876)
International
Women’s Day
Robert Sabuda born,
1965
14
15
16
Absolutely
Incredible Kid Day
Funk music legend Sly
Stone born, 1943
James Madison born,
1751 (4th Presi-
dent)
Pi Day (3.14)
Scientist Albert Ein-
stein born, 1879
Floyd B. McKissick,
Sr. born, 1922; Civil
Rights activist, first
Black student at the
Unv. of N. Carolina
National Anthem
Day
Inventor Alexander
Graham Bell born,
1847
First meeting of Con-
gress (1789)
10
11
Abolitionist Harriet
Tubman Day
1st Paper Money
Issued in 1862
Daylight Savings
Time Begins
Johnny Appleseed Da
17
18
St. Patrick’s Day
Nat King Cole born,
1919; Legendary jazz
musician and singer
First Walk in Space
(1965)
Grover Cleveland
born, 1837 (22nd &
24th President)