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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 2018)
Michelle Obama Coming to Portland ‘City of Roses’ Volume XLVII • Number 47 February date added; presale tickets online Sugar Shack Comes Down Blight to give way to affordable housing See Local News, page 3 See story, page 16 www.portlandobserver.com Wednesday • December 12, 2018 Established in 1970 Committed to Cultural Diversity photo by D anny p eterson /t he p ortlanD o bserver David Greenidge serves local communities of color by overseeing programs to help struggling people obtain jobs and housing. He is the executive director of the National Urban Housing and Economic Community Development Corporation, a non-profit operated out of the Genesis Community Fellowship at 5425 N.E. 27th Ave., providing construction job training programs and overseeing the development of new affordable homes geared for low income and mid-income residents. Community Healing A jobs and housing mission grows D anny p eterson t he p ortlanD o bserver A northeast Portland non-profit is breaking down em- ployment and housing barriers for people of color and others by providing free and specialized training in con- struction industry jobs, life skills help, and sponsoring by new affordable housing for low to mid-income residents. With a new $20,000 grant from the Oregon Communi- ty Foundation awarded last week and the near-completion of 20 affordable homes that have been under construction over the past year, the National Urban Housing and Eco- nomic Community Development Corporation (NUHEC- DC) is making strides in their public service mission. “We’re real excited about that,” said David Greenidge, NUHECD’s executive director, who operates the orga- nization out of the Genesis Community Fellowship, a non-denominational church, located at 5425 N.E. 27th Ave. The organization was formed a few years ago when Greenidge and other concerned residents got together to survey why so many members of the black community in north and northeast Portland struggled to find work com- pared to the majority of the community. They found that African-Americans were over represented in the criminal justice system and the disparity was hurting them econom- C ontinueD on p age 2
