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Page 10 The Skanner January 27, 2016 News Miami cont’d from pg 9 Downtown Miami is similarly “beginning to shift, but the question is, to whose benefit?” said Arden Shank, executive director of Neighbor- hood Housing Services of South Florida. “It doesn’t benefit the peo- ple who have been there for a long time.” The metro area’s un- employment rate is 5.5 percent, compared with 5 percent nationally. Av- erage hourly earnings have dipped 0.4 percent to $22.57 from a year ago. By contrast, the national average wage has risen more than 2 percent in that time. Census Bureau data show that high rents burden 66 percent of Mi- ami tenants, compared with 52 percent nation- wide. Regardless of wealth, everyone in South Flor- ida faces the potentially dire consequences of climate change. Experts warn that as the seas rise further, flooding may be- come permanent, turn- ing streets into canals, endangering access to drinking water and erod- ing the man-made beach- es that have long drawn people to Miami. “There is a disconnect — there’s a real estate bubble, and then there’s where we see sea level rise going,” said Henry Briceno, who studies the effects of rising sea lev- els through the South- Dr. Lisa Bates Wins Prize for Excellence in Urban and Regional Planning T he Department of Urban and Re- gional Planning at Cal Poly Pomo- na has announced the winners of the 2016 William R. and June Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban and Regional Planning. Dr. Lisa K. Bates of Portland State University has won the Scholar Prize. Bates and Verdugo will accept their awards at a banquet on the Cal Poly Po- mona campus Feb. 11. The Dale Prize recognizes excellence in planning, and is made possible by an endowment from the late June Dale, wife of the late William R. Dale, a founding faculty member of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. This year’s theme was Planning for Community Self Determination and Racial Justice. Bates is an Associate Professor at Portland State University’s Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning and is Director of the Center for Urban Studies. Dr. Bates pursues racial equity through scholarship and advocacy that empowers community activists and disenfranchised communities—along with planning scholars and practi- tioners—with the knowledge to create east Environmental Re- search Center at Florida International Univer- sity. “That’s what really worries me: The rush to make money right away without thinking of the future and who is going to pay.” Yet to many wealthy in- ternational buyers, the opportunities appear to outweigh those risks. Because so many of her clients now own Mi- ami property, Sao Pau- lo-based interior design- er Brunete Fraccaroli recently bought a condo at One Paraiso, a 53-story tower with a beach club slated to be finished next year. She expects her Florida clientele to grow as Brazil’s plight intensi- fies. Analysts say the South American country may be headed for its longest downturn in more than a century. Operating loss- es and labor strikes have battered the state oil com- pany, Petrobras. Govern- ment spending cuts have failed to curb the deficit. Political corruption has left the country in chaos. Its currency, the real, lost nearly 50 percent of its value against the dollar last year. Boak reported from Washington, Kay from Miami. Obituary: Missionary-Mother Mary Inez Belgrave Sunrise: Dec. 16, 1932, Natchez, Mississippi Sunset: Jan. 23, 2016, Portland, Oregon Service for Mother Belgrave is scheduled for: Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. at Corner Stone Comm. COGIC, 2216 NE Killingsworth St., Portland, Oregon 97211. She is survived by: 1 brother, Freddie Mazique; 5 children: (3 sons) Malcom (Davida) Matthews, Carl Norman Matthews all of Portland, Oregon; (2 daughters) Deborah Belgrave and Jacqueline Neal, both of Portland; (2 special daughters): Vickie Mat- thews and Deborah Bagley, both of Portland; 16 grandchildren, more than 30 great grandchildren and 7 great great grandchildren. Missionary-Mother Mary Inez Belgrave Obituary: Rose Marie Blackamore-Reasonover Dr. Lisa K. Bates of Portland State University equitable housing policies. She recent- ly co-edited an equity-focused issue of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, served as co-chair of ACSP’s Planners of Color Interest Group and contributed to Portland’s Strategic Plan and Gentrification and Displace- ment Study. Dr. Bates holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Febuary 4, 1941 - January 19, 2016 Illinois and Lois Price Preceded in death by (Alex) of Houston, Tex- her husband: William as; brothers: Elisha Edward Reasonover; “Uncle Geno” Black- mother: Theresa “Ma- amore Jr. of Chicago, rie” McDavid-Marsh Illinois, Warner Black- and step father: Nedin amore (Mary) of Oma- “Pops” Marsh; father: ha, Nebraska, Andrew Elisha Blackamore Sr. Blackamore of Kokomo, and stepmother: Marg- Indiana, Caleb Blacka- eree Blackamore, broth- more (Lisa) of Kokomo, ers: Vincent “Uncle Rose Marie Indiana, Hoshea Black- Binky” Blackamore and Blackamore-Reasonover amore of Kokomo, Indi- Timothus Blackamore. Survivors: Daughter and Son-in- ana, Onesimus Blackamore (Ivonne) law: Schawna and Jerome Cox-Tan- of Kokomo, Indiana and Nathaniel ner-El; aunt: Lillie Rose Blacka- Blackamore (Crystal) of Kokomo, In- more-Blackmon of Benton Harbor, diana. Services will be held Saturday, Michigan; uncle: Ezell “Uncle Shug” Blackamore of Kalamazoo, Michi- January 30, 2016 at New Hope Bap- gan; sisters: Lavora Smith (Arthur) tist Church, 3777 Wilcox Boulevard, of Kansas City, Missouri, Olivia Chattanooga, Tennessee and inter- Blackamore of Washington, DC, ment will be on February 1, 2016 at Loretta Woods of Flint, Michigan, Chattanooga National Cemetery. Zipporah Blackamore of Chicago,
