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News
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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,