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Thursday, March 7, 2019
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Hermiston, Pendleton don’t meet rent burdened criteria
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
The state has placed new
requirements on cities con-
sidered “severely rent bur-
dened,” but Hermiston
and Pendleton don’t fit that
criteria.
The state defines severely
rent burdened cities as those
where more than 25 per-
cent of rental households are
spending more than half of
their income on rent.
Hermiston, in particular,
is a good place to be a renter
according to data collected
by the U.S. Census Bureau
and used by the state. Of
all the cities in Oregon with
a population over 10,000,
Hermiston has the sec-
ond-lowest percentage of
severely rent burdened
households, at 15.5 percent.
Pendleton comes in at
18.7 percent, with only
eight of the cities coming
in lower. Overall, 27 of the
49 cities in Oregon with a
population over 10,000 are
considered severely rent
burdened.
The data is being tracked
by Oregon Housing and
Community Services, a
government agency that
promotes affordable hous-
ing through measures rang-
ing from downpayment
assistance programs to
housing choice vouchers.
Ariel Nelson, commu-
nications liaison for the
agency, said OHCS pub-
lished the list of severely
rent burdened cities as part
of House Bill 4006, which
passed during the 2018 leg-
islative session. The data
concerning
households
spending more than 50 per-
cent of their income on rent
is gathered by the U.S. Cen-
sus Bureau as part of its
annual American Commu-
nity Survey.
“That’s a data point we
often use at the agency,”
she said of the 50 percent
statistic.
Each year, cities that
meet the criteria of “severely
rent burdened” will have to
complete a survey about
housing affordability and
conduct at least one pub-
lic meeting to discuss the
causes and consequences
of rent burdens and possible
solutions to reduce the num-
ber of rent burdened house-
holds in the community.
Since Hermiston and
Pendleton fall below the 25
percent mark, they don’t
qualify as “severely” rent
burdened.
Hermiston assistant city
manager Mark Morgan
said he couldn’t say for sure
exactly why Hermiston had
a relatively low number of
rent burdened households,
but Hermiston is “obviously
a totally different mar-
ket than some of the metro
areas.”
The cost of purchasing a
home, for example, is much
lower than Oregon’s larg-
est cities, leading some res-
idents to make the jump to
home ownership rather than
pay prices on the higher
end of Hermiston’s rental
market.
“More people here who
want to own, have the abil-
ity to own,” he said.
Morgan also said he
hears from landlords in the
area that if rents in Herm-
iston get too high people
often decide they can pay
just as much in the Tri-Cit-
ies while living closer to
amenities such as Costco.
Hermiston has 2,537
renter households, many of
which contain multiple peo-
ple, according to the sur-
vey data. The city hasn’t
had luck in recruiting a new
apartment complex is sev-
eral years, although Mor-
gan said it’s “not for lack of
trying.”
“Their response is that
they can’t get the rents they
need,” he said.
There have been some
smaller rentals such as
duplexes built in the past
few years, as well as the new
Cimmaron Terrace town
homes off Theater Lane. He
said there are some larger
rental complexes in the
works.
According to the rent
burden data put out by the
state at the beginning of the
month, Pendleton has 2,660
renter households, with 497
of them considered severely
rent burdened. The city has
experienced a recent hous-
ing boom and in November
approved the sale of prop-
erty on Westgate for a 200-
unit housing complex by
I&E Construction.
Pendleton woman’s quilt will
help children of fallen warriors
Annette Frye’s
son, who is in the
Air Force, asked
her to make it
East Oregonian
Contributed photo
Annette Frye, of Pendleton, created a quilt for the 2019 EOD Warrior Foundation Auction in
Florida. The quilt is on display at Thimbles Fabric-N-More in Pendleton.
Not long ago Annette
Frye found herself scratch-
ing her head as to why any-
one would take a perfectly
good piece of fabric, cut it
up and sew it back together.
Then, four years ago, her
son, Air Force EOD Master
Sgt. Ronnie “Bo” Brickey,
asked her to design a quilt
memorializing 20 explo-
sive ordnance disposal
technicians who lost their
lives in the line of duty.
“Since the completion of
that first quilt, I fell in love
with the process of cut-
ting up fabric and sewing
it back together,” said the
Pendleton woman.
This past fall, Frye’s son
Hermiston. For more infor-
mation, call 541-701-0550 or
visit www.ohdc.org.
HERMISTON — A
bake sale and raffle is
planned to help the family
of one of Regency Hermis-
ton’s employees. The event
is Friday at 7 p.m. at 970
W. Juniper Ave., Hermis-
ton. Money raised will help
support Irma Myers, whose
husband, Gary, was recently
diagnosed with metastatic
stomach cancer.
For information, call or
text Jamie at 509-759-4719.
Dance team storms
into preview
Long-sleeved shirts
needed for workers
HERMISTON — A
long-sleeved shirt drive is
being conducted to help in
protecting farm workers.
People are encouraged to
donate new or gently used
long-sleeved shirts to help
protect agricultural workers
from pesticide exposure and
heat-related illnesses. The
clothing donations should
be light in color and made of
cotton or natural fabrics.
The effort is being
launched by the Oregon
Human Development Cor-
poration on behalf of the
Association of Farmworker
Opportunity
Programs.
Donations will be distrib-
uted during Farmworker
Awareness Week, which
runs March 24-31.
People can take dona-
tions to the Oregon Human
Development Corporation,
955 S.E. Fourth St., Suite A,
PENDLETON — Rhyth-
mic Mode, Pendleton High
School’s competitive dance
team, will provide a preview
of their 2019 state routine.
The defending state
championship dancers will
present “I Am the Storm” on
Monday, March 11 at 6 p.m.
at the school, 1800 N.W.
Carden Ave., Pendleton.
The public is encouraged to
come support the team as
they head to the 2019 OSAA
Dance and Drill State
Championships. There is no
admission charge.
The state competition
is March 15 at Veterans
Memorial Coliseum in Port-
land. Tickets for the champi-
onships are $15.50 to $16.10,
with $8 to $20 fee for park-
ing. For tickets, call 800-745-
3000 or www.rosequarter.
com/2019-osaa-dance-drill.
Seed Share Expo
set for March 16
HERMISTON — Peo-
ple are invited to get a jump
start on their garden during
the Seed Share Expo.
The Umatilla/Hermiston
Garden Club will give away
free seeds to help help peo-
ple start their gardens. In
addition, the event will fea-
ture door prizes, displays,
demonstrations and activi-
ties for the whole family.
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instinctively that we must
survive to achieve full mis-
sion success, while accept-
ing the fact that we have
chosen to serve a greater
calling — to give our life
in lieu of others.”
The quilt is on display
at Thimbles Fabric-N-
More, 1849 Westgate Place,
Pendleton.
It will be sent to the 2019
EOD Warrior Foundation
Auction, which is the first
weekend in May in Florida.
Proceeds from the auction
will go toward scholarships
for children of warriors
who made the ultimate sac-
rifice, Frye said.
“Whatever your passion
or talent may be, I encour-
age you to use it to sup-
port causes that are near
and dear to your heart,” she
said.
“It can be as elaborate as
creating a piece of art, or as
simple as volunteering at a
local event.”
Council approves fee increases
BRIEFLY
Regency
Hermiston hosts
fundraiser
sent the words “Prepare to
meet thy God” and asked
her to create another quilt.
The biblical words from
Amos 4:12 have particular
meaning to those who work
closely with improvised
explosive devices.
EOD Tech. Sgt. Lee
Cundiff said that the
phrase also refers to an
iconic 1970s photograph
of a British Army bomb
technician approaching a
suspect vehicle containing
an improvised explosive
device (IED) in Belfast,
Northern Ireland.
The words, Cundiff
explained, could possi-
bly be the most discour-
aging thing to read when
approaching
a
device
designed to kill you.
“However, EOD Techni-
cians have learned to live
with a dissonant, yet para-
mount dichotomy,” Cundiff
said, “living in a terminal
state of calmness; knowing
The free event is Satur-
day, March 16 from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. at the Hermis-
ton Public Library, 235 E.
Gladys Ave. People also are
invited to bring any seeds
they might have to share
with others.
For questions, contact
Amanda Woodlee at amw@
amandamillswoodlee.com.
East Oregonian
The Pendleton City
Council
unanimously
voted to raise dozens of
fees at a meeting Tuesday.
The fee increases —
which cover things like
the Pendleton Conven-
tion Center, the Pendle-
ton Aquatic Center, the
planning
department,
and parking tickets —
are mostly minimal in
amount.
Most
fees
were
increased between 3 per-
cent and 15 percent based
on how long they had gone
without an update.
Before the fees were
increased, the council
made a procedural change
Foundation Trust
offers grants
PENDLETON — The
application deadline for
grants and scholarships
through the Pendleton Foun-
dation Trust is April 1.
Grants for worthwhile
projects are awarded twice
a year to civic, educational
or charitable organizations
to assist or promote the
well-being of the citizens in
the city of Pendleton.
Applications and infor-
mation is available at www.
pendletonfoundationtrust.
com or by writing to 222
S.E. Dorion Ave., Pendle-
ton, OR 97801. For ques-
tions, contact Jerri Bealer at
bealer@corey-byler.com or
541-276-3331.
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ordinance and attach it to a
resolution, which doesn’t
require multiple readings
and public advertising.
Although many resolu-
tions don’t require public
hearings, City Manager
Robb Corbett said any
resolutions that raise fees
require the council pro-
vide opportunity for pub-
lic input.
Mayor John Turner also
announced that a lease
agreement between the
city and QL Investments
to build a 30,800-square-
foot hangar at the airport
would be removed from
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was being sorted out.
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