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S moke S ignals
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Grand Ronde
Housing Department
Opportunity for comment on
Grand Ronde Housing Department
2019 Indian Housing Plan (IHP)
Under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Deter-
mination Act of 1996, (NAHASDA), the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD) will provide grants to Indian Tribes/
Indian Housing Authorities for the development and operation of
low-income housing in Indian areas. Grants are made to eligible
recipients under the Indian Housing Block Grant Program. To be
eligible for the grants, respondents must submit an Indian Housing
Plan that meets the minimum requirements of the Act, and also
submit an Annual Performance Report to HUD, and maintain re-
cords for HUD monitoring. The Grand Ronde Housing Department
(GRHD) has received multiple grants under this program which
were active during 2018.
Comments on the Indian Housing Plan are welcome and copies
of this report can be obtained at the GRHD office or by calling
503-879-2401, or 1-800-422-0232, ext. 2401. Comments must be
submitted in writing to GRHD no later than 5 p.m. Monday, Oct.
8, 2018. All comments will be incorporated into the final report
submitted to HUD.
Board seeks community input
The Grand Ronde Housing Board is inviting Tribal members and
Tribal housing residents to provide input to assist its members in
carrying out its advisory role to the Housing Department and Tribal
Council regarding policy guidance. The Housing Board meets at 3
p.m. the third Thursday of each month in the Housing Department
conference room, 28450 Tyee Road. Its chair is Kristy Criss-Lawson.
For more information, contact the Housing Department at 503-879-
2401.
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Smoke Signals starts
own Facebook page
Smoke Signals launched its own Facebook page and is posting its stories,
photos and podcasts to that page.
Popular features, such as photo galleries from Tribal events and links
to Smoke Signals podcasts and stories, are now be featured on the news-
paper’s Facebook page.
“This is part of the continuing evolution of an independent Tribal press
for the Grand Ronde Tribe,” Editor Dean Rhodes said. “The other two
Facebook pages are outlets for official Tribal government announcements
and positions, while the Smoke Signals Facebook page will be a conduit
of information dissemination for the independent Tribal press that was
created in January 2017. This also accomplishes a goal of the Grand Ronde
Editorial Board, which seeks to create a defined separation between the
Tribal government and the Tribal independent press.”
Rhodes will be the moderator of the Smoke Signals Facebook page, which
can be “friended” at www.facebook.com/SmokeSignalsCTGR/.
“Although I will miss having the more than 4,500 friends on the main
Grand Ronde Facebook page, I am hopeful that many of them will quickly
friend Smoke Signals on Facebook so that they can keep abreast of in-
dependently reported news about the Tribe,” Rhodes said. “In addition,
this separate page will give us more latitude to post links of other stories
about Native American Tribes and issues regionally and nationally that
Tribal members might be interested in reading about.”
For more information, contact Rhodes at dean.rhodes@grandronde.org
or call 503-879-1463.