10A | WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2019 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Argentine guitar virtuoso Pablo Figueroa to perform in concert with Craig Einhorn Sunday
While living in Argentina for
several years, Craig Einhorn and
Pablo Figueroa met in a folk mu-
sic club in Buenos Aires, Argenti-
na, called La Peña del Colorado.
They became friends and eventu-
ally formed a bicultural collabo-
ration involving the performance
of Argentine music styles as well
as other Latin American Styles
and American music.
During their upcoming May 5
concert in Cottage Grove, they
will perform instrumentals and
songs including: Tango, Milonga,
Chacarera, Zamba, Chamame,
Chamarrita as well as popular
Tiny
from A1
“There are a million
Americans who lose their
housing every year, evicted
simply because they cannot
afford their rent,” he said.
“And so this is a way to ad-
dress this problem.”
Providing
low-income
housing while maintaining
quality is a challenge to any
affordable housing project,
but those involved in build-
ing Cottage Village are con-
fident they have struck that
balance.
“This is going to be
high-quality. It’s going to
be attractive. It’s going to be
something the whole com-
munity can be proud of,”
said Bryant.
Architects of the tiny
homes were able to maxi-
mize the usage of the 200
to 300 square-foot units to
equip each house with liv-
ing and sleeping areas, full
bathrooms and kitchenettes.
“Some of our homes we
designed specifically with
young families in mind,”
Bryant said. “They have a
loft in them that would be
great for one or two chil-
dren.”
At the staggeringly low
price of $250 to $350 per
month including utilities,
the units are intended to
house anybody from single
residents to small families
in a long-term capacity.
Equity-generating oppor-
tunities may also be avail-
able to future Cottage Vil-
lage residents.
Another of SquareOne
songs in Spanish and/or English.
Their repertoire is diverse and
includes unfamiliar and familiar
genres. Figueroa is a true virtu-
oso of the classical guitar with
a specific technique that can
only be developed in Argentina.
Einhrn is a bilingual singer, ver-
satile guitarist and percussionist.
They will also inform their
audiences about Argentine mu-
sic and engage them in question
and answer opportunities.
This is a once-in-a-life time
opportunity to experience Ar-
COURTESY PHOTO
gentine music played by a musi-
Pablo Figueroa utilizes a technique developed in Argentina. He will per-
cian with deep roots in the Santa form with Craig Einhorn at the Cottage Events Venue on Sunday.
Village’s affordable housing
projects in Eugene, Emerald
Village, is a limited equity
co-op, effectively making
each resident a shareholder
of the village. For their first
30 months, residents there
pay a $50 share as part of
their rent into a $1,500 as-
set that may be cashed out if
they leave.
This system is intended to
be a feature of Cottage Vil-
lage as well, though the goal
is to present it as an option
after residents have had a
couple years to settle in.
“They will actually build
up some equity within the
community,” said Bruce
Kelsh, chair of CVC. “If you
stay here and then want to
move somewhere else, you
can take that equity with
you.”
Though some may use
such a system as a stepping
stone in a pursuit of some
upward mobility, the village
will serve a range of lifestyle
trajectories.
“It’s not designed to be a
transitional program,” Bry-
ant said. “It depends on the
household and what their
situation is. For that person
who lives on a fixed income,
who does not really have a
chance to be upwardly mo-
bile, it’s a chance to live with
decency and with dignity.”
Such cases can be found at
Emerald Village, where resi-
dents and applicants tend to
be near or at retirement.
“For that household, this
is probably a long-term,
permanent home,” said Bry-
ant about Cottage Village
housing. “And it’s designed
to be that. This is where
you could live for 20 or 30
years.”
Though
construction
has begun on the first tiny
home, it’s not yet clear when
people will begin moving in.
Site development is likely
to start in June and further
progress is somewhat de-
pendent on funding.
The coalition’s hope is
that the first house will in-
centivize others to join the
effort and see the project
through to completion.
“We pushed really hard
to build this first house be-
cause once people see what
a really nice quality, safe,
well-designed tiny house is
like, then they’ll be like, ‘Ah,
that’s what you’re talking
about,’” said Kelsh. “I think
when you see it broken
down into doable pieces,
that provides the oppor-
tunity for organizations to
think, ‘Yeah, I think we can
do that if we work on it.’”
Kelsh said that interest in
similar projects had already
been shown in places like
Florence and Bandon.
Since January of 2016,
CVC members have met
twice a month to realize
their vision of Cottage Vil-
lage.
“It started really because
people were saying, ‘We’ve
got homeless people in our
community; we know these
people. What are we going
to do about that?’” Kelsh
said. “And then it evolved
into learning more about
the state of homelessness in
Lane County.”
The need for affordable
housing is no secret in cities
like Cottage Grove.
In the Cottage Grove Hous-
ing Needs Analysis released
in August last year, the 20-
year plan indicated the need
for an average of 69 new
units to be built per year in
order to meet projected de-
mand.
“Fifty percent of the peo-
ple in the county are what
they call, ‘asset-limited, in-
come-constrained.’ Basical-
ly, the working poor,” said
Kelsh.
Units like those planned
for Cottage Village not only
fall under the housing anal-
ysis’s stated low-income
need, but also provide secu-
rity for those who are eco-
nomically vulnerable to a
single expense-laden event
that may render them with-
out housing.
“So, the goal of it is to pre-
vent people from becoming
homeless,” Kelsh said.
Fe province of Argentina.
The guitarists will per-
form on Sunday, May 5,
beginning at 7 p.m. at The
Cottage Events Venue,
2915 Row River Road in
Cottage Grove.
Admission is $10-$15
sliding scale. Beverages
and dessert will be avail-
able for purchase.
For more information,
contact Kim Still by email
at kimstill@cottageevents.
com or 541-942-6888.
Funding for the project
so far has come from a va-
riety of sources including
$15,000 from the city to
help with system devel-
opment charges, a recent
$500,000 Housing Improve-
ment Program grant from
Lane County and numerous
other grants and donations.
“We’ve been fortunate in
people giving us unsolicited
grants, which is a real affir-
mation of our project,” said
Kelsh.
Despite the robust sup-
port, the coalition is on con-
tinuous lookout for fund-
ing. In a letter to the City of
Cottage Grove, SquareOne
Village stated that approx-
imately $500,000 is still
needed to complete the
project.
The City of Cottage
Grove has scheduled a work
session to determine how
much can be spent to fur-
ther the effort, though it
currently remains unclear
how much, if anything, can
be provided.
As site development be-
gins for the village, expens-
es for paving, construction
and utility installation will
begin to accrue.
“Any help the city can give
us toward that would be
greatly appreciated,” Bryant
said.
Community support is
also welcomed as the proj-
ect moves into its next
phase. The coalition will
be looking for monetary
and material donations, but
skilled labor in construction
and landscaping fields will
also be needed.
For Kelsh, perseverance
and patience will be key
tools in the road ahead.
“We’ll just keep plugging
away at it until it’s done,” he
said.
Donations can be made at
the SquareOne Village web-
site at www.squareonevil-
lages.org, where more infor-
mation on Cottage Village
can be found as well.
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