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Portland housing bond: Why is the city taking so long to create new homes?
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As winter wound down in 2018, Chardonai Jones and her young son bounced between living in a hotel room and her car. She was 18 with another baby on the way, had no credit or rental history, and her fiancé had an eviction on his record. Portland landlords didn’t think they were reliable tenants.
But she and her family found home at The Ellington, an affordable housing complex that the city of Portland had just purchased as the first funded by a voter-approved housing bond.
Catholic Charities Cathedral Village Apartments will provide onsite social services to curtail poverty and homelessness An architectâs rendering shows the Cathedral Park Apartments, set for completion in 2022. âOne thing rings true during these uncertain times, and that is the deep need to invest in inclusive and supportive housing communities,â said Travis Phillips, director of community development and housing for Catholic Charities of Oregon. (Courtesy Catholic Charities of Oregon) 3/13/2021 5:02 PM
select A tree crew grinds limbs Feb. 9 in preparation for construction of Cathedral Park Apartments in North Portland. The new low-income housing is in a former industrial site near the Willamette River and the St. Johns Bridge. (Ed Langlois/Catholic Sentinel)
“All I want for everybody is just get an answer,” said Schlechter.
“It wasn’t for lack of trying or that we were trying to do anything shady,” explained Goodlow, who oversees the program for the city of Portland. “It is just: human error happens.”
Goodlow admits roughly 1,000 prepaid Visa debit cards never made it their intended recipient. They were likely misaddressed due to a clerical error and returned to the bank. On top of that, other cash cards were accidentally thrown out when they arrived in mailboxes.
“We don’t know how many got thrown away,” said Goodlow. “We just know that we get anywhere from 10 to 30 inquires per day.”
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