Jolenes First Cousin

 

Willamette Week, 14 February 2018: "With Plans to Build Housing for the Homeless, a Portland Developer is Privatizing Socialism." ["Reason no. 16 to love Portland right now"].

Urban Land Institute. "Deal Profile: Jolene's First Cousin." ULI. https://casestudies.uli.org/deal-profile-jolenes-first-cousin/. 

 

"Portland banking on low-rent SRO hotels to ease housing problems." The Oregonian, April 27, 2019. 

2016 - Portland Housing Bureau bought the Joyce Hotel SRO downtown. 1st publicly owned SRO in Portland?

2018 - PHB bought Westwind Apartments, in Chinatown. Will be torn down and replaced with new building. 

PHB and state are contributing $4.5M to new Findley Commons, run by Do Good Multnomah.

Also contributed to a new $15M Central City Concern development with 40 SRO units. 

LISAH - Low-Income Single Adult Housing - Transition Projects project with 36 SRO units, also 35 studio apartments in a separate building. 
 

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References

• Monahan, Rachel (2018). "With Plans to Build Housing for the Homeless, a Portland Developer is Privatizing Socialism." ["Reason no. 16 to love Portland right now"]. Willamette Week, 14 February 2018.  https://www.wweek.com/culture/2018/02/14/our-developers-are-privatizing-socialism/
   
• Urban Land Institute. "Deal Profile: Jolene's First Cousin." ULI. https://casestudies.uli.org/deal-profile-jolenes-first-cousin/.  Undated, accessed 18 November 2019. 
   
• Harbarger, Molly, and Elliot Njus (2019). "Portland banking on low-rent SRO hotels to ease housing problems." The Oregonian, April 27, 2019. https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2019/04/officials-look-to-sro-hotels-as-model-for-low-income-housing.html.