Jolenes First Cousin
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Jolenes First Cousin is an innovative mixed-use development in SE Portland combining ground-floor retail, two market-rate apartments, and 11 SROs — the brainchild of Kevin Cavenaugh and Anna Mackay of Guerrilla Development.
http://guerrilladev.co/projects#/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/.
Park, Eileen. [2018] "Guerrilla Development's bold plan to end homelessness." by KOIN-TV, Oct 18, 2018. https://www.koin.com/news/local/multnomah-county/guerrilla-development-s-bold-plan-to-end-homelessness/1362079021.
Portland SRO (Single Resident Occupant) housing
"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.
References
- 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.
- 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/.
- Park, Eileen. [2018] "Guerrilla Development's bold plan to end homelessness." by KOIN-TV, Oct 18, 2018. https://www.koin.com/news/local/multnomah-county/guerrilla-development-s-bold-plan-to-end-homelessness/1362079021.
- Urban Land Institute. "Deal Profile: Jolene's First Cousin." ULI. https://casestudies.uli.org/deal-profile-jolenes-first-cousin/. Undated, accessed 18 November 2019.