With deconstruction of an existing, vacant home in progress in the background, we celebrated the beginning of development for four new affordable and sustainable homes in North Portland’s Portsmouth neighborhood. City of Portland officials, neighbors and other community members joined in the celebration Wednesday, April 14. The four new homes, developed by PCRI in conjunction [...]
“I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation,” said Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., starting his now-famous “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963. In Dr. King’s honor, volunteers from Americorps and Hands On [...]
“Today we eat, we celebrate, and we honor people,” said Maxine Fitzpatrick, opening a celebration November 12, 2009, at Portland’s Urban Plaza. Fitzpatrick, Executive Director at Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives (pictured at right), praised the day’s honorees: “in their own unselfish ways [these people] have contributed mightily to the livability and the fabric of this [...]
The stream of people at Saturday’s African American Alliance for Homeownership Fair was slower than previous years, but PCRI’s Rachel Hestmark and Charles Funches still took the opportunity to make new connections. Charles, PCRI’s Homeownership Coordinator, talked with potential homeowners like Watasha Stroud (pictured at left) and Allan Peterson (pictured below) about programs PCRI offers [...]
