“As a housing commissioner we feel like we’re trying to plug a lot of leaks in the dike,” said Nick Fish, a Portland city commissioner in charge of the housing bureau and parks and recreation. And the city’s budget has still not recovered from the downturn. Habitat, especially in east Portland, he said, is filling the gap. — NYT
Kirk Johnson examines how a depressed real estate market on Portland along with a recent gift by local businessman John Gray, has enabled Habitat, the nonprofit housing group, to think big. The organization has been buying up property on the city’s struggling east side in the process becoming the 10th-largest home builder in the Portland metropolitan area by housing volume and even more dominant in the lower-income, east side through the $10 million land-bank fund that Mr. Gray helped anchor. The scale and scope of the new Habitat projects, city officials say will allow entire blocks on the city’s struggling east side to be anchored by owner-occupied housing, creating in effect what some are calling "Habitat neighborhoods".
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