[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Affordable housing at Portland (OR) reserve center

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Council approves site for affordable housing project

Portland Daily Journal of Commerce (OR)
July 11, 2008

Portland City Council on Wednesday approved a resolution to use the site 
of the Jerome F. Sears U.S. Army Reserve Center in Southwest Portland 
for an affordable housing complex.

Owned by the Department of Defense, the center, which is valued at $3 
million, is being abandoned as part of a federal military base closure 
plan. The government plans to offer the site to the city for 75 percent 
of the cost if it is used for homeless or low-income housing.

Neighborhood leaders had wanted the site to be used for an emergency 
response and maintenance center, and the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency would have offered the center for free if it was used for such a 
purpose.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.djcoregon.com/articleDetail.htm/2008/07/11/Council-approves-site-for-affordable-housing-project
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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