Tours are open to Living Future 09 attendees ONLY!

In a nation with profound wealth, more than 1 million people are homeless and lack access to basic shelter, education, health and welfare. However, housing issues are not faced by the homeless alone. One third of the nation, 95 million people, live in housing that is either substandard or unnafordable. Join a walking tour of three affordable, mixed-use apartment buildings within Portland’s Pearl District to see how developers and the City are tackling this most serious challenge to improve the lives of its citizens. 

Central City Concern, Reach Community Development, and Turtle Island Development LLC, bring a combined 60 years of experience in developing affordable housing and improving the lives of Portland’s homeless and low-income people. In total they have developed and operate close to 3,000 units of affordable housing. 

Tour their recent projects: the Richard L. Harris Building (180 units of alcohol and drug free housing), Station Place Tower (176 units of senior housing) and the Sitka Apartments (209 units of housing).

Learn about the populations these buildings serve, each organization’s unique approach toward affordable housing, and how design decisions (including green building) are tailored towards a building’s population.

Walk though through the Pearl District, discovering how this former werehouse/industrial area of the central city has become a model for central city liveability.

Tour will meet at Richard L. Harris Building at 8 NW 8th Ave. (approximately 8 blocks North from the Nines). Please meet on the park immediately in front of the building.

Presenters:

Ben Gates, AIA, Central City Concern, Portland, OR

Richard Harris, MSW, Central City Concern, Portland, OR

Dee Walsh, REACH Community Development, Portland, OR

Ed McNamara, Turtle Island Development, LLC