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Proud Ground and Minority Homebuyer Assistance Collaborative work together to serve minority homebuyers
The housing organizations recently helped two low-income households become homeowners
Two new homebuyers achieved the dream of homeownership through Proud Ground, a nonprofit organization creating affordable homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income first-time homebuyers, and the Minority Homebuyer Assistance Collaborative.
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You did it!
Friends,
We are humbled and honored. You rose to the challenge and helped meet our anniversary goal of $10,000 for 10 years. In fact, we surpassed our goal -- by a lot. We really did end the year with a bang. Thank you!
Now, on to 2010.
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Our ten year anniversary celebration was a success!
Thank you to everyone who joined us! We were grateful to celebrate with homeowners, partners and supporters and to honor the many people who were instrumental in making Proud Ground what it is today.
We had fun too! There was the top ten list, the Proud Ground bird houses and ...
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Proud Ground in The Oregonian
Proud Ground's 10th anniversary and 100th home get some great press!
Read more...OREGONIAN--Proud Ground has been creating permanently affordable housing for a decade now, working to keep Portland from becoming San Francisco or Vail, Colo., where many working in those cities can't afford to live in them.
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Congress Renews Homebuyer Tax Credit
The tax credit of up to $8,000 is still available for qualified first-time home buyers purchasing a principal residence on or after January 1, 2009 and before June 30, 2010. (You must be under contract to purchase by April 30, 2010.) Unlike the tax credit enacted in 2008, the ...
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Join us for our 10 year Anniversary Celebration
10 years of serving our community
10 years of making home a realityPlease help us celebrate!
Proud Ground
Anniversary Celebration
Tuesday, Dec. 1, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Program at 6:15Curious Comedy Theater
5225 NE Martin Luther King Blvd
No Charge | Wine | Beer | Food
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We need your voice.
The Portland Housing Bureau is beginning work on its five-year plan about how to use City and Federal housing dollars. We need your help making the case about the importance of affordable homeownership.
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Proud Ground adds 100th home!
In September 2009 Proud Ground celebrated a major milestone: we added the 100th home to our portfolio of forever-affordable homes.
"Even in the current market, homeownership is less accessible than it has ever been," Executive Director Jesse Beason says." Today's generation is facing an average sales price that is ...
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Our 2008 Annual Report
This past year has sharpened our country's focus of what home really means. With some of our friends, relatives and neighbors struggling to keep the houses they love, it becomes even clearer that a home is more than a commodity. It is a refuge, a protector and a temple ...
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We are now Proud Ground. Same mission. Different name.
Portland Community Land Trust is now Proud Ground!
Our membership voted in favor of changing our name to reach more people about what we do, and to better represent all that we can do. We think Proud Ground will guide our growth and evolution, while helping us help more people ...
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Homes that last: A study of homes that resell
Champlain Housing Trust, America's longest running non-profit offering permanently affordable homes, has released a study following the impact of their programs on past, current and future homeowners.
Among their findings were:
- Among homeowners they were able to track, 67.4% of them bought market-rate homes within six months of ...
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Sharing the Future: Proud Ground Newsletter - Spring 2009
In this issue:
- Homeownership can be surprising
- Letter from the Executive Director: We've still got work to do
- Pardee Commons is coming to Lents
- PCLT by any other name
- Meet new team member Lilia Alvarez
- Eight was great! - A look at 2008
- Proud Ground Profile"The most surprising thing ...
- Homeownership can be surprising
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Proud Ground on the radio
Lilia Alvarez, our Community Outreach Coordinator, joined Jo Ann Bowman and Dave Mazza on their show, Voices from the Edge on KBOO radio.
You can listen to the full broadcast here.
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Oregonian: Joining Hands for Homeownership
By Jan Behrs
In March, Victoria and Venique Lamy launched themselves out of an economic situation that might sound familiar to many moderate-income families. It took the help of a whole coalition of East Portland support organizations, but they managed to buy their first home.
Feeling ...
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Proud Ground's 2008 Annual Meeting & Celebration
Thank you to everyone who made our celebration of hundreds of milestones so successful! Thank you as well to our 2008 Generations Partners, who were honored for their partnership with Proud Ground in affordable homeownership:Read more...- Bureau of Housing & Community Development
- Portland Development Commission
- Housing Authority of Portland
- WaMu
- HomeStreet Bank ...
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Proud Ground Homebuyer in the news
Read more...<p><b>A buyers market beckons: Loan programs help put keys in low-income homeowners hands</b></p> <p> By Steve Law | The Portland Tribune, <span class="pub_date">Dec 11, 2008<br /><a href="http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/print_story.php?story_id=122894647496971800">Read the original here.</a><br /></span> </p ... -
Our 2007 Annual Report
We are thrilled to share with you Proud Ground's 2007 Annual Report. As you will see, it was a great year.
We were fortunate to welcome many new homeowners in 2007. We also grew our capacity to create even more homes each year.
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Proud Ground's 2006 Annual Report released
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2006 was a fantastic year for Proud Ground. You can read more about our accomplishments and hear from a few of the homeowners who've purchased their first home through Proud Ground in our 2006 Annual Report. -
Summer 2008 Newsletter
Our Summer 2008 newsletter has great news about our 100th homeowner, our new Executive Director and the complettion of our Building Together renovation project. Download it here.
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Schools, Families & Housing Initiative
A BHCD - Proud Ground & African American Alliance for Homeownership Partnership
There are at least two things we all know about Portland: Our schools are in trouble and housing prices are out of control.
However, we also know that Portland is innovative, we are, after all, the City That Works - and ...
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Working Together for Change
Proud Ground participates in Operation HOME to help address the minority homeownership gapDid you know that in Portland, families of color are less likely to own their homes than white families, and twice as likely to be denied for home loans?
This is an unacceptable disparity in ...
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$10K challenge gift = $22K for Proud Ground!
Thank you! By December 31, 2007, Proud Ground raised $12,000 thanks to Al & Nancy Jubitz $10,000 challenge!
2007 Al & Nancy Jubitz $10K challenge donors:
Sonia Abrams & Stephen Moss · Jane Ames · Kris Amundson · Trell Anderson & Jennifer Schneider · Terry Anderson · Kathy Armstrong · Brian Bates · Jesse Beason · Bridget Benton · David Berkshire ...
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BuildingTogether: A Proud Ground Renovation Project
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The Housing Authority of Portland faced a challenge. With dwindling public resources, they could no longer afford to maintain a portfolio of single-family houses that were scattered throughout the city. But those houses were serving an important purpose: providing affordable homes to Portland families.Thats where our unique partnership ...
