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The Housing Authority of Portland (HAP) was created by the Portland City Council on December 11, 1941. [2] [3] The city council created the agency in response to a massive influx of people who came to work at shipyards in the Portland area during World War II. [4]
New Columbia is a housing development in the Portsmouth neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. It was previously called Columbia Villa. It is operated by the city's public housing authority, Home Forward, and is the largest public housing development in the state.
Vanport construction began in August 1942 to house the workers at the wartime Kaiser Shipyards in Portland and Vancouver, Washington.Vanport—a portmanteau of "Vancouver" and "Portland"—was home to 40,000 people, about 40 percent of them African-American, making it Oregon's second-largest city at the time, and the largest public housing project in the nation.
Nov. 4—After years of crisis management, the Northwest Oregon Housing Authority plans to add three key staffing positions by the end of the year to help move the agency forward. A new property ...
Oct. 10—It can take years for people on the Northwest Oregon Housing Authority's waiting list to get a spot, yet two dozen units at the agency's housing projects are sitting vacant. The housing ...
Prosper Portland (formerly the Portland Development Commission) is a semi-public agency that plays a major role in downtown development; city voters created it in 1958 to serve as the city's urban renewal agency. It provides housing and economic development programs within the city and works behind the scenes with major local developers to ...
Prosper Portland, formerly the Portland Development Commission (PDC), is the community development corporation created by the city of Portland, Oregon. It promotes development, housing projects and economic development within the city's eleven urban renewal districts. It has controversially sought to establish measurable standards for workplace ...
The government of Portland, Oregon is based on a mayor–council government system. Elected officials include the mayor, a 12-member city council, and a city auditor.The city council is responsible for legislative policy, while the mayor appoints a professional city manager who oversees the various bureaus and day-to-day operations of the city.