New apartment community Alongside Senior Housing in Tigard received over $6 million in Metro affordable housing bond funds and will provide homes for 57 senior households.
New apartment community Alongside Senior Housing in Tigard received over $6 million in Metro affordable housing bond funds and will provide homes for 57 senior households.
The opening of Good Shepherd Village in Happy Valley marks the 1,000th completed Metro bond home.
Pairing affordable homes built with funds from Metro's affordable housing bond with services paid for by Metro's supportive housing services fund has created more permanent supportive housing across greater Portland. These homes support people who have experienced chronic homelessness and have at least one disability.
Helen moved into the Metro affordable housing bond-funded Fuller Station Apartments about a year ago, where she is preparing to welcome her first foster child. The complex's affordable rent is essential for Helen to live in the Portland area on her salary in the social services sector.
After years of paying unaffordable market rents in an apartment that was too small for her and her family, now Rose is paying an affordable rent with the space her family needs to thrive at the Metro bond-funded apartment complex, Terrace Glen.
This Thursday, the Housing Authority of Washington County and Related Northwest hosted a celebration to mark the opening of Terrace Glen Apartments in Tigard. The new development brings 144 affordable apartment homes to the area. Metro’s housing bond paid for $17.5 million and Metro’s transit-oriented development program (TOD) paid for $500,000 of the $51.2 million building.