The Marie Equi Center in Southeast Portland offers culturally responsive services for LGBTQ+ community members. Its renovation and operations are made possible in large part by Metro’s supportive housing services fund.
The Marie Equi Center in Southeast Portland offers culturally responsive services for LGBTQ+ community members. Its renovation and operations are made possible in large part by Metro’s supportive housing services fund.
Funded in part by the Metro affordable housing bond, the new community has doubled the small town’s affordable housing inventory.
Metro’s affordable housing bond helped fund the construction of Las Flores, a housing development in Oregon City with 171 homes. Seventy apartments are for households who earn 30% of the area median income or less, and 129 apartments have two or more bedrooms.
When Denise needed a job and Dachea needed a caregiver, the resident services coordinator at their Oregon City affordable housing complex connected them. The resident services coordinator’s position is paid for by Metro’s supportive housing services fund.
Thanks to Metro’s voter-approved supportive housing services fund, Clackamas County has massively expanded their social safety net for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
A new shelter program in Milwaukie offers culturally responsive services for a community that is overrepresented in the population of people experiencing homelessness. Staffing and operations are paid for by almost $2 million in Metro supportive housing services funds.