On Saturday, April 21, Habitat partnered with the Jubilee Commons Homeowner Association to offer residents a continuing education course on home maintenance. Habitat’s Jubilee Commons in Rockwood was completed in January of 2011 and is home to 22 families and a community center. Jubilee Commons residents joined Habitat staff and a long-time volunteer, Carolyn Graf, […]

Many Habitat supporters who give financial gifts and spend countless hours swinging hammers wish they could give even more, but feel that there is just no more room in the family budget. With Planned Giving, Habitat supporters are able to make larger gifts than they ever thought possible. And on a Spring morning in March, […]

Carrie Jossy-Christian moved into her Habitat home in north Portland in the fall of 2007. Since then, the stability of owning a home has allowed her and her family to focus on things that are important to them. By trade, Carrie is a commercial painter, but her love is painting on canvas and creating works […]

An AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) team arrived in Portland on March 19 to spend seven weeks with Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East, helping local affordable housing efforts. This marks the fourteenth year an AmeriCorps NCCC team has included Habitat on their tour of service. AmeriCorps NCCC is a full-time, residential, national service program in […]

Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East has built over 220 homes in the Portland Metro area, but did you know that our affiliate has also built over 230 homes worldwide? To help support the work of Habitat for Humanity International, our affiliate tithes 10% of undesignated contributions to Habitat affiliates in El Salvador and Ethiopia. We […]

When Habitat wrapped up our recent From Here. For Here. campaign and offered our billboards to the ReStores, ReStore Managers Shel Reinwald and Alex Bertolucci saw an opportunity. “We looked at Alex’s messenger bag made from a banner and started figuring out how to craft tote bags from the material,” Said Reinwald. With the ReStore’s […]

Habitat’s Women Build program and Whirlpool Corporation co-sponsored Habitat homeowner survey conducted by Center for Applied Research at the University of Southern Indiana ATLANTA (March 8, 2012) – A recent survey of Habitat for Humanity homeowners indicates significant increases in areas of homeowners’ self-esteem, well-being, overall family health and neighborhood pride. The survey reflects input […]

Excavation is happening now for the first 22 homes at Southeast 171st and Division Street, prepping for foundations at the end of March. Laser levels, earth movers and foundation forms have been hard at work breaking ground on Oregon’s largest Habitat development: 45 homes at Southeast 171st and Division Street. This development is part of […]

“The most common cause of student mobility is poverty. It’s the ability for a family to afford a place to live in… ” – Sam Breyer, Principal of Butler Creek Elementary Located on the edge of southeast Portland and bordering west Gresham, the Centennial neighborhood has long been the gateway for both urban and suburban […]