Affordable Housing Innovations

Affordable Housing, Property Management

Guess who visited our Oak Leaf Mobile Home Park in the Cully Neighborhood of Portland?!? HUD Secretary Marcia L. Fudge! So glad our residents were able to share part of their amazing story and participate in solutions to the affordable housing crisis in Oregon.  ...

Sober living the focus at SVdP’s new Phoenix House

Affordable Housing, Shelter Assistance, Supportive Housing

Like the mythical bird that inspired its name, The Phoenix House will represent renewal and restoration — providing a place where unsheltered women, striving to sustain sobriety, can find peace and stability as they ascend from the ashes of addiction. A new...

Exciting upgrades approved for Oregon recycling, housing

Affordable Housing, Recycling

A letter from Terry McDonald: In a time when we can all use some good news, I want to tell you about two remarkably positive things happening for the greater good in the state of Oregon. These developments will have great impacts on our ability at St. Vincent de Paul...

Video: Iris Place elevates affordable housing in Eugene

Affordable Housing

Opened in late November 2021, Iris Place is St. Vincent de Paul’s newest affordable-housing property in Eugene, Ore. Set in the heart of the River Road neighborhood, the thoughtfully and sustainably designed complex includes 53 one-, two- and three-bedroom...

Home for the Holidays: Treasuring the gift of independence

Affordable Housing

It might be a sign of renewed appreciation for all things in the wake of her loss. Maybe it’s her good old glass-half-full outlook. Most likely, the magic of finally being in her own home — for the holidays, no less — has something to do with it. The important thing...

Home for the Holidays: Fate opens the door

Affordable Housing

Jennifer seems comfortable talking about it, but her words reveal the near-defeat still freshly masked behind her smile. “There was a point while I was living in my car,” she admits, “I gave up. I was tired of getting denied for housing. I was trying just to get off...