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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>September 17 Newsletter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oregon ON Banquet and Peer Network Day Registration Deadline Tomorrow for Banquet and Peer Network Day Capacity Matters &#8211; Part 3 Housing Works Self-Sufficiency Program Helps Mom Build Plan for New Life Statewide News Housing Opportunity Forums Begin Next Week &#8211; Dates Finalized Recovery Act Awards Address Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Financing Gaps Public Comments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 3 Newsletter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OREGON ON BANQUET AND PEER NETWORK DAY Register for Oregon ON Banquet Today &#8211; Oct 7 Peer Network Day Gives Opportunities for Best Practices, Training &#8211; Oct 7, 8 CAPACITY MATTERS &#8211; PART 2 Hacienda CDC Keeps Latino Community&#8217;s Lights On STATEWIDE NEWS Housing Opportunity Meetings Scheduled Around the State, Sept &#8211; Oct Oregon ON [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 20 Newsletter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAPACITY MATTERS- PART 2
Capacity Matters: Hacienda CDC Keeps Lights On in Latino Community 

CAPACITY MATTERS - PART 2

Capacity Matters: Hacienda CDC Keeps Lights On in Latino Community--top

In May, Hacienda Community Development Corporation was awarded a contract with the United Way of the Columbia-Willamette to administer over $25,000 in Community Relief Funds to assist Latino families in Multnomah County with rent and utility expenses. Hacienda was among those chosen to award the funds because the United Way was seeking a culturally specific community organization.

The United Way created the Community Relief Fund as a disaster relief effort to address skyrocketing needs in the four-county area hit hardest by the economic crisis. The fund provides immediate help with food, rent, and utilities, to families stricken by unemployment, evictions, and rising costs for basic needs.

In the past four months, Hacienda CDC has assisted 45 families with an average assistance amount of $500. In addition, they have helped farmworker families at Plaza los Robles access rent and utility assistance through Clackamas County Social Services, who received similar funds from United Way.

“The stories we heard were, the main breadwinner had their hours reduced or totally cut, or medical bills had to be paid, and families had to make a choice between paying medical bills or paying rent or utilities or buying food, said Tanya Wolfersperger, Hacienda’s Director of Community Building. “The assistance maybe provided enough of a bridge so they didn’t end up with an eviction on their rental history, or so they could hold out until other assistance came in, or to fill the gap until a new job started.”

An example of one family’s challenges is the Ortega family. Mr. Ortega, a resident at Plaza los Robles, works at a Christmas tree farm, but his hours were cut. It was very hard for him to collect money for rent and utilities, and sometimes his family struggled to have money left for food. If they were able to receive help for rent, Mr. Ortega's salary would be enough to pay food and utilities. Hacienda submitted a request for six months of rent and utility assistance to help stabilize this family.

By applying to administer the funds, Hacienda CDC had to learn to do something they had not done before. Before, they had referred families who needed rent or utility assistance to other agencies. Now they were the go-to person for not only their own clients, but were getting referrals from Multnomah County, El Programa Hispano, and other organizations.

“We utilized our Resident Services Coordinator, gave her the task to be point person,” said Wolfersperger. “After we did outreach to let people know we had the money, she started fielding calls and setting up appointments. It became a temporary, full-time job! (laughs)”

Families would come in with a copy of a shut-off notice, or a notice from the landlord, and then Hacienda would work directly with landlords and utility companies to provide assistance and prevent the eviction or shut-offs.

What about the work the Coordinator had been doing before? “She had to juggle it,” laughs Wolfersperger. “Part of her job always was to connect people to resources, so now we had a more direct way to do that than advocacy and referrals. It had an impact on our bookkeepers too, because they were managing checks [to landlords and utility companies].

“It was challenging, because we aren’t an organization like Human Solutions where administering assistance was already a program of theirs. If it was ongoing, we would have had to have discussion about capacity. But in a way it was ok, because we knew it was a fourth-month thing. We were grateful to be able to administer the funds.

“We were in the right place at the right time.”]]></description>
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		<title>Newsletter, August 6</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CAPACITY MATTERS &#8211; PART 1 of an exciting new series! Capacity Matters &#8211; Umpqua CDC Welcomes Constance Hammons Home STATEWIDE NEWS Now That Is Production &#8211; Oregon CDCs Top $1B in Housing Development Urban League State of Black Oregon Shows Profound Poverty, Housing Gaps Hope for Tenants Losing Section 8 in Clatsop County LaMont Replaces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 23 Newsletter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STATEWIDE NEWS Oregon Jumps to #1 Homelessness Per Capita, Number of Families Increase Website, Database Key Tool to Preserve At-Risk Housing Oregon $27.3 Million Tax Credit Assistance Plan Approved Neighborhood Stabilization Program Addresses Blight Analyst Predicts Oregon Foreclosures May Cycle Down New Davis Bacon Residential Wage Decision for Select Oregon Counties Oregon Gets $955k for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsletter, July 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STATEWIDE NEWS Legislature Champions Housing Opportunity, Passes Lottery-Backed Bonds Oregon Housing and Community Services Will Cut Staff, Programs Mixed Use PWR Bill Stalled in Senate Rules Committee at Session’s End Oregon Gets $27 Million in TCAP Stimulus Money for Affordable Housing TCAP Stimulus Elusive &#8211; Developers Must Show Effort to Find Investors $2 Million Awarded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsletter, June 24</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STATEWIDE NEWS Oregon Housing and Community Services Announces Spring CFC Awardees Housing Division of OHCS Reorganizes FEDERAL NEWS Section 8 Emergency Affecting Oregon, Washington, Florida, West Virginia Frank, Waters Urge Public Housing Demolition Moratorium HUD Secretary Comments on Section 8, Other FY10 HUD Requests HUD Interprets of Section 8 Provisions in Protecting Tenants Act Census [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsletter, June 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STATEWIDE NEWS Housing Cuts Put 285 Households at Risk of Homelessness Rising Number of Homeless in Oregon Mostly New Families Senate Bill on Preventable Foreclosures Needs Your Help Fast Ways and Means Approves OHCS Budget FEDERAL NEWS ‘Helping Families’ Bill Protects Tenants, Borrowers, Changes McKinney-Vento Federal Housing Market Conditions Report Released HUD Seeks Feedback on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsletter, May 28</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 22:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orion Lumiere</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[STATEWIDE NEWS OHCS To Announce Funding for 17 Projects in Spring CFC, June 5 State Distributes Neighborhood Stabilization Plan 1 Funds to Localities Housing Need in Lane County Overwhelms Section 8 Website 3 Central OR Counties Launch First Homelessness Plans East of Cascades FHDC Tour Exposes Dire Reality of Farmworker Living Conditions State Legislature Begins [...]]]></description>
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