Home Forward
{{Short description|Housing authority in Multnomah County, Oregon, U.S.}}
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| formed = {{Start date|1941|12|11}}
| jurisdiction = Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
| headquarters = 135 SW Ash Street
Portland, Oregon, U.S.
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Home Forward, established in 1941 as the Housing Authority of Portland, is a housing authority that serves Portland, Oregon, and nearby municipalities in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States. Home Forward maintains properties in Portland, Gresham, and Fairview.{{cite web|title=Browse our Communities|url=http://www.homeforward.org/find-a-home/get-an-apartment/browse|publisher=Home Forward|access-date=June 22, 2019}}
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History
The Housing Authority of Portland (HAP) was created by the Portland City Council on December 11, 1941.{{cite web |last=Sanders |first=Richard |title=Housing Authority of Portland |website=The Oregon Encyclopedia |url=https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/housing_authority_of_portland/#.XQ67ApNKjfY |access-date=October 2, 2024}}{{cite archive |item=22081 – Establishing Housing Authority of Portland |item-id=AD/11209 |date=December 11, 1941 |collection=City Auditor – City Recorder – Council Resolutions |institution=City of Portland Archives |item-url=https://efiles.portlandoregon.gov/Record/14244582/}} The city council created the agency in response to a massive influx of people who came to work at shipyards in the Portland area during World War II.{{cite web |last=Kramer |first=George |title=It Takes More Than Bullets: The WWII Homefront in Portland, Oregon |location=Eugene, Oregon |publisher=Heritage Research Associates |date=December 2006 |url=https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/HCD/OHC/docs/multnomah_portland_wwIIcontext_2006.pdf |oclc=892120709}} HAP developed many housing projects over the course of the war such as Guild's Lake Courts{{cite thesis |last=March |first=Tanya Lyn |title=Guild's Lake Courts: An Impermanent Housing Project |type=Ph.D. dissertation |publisher=Portland State University |date=2010 |doi=10.15760/etd.2806|doi-access=free }} and Columbia Villa.{{cite web |author=Historic American Buildings Survey |author-link=Historic American Buildings Survey |title=Columbia Villa (Columbia Villa Housing Project) |publisher=National Park Service |id=HABS No. OR-188 |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/or/or0500/or0551/data/or0551data.pdf}} (Vanport, the largest wartime housing development, was constructed independently by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company, although management of the development was later taken over by HAP.){{cite book |last=Maben |first=Manly |title=Vanport |location=Portland |publisher=Oregon Historical Society Press |date=1987 |isbn=0-87595-118-X}}{{Cite web |title=Vanport Housing Project – Vanport Places |url=https://vanportplaces.org/learn-more/vanport-housing-project/ |access-date=2023-03-13 |language=en-US}} By 1942, HAP developments housed approximately 72,000 people, making HAP the largest housing authority in the United States.{{r|March 2010|p=11}}
HAP started using the name "Home Forward" in May 2011.{{cite web |url=http://www.homeforward.org/get-informed/current-news/new-name-identity-housing-authority-portland |title=New Name, Identity for Housing Authority of Portland |publisher=Home Forward |date=May 18, 2011 |access-date=June 19, 2019}}
Governance
Home Forward is led by a nine-member board of commissioners. All board members are volunteers who serve staggered four-year terms. Four commissioners are recommended by the City of Portland, two are recommended by the City of Gresham, two are recommended by Multnomah County, and one is recommended by the residents of Home Forward developments. The recommended board members are appointed by the Mayor of Portland and confirmed by the Portland City Council.{{cite web |title=Board of Commissioners |publisher=Home Forward |url=http://www.homeforward.org/home-forward/leadership/board-of-commissioners |access-date=June 28, 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.portlandoregon.gov/civic/article/84790 |title=Home Forward (formerly the Housing Authority of Portland or HAP) |publisher=The City of Portland, Oregon |access-date=June 28, 2019}}
See also
- Louisa Flowers, the namesake of a housing development by Home Forward
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |last=Sanders |first=Richard |title=Glimpses from the Past: The Housing Authority of Portland—Fifty Years of Building a Better Community |location=Portland, Oregon |publisher=Housing Authority of Portland |date=1991 |oclc=28909133}}
External links
{{Portal|Oregon|Housing}}
- {{Official website|http://www.homeforward.org/}}
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Category:1941 establishments in Oregon
Category:Government agencies established in 1941