FHA 75th Anniversary Celebration Document and My FHA Triology Are Now Complete.

I've done a lot of posts in the last two years, but the extensive research culminating in today's completion of the FHA 75th Anniversary Celebration document has been the most challenging and fun for me.

The now complete FHA 75th Anniversary Celebration document (in PDF format) will be permanently linked HERE (and at the top of the right pane for the next few months).

Today's section of the FHA 75th Anniversary Celebration document adds new FHA multifamily information for Oregon including:

1. Details about the first two FHA multifamily insured projects in Oregon. (I have more to say about these two beautiful projects in a post immediately AFTER this post)
2. Page sized photos of these first two Oregon FHA multifamily projects.
3. An expansion of the national FHA Multifamily Database Excel Workbook with 5 new Oregon worksheets: #8. Data on ALL FHA insured loans made in Oregon; #9. A summary count of FHA MF Insured Loans , sorted by Oregon City; #10. Data on ALL FHA insured loans made in City of Portland. #11. Details about the first two FHA insured loans made in Oregon, in 1940. #12. Details about 5 FHA MF loans made on Kings Hill in Portland. These projects are all within a couple of blocks of each other near downtown Portland, including the first FHA insured loan.
   
4. The final page in the PDF is a table with links to all of the video, photos, and panoramic photos I created/posted for this project, including three YouTube High Definition videos I shot. I count 17 different video and photo resources on this page, including 5 available IPOD video downloads.
   

The addition of the Oregon FHA Multifamily information is the completion of a personal FHA trilogy that featured several "firsts" for me. I was the:

1. First (25 years ago) to identify the first FHA single family loan in Oregon, in Astoria.
2. First (five years ago) to find, scan, and post a 25th year history of FHA that was originally produced in 1959.
3. First (this year) to find these first two FHA Oregon multifamily loans, in Portland.
   

While the "firsts" are nice, I am even happier that:

1. I have greatly expanded the information available about the history of a housing agency that remains important 75 years after it was created during the last depression.
2. I located two long forgotten and beautiful prior FHA financed apartments with strong ties to the history of the City of Portland. Their continued use as attractive rental properties 70 years later is a great example that,with enough TLC, rental apartments can be preserved to serve many generations of tenants.