25 Metro Cities, 2010 Census: Minority Home Ownership Rates and Gaps, With Rankings.

My prior post HERE presented Census 2010 home ownership rates and gaps, with rankings, for the 8 largest cities in Oregon within Metro's jurisdiction.

This is an expanded version of the same analysis for all 25 Oregon cities in Metro's jurisdiction.  The PDF file HERE has four tables:

1. Owner Occupant Household Counts
2. Home Ownership Rates
3. Minority Home Ownership Gaps
4. Best to Worst Home Ownership Rankings, Including 12 Minority Home Ownership Rate and Gap Rankings 

Observations:

1. Lake Oswego, which had ranked the highest among 8 largest city on 8 of 12 minority home ownership metrics, does not rank highest on any dimension when the other 17 cities are added. 
2. Wood Village, which has the highest diversity index rating of these 25 cites, has no minority home ownership rate ranking higher than 10th. This suggests that diversity index scores may not be correlated with minority home ownership rates OR, if correlated at all, there may be a negative correlation, meaning that a higher diversity index value could have some degree of association with a lower minority home ownership rate. [See my March 2011 post with diversity index ratings and rankings for these 25 cities HERE].
3. Portland's highest ranking is 12th, on its African American home ownership gap.
4. Beaverton, Durham, Fairview, Gresham, Tualatin, and Wilsonville all have a number of 20+ rankings, in the bottom 5th of these cities.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Friday August 19th Oregon Housing Council Packet, with CFC Recommendations/Summary.

I have added the 141 page packet for the Friday August 19th meeting of the Oregon Housing Council to the Oregon Housing Council Materials LINK in the right pane of the blog. The CFC related summary and individual project recommendations begin on page 25. 

Note that this meeting is not in OHCS building but instead:

Broadway Commons
1300 Broadway Street NE
Mexico Room #304
Salem, OR 97301

Map

Note: It may not be apparent to all, but I download the scanned monthly OHC packet posted to the web and convert it with OCR software to make the text searchable. I then combine the monthly materials with materials from prior months into a single file; so far this year the OHC materials exceed 300 pages. This process allows a user to find all CY 2011 OHC references to a particular project, program, or location by using the Acrobat search function in one file.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Keynote: Northwest/Cascade Chapter NAHRO. Conference in Bend, Sept 11-13

Not yet quite sure what I will say, but not to worry, there are also lots of other interesting topics for this upcoming Bend NW/Cascade Chapter of NAHRO conference.   

Flyer, including registration information and planned breakout sessions, is HERE.  

Shameless organization promotion: the Housing Development Center, will also be conducting asset management training at this conference. [ I am HDC Board member].

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Weekend Diversion 2: Chicago Time Lapse.

Readers know I am  a sucker for these; the YouTube link HERE, and embedded as HD below, is short well done T/L of Chicago.

Tips: Open to full screen, HD to get full effect; at end of video right pane displays other Chicago videos including some other time lapse videos. 

Question: Anyone have any Oregon/Portland suggested time lapse videos? Drop me email or add a comment to this post with URL.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.

Weekend Diversion: Music Video, I Saw the Light.

Direct YouTube URL is HERE, embed is below:

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.