Bruner-Loeb 11-14
Environmental Wealth
Resources:
Clean Air
Clean Water
Open Space
Habitat
Tree Canopy
Technology:
Stormwater
Management
Alternative Energy
Energy
Conservation
District Heating &
Cooling
Opportunity:
Business
development
Jobs and Job
Training for Adults
Education for
Youth
Competing Models of Sustainability
Increasingly, a Portland neighborhood is defined by whether it has
meaningful environmental assets: parks, habitat, transit, bike/pedestrian
infrastructure, renewable energy and energy efficiency, stormwater
management, environmental education, green jobs and green businesses.
Portland’s growing sustainability movement makes purposeful investments
in certain places and people, in certain businesses and institutions, creating
vibrant, healthy and environmentally beneficial communities.
But this movement does not prioritize equity, does not build environmental
wealth in low-income and people of color, in their neighborhoods, or in
their businesses and institutions. Portland’s low-income people and people
of color spend their daily lives in places that suffer disproportionate
environmental impacts, in environmentally-deficient places like NE
Portland’s Cully neighborhood. Marginalized, they are excluded from
routine opportunities that build environmental wealth for other people.
Living Cully: A Cully Ecodistrict
Living Cully: A Cully Ecodistrict
Snapshot of the Cully Neighborhood
•26% of Cully Residents live in poverty
•51% of Cully Residents are people of color
•Almost 9 in 10 students qualify for free/reduced lunch
•65% of Cully streets are substandard or unimproved
•25% of Cully streets have sidewalks on both sides
•24% of Cully Residents live within ¼ mile of a park, regional average is 49%
•2780 Cully Residents/1 acre of Cully parkland, regional average is 780 people/park acre
•5% of Cully Residents live within ¼ mile of habitat, regional average is 64%
•12 habitat acres/1KCully Residents, regional average is 54 habitat acres/1K residents
Living Cully: A Cully Ecodistrict
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Cultural
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Living Cully is a collective impact initiative, the commitment of a group of
important actors from different sectors to a common agenda (sustainability)
for solving a specific social problem (poverty) through collaborative,
programmatic and signature project activities:
Collaborative
Programmatic
Signature Projects
Living Cully
Cully residents
A growing series
Partners develop
gain economic
of leveraged
communication
security and build
investments in
practices and long- capacity to design,
Cully that combine
term resources to build and access
economic, social
sustain and
new sustainable
and environmental
replicate Living
assets in the Cully
justice goals
Cully
neighborhood
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Collaborative Activities
The Living Cully Partners develop communication practices and
long-term resources to sustain and replicate Living Cully
Living Cully
Living Cully Budget Living Cully MOU
Performance
A budget that
Approved by each
Indicators
combines each
organization’s Board
A series of triple
organization’s
of Directors, the
bottom line metrics
Collaborative,
MOU sets a
that measure Living
Programmatic and
framework of
Cully’s collaborative
Signature Project mutually-reinforcing
outcomes and
budgets
activities
support replication
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Programmatic Activities
Cully residents gain economic security and build capacity to design, build and access new
sustainable assets in the Cully neighborhood. Complementary policy work drives antipoverty investments into the neighborhood, mitigates gentrification impacts through a
cohesive anti-displacement agenda, and reforms public agency practices toward explicit
equity outcomes and partnerships
Neighborhood
Revitalization Initiative,
Cully Focus Area
Habitat’s NRI is a block
by block approach to
building stronger
neighborhoods. NRI’s
door-to-door outreach
targets low-income
Cully Focus Area
homeowners
Clara Vista Phase III
Carbon ReductionLiving Cully Works
Equity Plan
NAYA leads a program
to prepare Cully
Hacienda CDC leads a
community-based
residents for career
track employment
process to develop a
detailed implementation through placement on
Living Cully Signature
plan for achieving
carbon and equity
Projects and with other
Cully Neighborhood
outcomes in the
rebuilding of Clara Vista,
employers
Phase III
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Programmatic Activities
Cully residents gain economic security and build capacity to design, build and access new
sustainable assets in the Cully neighborhood. Complementary policy work drives antipoverty investments into the neighborhood, mitigates gentrification impacts through a
cohesive anti-displacement agenda, and reforms public agency practices toward explicit
equity outcomes and partnerships
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Living Cully Walks
Verde leads an
integrated series of
activities that enhance
pedestrian and bicycle
access to existing and
new environmental
amenities in the Cully
Neighborhood
Youth Engagement
Hacienda CDC will
integrate its bilingual
youth and family
services programming
with Living Cully
Signature Projects and
Programmatic activities
via service learning and
educational
opportunities
Not In Cully
Verde leads a program
to ensure that new
investments do not
displace existing Cully
residents and businesses
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Signature Projects
A growing series of leveraged investments in Cully that combine
economic, social and environmental justice goals
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Helensview
Rebuilding Clara Vista
Eco-Cultural
Habitat develops 21 new
Restoration
Hacienda CDC
Energy Star/Earth
incorporates green
NAYA leads the
Advantage certified,
building, including
development and
family-sized homes,
carbon action, into a 3implementation of an
targeting low-income
phase affordable housing eco-cultural restoration
(30-60% MFI) Cully
rehabilitation/rebuilding project on NAYA’s 10.6families with schoolproject
acre campus
aged children
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Signature Projects
A growing series of leveraged investments in Cully that combine
economic, social and environmental justice goals
Let Us Build Cully
Park!
Verde leads the
development of
Cully Park,
converting a 25
acre former landfill
into a public park
Cully Wx 2.0
NAYA leads a
weatherization
project, focusing
on 100 singlefamily homes and
small businesses
Columbia Biogas
A private, for-profit
renewable energy
facility in
development in
Cully
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Cully Park
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Cully Green St
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Ecocultural
Restoration
Rebuilding
Clara Vista
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NRI/Cully
Focus Area
Yondella’s
Rain Garden
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Sugar Shack
CASH & Not in Cully
Tony DeFalco
Living Cully Coordinator
tonydefalco@verdenw.org
www.verdenw.org