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2013
- 7/6/13: Gray’s Landing Receives National Affordable Housing Management Association Vanguard Award - Read More
- 6/1/13: SE Examiner - REACH Hires New Director
- 5/31/13: Portland Business Journal: For Nonprofits It’s About Quality More Than Quantity
- 5/21/13: National Housing Institute: REACH CDC Names New Executive Director
- 5/21/13: The Columbian: Regional Housing Nonprofit Teams with Portland Group
- 5/20/13: Portland Business Journal: Portland Housing Agency Extends its REACH
- 5/15/13: REACH - Affordable Community Environments (ACE) Announce Strategic Partnership - Read More
- 5/13/13: Housing & Urban Development Blog: 11x13 “Getting It Done”
- 5/2/13: The Wall Street Journal: NeighborWorks America Brings More than 2,100 Community Development Professionals to Portland to Participate in Training Institute
- 4/26/13: Daily Journal of Commerce: Nonprofit’s Purchase Preserves Property as Affordable Housing
- 4/26/13: REACH Honors Jewish Service Week - Read More
- 4/2/13: REACH Preserves 51 Homes for Senior Citizens - Read More
- 3/18/13: Portland Business Journal: Nonprofit Housing Group REACH Taps Chicago Exec as CEO
- 3/18/13: REACH Announces New Chief Executive Officer - Read More
- 3/14/13: OregonLive: Multnomah County, Portland Eye Grant to Identify Housing Hazards Facing Disabled Seniors
- 3/4/13: OregonLive: Hillsboro City Council Will Vote on Orenco Development: Washington County Roundup
- 2/21/13: OregonLive: Affordable Housing Development Slated for Hillsboro’s Orenco Neighborhood Awarded Federal Funds
- 2/10/13: Portland Business Journal: REACH Lands $750K for Affordable Housing Project
- 2/19/13: REACH Receives Second Award of $750,000 for Orenco Project - Read More
- 2/1/13: U S Green Building Council Awards Gray’s Landing LEED® Platinum Certification - Read More
- 1/14/13: REACH Partners With Oregon Humanities Project-Beyond Bars: Re-envisioning the Prison System - Read More
- 1/8/13: Daily Journal of Commerce: REACH Receives Financial Boost for Hillsboro Project
- 1/7/13: Portland Business Journal: REACH Gets Half-Million from Meyer Trust
- 1/7/13: REACH Awarded $500,000 from Meyer Memorial Trust for Orenco Project - Read More
2012
- 12/19/12: REACH Named as Designee of NeighborWorks America ‘Green’ Program Read More
- 12/13/12: OregonLive: Affordable Rental Housing Opens in South Waterfront with Grand Opening Ceremony for Gray’s Landing Friday
- 12/13/12: REACH Welcomes Senator Jeff Merkley to Celebrate Gray’s Landing Grand Opening
- 12/7/12: Oregon Public Broadcasting: First Affordable Apartments Open On Portland’s South Waterfront
- 12/2/12: Well Arts brings professional actors to perform oral histories collected in interviews from REACH residents, in the performance Slipped Inbetween Things running Jan 4-12. Read More
- 11/2/12: Portland Tribune: Orenco Begins Work on Wrap
- 10/19/12: REACH Mourns the Loss of John Gray Read More
- 9/27/12: REACH CDC Names Interim Executive Director Kathy Kniep Read More
- 9/12/12: REACH CDC Bids Farewell to Executive Director Dee Walsh - Stepping Down After 24 Years Read More
- 9/4/12: OregonLive: Gray’s Landing, first affordable housing development in South Waterfront, is nearing completion
- 8/20/12: OregonLive: Applicants line up for apartments in South Waterfront affordable housing project
- 8/8/12: Daily Journal of Commerce: Women Developers Advising Next Generation
- 7/23/12: REACH’s 23rd Annual Paint & Repair-a-thon Begins August 4th
- 6/8/12: Greening Efforts Pay Off for REACH Read More
- June 2012: OregonBusiness Names REACH As One of the Top 100 Best Green Companies in Oregon
- 6/4/12: OregonLive: Metro Area Affordable Housing Group Expands Reach to Hillsboro
- 6/4/12: REACH Celebrates NeighborWorks Week by Partnering with ACE Read More
- 6/4/12: REACH Celebrates Grand Re-Opening of Maples Apartments Read More
- April/May 2012: Affordable Housing Finance: REACH Named One of the Country’s Top 50 Affordable Housing Developers
- 4/17/12: REACH Announces “Hard Hat” Tours at Gray’s Landing Read More
- 3/27/12: REACH Featured as Case Study by EnergyScoreCards Read More
- 3/26/12: Portland Business Journal: South Waterfront project named for John Gray
- 3/26/12: REACH Re-Names “Block 49” to Gray’s Landing in Honor of Philanthropist John Gray Read More
- 3/22/12: REACH Partners With Oregon Humanities Conversation Project Read More
- 3/2/12: OregonLive: Affordable housing coming to Orenco Station in $13.5 million project
- 3/14/12: Better! Cities & Towns: Moving toward ‘affordable living’ at Orenco
- 2/28/12: REACH Awarded $750,000 To Build 57 Affordable Homes in Washington County Read More
- 2/27/12: The Oregonian - Two Portland groups will join together next week to promote a free home repair program in Southeast Portland
- 2/27/12: Daily Journal of Commerce - REACH Eyes Passive House Design for Multifamily Project
- 2/27/12: REACH Celebrates “Women in Construction” Week with the National Association of Women in Construction Read More
- 2/20/12: Portland Tribune - Passive House Gurus Stage Portland Conference for Pros, Newbies
- 1/27/2012: Executive Director, Dee Walsh, talks with Comcast Newsmakers about REACH programs and the poverty shift in Portland
- 1/12/12: REACH Celebrates 30 Years of Excellence in Community Development! Read More

2011
- 10/3/11: REACH rated as Top Nonprofit to Work For by OregonBusiness magazine
- 9/19/11: REACH selected by LT Public Relations to receive a year’s worth of pro-bono public relations assistance. Read more
- 5/26/11: Daily Journal of Commerce - The Admiral wins Top Projects Award-First Place Renovation $5.1-$15M
- 5/1/11: Earth Techling - Portland Vets To Get Green Downtown Digs
- 4/27/11: Oregon Public Broadcasting - South Waterfront District Becoming More Affordable
- 4/26/11: Portland Tribune - South Waterfront affordable housing project breaks ground
- 4/26/11: Portland Business Journal - Portland digs into Block 49 space
- 4/26/11: KPTV - Affordable Housing To Be Built On Waterfront
- 4/26/11: Portland Mercury - Breaking Ground on Affordable Housing
- 4/26/11: Construction About to Begin on First Affordable Housing Development in South Waterfront - Read More
- 3/24/11: Portland Tribune - Sources Say Fish Polishes His Housing Resume
- 1/31/11: The Oregonian - Homeless vets: Local housing efforts need bipartisan federal support
- 1/20/11: REACH receives $500,000 to make homes healthier in Portland Read More
2010
- 12/15/10: REACH to Develop First Affordable Housing in the South Waterfront Neighborhood Read more
- 11/24/10: REACH Awarded $25,000 from The Oregon Community Foundation to Support our Resident Services and Financial Literacy Programs Read more
- 8/20/2010: REACH Wins Federal Recovery Act Dollars to Help Us “Go Green” Read more
- 7/8/2010: REACH Celebrates the Grand Re-Opening of the Admiral Apartments. Read more
- 6/15/2010: REACH Celebrates the Grand Re-Opening of Walnut Park Apartments. Read more
- 6/5/2010: REACH Teams Up with Renovation Concepts to Help a Southeast Portland Resident Read more
- 3/10/2010: REACH Partners with IBEW and Irvington Covenant CDC to “Construct Hope” Read more
- 1/14/2010: REACH Parners with National IBEW to Promote National Community Service Project Day Read more
2009
- 11/17/209: The Oregonian - Housing and the Three Grandmas Good Deeds
- 08/2009: East Portland News - Volunteers REACH out — helping Lents’ senior homeowners
- 8/1/2009: REACH Awarded a $30,000 Gift from The Grainger Foundation to Support our Resident Services and Youth Development Programs Read more
- 2/4/09: Daily Journal of Commerce - Overlook neighborhood gets new affordable housing
2008
- 12/12/08: Street Roots - Safety In Numbers
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- 6/11/06: NY Times - A Neighborhood Rises From the Waterfront


