Shortstack Housing

Ground is officially broken on our first affordable homeownership project: Shortstack Milwaukie! Shortstack Housing is proud to partner with Proud Ground to bring these homes to market next year. Construction is underway for 15 2-bedroom homes in the Ardenwald Neighborhood of Milwaukie, OR. These cottages are clustered on a half acre lot within close distance to schools, public transportation, healthcare facilities, and other amenities working families need to thrive. The best part? These are affordable to folks making between 60%-80% of the area median income and will be sold between $245,000 - $250,000. We could not have arrived at this moment without the deep support of our project and funding partners, design and engineering teams, our general contractor, and so many more. Proud Ground, Oregon Housing & Community Services (OHCS), Metro, Clackamas County, City of Milwaukie, Craft3, USDA Forest Service, Works Progress Architecture, LLP, 7 Oaks Engineering, Inc., DCI Engineers, Owen Gabbert, LLC

Ground is officially broken on our first affordable homeownership project: Shortstack Milwaukie! Shortstack Housing is proud to partner with Proud Ground to bring these homes to market next year. Construction is underway for 15 2-bedroom homes in the Ardenwald Neighborhood of Milwaukie, OR. These cottages are clustered on a half acre lot within close distance to schools, public transportation, healthcare facilities, and other amenities working families need to thrive. The best part? These are affordable to folks making between 60%-80% of the area median income and will be sold between $245,000 - $250,000. We could not have arrived at this moment without the deep support of our project and funding partners, design and engineering teams, our general contractor, and so many more. Proud Ground, Oregon Housing & Community Services (OHCS), Metro, Clackamas County, City of Milwaukie, Craft3, USDA Forest Service, Works Progress Architecture, LLP, 7 Oaks Engineering, Inc., DCI Engineers, Owen Gabbert, LLC

We love when a project gets to the point where we can give our colleagues a good ol' fashioned tour! Shortstack Housing cofounders Jessy Ledesma and Anna Mackay walked Port of Portland's Kenneth Anderton and Brian Gunn through this week. Our throughline? #Masstimber of course! All Portlanders know the Port's got a big reveal coming up on August 14! We're waiting with bated breath for the opening of the new #PDX. #MassTimber for the #masses!!

This May Shortstack Housing in collaboration from WoodWorks hosted a pair of mass timber learning sessions for Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program and NAMC Oregon. And, because everything's better in person (and with lunch), we followed those up with a GC-guided site tour (thanks, Owen Gabbert, LLC!) for folks to get some hands-on time with mass timber. A heartfelt thank you to all who participated. Let's do it again! Damian Crowder Kristine Bursley, MSML, MBA Noah Koné Brandon Brooks, MBA, PMP Owen Gabbert Brian Purdy Jessy Ledesma Anna Mackay Michael Fitzsimons Jeff Luedtke Carpentry Plus, Inc. Sister City Jennifer Cover, P.E. Prosper Portland

Ready to build with mass timber? We utilize #masstimber in our basis of design for many reasons, including the speed to build! Our #Shortstack Mississippi project is a hybrid building that uses panelized wood stud walls and mass timber floors/roof. In our experience with mass timber at this scale, we shave 10-15% off construction duration compared to a similarly-sized conventional wood frame building. That means more #affordablehousing faster. Thanks to some key players: Kalesnikoff Carpentry Plus, Inc. Owen Gabbert, LLC Brian Purdy DCI Engineers Works Progress Architecture, LLP Sister City Shortstack Housing

We're talking about deal structuring! Shortstack Mississippi, to be exact - 36 rental apartments in Portland Oregon leased to folks making between 60% - 80% AMI. Join Sister City's Anna Mackay and her collaborators Janine Firpo and Brady Quirk-Garvan on a panel hosted by Katie Seiffert on February 28 11am PT. This event is hosted by Invest for Better, a non-profit that shows women how to grow their wealth while championing sustainable growth and social justice. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gPKFAtBU

Shortstack Mississippi has broken ground! This past Friday, co-developers Jessy Ledesma and Anna Mackay gathered together to celebrate this milestone with the incredible team that made it possible. Three cheers to our collaborative funding partners, who got creative in our shared vision for missing middle housing solutions. Our dream team: Oregon Housing & Community Services (OHCS), Prosper Portland, Network for Oregon Affordable Housing, Stearns Bank N.A., The Oregon Community Foundation, Metro, Kachuwa Impact Fund, Janine Firpo, and Natural Investments