Portland Projects

HBF worked alongside Walsh Construction and Scott Edwards Architecture to re-imagine a former church property and convert it to a fully functional space serving youth struggling with housing and economic insecurity. HBF was awarded a $43,500 environmental grant from Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District to promote soil and water conservation in the landscape. All told, HBF played a major role in reducing the costs of this extensive renovation.

HBF utilized multiple groups of builder work parties to help get this navigational space up and running over a 15-month period. Professional builders helped to build fencing, stairs and ramps, demo and rebuild the landscape, build new walkways and gates, rebuild the failing roof and construct a new clothing closet to help the shelter intake donations.

HBF once again partnered with Robert Wood and Mountainwood Homes to add a laundry area and renovate bathrooms in this Tigard family shelter. The Mountainwood Homes team was able to carefully transform the space while the shelter remained active.

Working hand-in-hand with a local shelter provider that serves homeless veterans, HBF contributed more than $50,000 to support the addition of eleven sleeping pods to the existing 15-pod community in Clackamas, Oregon.

The St Johns Village is the much-anticipated transitional shelter supporting 19 beds on a small site in the downtown St Johns neighborhood.

Just Compassion of East Washington County has secured a site for a brand new day services center for homeless adults.

Area Floors pitched in to replace the aging carpet from this shelter for 13 to 19 year-old boys with durable, luxury vinyl tile throughout.

This project with Portland Homeless Family Solutions will add beds for 26 families in need.

The second phase of construction funded by a $95,000 Lowe’s grant consists of renovating the exterior envelope: adding rigid polyiso insulation, insulated TPO roofing, James Hardie siding and a new HVAC system.

This project will be a much-needed renovation of the Hillsboro Family Shelter in downtown Hillsboro that hosts five families at a time for up to six weeks of stay.

First renovated by the HBF in 2014 and 2017, the latest Jordan House renovation entails building an extension of the building to add to bring total capacity of the youth shelter from 7 to 9 beds. In addition, renovation will replace the entire kitchen, remove carpet for new flooring, and add a basketball court and seating area in the back yard.

Home Builders Foundation, in conjunction with Walsh Construction and Renaissance Homes, assisted in building the Dorothy Lemelson House & New Meadows program.

Tiffany Home Design completed an upgrade of the family room at the Veterans & Family Center in Beaverton.

Home Builders Foundation, in partnership with Shelter Solutions LLC , will demolish the existing confidential domestic violence shelter and build a new facility that will house domestic violence survivors and their children.

This renovation project included an expansion of educational programs for children of homeless families in the shelter.

Shelter Solutions LLC returned to Smith House and Jordan House to complete a Shelter Preservation project.

The first phase of this remodel project for Hope House, a shelter for women and children experiencing homelessness.

Nathan D. Young Construction returned again to Portland Rescue Mission’s Burnside Shelter for an expansion project for the Connect Program, a program for homeless women.

Harvest House, a facility for homeless families, received much needed lead-abatement for the building, as well as new siding and windows.

Home Builders Foundation completed its first project in Yamhill County when it partnered with Builder Captain Jim Fisher to provide upgrades to Love INC’s existing shelter for women and children.

Smith House was a perfect candidate for an HBF energy retrofit.

Youth Progress operates two residential facility for boys ages 13-24 that provide a structured, supportive environment to guide them toward a more positive future.

HBF and Builder Captain Dave Adelhart returned to Goose Hollow Family Shelter in 2014.

This 100+ year old home that houses a residential treatment program for young men was the first energy retrofit project taken on by HBF in partnership with Neil Kelly Home Performance.

Goose Hollow Family Shelter is the only shelter for families on the west side. Eight families a night call this home.

HBF returned to Raphael House in 2013 to upgrade the kitchen including new cabinets, granite counter tops, ranges and ADA improvements to create a beautiful new space for 40 women and children who live there.

Next Step is a transitional “independent living” facility for men in addiction recovery.

HBF partnered with Boys & Girls Aid and the City of Beaverton to complete a major renovation of a four unit apartment building that provides safe and supportive transitional housing for homeless youth in Washington county.

The Bonnie Tinker House is an emergency shelter serving up to 23 women and children at a time (200 per year), providing safety, shelter, food, clothing, support groups, advocacy, and a 24-hour crisis line.