Publication Date
3-3-2011
Document Type
Interview
Duration
21 minutes
Subjects
Nonprofit organizations -- Low-income housing, Sustainability -- Oregon -- Portland
Abstract
Interview of Corinna Kimball-Brown by Chris White at Portland State University, Oregon on March 3rd, 2011.
The interview index is available for download.
Biographical
Corinna Kimball-Brown lives in one of two houses owned by Portland Collective Housing. She served on the PCH Board for two years as Treasurer, and saw the co-op through a major re-finance. She has also worked with the PCH Development team on expansion plans, and most recently served as the PCH board co-chair.
Rights
This digital access copy is made available as streaming media for personal, educational, and non-commercial use within the parameters of “fair use” as defined under U.S. Copyright law. It cannot be reproduced, distributed, or broadcasted for commercial purposes. For more information, please contact Special Collections at Portland State University Library at: specialcollections@pdx.edu or (503) 725-9883.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10776
Recommended Citation
White, Chris, "Interview with Corinna Kimball-Brown, 2011 (audio)" (2011). Sustainability History Project. http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10776
Description
This interview is with Corinna Kimball-Brown of Portland Collective Housing, a non-profit organization that provides low-income housing. She explaines her personal motivations of doing the job, as well as the organization’s perspective on making housing access fair for low-income communities. Portland Collective Housing started (in 2003) as a student-housing co-op but later expanded to non-student housing. Kimball-Brown explains the concept of co-op housing that is involved with sharing the same house with multiple people. At the time of interview Corinna Kimball-Brown was living in a co-op house in SE Portland with six other roommates. The co-op housing sharing model is used to provide housing within the city center—to prevent gentrification and the exclusion of students living in the city center and low-income communities. Kimball-Brown also discusses the challenges of living with different people under the same roof.
This interview is part of “The Sustainability History Project: Documenting Sustainable Development and Practice in the Pacific Northwest” at Portland State University.