![]() A horseshoe-shaped landscaped courtyard parallels Williams, drawing people to a common outdoor barbecue area-just the right amount of visibility and privacy. The community room faces the lively North Williams Avenue, with its busy bike corridor and pedestrian life, connecting residents to the neighborhood. Ground-floor residences have individual stoops, small seating areas, and exterior front doors. Vibrant neighborhoods rely on areas for people to gather and socialize. Since our team’s main goal for Songbird Apartments was growing a community, we set back Songbird’s footprint and overall scale, designing the form to step down and meet the existing neighborhood without feeling out of place. Meant for people who wouldn't otherwise be able to live here who have been priced out of the neighborhood and, built to market-rate quality, Songbird fits in with the Eliot neighborhood-and makes it better. Funded by the Portland Housing Bureau, the five-story apartment building includes 40 units for Section 8 residents and 61 one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments, as well as a learning kitchen, large event space, and outdoor seating areas.īRIDGE worked closely with community leaders and members to determine how Songbird could best serve them, and their feedback informed everything from our color palette to how we programmed outdoor spaces. This ground-up community along North Williams Avenue serves very low- to low-income families, giving priority to longtime and displaced prior residents of North and Northeast Portland. Worst apartment in my entire life.Designed to bring diverse communities displaced by gentrification back into Eliot, a once-predominantly Black neighborhood in Northeast Portland, the Songbird Apartments provides more accessible housing to people who urgently need it. ![]() It has been about 2 weeks of being unable to work from home and this entire situation has resulted in me losing pay because if I cannot work, I cannot get paid. I called another time and was informed that now Robert is on vacation (likely with internet) and the person who was coming back from their own vacation had no idea this was going on. ![]() Robert was who I spoke with and after I tried further explaining they weren't sending another person out until the electrical issue was first fixed he just wanted to essentially get off the phone and he repeated that same “well we have a pretty big contract with them and if they wanna get paid” which was reductive and I ended the call there. After hearing this from spectrum and learning that they had dispatched out technicians twice already with the same result and information, I decided to reach back out to the apartments to fill them in on the situation and was met with “well its spectrum's equipment too and if they want to get paid they're going to have to come out here and fix the problem”. When the problem started anytime I spoke with the office they were quick to blame spectrum for the internet being out, but when I would speak with spectrum they would say they told the/a property manager that the problem was electrical and not something that could be remedied until that electrical issue was taken of first. My main takeaway from this situatio n has been a lot of passing the buck off and little to no communication between multiple associates in the office. If I knew how much of a hassle it would have been to get them to identify, and fix an electrical issue that has impacted 20 units across 2 buildings thus resulting in those affected having no internet access, I never would have moved in to begin with. After having lived in both small towns and large cities and numerous apartments within both sides of that spectrum I can undoubtedly say this apartment has been the worst experience I've had in my entire history. ![]()
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