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In 2015, Mohmmad Syafiq’s world turned upside down when he suffered a massive stroke that left the lower half of his body paralyzed. He thought it was an end to his happy, spirited and independent life forever.
Six years on, the 29-year-old Muslim from Singapore has defied all the challenges and regained the strength to become independent again despite limited movement.
Though he needs to use a wheelchair, Syafiq has a full-time job five days a week as a customer service agent with Silver Spring Pathfinder, an outsourced customer services provider.
Everyday Heroes: Andy Olshin s Cascadia Clusters and a new vision for the homeless Stuart Tomlinson, KATU Staff
He is the founder of
Cascadia Clusters, a nonprofit that trains homeless people in construction skills by building their own tiny houses.
His vision is to take disorganized, sometimes dangerous homeless camps and turn them into something much more. -
A few years back, Andy Olshin was working with houseless folks in Hazelnut Grove, on North Greeley in Portland.
Together, they turned a soggy group of tents into 22 sturdy structures, and Cascadia Clusters was born as a vehicle to create transitional housing.
“After a while we got pretty good at building these houses and we had Portland youth build from Benson High School and Congregation Beth Israel and this church and that church,” Olshin said.
But the neighbors’ hostility has worn on the villagers.
“It’s not comfortable living in a community when you know you’re not wanted there,” said Bob Bremmer, who’s lived in Hazelnut Grove since 2015. “It messes with your own self-worth.”
Combined with the area’s environmental safety risks, this persistent pressure from OKNA encouraged Hazelnut Grove residents to begin meeting with the city in 2018 to discuss a move to a more welcoming plot of land. By then, the city had formed the Joint Office of Homeless Service (JOHS) with Multnomah County to oversee shelter development, including the possibility of alternative shelters like Hazelnut Grove. JOHS and the mayor’s office, now occupied by Ted Wheeler, offered to cover the costs of relocation to another property if the villagers agreed to allow a homeless nonprofit to oversee the program a structure mirroring the Kenton Women’s Village, opened by JOHS in 2017.
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