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The woman who is speaking right now is being SOOO racist! Anyone can be late. I've had plenty of white male owned businesses be late or not perform well!

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I bought a house through the portland community land trust (now proud ground), with help from a grant from PDC. I would never have been able to buy a home without this help (it was a $95,000 grant), and it has changed my life, and will change the lives of future generations of my family. Many people thought it was a bad idea to buy from the land trust because I can't make a profit, but, the idea of passing on the savings to another low income family goes with my ideals. (I actually work for Human Solutions with homeless families.)

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