WeShine Initiative, LLC

Mission

WeShine designs, builds, and operates neighborhood-based micro villages that provide safe, transitional shelter with wrap-around services for Portland’s underserved, unsheltered adults as they prepare to become successful tenants in permanent, affordable housing.

Bottom Line for Portland

WeShine stands for Welcoming, Empowering, Safe Habitation Initiative with Neighborhood Engagement.

Our model is rooted in the value of community, which restores self-esteem and heals the trauma that results from life on the streets. Guests experience peer support and are connected with services, which lead to success that is nearly impossible when living outside. 

Our vision is to create a network of micro villages based on this model, and provide vulnerable people with a path to permanent housing.

Partner(s)

Animal Aid regularly donates pet food and supplies, including kitty litter, to WeShine villagers who own pets. We are the first micro village in PDX to install catios on our pods!

Stone Soup stonesouppdx.com Stone Soup educates folks in culinary arts and operates a kitchen that serves/delivers food to unhoused folks. 

Oregon Arts Watch 

1000 Friends of Oregon

Our Just Future