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Affordable Housing in Northeast OKC
                                   

Helping people is something Dr. Ruth Colbert Barnes has a passion for, along with advancing Northeast Oklahoma City. Through her Dr. Ruth Joyce Colbert Barnes Foundation, she is combining these passions by helping people with affordable housing in the area. 

The mission of her foundation focuses on revitalizing neighborhoods, rebuilding communities, re-establishing healthy lifestyles and reinforcing educational values.

Through collaborating with the Oklahoma Sovereign Arts Foundation, there are plans to build several homes in Northeast Oklahoma City. Colbert Barnes is also working with the Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority on purchasing lots for the project. The Urban Renewal Authority works with developers to sell them land at low prices. She said working with these organizations has been a pleasant experience, allowing the projects to go smoothly.

The idea started in 2011, and in March 2013, Dr. Colbert Barnes wrote a proposal for $1.4 million to build 12 homes. Currently, the project is set to build seven single-family homes with more to come. 

“The purpose of the project is to raise the bar and set a new standard for beautiful homes in the neighborhood,” said Dr. Colbert Barnes. “We want to attract people back to our community through this trendsetting idea and by building neighborhood character.”

Plans will keep with the current architecture style in the area while incorporating a fresh and updated feel. Superior, green products that are energy efficient will be utilized for insulation, appliances and more.

The foundation is also partnering with the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency and Community Action to provide down payment assistance to those interested in buying the homes. They will also work with community churches to find pre-approved tenants as part of a unique marketing plan. 

Tenants will even have a say in the colors and certain interior aspects of their future home. The foundation will also provide training assistance for homeownership, partnering with banks and realtors.

Through this truly collaborative effort, Northeast Oklahoma City will benefit from these new homes for years to come. For more information on this project or the foundation, visit rjcbfoundation.org.
 

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Barbie Smalley
Northeast Renaissance Stakeholder 
Committee Member

Barbie Smalley heralds from Stroud, Okla. Smalley is a community organizer for the Neighborhood Alliance of Central Oklahoma. Currently, she works with Culbertson's East Highland and Classen's North Highland Parked neighborhood associations, assisting them with crime prevention, beautification projects and the overall renaissance of the neighborhood. 

Smalley has a Master of Arts in Applied Sociology with an emphasis in Nonprofit Leadership from Oklahoma City University and a Bachelor of Science from University of Central Oklahoma. She is a founding member of the Young Nonprofit Professional Network and also a member of  the Urban Land Institute.

She craves culture and loves people watching! To appease her appetite, she attends music festivals, loiters in art galleries, dabbles in the culinary world and loves spending time with her mix-blue pit, Wylie Rose.

Sache Primeaux-Shaw
Northeast Renaissance Stakeholder 
Committee Member

Sache Primeaux-Shaw is the coordinator of the Ralph Ellison Foundation Reading Clinic, president of the Urban League Young Professionals of Greater OKC, co-founder of Empowering Our Urban Girls, member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc, a national committeewoman for the Young Democrats of Oklahoma and secretary for the South Central Region in the Young Democrats of America.

Primeaux-Shaw is an active volunteer for the Reading To End Racism Program in the McFarland Branch of the YWCA, a library worker at Ralph Ellison Library and the youth and college president of the Oklahoma NAACP. She also one of the youngest genealogist in the state and is a member of the Ponca and Seminole Nations of Oklahoma. 

She is a graduate of Douglass High School in OKC. She earned a B.A. in Political Science and History from Oklahoma City University as well as a Master in Public Administration from the University of Central Oklahoma.
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