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April 9, 2014
right at the edge of Vanport Square
and the proposed Trader’s Joes,
says the e ffe c tiv e n e ss o f the
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e f f o r t s r e e n h p d in
2013; the efforts resulted in a m ayor’s proposal depends greatly
continued
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bill by Sen. Chip Shields and Rep. on how “affordable housing” will
tional housing.
Reardon that year to repeal it.
ultimately defined, and where the
O ther key points from the 2013
Ultimately the legislation didn’t city where ultimately develop the
report: Black residents o f Port­ make it to the floor for a vote.
bulk o f these houses.
la n d
have
th e
lo w e s t
However, state and local gov­
Ultimately, Guinn, a local African
hom eownership rate o f all groups, ernments are still free to allocate American resident, says h e’d like to
including other m inority groups; dollars to areas that are in the midst see more median-income housing in
the black com m unity has experi­ of, or soon to be under heavy devel­ the area.
enced the g reatest num ber o f opment.
“I don’t really think we need low
housing foreclosures; black resi­
The Interstate Corridor Urban income housing per s e - 1 think we
dents pay the highest percent o f Renewal Area encompasses 3,390 need middle income housing in the
household incom e on housing; acres of north and northeast Port­ area,” Guinn says.
the experience o f A frican-A m eri­ land, spanning from parts of the St.
In a statement to the Portland
cans in Portland has been m arked John’s neighborhood to the west, Observer, Portland Housing Bureau
by several cycles o f displacem ent; to the Columbia River on the north director Traci Manning who works
and the median net worth for black and connecting several neighbor­ directly with the PDC acknowledged
households in 2011 was $6,446, hoods along both sides of North­ gentrification as a “result of gov­
which was lower than it was in east Martin Luther King Boulevard, ernment actions [that have] oc­
1984 at $7,150.
North Lombard and North Interstate curred for decades in inner north­
PCRI and Sabin Community De­ Avenue.
east Portland and the Interstate
velopm ent Corporation are two
Under city policy, 30 percent of Corridor.”
nonprofit organizations that ad­ the of the property tax monies gen­
“Most of that can’t be changed.”
dress housing in a culturally spe­ erated within the district are to be she says.
cific m ethod for black people in allo ca ted to h o u sin g p ro jec ts
Despite this sentiment, Manning
the city. Sabin holds 120 units of geared to people who earn less than remains hopeful that proposals like
affordable housing
60 percent of the region’s median the mayor’s will allow for the kind of
T h e h e ig h te n e d p u b lic ity income, which is $69,000for a family economic activity that will allow
around gentrification also drew of four.
current families to stay in the area,
attention to O regon’s 1999 ban on
According to the most recent cen­ and allow others to return.
m andatory inclusionary zoning, sus numbers, over 10,000 people
O f note, community leaders are
which prevents local jurisdictions moved out of northeast Portland encouraging neighborhood resi­
from ensuring construction o f af­ between the time the Irfterstate Ur­ dents to attend a meeting to discuss
fordable housing in “neighbor­ ban Renewal District was established affordable housing issues at the
hoods of opportunity”.
in2000and 2010, most of whom iden­ Northeast Coalition o f Neighbor­
Attorney Jenny Logan and the tified as African American.
hoods, located at 4815 N.E. Seventh
H ousing Land A dvocate board
Chris Guinn Sr., the co-owner of Ave., on Thursday, April 10 at 6:30
members worked to overturn the Dwell Realty, a company that exists p.m.
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