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In the next 20 years, the city of Portland is planning for 128,000 new households. Eighty percent o f those new residences are expected to be housed in multifamilv
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strikingly close at $51,802.
ne wal policies, for example, have led
Other factors have made it more to massive new infrastructure in
incomeof any other populationgroup difficult for disadvantaged popula- parts o f the city, but displaced
at $26,449; Asians top the city’s in- tions to find an affordable place to people o f color, with homes sold for
come bracket at $51,823 with white’s live. Past and current Urban Re- higher profits, sometimes demol
ished, and tracks of land turned into
much more expensive properties.
Higher housing costs and fewer
rental units have pushed many Af
rican Americans to suburb commu
nities or the so-called “numbers,”
the avenues past 82nd Avenue to
Gresham and Rockwood. Another
impact forminority youth, especially,
has been Measure 11, a law that
ushers many black youth into the
prison industrial complex.
Purcell says when government
policies disproportionately affect
minority populations, the neighbor
Does your snoring wake you up at night? Do you
hoods they live in “will continue to
be very fragile.”
wake up tired in the morning? Do you wake up in
Portland Housing Bureau Direc-
the middle o f the night? Do you have problems with
attention and focusing? Does your significant other
complain about any o f the above? Are you choking
and waking up abruptly, and did you know that stress
from this can cause mini heart attacks? I f you can
answer yes to any o f these questions...
tor Tracy Manning told The Port
land Observer that in the next 20
years, the city is planning for 128,000
new households. But she could not
predict who would occupy these
homes in terms of race or what kind
of income and occupations they
would have.
What she did say, however, is
that 80 percent of those new house
holds are expected to be housed in
multifamily properties and along
transit corridors.
Manning says as the city preps
for its continued growth, some of
the housing bureau’s immediate
areas o f focus are the Interstate
Corridor of north Portland and the
Cully Neighborhood in northeast
Portland which despite being ma
jority white, have both sizable Latino
and African-American populations.
The non-profit Hacienda Com
munity Development Corp, has been
working since 2010 on establishing
an economic commercial and retail
hub centered around the Latino
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The development is geared on
maximizing the potential for upward
mobility for the Hispanic popula
tion with modest investments in
inter-generational education, asset
building such as homeownership,
youth and family services, and m i
cro-enterprise services.
Hacienda says many Latino fami
lies in Portland have experience
managing small businesses and a
strong entrepreneurial spirit. How
ever, due to barriers such as lan
guage, economic disparity, culture,
poverty, and financing, they can’t
start businesses - businesses that
could create economic opportuni
ties for both their families and the
greater community.
Though Portland has always
been populated by white people
and even today has the distinction
of having the whitest core among
major cities in America, the diver
sity o f people joining the commu
nity has grown.
Despite not having the data to
back his claim, Dana Haynes, an
aide to Mayor Charlie Hales, said
there is “absolutely no reason to
believe the metro-area will be any
less diverse” in the next 2 0 years. He
is more cautious, however, when it
comes to predicting if Portland will
have the jobs and provide sufficient
incomes for people over that period.
“Right now, income disparity is a
serious growing problem in all
American cities. We are hopeful that
the situation will be improved with
our middle-class bolstered and the
services for the lowest-income resi
dents more robust,” he said. “But
honestly, a lot of that is depending
on federal policy and international
economics.”