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The Woolen Men see 'wave of optimism' despite Portland’s gentrification

Band's work has been inspired by their changing hometown, whose residents and music venues are being displaced from the inner city In April, The Woolen Men were set to play the VFW on Southeast Mill Street, an occasional but stalwart non-traditional ...

29 Jun 2016 - Jason Cohen
Streetopia: Art in the face of gentrification

Erick Lyle discusses the legacy of a five-week San Francisco art fair aimed at bringing a community together in the midst of increasing displacement In April 2011, when San Francisco risked losing one of its most valued residents, Twitter, to Silicon Vall ...

17 Mar 2016 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
How comedian Nathan Brannon tackles the serious stuff

Lifelong Portlander talks about his city — from youth programs to housing — and other big issues Nathan Brannon has a comedy career spanning a little less than a decade, but to hear him describe it, it’s been “long enough.” Long enough, indeed, to make a ...

7 Jan 2016 - Suzanne Zalokar
Portland must choose to end displacement injustice

The Urban League of Portland urges City Council to enact bold anti-displacement measures Portland’s African-American community knows well that the repeated displacement of our people from their homes and neighborhoods is not an accident. It is the result ...

1 Oct 2015 - Tameka Taylor and Bruce Poinsette
Solution to the housing crisis starts with us

There’s a lot of reason to celebrate this Independence Day. July Fourth is a time to look back on the founding of the United States and the documents that shape and control our democracy. We saw the system at its best during the last days of June: the Sup ...

7 Jul 2015 - Janet Byrd
Creating a vision for equity in Oregon

Nkenge Harmon Johnson and Katie Sawicki, of the Urban League of Portland, share insights about the latest State of Black Oregon report June 2015: Last month, the Urban League of Portland released the State of Black Oregon 2015, the second iteration in its ...

30 Jun 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Let’s be real about the sacrifices, necessity in ending displacement

The recent announcement by the Portland Development Commission that Natural Grocers will be the new anchor tenant of the much-maligned and long vacant city-owned lot in Northeast Portland at the corner of Alberta Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevar ...

6 Oct 2014 - M. Nels Johnson