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  1. The billionaire dollar question: Who should benefit most from the PDC?

    In 1999, North and Northeast Portland was a low-income neighborhood surrounded by a food desert, and The Portland Development Commission (PDC) promised to do something about it. Fourteen years later, the PDC did-- but many of the people who needed the sup ...

    16 Dec 2013 - Cameron Whitten

  2. Making Portland’s complex food deserts grow green

    Making Portland’s complex food deserts grow green [caption id="attachment_6351" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Fresh vegetables are the star at the new Village Market, a nonprofit grocery store serving low-income ...

    20 Dec 2011 - Street Roots

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