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Growing up black in the increasingly white neighborhoods of Northeast Portland

Portland-raised author Renee Watson talks about her new young adult book, "This Side of Home" Author Renée Watson grew up in Portland and lived through the gentrification of her Northeast neighborhood. In 1990, more than 30 percent of Portland’s ...

4 Mar 2015 - Sarah Hansell
Reaching out in St. Johns

Far from major services and programs, the faith-based community and advocates come together to help the homeless in Portland’s northern neighborhood Her day starts early. Around 5 a.m. she gets up. She’s spent the night behind a church. Sometimes it’s a s ...

19 Jun 2013 - Nathan Gilles
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
Interstate and beyond: Lessons of history resonate as the city prepares to expand Urban Renewal Area

Interstate and beyond: Lessons of history resonate as the city prepares to expand Urban Renewal Area by Jake Thomas Roslyn Hill can no longer quite visualize the neighborhood she grew up in. Probably because it doesn’t exist anymore. While in the third gr ...

5 Jul 2011 - Street Roots