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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
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
New president brings local perspective to Urban League of Portland

Native Oregonian Nkenge Harmon Johnson on the city and ULPDX's past, present and future Nkenge Harmon Johnson’s legal and political career has taken her from her Pacific Northwest home across the United States and back again. A graduate of the Trinit ...

30 Jun 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
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
Director's Desk: Gentrification a sweet tune for the privileged

If homelessness, housing and wages are any indicator of how much Black Lives Matter in Portland — then we are failing, badly. The latest 2015 Multnomah County Homeless Count was released in early June. If homelessness, housing and wages are any indicator ...

29 Jun 2015 - Israel Bayer
Creating a livable city for black residents

What would a Portland for black people look like? The Portland African American Leadership Forum wants to know What would Portland look like if city policy were shaped with the experiences and interests of Portland’s black community in mind? That’s the qu ...

1 May 2015 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Everyone should get behind the People’s Plan

What would Portland be like if instead of reacting to social problems, we intentionally planned for social success? What if we worked to ensure social and economic equity with each step forward, rather than scrambling to backfill the scars of gentrificati ...

1 May 2015 - SR editorial board
Director's Desk: Let's not lose our funk, Portland

Gentrification has been slowly eating away at our city for the past 20 years. Although during the past five years, with massive rental increases and the gap between the rich and the poor widening, doesn’t it feel like we are on the verge of completely los ...

2 Apr 2015 - Israel Bayer
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