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Mitchell S. Jackson remembers Portland's "Residue Years"

The author of “The Residue Years” talks about his memories of Portland, where his book is the 2015 Everybody Reads selection from the Multnomah County Library “It’s cold!” says Mitchell S. Jackson. “It’s really cold in Brooklyn.” Indeed. But in his native ...

3 Mar 2015 - Suzanne Zalokar
Additional funding request could fuel new housing strategies

Our city lacks the tools and resources to meet our various affordable housing goals. The shortage of affordable housing coupled with skyrocketing rents continue to strain our low- and middle-income families, leaving some lower-income households on the ver ...

20 Feb 2015 - Dan Saltzman
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
The making of Whitelandia: Portland filmmakers take a critical look at the city's history of racism and resilience

Over the course of their careers Portland filmmakers Matt Zodrow and Tracy MacDonald have travelled the country learning the histories and stories of Americans, but for their latest project, Whitelandia, the Emmy-award winning husband and wife team have t ...

8 May 2014 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
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
Street Roots talks preserving minority affordable housing

Street Roots talks preserving minority affordable housing From the March 20 edition of Street Roots. The housing economic forces that affect North and Northeast Portland today are rooted in changes that began decades ago. In the late 1980s, the neighborho ...

1 Apr 2009 - Street Roots