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The vote increases the maximum amount of funding the city can take from taxes on property that lies within the Interstate Corridor Urban Renewal Area, a 3,990-acre region that s been the focus of community investment grants since 2000. These new funds will go directly back into current affordable housing and community development programs in the area that focus on supporting Black residents who ve been systematically displaced from North and Northeast Portland s historically Black neighborhoods.
The decision has raised opposition, however, from those whose families were displaced through a particularly damaging project approved by the city in the 1970s: the expansion of Emmanuel Hospital, now Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, in Northeast Portland s Eliot neighborhood
New City Council to take up controversial urban renewal plan January 03 2021
Some oppose spending $67 million more in North and Northeast Portland until previously displaced residents are compensated.
The new City Council will consider a controversial urban renewal proposal for North and Northeast Portland when it meets for the first time Wednesday.
The Jan. 6 meeting will be the first with new members Mingus Mapp and Carmen Rubio. Mapps defeated Commissioner Chloe Eudaly in the November runoff election and Rubio won the race to succeed Commissioner Amanda Fritz in the May primary election.
Mapps and Rubio will be participating for the first time with the previous council members: Mayor Ted Wheeler, who defeated Sarah Iannarone in the November election; Dan Ryan, who defeated Loretta Smith in an August runoff to fill the remainder of late Commissioner Nick Fish s term; and first-term Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who will be up for reelection in 2022 with Ryan.