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Portland will build new homes, apartments, business incubator designed to benefit Black Portlanders
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
Posted Jan 06, 2021
North Williams Avenue and Russell Street (pictured) was once the commercial center for Black residents in Portland. (File photo)
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The Portland City Council unanimously approved a plan Wednesday to pump millions of dollars into affordable housing and economic redevelopment that proponents hope will benefit families displaced from Portland’s historic Black neighborhoods.
Despite some concerns that the measure will fail to fully remedy decades of racist anti-Black policies, the mayor and the city’s four commissioners two of whom are Black said it was a significant step toward righting those wrongs.
Who Speaks for the Black Lives Matter Movement in Portland? Itâs Complicated.
Portlandâs Black community is relatively smallâand yet, it certainly does not speak with a single voice.
By
Jagger Blaec
12/19/2020 at 5:00am
Published in the December 2020 issue of
Portland Monthly
Portlandâs Black community is relatively smallâand yet, it certainly does not speak with a single voice.
For months in 2020, Portlandâs Black Lives Matter movement took international center stage, underscored by jarring images of local and federal law enforcement agents descending on protesters with tear gas and excessive force in the cityâs streets.
Portland leaders, acknowledging racist anti-Black policies, seek to right historic wrongs
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
North Williams Avenue and Russell Street (pictured) was once the commercial center for Black residents in Portland. (File photo)
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Portland officials are considering pumping millions of dollars into affordable housing and economic redevelopment that could benefit families displaced from Portland’s historic Black neighborhoods.
A wide array of Black community leaders crafted the proposed $67 million initiative, which would build 40 to 50 new single-family homes to own and at least 100 apartments to rent.
People whose families were pushed out of the historic North and Northeast Portland Albina neighborhood would have first rights to live there.