As part of a series of community development courses I'm taking, I will being doing a project with Sabin CDC, which creates affordable housing and job/skill training and youth development in North/Northeast Portland, the area of Portland that comes closest to being a ghetto. Even so, it's not all that bad. The neighborhoods in this area have great pre-war housing stock, and are very diverse. As far as I know, the area is mostly populated by the historic African-American community, working class whites, growing Hispanic, Southeast Asian, and East African population, as well as educated, young adults. Parts of North/Northeast Portland have been gentrifying in the last decade, especially the Alberta street corridor that you will see in this thread. With access to PDC funds, many new small businesses have sprung up in the neighborhood, many of which cater to a new, younger, well, yuppy clientele. It's a very interesting case study, and probably the only chance we'll get to see it in this transition phase unless the diversity is somehow maintained.
We start downtown
Hop on the yellow line
Get off on NE Killingsworth
Cross I-5
Now we're on Alberta Street, Sabin CDC
At a meeting with commissioner Sam Adams!
Now we head back south on MLK
Poor fella...
Lloyd District
Lloyd Center, Oregon's biggest mall, right in the Lloyd District
The end, hopefully there will be more Portland to come, I have a bunch of pics stored up from throughout this fall. Hope you enjoyed!
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