by Rene Ferran | Sep 10, 2020 | Latest News
If you’ve been on our bus tour, you know that urban renewal in Portland contributed to the destruction of predominately Black neighborhoods. The Albina neighborhood in particular saw a series of urban renewal projects that depleted the housing in the...
by Rene Ferran | Jul 30, 2020 | Latest News
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world to the US, bias incidents against members of the Asian American community began to increase significantly. As of May 13th, the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council received more than 1,800 self-reported bias...
by Rene Ferran | Jul 30, 2020 | Latest News
The history of racial discrimination and segregation in housing plays a significant role in the criminal justice and health disparities we see today. People of color have long faced both formal and informal mechanisms of segregation, the effects of which can be seen...
by Rene Ferran | Jul 15, 2020 | Latest News
1. The Fair Housing Act was passed in 1968 as a way to quell the riots that broke out in 125 cities after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. The Fair Housing Act was regularly considered by Congress from 1966-67, but never received enough votes to pass....
by Rene Ferran | Oct 7, 2019 | Latest News
On our bus tours of historical housing discrimination, segregation, and displacement, we introduce our work by telling riders that housing discrimination no longer looks like it did more than 51 years ago when the Fair Housing Act was passed. It is much more subtle...
by Rene Ferran | Jul 3, 2019 | Latest News
As long as people have worked to find places to live throughout history, there also have been systems designed to separate us. In this country, indigenous peoples were forcibly displaced from their native lands as America expanded from sea to shining sea. Many...
