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Title: Transportation and Gentrification: Impacts on Low-income Black Households in Portland
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Publication Year: 2021
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Abstract: Portland’s Black population has been heavily impacted by gentrification in the historic Albina community. Nearly half of Portland’s Black population lives in the area east of 82nd Ave, known as East Portland. This has had substantial impacts on both Black households that can continue living in Albina and those living in East Portland. The suburban-esque built environment of East Portland makes it difficult to get around and reach basic necessities. Those living in Albina have taken on exorbitant rents. Both groups suffer from a geographic divide that has made it difficult to rely on family and friends for basic needs like childcare and fulfilling social needs. This seminar will walk through those difficulties as found through a qualitative study of 27 low-income Black households in Portland. It also highlights the difficulties those households faced using various modes of transportation, why they chose the modes they did, and how they coped with their mode choices. See BikePortland's coverage of the research project: Interviews reveal transportation impacts of Albina displacement.
Url: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/trec_seminar
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Authors: Howland, Steven
Publisher: PDXScholar
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Topics: Housing and Segregation, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography, Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity
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