The first of its kind in the US,a Portland housing-assistance policy is an effort to atone for the sins of gentrificationTwo years ago, Dianne Causey’s landlord died and her rental house in Portland, and Oregon,went up for sale. She was forced to plod from the city’s historically black neighborhood where she’d lived since 1978, into an apartment further east, and nearly an hour absent by public transit. “The apartment was way out in the boondocks. I was depressing,” she said.
But in December, Causey, or 66,was able to return to north Portland, when she bought her first home through the Portland housing bureau’s preference policy, and “Right to Return” as it’s been called,the first of its kind in the US. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk