ARTICLES AND WEBSITES

Abbott, Carl. “Vanport.” The Oregon Encyclopedia. 

Acker, Lizzy. Homeless reentry shelter opens in what was once the never-used Wapato Jail. oregonlive.com 2 October 2020. 

“Act to Prohibit the Intermarriage of Races, 1866.” The Oregon History Project. 

Adams, Rukaiyah. Letter to Gov. Kate Brown re: RQIP Process. 12 December 2019. 

“America’s Rental Housing 2020.” Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. 

Andersen, Michael. How to make sure Portland’s new anti-eviction rule has teeth. Openhousing.net 13 March 2017. 

Andersen, Michael. MAPS: PORTLAND’S 1924 REZONE LEGACY IS ‘A CENTURY OF EXCLUSION’. Sightline Institute. 25 May 2018 

Andersen, Michael. PORTLAND JUST PASSED THE BEST LOW-DENSITY ZONING REFORM IN US HISTORY. Sightline Institute. 11 August 2020. 

Anderson, Deonna. “Albina Rising.” Oregon Humanities. 27 April 2018. 

Area and Neighborhood Plans. Portland.gov

Arent, Arthur. One Third of a Nation: A Living Newspaper About Housing. 

Bell, Ifanyi. “Future: Portland 2.” This Land oregonhumanities.org 7 March 2017.  

Birthweight and Pregnancy by County  (Oregon Health Authority) 

Bliss, Laura. “How Portland’s Landmark Zoning Reform Could Work.” Bloomburg CityLab. 13 August 2020. 

Boise Voices, Oral History Project

Brown, Louisa Jenkins. The dynamics of change among community development corporations in Inner North/Northeast Portland, 1987-2006. PhD Thesis, Portland State University. 1 January 2011. 

Bureau of Planning. “Portsmouth Neighborhood Plan.” portland.gov 

Chiwaya, Nigel and Janell Ross. “The American dream while Black: ‘Locked in a vicious cycle.” NBC News 3 August 2020

Christensen, Linda. “"EJ" in Focus: Rethinking Research: Reading and Writing about the Roots of Gentrification.” The English Journal , November 2015, Vol. 105, No. 2 (November 2015), pp. 15-21.

Claire, Manisha. “The Latent Racism of the Better Homes in America Program.” JSTOR Daily. 26 February 2020. 

Desmond, Matthew. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Broadway Books, 2016.

Desmond, Matthew. “The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlord.” New York Times. 13 October 2020.  

Devine, Deborah. Housing Choice Voucher Location Patterns: Implications for Participant and Neighborhood Welfare. Washington D.C., US Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2003. [useful tables]

Dillman, Beth. The Eviction Process in Oregon: Rules for Landlords and Property Managers. Nolo.com 

Executive Order 20-11 TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON RESIDENTIAL EVICTIONS FOR NONPAYMENT, IN RESPONSE TO CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) OUTBREAK

Executive Order 20-13 TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON RESIDENTIAL EVICTIONS FOR NONPAYMENT, IN RESPONSE TO CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) OUTBREAK

Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap. Netflix. Ezra Klein, Joe Posner

Densho Digital Repository: http://ddr.densho.org/?archive.densho.org=1 

Doughtery, Conor. “12 People in a 3-Bedroom House, Then the Virus Entered the Equation.” New York Times. 1 August 2020.  

East Portland in Motion, PBOT

Geiling, Natasha. “How Oregon’s Second Largest City Vanished in a Day.” Smithsonian Magazine. 18 February 2015. 

Gibson, Karen J. “Bleeding Albina: A History of Community Disinvestment, 1940-2000.” Transforming Anthropology. Vol. 15, No. 1, pp 3-25. 

Goughnour, Cat. Portland, Oregon: Displacement By Design. National Community Reinvestment Coalition. 18 March 2019

Guevarra, Ericka Cruz. “A Year After Portland MAX Stabbing, A Mural To Remember And Grieve.” opb.org. 26 May 2018. 

Hammond, Betsy. “Gov. Kate Brown: I-5 Rose Quarter widening will not happen without support of Portland’s Black community.” The Oregonian/Oregon Live. 1 July 2020. 

Hannah-Jones, Nikole. “In Portland's heart, 2010 Census shows diversity dwindling.” The Oregonian. 1 May 2011. Updated 10 January 2019.

Hardgrave, Alex. “Black Lives Matter mural splashes its message across N. Portland street.” The Oregonian/Oregon Live. 27 June 2020. 

Harrison, James Stanley. “Oregon’s Enigmatic Black History.” The Oregon Historical Society. 

Hedberg, Dave. The History of Trees and the Albina Neighborhood Improvement Project. Portland Parks and Recreation. 

“Help us tell yet another silenced history: Japanese Americans in Vanport.” VanportMosaic 

Huseman, Jessica. When the Neighborhood Gentrifies and the Elementary School Doesn’t. Slate.com. 8 June 2016. 

"In the States." The Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 53, no. 16, 8 Dec. 2006. 

Jackson,Mitchell. “What it means to say Portland.” Oregon Humanities. 5 December 2013.

Janmohamed, Zahir. “Portland isn't as liberal as you think.” cnn.com. 29 May 2017. 

Janmohamed, Zahir. “Stake Your Place.” This Land: Oregon Humanities. 2 July 2017. 

Japanese American Museum of Oregon: http://www.oregonnikkei.org/collections.htm 

Johnson, Ethan and Felicia Williams. “Desegregation and Multiculturalism in the Portland Public Schools.” OHQ, vol 111 no 1. 

Kessler, Lauren. Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family. Oregon State University Press, 2008. 

Leonhardt, David and Yaryna Serkez. “What Does Opportunity Look Like Where You Live?” The New York Times. 13 May 2020.  

Life Expectancy by PDX Census Tract (Oregon Health Authority) 

Lucas N. N. Burke, and Judson L. Jeffries. The Portland Black Panthers. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016.

Maben, Manly. Vanport. Oregon Historical Society, 1987. 

Mallard, Natalie. FREEDOM BANK OF FINANCE (1969-2000). Blackpast.org 20 August 2018. 

Mandatory Renter Relocation Service

Mapping Inequality. https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=11/45.513/-122.824&city=portland-or 

Mcelderry, Stuart. “Building a West Coast Ghetto: African-American Housing in Portland, 1910-1960.” The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Summer, 2001, Vol. 92, No. 3 (Summer, 2001), pp. 137-148. 

Monahan, Rachel. During the Virus, Portland Officials Chose to Let This Homeless Camp Take Root. That Could Soon Change. Willamette Week. 10 June 2020. 

Moo, Jessica Murphy. “University of Portland's first North Portland Civil Rights Immersion.” Portland Magazine. 31 January 2019.

Morrison, Erica. A Vestige Of NE Portland Is Gone: Albina Community Bank. OPB. 8 March 2018

Narratives of Displacement and Resistance, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. (oral histories) 

NLIHC COVID-19 Rental Assistance Database

Nokes, Greg. “Black Exclusion Laws in Oregon.” The Oregon Encyclopedia. 

Ockerman, Emma. “Landlords Are Still Trying to Evict People Even Though There's a Federal Ban.” vice.com. 11 September 2020

Oregon Eviction Moratorium FAQ

Oregon Historical Quarterly

Winter 2019 special Issue on "White Supremacy & Resistance"

Fall 2019 special issue on early land laws in Oregon 

Ott, Jennifer. Vanport Flood begins on Columbia River on May 30, 1948. Historylink.org 30 August 2013. 

Pein, Corey. “The Other Portland.” Willamette Week. 24 January 2017.  

Point-In-Time Counts - A report on the current state of the homeless population in Multnomah County  

Portland City Council Meetings: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/video/player/?tab=council 

Portland Housing Bureau. State of Housing in Portland. 2019

Portland Landlord-Tenant Law Training. 

https://www.portland.gov/eudaly/mandatory-renter-relocation-assistance

Portland Maps: https://www.portlandmaps.com/ 

Portland schools hit by churn. Oregonlive.com 

Plumer, Brad and Nadja Popovich. How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering. The New York Times. 24 August 2020 

Rector, Elaine. Looking Back In Order to Move Forward: Timeline of Oregon and U.S. Racial, Immigration and Education History. portlandoregon.gov 

Residential Infill Project

Richardson, Jason et al. SHIFTING NEIGHBORHOODS: Gentrification and cultural displacement in American cities. National Community Reinvestment Coalition. 19 March 2019. 

Robbins, William G. “Oregon Donation Land Act.” The Oregon Encyclopedia. 

Rodman, Monica. “Portland police threw dead possums at her family’s restaurant in 1981. Now she’s running for mayor.” The Washington Post. 30 October 2020. 

Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Liverlight: 2018. 

Sable-Smith, Bram, Wisconsin Public Radio and Martha Bebinger, WBUR and Darian Benson, Side Effects Public Media. Evictions Damage Public Health. The CDC Aims to Curb Them ― For Now. Kaiser Health News. 2 October 2020. 

Sakamoto, Henry. “Japantown, Portland (Nihonmachi).” The Oregon Encyclopedia. 

Salviati, Chris. Rental Insecurity: The Threat of Evictions to America’s Renters. Apartmentlist.com 19 October 2017. 

Schreiber, Steven H. “A Short History of Albina.” The Volga Germans in Portland. 

Semuels, Alana. “The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America.” The Atlantic.  22 July 2016. 

Silverman, Julia. “Portland Neighborhoods by the Numbers 2020: The City.” pdxmonthy.com 

Singh, Dhara. “‘Gone in 90 minutes:’ Rental assistance is quickly running out for struggling renters.” money.yahoo.com. 11 September 2020. 

Sisson, Patrick. “The Dying Mall’s New Lease on Life: Apartments.” Bloomberg CityLab. 30 June 2020. 

Solomon, Molly. “For Communities Of Color, Racist Portland Knife Attack Was Scary But Not Surprising.” opb.org 2 June 2017

Stanton, Sika and Donovan Smith. “The Numbers.” This Land. oregonhumanities.org 20 May 2017. 

State and Local Rental Assistance. National Low Income Housing Coalition. 

State of Housing Report Full report available here: https://www.portland.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/phb-soh-2019-web.pdf 

Suo, Steve. Roots of gentrification: Key moments in North and NE Portland's transformation  during the past 24 years. The Oregonian/Oregon Live. Updated 10 January 2019. 

“The Early History of Portland’s Racist Housing Strategies: Part One.” Habitat for Humanity, Portland/Metro East. 26 June 2020. 

“The History and Impact of the Fair Housing Act.” Habitat for Humanity, Portland/Metro East. 30 March 2018. 

The Native American Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile. 

“Tsuboi Family home movies.” Oregon Historical Society. 

"University of Portland files lawsuit to enforce purchase of brownfield." Hazardous Waste Superfund Alert, vol. 29, no. 2, 22 Jan. 2007, p. 13+. 

Valentine, Ashish. “'The Wrong Complexion For Protection.' How Race Shaped America's Roadways And Cities” NPR, 5 July 2020

Voices of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Climate and Health Perspectives. oregon.gov

Wexler, Sarah “Renters and Owners Get New Protections through September.” My Oregon News. 2 April 2020. 

Wong, Venessa. His Landlord Evicted Him During The Pandemic And Then Demanded $1,100 For Him To Get His Belongings. Buzzfeed News. 5 October 2020. 

Woolley, Jeana. RECONCILIATION PROJECT THE EMANUEL HOSPITAL URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT. January 2012

Yglesias, Matthew. “Joe Biden’s surprisingly visionary housing plan, explained.” Vox. 9 July 2020.

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IMAGE COLLECTIONS

Alameda Old House History: https://alamedahistory.org/

https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/mss-2854-oregon-black-history-project-records

https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/org-lot-131-vanport-flood-photographs-collection-1948

https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/org-lot-1364-photographs-of-vanport-oregon-circa-1948

Portland Japantown Images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/onlc/sets/72157630518998322/ 

Life at Minidoka Images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/onlc/sets/72157627875306401 

https://ohsmuseumstore.libib.com/i/african-americans-in-oregon 

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VIDEOS

OPB - JazzTown: https://watch.opb.org/video/oregon-experience-jazz-town/ 

With extras: https://www.opb.org/television/programs/oregon-experience/article/jazz-town/

OPB - Vanport: https://watch.opb.org/video/oregon-experience-vanport/

TriMax Mural: https://trimet.org/tribute/

The Numbers: https://youtu.be/AaH5K8NF2zs

Future Portland: https://youtu.be/ulLLuaDHEls

Future Portland II: https://youtu.be/1lzTLUI5WRA

Albina 1980: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3DsDuYPdqQ&feature=youtu.be

Albina 1967: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEg9cdjuyA8&feature=youtu.be

Albina Fair share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY-nKgnilR4&feature=youtu.be (good stuff here re: abandoned houses) 

Civil Rights KOIN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvXER5n-FoY&feature=youtu.be (12:30+ could be useful)

Elizabeth Warren on COVID housing crisis: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=582245842444619 

Root Shocked: https://vimeo.com/343674629 

Eviction Stories: https://www.oregonlive.com/education/page/reading_writing_evicted.html 

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