During the early 2000s, displacement of minorities in
Portland, Oregon
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, occurred at a drastic rate. Out of 29 census tracts in north and northeast Portland, ten were majority nonwhite in 2000. By 2010, none of these tracts were majority nonwhite as
gentrification
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drove the cost of living up. Today, Portland's Black community is concentrated in the north and northeast section of the city, mainly in the
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neighborhood. In 2017,
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was named the fourth fastest
gentrifying
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city in the United States by
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At least one author has ascribed the "urban containment" effect on rising housing prices to Portland's
urban growth boundary
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See also
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Gentrification of Atlanta
Gentrification of Atlanta's inner-city neighborhoods began in the 1970s, and it has continued, at varying levels of intensity, into the present. Many factors have contributed to the city's gentrification. A major increase in gentrification that ...
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Gentrification of Chicago
Gentrification, the process of altering the demographic composition of a neighborhood usually by decreasing the percentage of low-income minority residents and increasing the percentage of typically white, higher-income residents, has been an issue ...
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Gentrification in Philadelphia
Gentrification is the controversial process of affluent people moving into a historically low-income neighborhood.
It is often criticized because the current residents have limited options to buy or rent equivalent housing in alternative areas ...
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Gentrification of San Francisco
The gentrification of San Francisco has been an ongoing source of tension between renters and working people who live in the city as well as real estate interests. A result of this conflict has been an emerging antagonism between longtime workin ...
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Gentrification of Vancouver
The gentrification of Vancouver, Canada, has been the subject of debate between those who wish to promote gentrification and those who do not.
Gentrification in Vancouver has taken place in the context of a strong environmental movement, high lan ...
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African-American history in Portland, Oregon
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