The Strong Family Apartments will offer special preference to applicants with historical ties to North and Northeast Portland who’ve been involuntarily displaced.
PORTLAND, Oregon — On the corner of Portland’s North Alberta Street and North Williams Avenue on Tuesday, community members armed with gold shovels broke ground on the future: The Strong Family Apartments.
The new 75-home affordable housing complex will give preference to applicants with historical roots in that part of Portland; people who were involuntarily displaced from it due to gentrification and racist practices. In that vein, those ceremonial shovels were also digging up part of Portland’s past.
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