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Sitting here my table.

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Unfortunately today
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my washing machine broke,

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but I will make sure I
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soon to wear to the
next one. I will.

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Just as a reminder,
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coming up, so it's
a perfect time to,

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to get yourself
some PSU swag

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if you don't have
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Well, we started
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really at the beginning
of the pandemic and

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response to the real
need for college

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and desire to come
together and really build

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some virtual
community and to

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celebrate the
amazing faculty

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and staff and students,

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we have a PSU and just

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provide a place to
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really share what we're

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all experiencing and have

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some deep conversations on

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things at this moment.

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I should sell
our panels are

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recorded and archived
and, and LinkedIn.

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You can find that
the library website

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as walls as our
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So so thank you for that.

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Last month we kicked
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a great conversation
about resetting PSUs,

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path and approach to

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really addressing and
advancing issues of

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equity inclusion on
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a region includes
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our SDN cluster hire
the visionaries,

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all Islamic Lambert,

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vice president of
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as well as progress towards

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revisionary campus safety.

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So this month we're going

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to expand our gaze little

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more outward beyond
PSU Cropper and,

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and really turn

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our attention to
issues around

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Portland and
experience in Oregon.

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And we've got a great
panel of experts today

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to help us explore the
legacies of racism,

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oppression in Portland,

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including like Van port,

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gentrification,
displacement

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and inequities
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So I should say
personally, I

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moved to Oregon in 2007.

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I'm not from this place and

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I have definitely been here

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long enough though
to consider

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myself of this place
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And I just have to say
it's from this lens

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of of understanding
this place I

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now call home that
really saddened me

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to continue discovery

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that really know how many,

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no matter how you
cut it, Oregon

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really has some deep
roots in racism.

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of black exclusionary laws,

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Oregon really began as
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it was the first state
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the Union with an exclusion
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And those laws
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although ultimately
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they still worked and had

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a legacy and impact and

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discouraging black
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living in the
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and organs constitution was

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removed by voters,
wasn't removed until,

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what my history
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which was five years
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Oregon voters
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keep

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that racist language
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where we are in
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sort of the work yet to do.

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One of our goals
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really pivot are
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conversation
sector focus on

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issues of advancing
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both in our university at

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PSU as well as our city
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to begin personally
to understand

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our collective
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taking concrete steps to

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dismantle some of
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of truly white
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I just want to
say thank you

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all who are
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both virtually
and who will be

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listening to this
conversation later for?

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Joining us in this
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So thank you for
showing up today.

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this is a great
time to go ahead

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and please grab a
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or find a comfortable place

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and chair and listen
to what we've

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tried to create
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comfortable
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engage with issues that

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we're thinking about today.

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whether you're on

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your couch or
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or maybe helping
kids finish

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their homework
assignments for the day.

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Again, thank you
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fortunate to be joined by

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another panel of
amazing folks from PSU.

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We have Ed
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a director of
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engagement for PSUs global

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diversity and
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He was a civil rights
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the Portland NAACP and in

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1991 became

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the first
African-American concert

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for the Portland
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who is an associate
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the School of urban
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affiliate faculty
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colleges but departmental
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her scholarship
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community development
policy and planning and

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research and practice

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aims to build
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mandatory planning
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seek to dismantle
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an assistant
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Youth and family
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Black Studies and Women,

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Gender and
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black women and
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and students of
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Two in higher
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So that Ed Lisa,
Roberta, deep,

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deep gratitude and
thanks for joining us

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today and thank you
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So whether you zoom or

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Facebook live,
again, kickback.

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Grab a cookie and
some snacks and

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really engage in this
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I will say as we

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go forward and lots of

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questions will
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Please drop any
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stuff that will
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these questions and
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get your questions answered

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Thank you. Good
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I was asked to be
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this panel to share

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a little bit with you about

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my experience growing
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the subject matter
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I was born in Birmingham,

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Alabama and my family

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moved to Portland,
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My father came out in

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1942 to work with the
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my four brothers
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We followed rioting in
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Based on a lot of what
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I grow in this
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the the African-American
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for the state of Oregon.

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The 1940 census listed
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less than 2500
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in the entire state.

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And that is
strictly retired to

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those laws that
were made back

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in the 18 hundreds

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about having blacks
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things not quite as bad as,

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as the South in terms
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the restrictions on
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in the schools and
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But the schools were
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Not at that time.

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And there were no
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but there are people

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that took it
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important particularly
increase, they

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put signs up that
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but we, and it
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There was just
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where African
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of African-Americans
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the area of where

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the where the
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a lot of people
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the early African
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the alignment river on

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the East over TO
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and from Burnside on
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the broadway bridge on

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the, on the north side.

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of the African Americans

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live in an area where

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the rows 40 as an
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is located today,

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there were a few

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African Americans
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increase as a result
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people had no place

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to go and the city
appointment was

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very they did did not
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And they really
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but really through
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of the kinds of company.

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to a certain extent,

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they started building
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eight or nine different

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public housing locations

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in the city appointment
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African Americans
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which is out in
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I did not know
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But the Housing
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also advise

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the Kaiser company and
everyone else that was

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affiliated with with
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And so it was segregated.

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I didn't realize it
as a, as a channel.

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But as I look back on it,

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I know that most of
the African Americans

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were in an area
where the name

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of the street was
called metros.

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And so most of the
African Americans were

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down a metals and there
was another street,

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cottonwood and the
other large percentage

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within that
neighborhood there.

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Also I learned in

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my research that the

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housing authority
appointment

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also advise the
superintendent of schools,

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the van port to
segregate the schools.

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But the superintendent
said, no,

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that's not going to happen.

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He says, I want
the students

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all over this country
who have been,

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there lies been
disrupted by

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the war and movement,

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all from all different
parts of the country.

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He said, I want
these kids to have

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the best education
possible.

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So back what was a
very exciting place,

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especially for
seven year old kid.

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And, but the schools
were wonderful,

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the teachers were wonderful

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and very import had

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everything that
you really needed.

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Shocking Sanders.

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It was, had its own
Public Library,

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had a small hospital,

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recreation centers
to accommodate

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the 40 plus 1000 people
that live there.

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It had 24 hour day
care centers for

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those shipyard workers
as well as nursery.

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So it was really
quite forward, think,

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and I know a lot of people

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say that sounds like

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a wonderful social
experiment.

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And they thought that since

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the Kaiser company was
involved with that

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and that is a same
Kaiser company

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that owns the Kaiser
Hospitals Today.

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And but that was
not the case.

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The Henry J. Kaiser
said, you know,

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what he was really
looking for was

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for a place where
people could live

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and live reasonably and

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have some similar
some semblance of

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community and home and

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Van port really
provide that ending.

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I always like to say this

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one last thing about
the important,

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the last thing but
phonon state university

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started in Van port.

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It started in Van port as

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the ban port
extension center.

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So and it started
for the g as it were

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returning back to Van port

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after the Second
World War ended.

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And they did not
have a place to

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spin the use that GIDL.

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So that was the beginning

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of day potent state.

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So I can say so much
about they import,

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but I know we have
two other very,

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very excellent

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speakers and so I'm
going to step back

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and listen and learn

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from them. Thank
you very much.

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Krishna chalet jumpin.
Thanks so much.

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Mr. Washington,
I always I am

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a major fan girl
of Ed Washington.

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I show up often at
his talk steer.

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Every time there's a
new tidbit or new,

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new angle on the story

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of BAM for and also what
happened afterward.

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So again, my name is
Lisa beads and I am part

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of the school of
urban studies

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and planning and
also black studies.

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I'm going to share
some slides.

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Because as an
urban planner,

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I'm of course, always
have maps at the ready.

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Picking up from the
history that we just

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heard once the
black community

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left van for it after

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the floods and went into

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northeast for it when

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and what's happened in
more recent history.

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And trying to
think about how

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the city of Portland
at this point is

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trying to make repair

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for some of the
harms that had been

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done in Northeast
Portland and

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particularly to the
black community

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in Northeast Portland.

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And how we can think about

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perhaps revisioning
and re-imagining

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as we go forward beyond

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just policy type
of solutions I,

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but to share a
little bit about

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a research project and

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community practice
project that I've been

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part of as a PSU faculty
member and sort of

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engaged

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community practitioner
urban planning.

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So recognizing one
at the history,

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along with red lining came

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these very intense
moments of

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urban renewal in

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the City of Portland
to build highways,

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to build the Memorial
Coliseum and

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stadiums throughout
northeast portland.

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That those practices,

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which did in

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fact target African-American
communities,

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they were considered
to be more blighted.

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And they continued not

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only in the 19 fifties

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in the black and
white photo era,

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but well into the 1972,

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when the, the large
commercial building.

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A number of
residential homes at

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the corner of
North Williams and

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north russell
were demolished

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as part of the legacy
hospital expansion.

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And you can see
that this is

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not just we're not just

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talking about the past.

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We're talking
about something

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that remains and
the President

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and the disruption of
these physical spaces,

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that space remains
a vacant lot,

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although it is currently

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in a planning process to

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be redeveloped with
community input.

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But also the,
the groundwork

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was laid by those urban
renewal practices and

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disinvestment in that
community for what is

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now one of

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the hottest real estate
market areas in,

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not only in the city
but in the country.

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One of the most intensely
gentrifying set

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of neighborhoods in
the United States

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and North East Portland.

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And in fact, the
black population

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of North East
Berlin has declined

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precipitously
from housing or

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00:14:22,685 --> 00:14:24,469
almost every
black person in

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Oregon and north
and northeast

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for it when to having
tens of thousands of

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folks push out by

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the kinds of redevelopment
that we've seen.

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If you know,

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Portland today and you

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drive up north williams,

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you certainly have seen
what that looks like.

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There has been a
tremendous amount

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00:14:44,420 --> 00:14:46,624
of grassroots efforts too,

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to push back on

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gentrification and
displacement in

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our current urban
renewal practices

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00:14:53,734 --> 00:14:56,839
demands to end
displacement and to

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00:14:56,839 --> 00:14:58,309
bring forward into our

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policy-making the idea that

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the city actually is

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responsible for where
Dr. Mindy fully love,

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who is a psychiatrist

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00:15:05,689 --> 00:15:06,949
and public health scholar,

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00:15:06,949 --> 00:15:08,659
calls root shock or

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00:15:08,659 --> 00:15:10,369
the traumatic
stress reaction to

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the loss of emotional
ecosystems.

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That when we are displaced

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from physical locations,

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it actually harms
us psychologically,

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emotionally and in fact,

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physically that
we can trace

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community disruption back

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to displacement events.

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For

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Portland's black community

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would include being

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00:15:32,030 --> 00:15:33,470
displaced from places like

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God's lake to
move to Van port.

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00:15:35,375 --> 00:15:37,355
The van port
floods multiple or

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urban renewal
actions and today,

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00:15:39,590 --> 00:15:42,679
a very hot private
real estate market

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00:15:42,679 --> 00:15:45,905
continues to
disenfranchise folks

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00:15:45,905 --> 00:15:47,480
who have not been able

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00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,580
to buy their own home
or control land and

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property due to
this long history

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of discrimination
and lending.

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So ends all of
that space and

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he's kind of
community activism.

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The City of
Portland responded

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about five years ago
with a new strategy and

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00:16:02,330 --> 00:16:04,955
housing policy that
I've been involved in

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evaluating the north
northeast strategy.

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What's been really critical

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is that the city of
Portland actually

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acknowledged its use of

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urban renewal in ways that

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were harmful and that were

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disproportionately harmful

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to the black community.

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That in fact,
decisions that

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were taken in the past were

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motivated by racism and

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that they need
to be repaired.

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Now, one of the
real challenges

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and housing policy
is that even

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when we acknowledge
that something has had

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a racially
disproportionate effect,

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a city or a state
cannot take

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an action and response

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00:16:39,695 --> 00:16:41,659
that is racially specific,

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that's forbidden by
our Fair Housing Act.

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So the city has

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worked together
with the community.

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With a group of advisors

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from black community
organizations as well as

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housing organizations
and other folks who are

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00:16:56,570 --> 00:16:57,740
represented in

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the long-term residents

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of northeast portland,

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00:17:00,424 --> 00:17:02,029
along with the
African-American

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community who have

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00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,509
experience displacement
because of

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00:17:05,509 --> 00:17:07,490
gentrification and
urban renewal.

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To develop a place-based
community policy

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00:17:11,644 --> 00:17:14,224
to allow folks
who have deep,

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00:17:14,224 --> 00:17:16,999
longstanding
intergenerational ties to

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northeast portland
neighborhoods to

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return to New Housing

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and not in the community.

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This is the first of
its kind nationwide,

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00:17:25,340 --> 00:17:26,510
but it's now being copied.

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And a number of
other cities

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have issues of
gentrification where

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they're trying to let
people stay in place

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00:17:32,149 --> 00:17:35,044
and come back to their
communities home.

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00:17:35,044 --> 00:17:38,929
So for Portland, that
looks like asking folks

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00:17:38,929 --> 00:17:42,949
to put in applications
based on their own,

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00:17:42,949 --> 00:17:44,615
their parents generation,

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00:17:44,615 --> 00:17:47,479
their grandparents
generations residence.

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In these, these, this map

519
00:17:49,309 --> 00:17:51,319
shows the different
urban renewal areas

520
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that have been declared in

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00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,204
the City of Portland
over the past 60 years.

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00:17:55,204 --> 00:17:57,019
And so there is

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00:17:57,019 --> 00:17:59,360
priority given to
people who can

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demonstrate that they have

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00:18:00,620 --> 00:18:02,600
multiple generations of

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00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:04,310
their family history
that have been

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00:18:04,310 --> 00:18:06,665
impacted by these policies.

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00:18:06,665 --> 00:18:08,629
And so folks who

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00:18:08,629 --> 00:18:10,100
reached the top
of that list

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00:18:10,100 --> 00:18:11,209
and at the very
top of that list

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are people whose homes

532
00:18:12,635 --> 00:18:15,079
were illegally condemns
and demolished

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00:18:15,079 --> 00:18:16,819
by the city during

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00:18:16,819 --> 00:18:18,319
that legacy hospital

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00:18:18,319 --> 00:18:20,555
expansion period of time,

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00:18:20,555 --> 00:18:22,729
get priority to return to

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00:18:22,729 --> 00:18:25,460
both homeownership and
rental opportunities.

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00:18:25,460 --> 00:18:27,230
So along with my colleague,

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Dr. Ami Thurber,
who's part of

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00:18:28,639 --> 00:18:30,319
the School of Social
Work at Portland State.

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00:18:30,319 --> 00:18:32,209
We've been talking with

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00:18:32,209 --> 00:18:33,890
folks who have been
able to move into

543
00:18:33,890 --> 00:18:36,094
the first new rental units

544
00:18:36,094 --> 00:18:37,850
in Northeast Portland.

545
00:18:37,850 --> 00:18:40,009
We wanted to find
out if the policy is

546
00:18:40,009 --> 00:18:43,250
targeting those who
it's intended to,

547
00:18:43,250 --> 00:18:44,779
why they wanted
to move back,

548
00:18:44,779 --> 00:18:46,129
and how they
experience living in

549
00:18:46,129 --> 00:18:48,530
this very dramatically
changed neighborhood.

550
00:18:48,530 --> 00:18:50,600
And we found that in fact,

551
00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:52,849
that most of the folks

552
00:18:52,849 --> 00:18:54,664
who have moved into
these new unit,

553
00:18:54,664 --> 00:18:56,239
they have lived
in Northeast

554
00:18:56,239 --> 00:18:57,710
Portland most
of their life,

555
00:18:57,710 --> 00:18:59,134
but many of them have

556
00:18:59,134 --> 00:19:01,309
been were not living
there immediately.

557
00:19:01,309 --> 00:19:02,360
They were moved out into

558
00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:04,189
East Portland or Vancouver,

559
00:19:04,189 --> 00:19:05,299
Washington are kind of our

560
00:19:05,299 --> 00:19:07,025
throughout the metro area.

561
00:19:07,025 --> 00:19:09,199
And they were they were

562
00:19:09,199 --> 00:19:11,929
really motivated to return,

563
00:19:11,929 --> 00:19:14,240
to apply to get
into this housing,

564
00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:15,710
to try to reconnect

565
00:19:15,710 --> 00:19:17,450
with the area that
they grew up in.

566
00:19:17,450 --> 00:19:18,649
About three quarters of

567
00:19:18,649 --> 00:19:20,884
those residents are black.

568
00:19:20,884 --> 00:19:22,984
They said things.

569
00:19:22,984 --> 00:19:25,100
They talked about
their connection

570
00:19:25,100 --> 00:19:26,390
to the community and

571
00:19:26,390 --> 00:19:28,099
how they do feel

572
00:19:28,099 --> 00:19:30,259
a sense of ownership
over that space.

573
00:19:30,259 --> 00:19:31,640
Saying things like
there's nothing wrong

574
00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:33,215
with wanting to
be around people.

575
00:19:33,215 --> 00:19:34,520
Most folks do
you still have

576
00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,710
strong connections
to family,

577
00:19:36,710 --> 00:19:38,329
to kin, or to other,

578
00:19:38,329 --> 00:19:40,219
to community-based
organizations that

579
00:19:40,219 --> 00:19:41,195
are in the neighborhood.

580
00:19:41,195 --> 00:19:43,985
So this is a way to
have a policy mechanism

581
00:19:43,985 --> 00:19:47,299
that can support
repair for past harms.

582
00:19:47,299 --> 00:19:49,669
But more bigger than that,

583
00:19:49,669 --> 00:19:52,550
I think is a need
to talk about

584
00:19:52,550 --> 00:19:56,210
revisioning what the city

585
00:19:56,210 --> 00:19:58,130
looks like in
Northeast Portland,

586
00:19:58,130 --> 00:19:59,734
but another places.

587
00:19:59,734 --> 00:20:01,549
So I'll just share that.

588
00:20:01,549 --> 00:20:03,439
The Portland African

589
00:20:03,439 --> 00:20:05,329
American Leadership Forum,

590
00:20:05,329 --> 00:20:07,205
now known as
imagined black,

591
00:20:07,205 --> 00:20:08,510
because they're thinking

592
00:20:08,510 --> 00:20:09,725
about that kind
of how do we

593
00:20:09,725 --> 00:20:12,785
imagine and envision
ourselves differently?

594
00:20:12,785 --> 00:20:17,075
Created this
peoples plan from

595
00:20:17,075 --> 00:20:18,139
intense community

596
00:20:18,139 --> 00:20:19,730
engagement practices
throughout

597
00:20:19,730 --> 00:20:22,669
the city with folks of
all ages to ask them,

598
00:20:22,669 --> 00:20:24,530
would it be like
if Portland,

599
00:20:24,530 --> 00:20:25,579
if our neighborhoods and

600
00:20:25,579 --> 00:20:26,869
our communities really

601
00:20:26,869 --> 00:20:29,390
loved black people,
how would that feel?

602
00:20:29,390 --> 00:20:30,334
What would it look like?

603
00:20:30,334 --> 00:20:31,550
What would our development,

604
00:20:31,550 --> 00:20:32,360
How would we have

605
00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:33,785
development that
would be different?

606
00:20:33,785 --> 00:20:35,300
One of our youth
participants,

607
00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:36,349
and I thought that was very

608
00:20:36,349 --> 00:20:38,839
poignant that a Portland
loved black people.

609
00:20:38,839 --> 00:20:41,314
It would be the best
city it pretends to be.

610
00:20:41,314 --> 00:20:44,000
So thinking about how
do we launch from

611
00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,129
these very
technical housing

612
00:20:46,129 --> 00:20:48,200
resource allocations
into and

613
00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,560
new mindset where
black folks

614
00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,110
are able to thrive
and be empowered

615
00:20:54,110 --> 00:20:55,909
and really enfranchised by

616
00:20:55,909 --> 00:20:57,920
laying out our own
vision of what we want

617
00:20:57,920 --> 00:20:59,404
our communities to be

618
00:20:59,404 --> 00:21:01,955
about some of our
next steps in

619
00:21:01,955 --> 00:21:09,340
urban planning in
Portland. Great.

620
00:21:09,340 --> 00:21:12,475
Thank you for that
Lisa. Mixed up,

621
00:21:12,475 --> 00:21:13,915
sorry, and low technical

622
00:21:13,915 --> 00:21:15,219
glitch before,
but I'm back.

623
00:21:15,219 --> 00:21:17,450
So next up, Roberta.

624
00:21:17,610 --> 00:21:20,109
Thanks. Thanks everyone.

625
00:21:20,109 --> 00:21:22,060
I I love it when
I get to hear

626
00:21:22,060 --> 00:21:24,009
Mr. Washington and
when I get here,

627
00:21:24,009 --> 00:21:26,305
Dr. Lisa makes my day.

628
00:21:26,305 --> 00:21:30,249
So it's exciting to
be here with you all.

629
00:21:30,249 --> 00:21:33,205
I am putting in the chat,

630
00:21:33,205 --> 00:21:36,325
a link,

631
00:21:36,325 --> 00:21:39,460
and it is to

632
00:21:39,460 --> 00:21:40,600
the report that I'm

633
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:41,860
going to talk to you about.

634
00:21:41,860 --> 00:21:46,510
So the report is it was

635
00:21:46,510 --> 00:21:49,865
a study completed with

636
00:21:49,865 --> 00:21:51,739
my colleagues, Dr. Gita,

637
00:21:51,739 --> 00:21:54,605
my mail tra Miranda,

638
00:21:54,605 --> 00:21:57,635
most ya and Eva

639
00:21:57,635 --> 00:22:03,364
score a TVC from Southern
Oregon University.

640
00:22:03,364 --> 00:22:08,149
And and we worked week,

641
00:22:08,149 --> 00:22:10,639
we did a kind of

642
00:22:10,639 --> 00:22:15,634
a statewide study
with people of color,

643
00:22:15,634 --> 00:22:17,974
adult learners of color,

644
00:22:17,974 --> 00:22:23,060
and did focus groups
and interviews with

645
00:22:23,060 --> 00:22:24,979
about a 111 people

646
00:22:24,979 --> 00:22:30,005
asking about higher
education access.

647
00:22:30,005 --> 00:22:33,260
People feel like
they had access.

648
00:22:33,260 --> 00:22:36,695
Did they were they

649
00:22:36,695 --> 00:22:38,360
able to stay in

650
00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:41,134
school if they
got into school?

651
00:22:41,134 --> 00:22:45,425
And if they didn't go
to school, why not?

652
00:22:45,425 --> 00:22:50,884
Right. So those are
the we we interviewed.

653
00:22:50,884 --> 00:22:54,019
Our focus was on
African Americans,

654
00:22:54,019 --> 00:22:57,665
Latin next people,
indigenous,

655
00:22:57,665 --> 00:22:59,885
Native American,
Pacific Islander,

656
00:22:59,885 --> 00:23:01,804
Native Hawaiians.

657
00:23:01,804 --> 00:23:04,249
In our work, what really

658
00:23:04,249 --> 00:23:06,305
came forward were
broad themes

659
00:23:06,305 --> 00:23:09,365
around access

660
00:23:09,365 --> 00:23:12,809
to post-secondary
education training.

661
00:23:12,809 --> 00:23:16,405
And what the supports

662
00:23:16,405 --> 00:23:17,770
and the
interventions that's

663
00:23:17,770 --> 00:23:20,509
facilitated
students success.

664
00:23:20,820 --> 00:23:27,520
So I just want to talk
about the some of

665
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,850
the key areas that people

666
00:23:30,850 --> 00:23:35,289
felt were needed to be.

667
00:23:35,289 --> 00:23:37,180
You know, if, if, if

668
00:23:37,180 --> 00:23:38,619
participants could

669
00:23:38,619 --> 00:23:40,134
only talk to you
for a minute,

670
00:23:40,134 --> 00:23:41,200
some of the
things that they

671
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:42,789
would want you to know.

672
00:23:42,789 --> 00:23:44,875
So first of all,
some of the things

673
00:23:44,875 --> 00:23:50,634
that that they shared
around barriers,

674
00:23:50,634 --> 00:23:52,360
the leading barriers for

675
00:23:52,360 --> 00:23:55,124
people, for
people of color.

676
00:23:55,124 --> 00:23:57,530
We're economic.

677
00:23:57,530 --> 00:23:59,599
So managing the
cost of school,

678
00:23:59,599 --> 00:24:01,475
meeting basic needs,

679
00:24:01,475 --> 00:24:03,605
and navigating employment.

680
00:24:03,605 --> 00:24:06,859
So money and keeping

681
00:24:06,859 --> 00:24:10,160
one's money flowing enough

682
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,229
to support higher
ed was a key,

683
00:24:12,229 --> 00:24:15,269
key issue for people.

684
00:24:16,660 --> 00:24:20,779
Many talked about
unhelpful messages

685
00:24:20,779 --> 00:24:24,919
before college from
family and high school.

686
00:24:24,919 --> 00:24:26,660
So being told that

687
00:24:26,660 --> 00:24:28,085
they weren't
college material

688
00:24:28,085 --> 00:24:29,660
long before they
ever got to

689
00:24:29,660 --> 00:24:31,759
thinking about
going to college.

690
00:24:31,759 --> 00:24:33,994
A lot of the people
we interviewed

691
00:24:33,994 --> 00:24:37,430
worked to get into
college later in life.

692
00:24:37,430 --> 00:24:41,150
So the, if you wanted
to create a profile

693
00:24:41,150 --> 00:24:42,440
about some of
the people that

694
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,260
we were talking to.

695
00:24:45,260 --> 00:24:48,050
They were people
of color who

696
00:24:48,050 --> 00:24:51,500
had some who went

697
00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:53,599
straight from high
school and to college,

698
00:24:53,599 --> 00:24:55,909
but many who didn't

699
00:24:55,909 --> 00:24:57,014
go straight into
high school,

700
00:24:57,014 --> 00:24:58,729
I'm straight into college.

701
00:24:58,729 --> 00:25:01,085
Or who went to college?

702
00:25:01,085 --> 00:25:04,114
Left, came back later.

703
00:25:04,114 --> 00:25:06,979
And that returning to

704
00:25:06,979 --> 00:25:08,555
college with something that

705
00:25:08,555 --> 00:25:11,419
people did at when

706
00:25:11,419 --> 00:25:13,280
it was when it
was available.

707
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,820
So it wasn't the people
didn't want to go.

708
00:25:16,820 --> 00:25:19,560
It was that it was
hard to sustain.

709
00:25:20,710 --> 00:25:28,489
That when people came
to higher education,

710
00:25:28,489 --> 00:25:30,439
that they didn't have
enough mentorship and

711
00:25:30,439 --> 00:25:32,404
guidance that it
was difficult to,

712
00:25:32,404 --> 00:25:33,710
difficult navigating

713
00:25:33,710 --> 00:25:35,765
campus and academic life,

714
00:25:35,765 --> 00:25:37,129
and particularly lack of

715
00:25:37,129 --> 00:25:38,480
supports for students with

716
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,525
children and lack
of community.

717
00:25:41,525 --> 00:25:44,165
Alright, so people with

718
00:25:44,165 --> 00:25:46,655
talking with
Pacific Islanders,

719
00:25:46,655 --> 00:25:49,069
people that were
coming from very

720
00:25:49,069 --> 00:25:51,139
far to Oregon to go to

721
00:25:51,139 --> 00:25:54,949
school and leaving
their communities

722
00:25:54,949 --> 00:25:58,310
and often being
one or very few.

723
00:25:58,310 --> 00:26:00,110
And just not having
the supports they

724
00:26:00,110 --> 00:26:02,420
need to,

725
00:26:02,420 --> 00:26:06,779
to stay and to see
themselves here staying.

726
00:26:07,180 --> 00:26:09,350
People also talked about

727
00:26:09,350 --> 00:26:11,465
experiences of
racism on campus,

728
00:26:11,465 --> 00:26:13,280
lack of representation

729
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:14,990
and reflection of Black,

730
00:26:14,990 --> 00:26:17,599
Indigenous and
people of color.

731
00:26:17,599 --> 00:26:23,014
As peers and
faculty and staff.

732
00:26:23,014 --> 00:26:24,949
Challenges related
to immigration

733
00:26:24,949 --> 00:26:27,050
and documentation
status and

734
00:26:27,050 --> 00:26:29,404
historical and
contextual oppression

735
00:26:29,404 --> 00:26:31,400
and exclusion, right?

736
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,009
So when people
finally get in.

737
00:26:34,009 --> 00:26:36,349
Dealing with the
realities of

738
00:26:36,349 --> 00:26:38,915
racism and policies
of exclusion,

739
00:26:38,915 --> 00:26:40,894
both on their campuses,

740
00:26:40,894 --> 00:26:44,344
but also within
our broader city,

741
00:26:44,344 --> 00:26:46,264
state and country.

742
00:26:46,264 --> 00:26:47,989
So people also share

743
00:26:47,989 --> 00:26:50,959
the things that they
felt would help.

744
00:26:50,959 --> 00:26:54,470
And thinking about
what would help.

745
00:26:54,470 --> 00:26:56,959
Firstly, thinking
about the money of

746
00:26:56,959 --> 00:27:00,470
things, Scholarships,
hugely important.

747
00:27:00,470 --> 00:27:03,200
Veterans benefits or

748
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,769
employer paid
schooling, grants.

749
00:27:06,769 --> 00:27:09,035
People talked
at length about

750
00:27:09,035 --> 00:27:11,330
how valuable community
college was,

751
00:27:11,330 --> 00:27:14,045
both as a less
expensive option

752
00:27:14,045 --> 00:27:15,679
and for the mentorship,

753
00:27:15,679 --> 00:27:17,719
the coolant that
community college

754
00:27:17,719 --> 00:27:20,450
provided to

755
00:27:20,450 --> 00:27:24,410
help people
master the skills

756
00:27:24,410 --> 00:27:28,560
of being solid
college students.

757
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,789
More work study
opportunities

758
00:27:31,789 --> 00:27:33,049
and tuition support for

759
00:27:33,049 --> 00:27:34,880
on-campus work and

760
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,070
free or low cost textbooks.

761
00:27:37,070 --> 00:27:40,159
People talked about getting

762
00:27:40,159 --> 00:27:41,029
the funds to go to

763
00:27:41,029 --> 00:27:43,399
school and then really

764
00:27:43,399 --> 00:27:46,430
struggling with the
price of textbooks,

765
00:27:46,430 --> 00:27:49,140
kind of the, the
fees part of it.

766
00:27:49,140 --> 00:27:51,250
So anything that
can also reduce

767
00:27:51,250 --> 00:27:53,275
fees is very helpful

768
00:27:53,275 --> 00:27:55,360
to students of color and

769
00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:58,525
thinking about access
and retention.

770
00:27:58,525 --> 00:28:03,160
For to build relationships.

771
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,349
People said that access to

772
00:28:05,349 --> 00:28:08,410
campus before
attending college

773
00:28:08,410 --> 00:28:11,604
and providing

774
00:28:11,604 --> 00:28:16,509
practical and
informational support

775
00:28:16,509 --> 00:28:17,980
for what it means to

776
00:28:17,980 --> 00:28:20,965
be on a college
campus and to,

777
00:28:20,965 --> 00:28:23,545
to make it from
year to year.

778
00:28:23,545 --> 00:28:26,500
And beyond undergrad.

779
00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:29,935
To also include
families and friends

780
00:28:29,935 --> 00:28:33,199
support in cultivating
that, right?

781
00:28:33,199 --> 00:28:36,229
Like people,

782
00:28:36,229 --> 00:28:38,329
you do what your family

783
00:28:38,329 --> 00:28:40,535
and what your friends do.

784
00:28:40,535 --> 00:28:42,454
And people said, having

785
00:28:42,454 --> 00:28:44,945
a sister or a brother
who went to college,

786
00:28:44,945 --> 00:28:46,400
maybe that's
the only person

787
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:47,734
in their family
who is gone.

788
00:28:47,734 --> 00:28:49,579
But that meant that
they could think

789
00:28:49,579 --> 00:28:56,449
about going and really

790
00:28:56,449 --> 00:28:58,760
seeing oneself as a part

791
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:06,349
of advancing
academically and

792
00:29:06,349 --> 00:29:08,990
professionally for
their community

793
00:29:08,990 --> 00:29:10,895
and with their community.

794
00:29:10,895 --> 00:29:13,340
So I think thinking about,

795
00:29:13,340 --> 00:29:14,000
you know, I feel like

796
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,800
in our individualist
society,

797
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,040
we often think about
the individual and

798
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:20,509
we don't think
about the community

799
00:29:20,509 --> 00:29:22,355
that individuals
are coming from.

800
00:29:22,355 --> 00:29:24,380
And the ways that
getting through

801
00:29:24,380 --> 00:29:27,964
college is not just an
individual experience.

802
00:29:27,964 --> 00:29:31,115
It is for many of
the people who,

803
00:29:31,115 --> 00:29:33,589
who finish college,
they are going

804
00:29:33,589 --> 00:29:36,784
back into their communities
to lift them up.

805
00:29:36,784 --> 00:29:38,749
And so really thinking

806
00:29:38,749 --> 00:29:40,159
about what is
the connection

807
00:29:40,159 --> 00:29:41,705
between the institution

808
00:29:41,705 --> 00:29:43,549
and the families that,

809
00:29:43,549 --> 00:29:45,919
and the communities
that benefit

810
00:29:45,919 --> 00:29:49,410
from these professionalized
graduates.

811
00:29:51,100 --> 00:29:56,690
And they also talked
about the ways that

812
00:29:56,690 --> 00:29:59,734
if there were more
institutional

813
00:29:59,734 --> 00:30:02,089
satellite programs,

814
00:30:02,089 --> 00:30:04,429
so that regardless of

815
00:30:04,429 --> 00:30:05,945
where they were
in the state,

816
00:30:05,945 --> 00:30:07,429
it was really
interesting talking

817
00:30:07,429 --> 00:30:08,855
to people around the state.

818
00:30:08,855 --> 00:30:10,370
How far people were

819
00:30:10,370 --> 00:30:12,409
traveling to get
an education,

820
00:30:12,409 --> 00:30:14,929
how willing they
were to travel.

821
00:30:14,929 --> 00:30:19,760
All of the ways that
they were maneuvering

822
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,589
their life to the best of

823
00:30:21,589 --> 00:30:22,700
their abilities to make

824
00:30:22,700 --> 00:30:24,979
space for their learning.

825
00:30:24,979 --> 00:30:26,960
And so the more
institutions

826
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,450
could think about
accessibility.

827
00:30:29,450 --> 00:30:31,384
And this covert moment

828
00:30:31,384 --> 00:30:34,100
does force us to innovate.

829
00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:35,779
The more it can help and

830
00:30:35,779 --> 00:30:38,464
provide opportunities
for people.

831
00:30:38,464 --> 00:30:40,700
The importance of

832
00:30:40,700 --> 00:30:43,144
culturally specific
recruitment

833
00:30:43,144 --> 00:30:45,784
and retention programs.

834
00:30:45,784 --> 00:30:53,794
And also the hiring
of faculty of color.

835
00:30:53,794 --> 00:30:57,620
And really the hiring

836
00:30:57,620 --> 00:31:00,275
and retaining
faculty of color and

837
00:31:00,275 --> 00:31:04,520
doing that across a age and

838
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,949
gender span so that
people can really see

839
00:31:06,949 --> 00:31:10,565
themselves coming
back doing more.

840
00:31:10,565 --> 00:31:14,014
That it's not something
that they've missed.

841
00:31:14,014 --> 00:31:16,790
So if I were to say like

842
00:31:16,790 --> 00:31:21,710
some key, key
takeaways here.

843
00:31:21,710 --> 00:31:23,930
If we want more people

844
00:31:23,930 --> 00:31:27,829
educated in our state
to meet future demand,

845
00:31:27,829 --> 00:31:31,475
we have to address the
cost of education.

846
00:31:31,475 --> 00:31:37,565
And the cost of education
and fear of loans.

847
00:31:37,565 --> 00:31:41,479
And debt is a
central barrier

848
00:31:41,479 --> 00:31:42,980
to adult learners enrolling

849
00:31:42,980 --> 00:31:45,209
and staying in school.

850
00:31:45,340 --> 00:31:47,899
And, you know, we

851
00:31:47,899 --> 00:31:49,699
can think about
lowering tuition,

852
00:31:49,699 --> 00:31:52,160
addressing hidden cost,
financial support

853
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,800
for housing and
other basic needs.

854
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,154
Access to scholarships and

855
00:31:57,154 --> 00:31:59,270
financial support
not linked to

856
00:31:59,270 --> 00:32:03,619
immigration status is
vitally important to.

857
00:32:03,619 --> 00:32:05,554
I'm just going
to stop there.

858
00:32:05,554 --> 00:32:08,150
What I would, what
I would also say is

859
00:32:08,150 --> 00:32:09,589
just students across

860
00:32:09,589 --> 00:32:11,180
our state are struggling.

861
00:32:11,180 --> 00:32:13,955
Learners across our
state are struggling.

862
00:32:13,955 --> 00:32:16,400
And the more we can

863
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,569
do to support our learners,

864
00:32:20,569 --> 00:32:23,130
the better we all benefit.

865
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,220
Thank you so much all for

866
00:32:28,220 --> 00:32:29,299
that because
we're Those are

867
00:32:29,299 --> 00:32:30,380
great and we were getting

868
00:32:30,380 --> 00:32:31,700
a lot of questions
coming in.

869
00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:33,290
So again, remember one
of the point about

870
00:32:33,290 --> 00:32:34,370
this moment is
really to have

871
00:32:34,370 --> 00:32:35,660
sort of an open
conversation.

872
00:32:35,660 --> 00:32:37,700
So as you have
questions coming in,

873
00:32:37,700 --> 00:32:39,770
please drop them in the
question answer box

874
00:32:39,770 --> 00:32:41,839
and we'll take them
as they come to.

875
00:32:41,839 --> 00:32:42,769
One of my jobs is to

876
00:32:42,769 --> 00:32:43,880
help moderate
the questions.

877
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,209
So we'll go with our
first question here.

878
00:32:47,209 --> 00:32:48,754
And I'm going to
actually direct this to,

879
00:32:48,754 --> 00:32:50,209
to all the panelists
to kinda answer

880
00:32:50,209 --> 00:32:51,665
and turn as they'd like to.

881
00:32:51,665 --> 00:32:53,510
So first question
I want to ask

882
00:32:53,510 --> 00:32:55,460
is a pretty basic one,

883
00:32:55,460 --> 00:32:57,620
but, but complex
nonetheless.

884
00:32:57,620 --> 00:33:01,760
Which is where do we
go from here to here?

885
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,320
And maybe we can take
in the order Speaker.

886
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,975
So maybe add if you want
to give that a shot,

887
00:33:05,975 --> 00:33:11,515
would start
there. Thank you.

888
00:33:11,515 --> 00:33:14,050
I'll I'll try to
keep it short

889
00:33:14,050 --> 00:33:16,420
because there's
so much to that.

890
00:33:16,420 --> 00:33:18,879
Where do we go from here?

891
00:33:18,879 --> 00:33:21,250
And I would I would
just like to say

892
00:33:21,250 --> 00:33:24,650
that I think in a in
a very small way,

893
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,299
the van port experience

894
00:33:28,299 --> 00:33:31,869
really sorta answer
part of that question.

895
00:33:31,869 --> 00:33:34,689
I'm sure that very
same quash didn't,

896
00:33:34,689 --> 00:33:37,630
was probably being
African Americans

897
00:33:37,630 --> 00:33:39,009
were thinking
about that back

898
00:33:39,009 --> 00:33:40,779
into 40 after
the war ended.

899
00:33:40,779 --> 00:33:43,269
And also, I didn't
mentioned this early in

900
00:33:43,269 --> 00:33:47,094
a van port was destroyed
by a flood in 1948.

901
00:33:47,094 --> 00:33:48,655
Totally destroyed probably

902
00:33:48,655 --> 00:33:50,789
within about 30 minutes

903
00:33:50,789 --> 00:33:55,429
and displace six to
9 thousand people.

904
00:33:55,429 --> 00:33:57,769
And it's just amazing the,

905
00:33:57,769 --> 00:34:00,410
the connection between what

906
00:34:00,410 --> 00:34:02,780
happened in Van port,

907
00:34:02,780 --> 00:34:04,670
you know, with
the schooling.

908
00:34:04,670 --> 00:34:06,800
Roberta was talking about

909
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:08,420
the the issues that we're

910
00:34:08,420 --> 00:34:10,265
having with
schooling today.

911
00:34:10,265 --> 00:34:11,840
And we really didn't have

912
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,649
that issue today
sense in Van port

913
00:34:15,649 --> 00:34:18,769
because the
superintended made

914
00:34:18,769 --> 00:34:21,424
sure that those schools
were made available.

915
00:34:21,424 --> 00:34:23,885
And then I think
conduct debates.

916
00:34:23,885 --> 00:34:26,704
She's talking
about housing.

917
00:34:26,704 --> 00:34:29,299
And it is so ironic,

918
00:34:29,299 --> 00:34:30,755
you know, where do
we go from here?

919
00:34:30,755 --> 00:34:32,345
When we MF van port,

920
00:34:32,345 --> 00:34:34,264
the very first day

921
00:34:34,264 --> 00:34:35,825
that the night
of the flood,

922
00:34:35,825 --> 00:34:39,169
we spent that night at

923
00:34:39,169 --> 00:34:40,819
aqua green grade
school over on

924
00:34:40,819 --> 00:34:42,965
North interstate
and Ainsworth.

925
00:34:42,965 --> 00:34:44,299
And when we got up

926
00:34:44,299 --> 00:34:46,519
that that was on a
Sunday evening when

927
00:34:46,519 --> 00:34:48,500
we got up that
Monday morning

928
00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:50,089
and had breakfast,

929
00:34:50,089 --> 00:34:51,769
I remember a man got up on

930
00:34:51,769 --> 00:34:53,060
the stage and he said

931
00:34:53,060 --> 00:34:54,829
I have an
announcement to make.

932
00:34:54,829 --> 00:34:57,019
And he said, my
announcement

933
00:34:57,019 --> 00:34:59,089
is that there's a church on

934
00:34:59,089 --> 00:35:01,969
the corner of North
East Russell and

935
00:35:01,969 --> 00:35:07,200
Rodney that will take
some colored families.

936
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,480
You know, if you're
African American,

937
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,714
you don't have to
turn around and look.

938
00:35:13,714 --> 00:35:17,120
We know how many
of us were there.

939
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,660
And we all left and

940
00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:24,695
spent about three
weeks at this church.

941
00:35:24,695 --> 00:35:28,999
And so I think about
all the housing that

942
00:35:28,999 --> 00:35:30,320
the African
Americans had at

943
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,529
that time in that
segregated area.

944
00:35:33,529 --> 00:35:35,974
They were down by
manual Hospital.

945
00:35:35,974 --> 00:35:38,630
And so that comes
back to what Dr.

946
00:35:38,630 --> 00:35:41,989
Bates is talking about
here, 72 years later.

947
00:35:41,989 --> 00:35:44,820
72 years later.

948
00:35:45,670 --> 00:35:49,445
About housing.

949
00:35:49,445 --> 00:35:51,845
72 years later,

950
00:35:51,845 --> 00:35:54,709
long before they
were either of them

951
00:35:54,709 --> 00:35:57,890
were born in there talking

952
00:35:57,890 --> 00:36:02,750
about helping the resolve
issues of 72 years.

953
00:36:02,750 --> 00:36:04,985
That's ridiculous.

954
00:36:04,985 --> 00:36:08,179
So wherever we
go from here,

955
00:36:08,179 --> 00:36:11,314
we need to be going in
the right direction.

956
00:36:11,314 --> 00:36:13,010
And I'm going to
be quiet right

957
00:36:13,010 --> 00:36:14,420
there because I'm
getting fired up now.

958
00:36:14,420 --> 00:36:17,580
So off videos.

959
00:36:17,860 --> 00:36:21,050
I always come to
tugs with Mr. Ed.

960
00:36:21,050 --> 00:36:24,200
Washington because
you'll get

961
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:25,639
fired up in the Q and a.

962
00:36:25,639 --> 00:36:26,510
And here is a bunch of

963
00:36:26,510 --> 00:36:28,849
new forms of knowledge.

964
00:36:28,849 --> 00:36:32,255
I think just if
I can tag on.

965
00:36:32,255 --> 00:36:34,760
Yeah, so this is going
on for a long time.

966
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,259
One of the reasons
I like to show

967
00:36:36,259 --> 00:36:38,750
a color photo of the
corner of Williams and

968
00:36:38,750 --> 00:36:40,099
Brussels because
we often look

969
00:36:40,099 --> 00:36:41,569
at that in black and way as

970
00:36:41,569 --> 00:36:44,959
though these things
are so long pass,

971
00:36:44,959 --> 00:36:46,879
you know, and actually

972
00:36:46,879 --> 00:36:48,259
1917 she was actually

973
00:36:48,259 --> 00:36:50,720
very close to
when I was born.

974
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:53,660
So in my own,
in my lifetime,

975
00:36:53,660 --> 00:36:56,150
that lot was condemned,

976
00:36:56,150 --> 00:36:57,710
illegally, torn down,

977
00:36:57,710 --> 00:37:00,020
and then nothing
ever happened there.

978
00:37:00,020 --> 00:37:02,510
So I think the question
for me, you know,

979
00:37:02,510 --> 00:37:03,829
in my field, in
what I think about

980
00:37:03,829 --> 00:37:05,209
is where we go
from here is,

981
00:37:05,209 --> 00:37:07,220
are we ready to move

982
00:37:07,220 --> 00:37:12,110
beyond just small spaces?

983
00:37:12,110 --> 00:37:13,729
I mean, the
preference policy in

984
00:37:13,729 --> 00:37:15,139
the Northeast
Housing strategy is

985
00:37:15,139 --> 00:37:17,660
a very big deal in
the world of housing.

986
00:37:17,660 --> 00:37:19,399
But it's really tiny.

987
00:37:19,399 --> 00:37:21,364
It's going to affect,

988
00:37:21,364 --> 00:37:24,350
you know, maybe
600 families.

989
00:37:24,350 --> 00:37:26,990
For them it will be
very consequential,

990
00:37:26,990 --> 00:37:28,339
but for thousands of

991
00:37:28,339 --> 00:37:31,324
other people it
won't matter at all.

992
00:37:31,324 --> 00:37:37,234
Do we extend that
idea to say actually,

993
00:37:37,234 --> 00:37:39,050
the people who were here,

994
00:37:39,050 --> 00:37:41,479
black folks edition as
folks who have made

995
00:37:41,479 --> 00:37:43,309
the most mark on

996
00:37:43,309 --> 00:37:46,745
these places in terms
of our presence,

997
00:37:46,745 --> 00:37:50,749
of community spirit,
of organizing,

998
00:37:50,749 --> 00:37:54,034
of, of spiritual
life, of family life.

999
00:37:54,034 --> 00:37:55,699
Will they be able to make

1000
00:37:55,699 --> 00:37:58,039
claims to be in and stay in

1001
00:37:58,039 --> 00:37:59,720
and shape those places

1002
00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:02,075
into the future on
a larger scale.

1003
00:38:02,075 --> 00:38:04,295
And not only in
Northeast Portland,

1004
00:38:04,295 --> 00:38:05,974
will folks be
able to be there,

1005
00:38:05,974 --> 00:38:08,419
but where people
have moved to,

1006
00:38:08,419 --> 00:38:11,824
say Gresham or
Rockwood will,

1007
00:38:11,824 --> 00:38:15,199
it will also be
able to create and

1008
00:38:15,199 --> 00:38:18,110
co-create meaningfully
the places

1009
00:38:18,110 --> 00:38:19,189
that they live,

1010
00:38:19,189 --> 00:38:20,570
wherever they are today,

1011
00:38:20,570 --> 00:38:21,890
everyone doesn't
want to move back,

1012
00:38:21,890 --> 00:38:23,570
but how can we
ensure that we don't

1013
00:38:23,570 --> 00:38:25,489
have a policymaking and

1014
00:38:25,489 --> 00:38:29,960
a planning that continues
to sort of reserve

1015
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:31,699
only the smallest spaces

1016
00:38:31,699 --> 00:38:33,350
or black and other folks of

1017
00:38:33,350 --> 00:38:37,039
color to engage and
make decisions.

1018
00:38:37,039 --> 00:38:38,449
But how can we
keep expanding,

1019
00:38:38,449 --> 00:38:41,419
not speeds where
communities can,

1020
00:38:41,419 --> 00:38:43,880
can, can be what and

1021
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,369
who they would like to
see for themselves.

1022
00:38:51,340 --> 00:38:55,940
Okay, thank you. You know,

1023
00:38:55,940 --> 00:38:58,834
I think that what we

1024
00:38:58,834 --> 00:39:03,619
do to list adult learners

1025
00:39:03,619 --> 00:39:07,130
of color and to
improve access and to

1026
00:39:07,130 --> 00:39:11,479
retain them and help
them complete their,

1027
00:39:11,479 --> 00:39:13,175
their degrees

1028
00:39:13,175 --> 00:39:16,505
will benefit other
vulnerable students

1029
00:39:16,505 --> 00:39:19,010
to access college and

1030
00:39:19,010 --> 00:39:22,010
complete complete
their degrees.

1031
00:39:22,010 --> 00:39:25,249
I think it's we
really need to think

1032
00:39:25,249 --> 00:39:27,919
about what is pushing

1033
00:39:27,919 --> 00:39:29,900
people out of
higher education.

1034
00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:35,840
And I, one message that

1035
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,750
people talk
about is hearing

1036
00:39:38,750 --> 00:39:40,309
from their family
that going

1037
00:39:40,309 --> 00:39:42,124
to college doesn't matter.

1038
00:39:42,124 --> 00:39:44,509
Or if they're if

1039
00:39:44,509 --> 00:39:45,439
they're family members have

1040
00:39:45,439 --> 00:39:47,150
never gone to college.

1041
00:39:47,150 --> 00:39:49,625
And they go to college.

1042
00:39:49,625 --> 00:39:51,589
And, you know, it's, it's,

1043
00:39:51,589 --> 00:39:53,450
it's just a
different, it's a,

1044
00:39:53,450 --> 00:39:56,284
it's a foreign concept.

1045
00:39:56,284 --> 00:40:00,230
And so really helping tell

1046
00:40:00,230 --> 00:40:04,160
the story of why is
Higher Ed valuable.

1047
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,669
And, and, and thinking

1048
00:40:07,669 --> 00:40:10,730
about the many ways that
higher ed valuable,

1049
00:40:10,730 --> 00:40:12,380
but it has to
be accessible.

1050
00:40:12,380 --> 00:40:14,554
It cannot be an
elite thing.

1051
00:40:14,554 --> 00:40:15,769
Like I think about when I

1052
00:40:15,769 --> 00:40:17,629
hear stories of band port,

1053
00:40:17,629 --> 00:40:19,730
I think about access.

1054
00:40:19,730 --> 00:40:22,670
Like this was an
opportunity for people

1055
00:40:22,670 --> 00:40:27,484
to access meaningful
education.

1056
00:40:27,484 --> 00:40:29,164
When I think about what

1057
00:40:29,164 --> 00:40:31,114
Portland State started as,

1058
00:40:31,114 --> 00:40:32,960
it was about creating

1059
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,260
opportunities for
working class people.

1060
00:40:36,260 --> 00:40:37,759
And as an institution,

1061
00:40:37,759 --> 00:40:39,544
the largest institution
in our state

1062
00:40:39,544 --> 00:40:42,185
that serves the most
people of color.

1063
00:40:42,185 --> 00:40:45,139
I think that that
really has to be

1064
00:40:45,139 --> 00:40:46,790
a central component
of how we

1065
00:40:46,790 --> 00:40:49,739
think about moving forward.

1066
00:40:52,350 --> 00:40:55,135
Thank you, that's great.

1067
00:40:55,135 --> 00:40:56,469
We'll just kind
of jump around

1068
00:40:56,469 --> 00:40:58,300
to some other questions.

1069
00:40:58,300 --> 00:40:59,439
Here's a question.

1070
00:40:59,439 --> 00:41:00,549
All three of you,

1071
00:41:00,549 --> 00:41:01,870
all three speakers talked

1072
00:41:01,870 --> 00:41:03,819
about the importance
of community.

1073
00:41:03,819 --> 00:41:05,679
Do you have
suggestions for how

1074
00:41:05,679 --> 00:41:07,180
we might make this part of

1075
00:41:07,180 --> 00:41:08,860
our students experiences in

1076
00:41:08,860 --> 00:41:10,780
classrooms away from

1077
00:41:10,780 --> 00:41:12,009
the overwhelming sense of

1078
00:41:12,009 --> 00:41:13,240
individual merit and

1079
00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:15,459
accomplishment that
will be rewarded.

1080
00:41:15,459 --> 00:41:16,540
How can we change

1081
00:41:16,540 --> 00:41:18,099
this culture when
so many faculty are

1082
00:41:18,099 --> 00:41:21,439
entrenched in this
individualistic model.

1083
00:41:23,190 --> 00:41:29,679
We thought, well,

1084
00:41:29,679 --> 00:41:32,229
we can work on learning
people's names.

1085
00:41:32,229 --> 00:41:35,270
I think that's a big one.

1086
00:41:35,710 --> 00:41:38,360
Yeah, but and and making

1087
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,310
space for them to
know each other,

1088
00:41:40,310 --> 00:41:41,915
for us to know them,

1089
00:41:41,915 --> 00:41:43,429
for them to know us,

1090
00:41:43,429 --> 00:41:45,769
for them to know
each other.

1091
00:41:45,769 --> 00:41:49,170
But in the past
to my peers.

1092
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,595
Hello Mr. Washington,
you're muted.

1093
00:41:58,595 --> 00:42:06,169
And so they said,
since I've a couple of

1094
00:42:06,169 --> 00:42:08,975
days younger
than most of you

1095
00:42:08,975 --> 00:42:14,045
are back during the
day of the draft.

1096
00:42:14,045 --> 00:42:16,880
And that was really
very controversial.

1097
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,859
But when I was growing up,

1098
00:42:18,859 --> 00:42:21,380
I everybody had to

1099
00:42:21,380 --> 00:42:23,240
go into the arm, everybody.

1100
00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:26,284
And unless you flunk

1101
00:42:26,284 --> 00:42:28,489
the physical tests and

1102
00:42:28,489 --> 00:42:30,079
I didn't I didn't
have to go

1103
00:42:30,079 --> 00:42:32,735
because I got married

1104
00:42:32,735 --> 00:42:36,050
like in August
and I when they

1105
00:42:36,050 --> 00:42:37,190
were going to Draf III

1106
00:42:37,190 --> 00:42:38,420
would get a
letter that says

1107
00:42:38,420 --> 00:42:40,760
greetings from
the President

1108
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:42,620
of the United
States, you know?

1109
00:42:42,620 --> 00:42:45,815
And so I, I got
my greetings,

1110
00:42:45,815 --> 00:42:49,895
but because I had
recently gotten married,

1111
00:42:49,895 --> 00:42:53,389
they were not
drafting married man,

1112
00:42:53,389 --> 00:42:55,264
so I escaped that.

1113
00:42:55,264 --> 00:42:57,935
But someone asked
me, you know.

1114
00:42:57,935 --> 00:43:00,079
If I had to do
that again or

1115
00:43:00,079 --> 00:43:02,120
if if if I had
some say about it

1116
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,745
and I think that if if I

1117
00:43:04,745 --> 00:43:08,914
had to set up a draft
situation again,

1118
00:43:08,914 --> 00:43:13,655
I would see an army that
you would go in for

1119
00:43:13,655 --> 00:43:20,660
for three months or six
months of training.

1120
00:43:20,660 --> 00:43:22,099
But then you come out

1121
00:43:22,099 --> 00:43:24,170
and if there was
a two a year,

1122
00:43:24,170 --> 00:43:27,200
you would spend another
six months working in

1123
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,839
a community in schools

1124
00:43:29,839 --> 00:43:32,374
and all those
things, hospitals.

1125
00:43:32,374 --> 00:43:34,340
You'd spend another
six months out

1126
00:43:34,340 --> 00:43:36,005
in the woods working,

1127
00:43:36,005 --> 00:43:38,059
you know, protecting
the forest.

1128
00:43:38,059 --> 00:43:47,089
And there was and I
think I think that what,

1129
00:43:47,089 --> 00:43:49,009
what we really need to do

1130
00:43:49,009 --> 00:43:52,655
is that should be a
correct them really,

1131
00:43:52,655 --> 00:43:54,530
where students have
the opportunity

1132
00:43:54,530 --> 00:43:56,239
to go out into

1133
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,445
neighborhoods
regardless of what

1134
00:43:58,445 --> 00:44:01,069
regardless of what
your major is.

1135
00:44:01,069 --> 00:44:03,259
But and maybe the

1136
00:44:03,259 --> 00:44:05,645
other one was working
and senior homes.

1137
00:44:05,645 --> 00:44:07,655
That was then know
that, you know,

1138
00:44:07,655 --> 00:44:10,234
and so we need to go where

1139
00:44:10,234 --> 00:44:11,989
the community is and

1140
00:44:11,989 --> 00:44:14,720
the community is
in those places.

1141
00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:16,940
And the communities just
really impact that.

1142
00:44:16,940 --> 00:44:19,400
I mean, we need
out in education,

1143
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:20,960
we need help with

1144
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,570
seniors and we need
help the woods.

1145
00:44:23,570 --> 00:44:28,700
Oh, I I just think
that you have to

1146
00:44:28,700 --> 00:44:31,264
get out of your own shale

1147
00:44:31,264 --> 00:44:34,414
and Dell and just
spend some times I,

1148
00:44:34,414 --> 00:44:36,260
I think of all the jobs,

1149
00:44:36,260 --> 00:44:39,289
that idea growing up.

1150
00:44:39,289 --> 00:44:43,249
And I'm grateful for
having that experience.

1151
00:44:43,249 --> 00:44:46,745
Now, I hated washing
dishes in a restaurant.

1152
00:44:46,745 --> 00:44:49,249
But you know, it sure.

1153
00:44:49,249 --> 00:44:51,410
Let me know that
that's not something

1154
00:44:51,410 --> 00:44:53,599
I want it to do for
the rest of my life.

1155
00:44:53,599 --> 00:44:56,990
So it's very
simplistic, I know,

1156
00:44:56,990 --> 00:44:59,719
but I think sometimes

1157
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:04,350
that's a that's a former
reality for us all.

1158
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:11,170
Yeah, I agree. I think
it's so critical to

1159
00:45:11,170 --> 00:45:13,570
value knowledge
that comes from

1160
00:45:13,570 --> 00:45:17,420
lots of different
ways of learning.

1161
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:22,639
When I think about
this question,

1162
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:26,605
you know, I think
that as faculty,

1163
00:45:26,605 --> 00:45:29,395
whatever out, whatever
our backgrounds,

1164
00:45:29,395 --> 00:45:30,999
if we aren't people

1165
00:45:30,999 --> 00:45:34,570
who fit into the
academic norm,

1166
00:45:34,570 --> 00:45:35,830
you know, people of color,

1167
00:45:35,830 --> 00:45:36,879
whether we're
people of color

1168
00:45:36,879 --> 00:45:37,960
were working class,

1169
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:42,520
first gen, immigrant,
queer, whatever it is.

1170
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:44,079
But we have all
made it into

1171
00:45:44,079 --> 00:45:45,610
the space that we
are because we

1172
00:45:45,610 --> 00:45:47,470
are capable of
intellectually

1173
00:45:47,470 --> 00:45:49,425
performing it
very specific,

1174
00:45:49,425 --> 00:45:52,190
a way of making and
sharing knowledge.

1175
00:45:52,190 --> 00:45:53,990
And we are able,

1176
00:45:53,990 --> 00:45:55,130
or we have made

1177
00:45:55,130 --> 00:45:57,259
ourselves able to
close certain doors

1178
00:45:57,259 --> 00:45:59,029
inside of ourselves
and leave parts

1179
00:45:59,029 --> 00:46:01,265
of us outside of academia.

1180
00:46:01,265 --> 00:46:03,649
And so what is really,

1181
00:46:03,649 --> 00:46:05,990
really difficult is to

1182
00:46:05,990 --> 00:46:07,624
be in a space
in which as a,

1183
00:46:07,624 --> 00:46:10,669
as a teacher, I
am trying to make

1184
00:46:10,669 --> 00:46:13,129
a classroom environment
and a community

1185
00:46:13,129 --> 00:46:14,299
in which my students don't

1186
00:46:14,299 --> 00:46:16,009
have to close
those doors off.

1187
00:46:16,009 --> 00:46:18,290
They can bring
their full self

1188
00:46:18,290 --> 00:46:20,585
into the space in
the classroom.

1189
00:46:20,585 --> 00:46:22,189
When I, myself never

1190
00:46:22,189 --> 00:46:25,174
experienced that either
as a learner or,

1191
00:46:25,174 --> 00:46:26,659
or as a faculty member.

1192
00:46:26,659 --> 00:46:27,889
So how do I, how do I

1193
00:46:27,889 --> 00:46:29,539
project that sort of in,

1194
00:46:29,539 --> 00:46:31,070
from my space of power as

1195
00:46:31,070 --> 00:46:33,364
a professor, outward
or downward.

1196
00:46:33,364 --> 00:46:35,479
When I did not
experience out from

1197
00:46:35,479 --> 00:46:38,374
my colleagues or from
an administration.

1198
00:46:38,374 --> 00:46:40,415
I don't really know fully

1199
00:46:40,415 --> 00:46:42,710
what it would look
like or feel like two,

1200
00:46:42,710 --> 00:46:43,849
to build that community.

1201
00:46:43,849 --> 00:46:45,334
So I think we are all,

1202
00:46:45,334 --> 00:46:47,420
some of us are
trying to fumble

1203
00:46:47,420 --> 00:46:49,130
toward that
together and that

1204
00:46:49,130 --> 00:46:50,569
we need to learn as much

1205
00:46:50,569 --> 00:46:51,469
from the students who

1206
00:46:51,469 --> 00:46:52,580
are coming to
the classroom,

1207
00:46:52,580 --> 00:46:53,720
from the community members

1208
00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:54,559
that we engage with

1209
00:46:54,559 --> 00:46:57,305
outside of the
university, who, who,

1210
00:46:57,305 --> 00:46:58,999
who don't want to

1211
00:46:58,999 --> 00:47:00,109
do that and
don't understand

1212
00:47:00,109 --> 00:47:01,279
why you would why would I

1213
00:47:01,279 --> 00:47:03,079
cram myself into a
tiny little box?

1214
00:47:03,079 --> 00:47:05,075
Why would I close up
doors inside myself?

1215
00:47:05,075 --> 00:47:08,750
We have much to learn from,

1216
00:47:08,750 --> 00:47:10,459
from outside
the university,

1217
00:47:10,459 --> 00:47:11,330
from the community, from

1218
00:47:11,330 --> 00:47:13,505
community members,
from students.

1219
00:47:13,505 --> 00:47:15,979
So that we can actually
build a new way

1220
00:47:15,979 --> 00:47:19,110
of being together
in a university.

1221
00:47:20,170 --> 00:47:22,850
Ucsf. Thank you all.

1222
00:47:22,850 --> 00:47:25,685
Another question.

1223
00:47:25,685 --> 00:47:27,859
So how can non-black

1224
00:47:27,859 --> 00:47:30,079
people of color
and white people

1225
00:47:30,079 --> 00:47:32,240
who moved to Portland
avoid gentrifying

1226
00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:37,790
predominantly black
neighborhoods might

1227
00:47:37,790 --> 00:47:38,779
be directed at least had

1228
00:47:38,779 --> 00:47:40,504
been from an olive UPenn.

1229
00:47:40,504 --> 00:47:42,949
Well, I mean, yeah.
Well, factually,

1230
00:47:42,949 --> 00:47:44,525
if I can assure
you there are no

1231
00:47:44,525 --> 00:47:45,590
longer any predominantly

1232
00:47:45,590 --> 00:47:46,729
black neighborhoods
in Portland.

1233
00:47:46,729 --> 00:47:49,940
So there is a time
machine element to that

1234
00:47:49,940 --> 00:47:53,720
in which it's not
an issue anymore.

1235
00:47:53,720 --> 00:47:58,310
How can you avoid being
and juncture fire?

1236
00:47:58,310 --> 00:48:00,139
Because I think one problem

1237
00:48:00,139 --> 00:48:01,250
is people move
here and they

1238
00:48:01,250 --> 00:48:02,359
like diversity and they

1239
00:48:02,359 --> 00:48:03,679
want to move to
diverse neighborhoods,

1240
00:48:03,679 --> 00:48:04,535
whether they're

1241
00:48:04,535 --> 00:48:05,990
historically black
neighborhoods

1242
00:48:05,990 --> 00:48:07,789
or other communities
of color.

1243
00:48:07,789 --> 00:48:10,945
And then when lots of
people who've had,

1244
00:48:10,945 --> 00:48:12,019
then it's no
longer diapers.

1245
00:48:12,019 --> 00:48:13,805
So I think questions,

1246
00:48:13,805 --> 00:48:16,580
questions are, how can you,

1247
00:48:16,580 --> 00:48:18,140
how can you act and be in

1248
00:48:18,140 --> 00:48:20,180
the space in a way that

1249
00:48:20,180 --> 00:48:22,189
supports everyone should be

1250
00:48:22,189 --> 00:48:23,900
there and be in
community together.

1251
00:48:23,900 --> 00:48:25,760
How can you, when
you move into if

1252
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:26,300
you move into

1253
00:48:26,300 --> 00:48:27,935
a neighborhood in
Northeast Portland,

1254
00:48:27,935 --> 00:48:30,560
continued to contribute
to community,

1255
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,829
not exclude people,
recognize history,

1256
00:48:33,829 --> 00:48:35,540
and that's something
that we all have to do.

1257
00:48:35,540 --> 00:48:36,679
I I mean, I'm black

1258
00:48:36,679 --> 00:48:37,745
but I'm not from Portland.

1259
00:48:37,745 --> 00:48:38,990
I moved to
Northeast Portland

1260
00:48:38,990 --> 00:48:40,189
and I I am part of

1261
00:48:40,189 --> 00:48:41,269
a gentrifying class of

1262
00:48:41,269 --> 00:48:44,090
people's professional
person who owns a home.

1263
00:48:44,090 --> 00:48:46,220
So how do I learn,

1264
00:48:46,220 --> 00:48:48,409
route myself and respect

1265
00:48:48,409 --> 00:48:49,940
and lift up my neighbors?

1266
00:48:49,940 --> 00:48:52,444
Support policies that bring

1267
00:48:52,444 --> 00:48:53,870
more housing to
our community

1268
00:48:53,870 --> 00:48:55,655
that keep people in place,

1269
00:48:55,655 --> 00:48:57,529
you know, patronize
businesses that

1270
00:48:57,529 --> 00:48:59,389
have been there
for a long time.

1271
00:48:59,389 --> 00:49:01,489
So some of it is just
about like, you know,

1272
00:49:01,489 --> 00:49:03,439
get over the
Portland brand and

1273
00:49:03,439 --> 00:49:05,675
kind of hang hang
with rho folks,

1274
00:49:05,675 --> 00:49:08,729
then have rho
conversations with people.

1275
00:49:11,620 --> 00:49:15,080
Extract another
open-ended question.

1276
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:16,310
There are so many people of

1277
00:49:16,310 --> 00:49:17,990
color who would move here.

1278
00:49:17,990 --> 00:49:20,195
I assume they moved
here is Portland.

1279
00:49:20,195 --> 00:49:21,995
If there was critical mass,

1280
00:49:21,995 --> 00:49:25,620
how can Portland and
PSU facilitate that?

1281
00:49:29,230 --> 00:49:37,699
Washington. You know,

1282
00:49:37,699 --> 00:49:40,519
that I don't think
that's a bad,

1283
00:49:40,519 --> 00:49:48,600
then I don't know if
it's a probable quest.

1284
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,839
It's not a bad question.

1285
00:49:53,020 --> 00:50:00,305
At what I I just wish

1286
00:50:00,305 --> 00:50:04,910
that people who have

1287
00:50:04,910 --> 00:50:08,730
moved to North
East Portland,

1288
00:50:09,220 --> 00:50:14,990
I really wish they
understood the history of

1289
00:50:14,990 --> 00:50:18,514
the community
and understood

1290
00:50:18,514 --> 00:50:21,529
the difficulties that those

1291
00:50:21,529 --> 00:50:23,780
people that were there,

1292
00:50:23,780 --> 00:50:27,560
the difficulty
they add to get

1293
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,089
theory even though it was

1294
00:50:29,089 --> 00:50:31,804
designated as their
neighborhood.

1295
00:50:31,804 --> 00:50:34,279
But, you know, there

1296
00:50:34,279 --> 00:50:36,874
was red lining
with the banks.

1297
00:50:36,874 --> 00:50:41,150
My parents are
first home in

1298
00:50:41,150 --> 00:50:43,490
Northeast Portland was not

1299
00:50:43,490 --> 00:50:46,490
bought through the bank.

1300
00:50:46,490 --> 00:50:49,339
You know, my
parents had to find

1301
00:50:49,339 --> 00:50:52,664
somebody to
assist them and,

1302
00:50:52,664 --> 00:50:54,170
you know, that's
the grading.

1303
00:50:54,170 --> 00:50:56,519
That's degrading.

1304
00:50:57,100 --> 00:51:01,294
But that's not
an unusual story

1305
00:51:01,294 --> 00:51:03,365
for African-American
people.

1306
00:51:03,365 --> 00:51:05,810
That's not an unusual
story at all.

1307
00:51:05,810 --> 00:51:11,359
And I just, I would,

1308
00:51:11,359 --> 00:51:16,219
I would hope that people
are really sensitive

1309
00:51:16,219 --> 00:51:19,235
to that the phenomena

1310
00:51:19,235 --> 00:51:23,390
of a gentrifying
neighborhood.

1311
00:51:23,390 --> 00:51:26,719
I, I drive up

1312
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,449
williams avenue now and

1313
00:51:29,449 --> 00:51:32,585
I don't even recognize it.

1314
00:51:32,585 --> 00:51:35,630
I grew up there. And I

1315
00:51:35,630 --> 00:51:38,375
haven't been bay from
it that many years.

1316
00:51:38,375 --> 00:51:40,295
I don't recognize it.

1317
00:51:40,295 --> 00:51:44,164
And not only do I
not recognize it,

1318
00:51:44,164 --> 00:51:46,280
I don't feel very
welcome there,

1319
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,200
and it's not
because zany body

1320
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,419
bothers me personally.

1321
00:51:50,419 --> 00:51:53,900
But sometimes as
you're going through,

1322
00:51:53,900 --> 00:51:55,744
you just feel like

1323
00:51:55,744 --> 00:51:59,690
Stranger in a Strange Land.

1324
00:51:59,690 --> 00:52:02,360
And nobody should.
And I've lived in

1325
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,555
Oregon all seven
years of my life.

1326
00:52:05,555 --> 00:52:07,669
I should never
have to feel like

1327
00:52:07,669 --> 00:52:10,579
a stranger in this state.

1328
00:52:10,579 --> 00:52:15,254
I'm gonna put my time
and my sweat in here.

1329
00:52:15,254 --> 00:52:18,699
So I it's a hard question,

1330
00:52:18,699 --> 00:52:22,089
but I would hope
that all of

1331
00:52:22,089 --> 00:52:25,989
us develop a sense

1332
00:52:25,989 --> 00:52:32,979
of of just understanding

1333
00:52:32,979 --> 00:52:35,289
toward each other
and understand

1334
00:52:35,289 --> 00:52:37,374
the impact that we have.

1335
00:52:37,374 --> 00:52:39,669
Look beyond o, this is

1336
00:52:39,669 --> 00:52:40,929
a great place and it has

1337
00:52:40,929 --> 00:52:43,074
lots of nice restaurants.

1338
00:52:43,074 --> 00:52:45,219
And so a lot of
life and a lot

1339
00:52:45,219 --> 00:52:47,200
of blood and sweat

1340
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,900
that went into where

1341
00:52:49,900 --> 00:52:53,080
you're sitting down
to have a hamburger.

1342
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:55,329
It's much, much greater

1343
00:52:55,329 --> 00:52:58,540
than just somebody
eating a hamburger.

1344
00:52:58,540 --> 00:53:04,970
Really how I feel about it.

1345
00:53:12,660 --> 00:53:17,979
Next question. So in 2015,

1346
00:53:17,979 --> 00:53:19,675
and I see we've only
got five minutes of

1347
00:53:19,675 --> 00:53:22,405
my time dbEST quickly
at this moment.

1348
00:53:22,405 --> 00:53:23,919
And I should say for those,

1349
00:53:23,919 --> 00:53:25,029
we have more questions

1350
00:53:25,029 --> 00:53:25,809
then we're going to get to.

1351
00:53:25,809 --> 00:53:26,890
But we often what we'll

1352
00:53:26,890 --> 00:53:28,344
do is we assemble
the questions.

1353
00:53:28,344 --> 00:53:29,770
We send them back out to

1354
00:53:29,770 --> 00:53:32,200
our panelist to see at
the septa answer and

1355
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:33,819
then we work to get
the answers back to

1356
00:53:33,819 --> 00:53:36,160
the invite to everyone
who registered.

1357
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:37,210
So even if we

1358
00:53:37,210 --> 00:53:38,319
don't answer your
questions now,

1359
00:53:38,319 --> 00:53:40,390
rest assured we're
going to help answer

1360
00:53:40,390 --> 00:53:41,430
some of these questions.

1361
00:53:41,430 --> 00:53:42,680
Just one last question.

1362
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:44,359
In 2015, City of Portland

1363
00:53:44,359 --> 00:53:46,729
implemented there $96
million policy, right?

1364
00:53:46,729 --> 00:53:48,439
To return to address

1365
00:53:48,439 --> 00:53:50,090
issues of mass
displacement of

1366
00:53:50,090 --> 00:53:51,469
long-term black
residents or

1367
00:53:51,469 --> 00:53:53,060
a point-based
preference policy for

1368
00:53:53,060 --> 00:53:55,535
affordable housing
5-years later.

1369
00:53:55,535 --> 00:53:57,779
What is your
assessment of it?

1370
00:53:58,270 --> 00:54:02,959
Anyone have a yeah.

1371
00:54:02,959 --> 00:54:05,720
So policy does some things

1372
00:54:05,720 --> 00:54:08,029
and it doesn't
do other things.

1373
00:54:08,029 --> 00:54:09,830
In our assessment and

1374
00:54:09,830 --> 00:54:11,390
our evaluation
showed that it

1375
00:54:11,390 --> 00:54:13,370
is housing the folks

1376
00:54:13,370 --> 00:54:14,420
that was intended to house,

1377
00:54:14,420 --> 00:54:15,980
which is residents with

1378
00:54:15,980 --> 00:54:18,110
longterm ties to
Northeast Portland who

1379
00:54:18,110 --> 00:54:20,435
are very happy to

1380
00:54:20,435 --> 00:54:21,920
be back in the
neighborhood,

1381
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:24,500
who wanted to come to
the neighborhood or

1382
00:54:24,500 --> 00:54:25,730
stay in the neighborhood

1383
00:54:25,730 --> 00:54:27,545
and who have
really deep ties.

1384
00:54:27,545 --> 00:54:28,909
They also express

1385
00:54:28,909 --> 00:54:29,989
many of the
feelings that Mr.

1386
00:54:29,989 --> 00:54:32,764
Washington just
did about change,

1387
00:54:32,764 --> 00:54:36,379
about feeling both
at the same time,

1388
00:54:36,379 --> 00:54:39,679
very rooted in a sense
of ownership and

1389
00:54:39,679 --> 00:54:41,180
also disconnected and push

1390
00:54:41,180 --> 00:54:43,444
out even as they
live there.

1391
00:54:43,444 --> 00:54:44,764
I think the reality is

1392
00:54:44,764 --> 00:54:46,654
all affordable
housing programs

1393
00:54:46,654 --> 00:54:49,669
meet very small
proportion of the need.

1394
00:54:49,669 --> 00:54:53,150
So that we'll
never be scaled

1395
00:54:53,150 --> 00:54:54,949
as large as the number of

1396
00:54:54,949 --> 00:54:55,894
people who have been pushed

1397
00:54:55,894 --> 00:54:57,540
out of northeast portland,

1398
00:54:57,540 --> 00:54:59,874
it simply can't be.

1399
00:54:59,874 --> 00:55:02,830
And because it is
affordable housing,

1400
00:55:02,830 --> 00:55:05,560
it is only for very
low income folks.

1401
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:08,469
And so it doesn't give
that full spectrum of

1402
00:55:08,469 --> 00:55:11,109
diversity economically
that would

1403
00:55:11,109 --> 00:55:13,630
have existed in the
neighborhood previously.

1404
00:55:13,630 --> 00:55:15,849
So to have business owners

1405
00:55:15,849 --> 00:55:18,159
to think about, you know,

1406
00:55:18,159 --> 00:55:20,709
sort of a wider
spectrum of people

1407
00:55:20,709 --> 00:55:23,529
and community organizations
and institutions.

1408
00:55:23,529 --> 00:55:25,374
So it takes a lot.

1409
00:55:25,374 --> 00:55:26,050
I sit on

1410
00:55:26,050 --> 00:55:28,075
the oversight committee
for that program.

1411
00:55:28,075 --> 00:55:31,059
And as the actual
the dollars for

1412
00:55:31,059 --> 00:55:32,650
housing construction
are pretty much

1413
00:55:32,650 --> 00:55:34,510
all committed now
and there won't be,

1414
00:55:34,510 --> 00:55:36,819
there's more things
in the pipeline.

1415
00:55:36,819 --> 00:55:38,409
We want to turn to talk

1416
00:55:38,409 --> 00:55:40,095
about what does it mean to,

1417
00:55:40,095 --> 00:55:42,410
to develop and
sustain community?

1418
00:55:42,410 --> 00:55:46,159
What does it mean
to teach new bread?

1419
00:55:46,159 --> 00:55:47,899
Predominantly white folks,

1420
00:55:47,899 --> 00:55:49,369
what the history of
their neighborhood is

1421
00:55:49,369 --> 00:55:52,174
and to have respect
for that history.

1422
00:55:52,174 --> 00:55:53,360
And how do we bolster

1423
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:55,549
folks who may have
been experiencing

1424
00:55:55,549 --> 00:55:57,200
that kind of
root shock to be

1425
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,239
able to participate
civically,

1426
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:01,234
to participate
economically,

1427
00:56:01,234 --> 00:56:03,020
and to sort of

1428
00:56:03,020 --> 00:56:04,504
really like
strengthened their,

1429
00:56:04,504 --> 00:56:06,305
their bonds with
one another.

1430
00:56:06,305 --> 00:56:08,570
And that's really hard
to do through policy.

1431
00:56:08,570 --> 00:56:10,489
That's not an urban
renewal practice,

1432
00:56:10,489 --> 00:56:13,069
that's not a planning
field thing.

1433
00:56:13,069 --> 00:56:15,499
That's the long-term
work with community.

1434
00:56:15,499 --> 00:56:16,789
So hopefully we'll see

1435
00:56:16,789 --> 00:56:19,140
our city move in
that direction.

1436
00:56:21,430 --> 00:56:25,249
Thank you. That Greg.

1437
00:56:25,249 --> 00:56:27,679
Oh, I just keep thinking
like and what's

1438
00:56:27,679 --> 00:56:28,820
the role of Portland State

1439
00:56:28,820 --> 00:56:30,305
in relation to that?

1440
00:56:30,305 --> 00:56:31,764
Right. Like, you know,

1441
00:56:31,764 --> 00:56:33,994
a because I I,

1442
00:56:33,994 --> 00:56:36,200
you know, we're
talking about housing,

1443
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,210
but if our students are in

1444
00:56:38,210 --> 00:56:41,329
their car and living
in their car,

1445
00:56:41,329 --> 00:56:44,690
if our students can't
afford to go to school,

1446
00:56:44,690 --> 00:56:46,400
stay in a place,

1447
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:49,459
and go to school and
have to move far away.

1448
00:56:49,459 --> 00:56:50,869
It's going to impact
their ability

1449
00:56:50,869 --> 00:56:52,925
to complete their degree.

1450
00:56:52,925 --> 00:56:54,980
You know, all
of these things

1451
00:56:54,980 --> 00:56:57,839
like they are
interconnected.

1452
00:57:00,250 --> 00:57:02,360
Yeah, absolutely. Well, I

1453
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:03,470
appreciate that, Roberta.

1454
00:57:03,470 --> 00:57:04,550
And I will say again, we've

1455
00:57:04,550 --> 00:57:05,750
only about a minute
left hand sick.

1456
00:57:05,750 --> 00:57:06,980
I'm going to give
you all just a

1457
00:57:06,980 --> 00:57:08,269
little few second sift

1458
00:57:08,269 --> 00:57:09,499
has any closing
comments you want

1459
00:57:09,499 --> 00:57:10,909
to want to leave
with our audience.

1460
00:57:10,909 --> 00:57:12,199
It's always amazing the how

1461
00:57:12,199 --> 00:57:14,165
quickly an hour goes
in this conversation.

1462
00:57:14,165 --> 00:57:18,530
Yeah. Well, like
I just said,

1463
00:57:18,530 --> 00:57:22,940
I have just one thought

1464
00:57:22,940 --> 00:57:25,114
for those that
are coming up.

1465
00:57:25,114 --> 00:57:31,174
Now. I hope you will
commit to yourself

1466
00:57:31,174 --> 00:57:35,239
and to your community
that we will all

1467
00:57:35,239 --> 00:57:40,235
work to make sure that
72 years from now,

1468
00:57:40,235 --> 00:57:43,429
we're not having
a meeting talking

1469
00:57:43,429 --> 00:57:46,459
about what happened
way back here.

1470
00:57:46,459 --> 00:57:49,520
I just hope that
that you all will do

1471
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:53,299
a better job than
those before you.

1472
00:57:53,299 --> 00:57:54,620
And I think, and I think

1473
00:57:54,620 --> 00:57:56,569
this generation
of young people

1474
00:57:56,569 --> 00:57:59,210
habit in them to make sure

1475
00:57:59,210 --> 00:58:01,550
that these kinds of
things don't happen.

1476
00:58:01,550 --> 00:58:03,109
So just get out

1477
00:58:03,109 --> 00:58:05,104
and make sure it
doesn't happen.

1478
00:58:05,104 --> 00:58:10,650
Lead the way they
the way it's needed.

1479
00:58:14,500 --> 00:58:16,699
When Mr. Washington speaks,

1480
00:58:16,699 --> 00:58:19,589
I kind of felt like,
okay, Mike drop.

1481
00:58:26,310 --> 00:58:28,555
I think Roberta's correct.

1482
00:58:28,555 --> 00:58:30,010
And with that, I want

1483
00:58:30,010 --> 00:58:31,749
to welcome I really want to

1484
00:58:31,749 --> 00:58:33,220
thank Ed and Roberta and

1485
00:58:33,220 --> 00:58:34,509
Lisa for joining us

1486
00:58:34,509 --> 00:58:35,920
for the safe conversation.

1487
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:36,939
Hopefully you've
had a chance

1488
00:58:36,939 --> 00:58:37,780
to look at the chats.

1489
00:58:37,780 --> 00:58:39,415
There's been amazing
comments in there.

1490
00:58:39,415 --> 00:58:41,080
We will capture all
this and get back to

1491
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:43,390
you on the behalf of
PSU in our community.

1492
00:58:43,390 --> 00:58:45,054
I can't. Thank you
enough for joining us.

1493
00:58:45,054 --> 00:58:46,750
And I will say for those
in the audience are

1494
00:58:46,750 --> 00:58:47,800
next at this moment comes

1495
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:49,015
up on December third,

1496
00:58:49,015 --> 00:58:49,780
where we continue

1497
00:58:49,780 --> 00:58:51,129
the next series
of conversations,

1498
00:58:51,129 --> 00:58:52,210
which is really
diversity in

1499
00:58:52,210 --> 00:58:53,845
the workplace
and workforce.

1500
00:58:53,845 --> 00:58:55,090
And there will be having

1501
00:58:55,090 --> 00:58:56,440
a conversation with Dr.

1502
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,154
Larry Martinez and PSU
Psychology Department,

1503
00:58:59,154 --> 00:59:00,369
as well as more Kelly,

1504
00:59:00,369 --> 00:59:02,829
Dr. Mark Kelly and PSU
Sociology Department.

1505
00:59:02,829 --> 00:59:04,509
And then Calley
Hamilton graduate

1506
00:59:04,509 --> 00:59:05,820
students psychology
department

1507
00:59:05,820 --> 00:59:07,039
focuses on issues of

1508
00:59:07,039 --> 00:59:08,195
diversity in the workplace.

1509
00:59:08,195 --> 00:59:09,934
So hopefully I'll see
you back there again.

1510
00:59:09,934 --> 00:59:11,120
Again, these are recorded

1511
00:59:11,120 --> 00:59:12,319
and please share these

1512
00:59:12,319 --> 00:59:14,840
widely and stay
safe. Stay well.

1513
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:16,609
And I hope to see you
on December third.

1514
00:59:16,609 --> 00:59:21,810
Alright, thanks
again. With the 0.