What Is The Problem Related To The Globalization Of Vanport

Within the city of Portland, Oregon (and its surrounding areas, including: Hillsboro and Vancouver) globalization occurs in various ways, particularly in connection with global exportation. In 2016, Portland exported a total $21.75 billion [1] in goods to overseas buyers, with the three largest sources of exportation coming from the sales of computers and electronics, agricultural products, and lastly, non-electronic machinery. In fact, according to the International Trade Administration, Portland and surrounding areas rank at number seventeen among Metropolitan Area Exporters, according to export value. [2] Along with being ranked as one of the top twenty exporters among metropolitan areas here within the United States, Portland has been repeatedly

And that “At the conclusion of the war, many blacks left the state as shipyard jobs disappeared, but many decided to stay.” [7] The residents of Vanport were faced with a “racial crisis” when the city was destroyed, the answer to the problem was solved by moving the residents into the area of Albina. This was an attractive option for a couple of reasons, the first of which was that “…its older, less desirable housing stock and its proximity to both Vanport and the older, established black community.” [7] The second reason that this was a desirable solution involved the fact that white citizens were moving out of the area, instead favoring to live in the

Most specifically those in East Portland, where “…poverty rates for all races are higher in East Portland than in the rest of the city. Whereas numbers of people of color living in other areas of the city have dwindled, a full 45% of East Portlanders now identify as a person of color (compared with about 23% for Portland as a whole)”. [8] According to Uneven development of the sustainable city: shifting capital in Portland, Oregon, in 1993 the city council “adopted the Albina Community Plan with a goal of beautifying the district’s streets and sidewalks, developing several of its 2,000+ vacant lots, and providing loans for store front improvements along a handful of dilapidated historic business corridors.” [8] As this development was enacted it led to the price of housing being “tripled between 1990 and 1996…” this led to many (most the poor and/or people of color) in the neighborhoods being unable to afford the housing costs, forcing further relocation to the area of east of 82nd Avenue. In fact, “…between 1996 and the mid-2000s, the area east of 82nd Avenue absorbed nearly 40% of Portland’s new housing units, mainly inexpensive multifamily apartments.”