Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers
By Gabe Frayne Picture, if you will, your last visit to Chicago, New York or any other noisy megalopolis. While visual images may come to mind, sounds…
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Housing Affordability for the Long-Term
By Gabe Frayne In 1955 the New York state legislature, facing rising urban poverty, enacted the Mitchell-Lama housing program, which allowed private d…
Business Walkabout: PDX Empanadas
By Gabe Frayne The art of inserting a spoonful of meat, vegetables or fruit inside a shell of pastry dough and then baking, frying or steaming it to a…
Affordable Housing, Part Two
By Gabe Frayne The City of Portland continues to make measured progress in its mission to provide affordable housing to low and moderate income reside…
Portland’s Struggle with Affordable Housing
By Gabe Frayne Jeanne Favini looks back with a mixture of bitterness and embarrassment at the moment she realized she faced an imminent choice betwe…
Opportunity Zone Update
By Gabe Frayne The much-hyped but low-horsepower economic tool known as opportunity zones once promised a boon to low-income neighborhoods across th…