Portland Bucks National Trend, Integrates Income Groups

In the Portland metro area, upper-income, middle-income and working-class people remain more likely to live near each other.

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May 16, 2002, 5:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"The residential mingling of haves and have-nots can be traced to a state land-use rule put in place nearly a quarter-century ago, local developers and planners say. Called the metropolitan housing rule, it required every suburban city and county to zone for a lot of apartments. When those apartments went up fast in the 1990s, it enabled moderate- and low-income people to live practically all over, not only in Portland or the most bedraggled suburbs. That sets Portland apart from most metropolitan areas, says Myron Orfield, author of 'American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality.'"

Thanks to Dan Zack

FULL STORY: Rules Mingle Income Groups

Wednesday, May 15, 2002 in The Oregonian

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