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My community is the Overlook neighborhood. Most people shop at the New Seasons on Interstate because it is the only large grocery store in the neighborhood. People gather and socialize at Peninsula Park. There are health services on Interstate that are available to people in my neighborhood. The MAX transit line runs down Interstate and the bus line runs down MLK, which are frequently used. Vancouver and Williams are bike boulevards which I and many other people use for commuting or getting to other parts of Portland. Our library is on Killingsworth.
This neighborhood is a historically Black neighborhood, with historical roots going to WWII when Black workers settled in this neighborhood since it was close to the river and industrial work going on at the Port of Portland. A few decades ago, when Kaiser and Providence hospitals were built, the neighborhood directly south of Overlook was torn down, and a lot of people were displaced. Now, the area I live in is heavily gentrified, and is no longer a majority Black area.
As in many other neighborhoods in Portland, a major concern right now is houselessness, with many encampments along the I-5 highway. The City of Portland chooses to spend orders of magnitude more funding on policing, instead of housing. This is a major catastrophe, and is both an economic and environmental concern for my community.
My community is currently not kept together in our State House districts. The State House districts are divided by the I-5, which I understand that this is a geographic boundary of neighborhoods, but it means that no one is accountable for providing support to the houseless people that are currently living along the I-5. My State House district doesn't make sense - I share more in common with people on the other side of the I-5 than I do with people living in St. John's.
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