Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2018 Video & Audio

Mitigating Gentrification, A Public Health Approach

Listen or watch Portland's Cat Goughnour idea for putting community members first in shaping their neighborhoods

Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2018 Video & Audio

Mitigating Gentrification, A Public Health Approach

Listen or watch Portland's Cat Goughnour idea for putting community members first in shaping their neighborhoods

Dec. 06, 2018

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At The Citizen’s inaugural Ideas We Should Steal Festival, Cat Goughnour gave us a virtual tour of her home of Portland, Oregon, the most gentrified city in America—and her solutions for helping to keep communities intact, despite the push for development.

“We can solve issues of unemployment, crime, all these things that plague our cities,” Goughnour said. “Folks want community first. They said, ‘If we have each other, we can solve all these things together, and make sure our people can move up from the bottom.'”

If you missed the discussion, or simply want to hear it again, listen on CitizenCast below.

Or watch Goughnour’s presentation here.

Idea We Should Steal: Bring Cat Goughnour’s Right 2 Root here, to help existing communities have a say in how their neighborhoods develop, as a way to help keep people—particularly underserved populations—in their homes.

Rate the idea here. 

Read more about Right 2 Root in The Citizen:

  • Community-Centered Development
Ideas We Should Steal: Community-Centered Development
A Portland B Corp is pushing a more inclusive process for building up a neighborhood. Can Philly learn a lesson from the most gentrified city in America?
Photo Credits: Sabina Pierce

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