This page lists other studies and reports that add to our understanding of equity conditions in the region. Please check back regularly for updates.

• From 2002 to 2007, the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program published the Living Cities Census Series, a major effort to illustrate how recent demographic, social, and economic trends affect the vitality of cities and metropolitan areas.
  Download: Executive Summary, Portland Data Book, pp. 1-34, Portland Data Book, pp. 35-70.

• The Clarendon-Portsmouth/James John PhotoVoice Project is finally online. You can see the community members' photos and captions by going to the slideshow. We have also included maps.

• Planting Prosperity and Harvesting Health: Trade-offs and Sustainability in the Oregon-Washington Regional Food System (14.9MB) analyzes food system sustainability trends in Oregon and Washington, focusing specifically on the producers in both states and the consumers in the Portland-Vancouver region. Oct 2008.

• Exploring the Clark County Food System Report provides information on the status of the Clark County food system and is the first step towards determining what personal, institutional, and policy changes need to happen to strengthen Clark County's food system for all residents. Aug 2008.

• Diversitydata.org provides regionally specific data at the metropolitan level throughout the United States for a diverse range of social measures that demonstrate the equality of opportunity and diversity of experiences for different racial and ethnic groups in America.

• The Homeownership Advisory Committee Minority Home Ownership Report. 2004.
  This report provides short- and long-term strategies to increase minority homeownership in the city of Portland.

• Making the Invisible Visible: Portland's Native American Community. Native American Youth and Family Center (www.nayapdx.org). 2008.

• Interfaith Food and Farms Partnership, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon Interfaith Network for Earth Concerns. Everyone Eats! A Community Food Assessment for Areas of North and Northeast Portland, Oregon . Summer, 2008.