- CARLI DAVIDSON
INVESTMENT
RE: “North Portland Rising” [News, Aug 26], regarding one renter’s efforts to save a 115-year-old house in his neighborhood from demolition for new market-rate apartments.
DEAR MERCURY—The big, bad developer dismissed [Judge] Finklea’s concerns because “he’s a renter with no money, no resources.” Finklea objects to the project because “people who move in and are living in apartments like that, they’re not invested in the community.” The real issue isn’t dozing old homes in favor of apartments. The issue is when the only new units built cater to a wealthy minority. We lowly apartment-dwellers pay taxes, support local businesses, volunteer, and work in the communities where we live…