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As displacement begins to be a concerned result of urban renewal and gentrification, city officials are implementing policies to reverse its devastating effects. Specifically, the City of Portland (2015) recently implemented their $96 million policy “Right to Return” to address issues of mass displacement of long-term black residents through a point-based preference policy for affordable housing. While this policy is commendable and perhaps the first step in correcting a city’s heinous history riddled in racism, it is not enough as it stands. Through an interdisciplinary lens I argue that RTR falls short in four major ways: it ignores and dismisses Portland’s racist history by omitting narratives of trauma caused by urban renewal, it disregards the need of “sense of community” (Kloos & Grover, 2012) for those who would dwell within newly constructed affordable units, it acts as a neoliberal policy that supports “policy-based evidence,” and the funding is strictly being allocated to the construction of affordable housing only and not to providing new or specialized resources for previously displaced black long-term residents. This approach is supported by rhetorical analyses from the Verdell Burdine and Otto G. Rutherford’s Family Collection located in Portland State University Library of Special Collections & University Archives in addition to adopting concepts from Community Psychologists. Finally, this thesis provides recommendations for RTR to create actual change and support long-term black residents. A COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY APPROACH ON “RIGHT TO RETURN” 3

Portland Oregon’s “Right to Return” Policy & its Relation to Urban Renewal: A Community Psychology Approach