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• Adopting of the HUD mandate toAffirmatively Further Fair Housing, whichwill de-concentrate poverty and increaseintegration by creating affordable housingin areas of high opportunity• Engaging Black neighborhoods in buildingsupportive institutions like schools andcommunity-based organizations• Strengthening housing stability andchoice through policies such as rentcontrol, just-cause evictions controlsmonitoring and enforcement of the FairHousing Law in the rental market.• Securing Black businesses in traditionalneighborhoods through development,incubation, access to capital, subsidizedleases and location incentives• Investing in resources for education,workforce development and jobplacement in growth industries toensure Black participation in emergingtechnological areas• Providing capital support and technicalassistance to ensure that Oregon’sentrepreneurial values of creativity,innovation and sustainability are lifted upin Black neighborhoods• Finding solutions that ensureaccountability, monitoring andevaluation of the efficacy of targetedpolicy interventions5• Prioritizing investments inprograms that help peopleimpacted by crime rebuild theirlives, such as drug and mentalhealth treatment, alternativesto incarceration and re-entryoptions• Eliminating Measure 11’sautomatic transfer of youth toadult court• Adopting sentencing policiesthat address disproportionateschool discipline and the waysthat “in school” arrests lead tojustice involvement• Providing additional educationand mentoring resources tochildren of incarcerated parents• Prioritizing living-wage jobsand economic security as acore component of all re-entryprogramsIncrease civic engagement indisplaced neighborhoods to ensurethat the voices of Black Oregon areheard, and support a new generationof leaders to foster a growingnew electorate and maximize itsinfluence.4Make key reforms to the JusticeSystem in policies that havedisproportionately hurt Blackcommunities, by:• Eliminating mandatoryminimum sentences for lowleveloffenses and racismin sentencing policies anddiscretionary judicialdecision-making• Applying Oregon’s new RacialImpact Statements to analyzehow various policies affectracial disparities within thecriminal justice systemWHO CAN MAKE THE CHANGE?• Oregon Legislature• Oregon Department of Corrections• Police departments• Local planning bureaus• Business associations• Neighborhood associations155