This story was a project of WW’s summer news interns: Seychelle Marks-Bienen, Senya Scott and Asa Gartrell. WW staff writer Sophie Peel supervised the team, contributed policy reporting, and wrote the story that follows.
Jamie Dunphy holds public office because Portland voters decided to give a damn about places like Gateway.
Nearly three years ago, voters tore city government down to the studs, partly in response to the argument that the city’s easternmost neighborhoods, long neglected, deserved a louder voice at City Hall. Dunphy was one of three councilors elected last November to represent District 1, which runs from 82nd Avenue to Gresham, and includes Gateway, a cluster of low-income neighborhoods that hug the east side of Interstate 205…