This story is Part 1 of “Getting by on Burnside,” an ongoing series from The Oregonian/OregonLive that uses Burnside Street – the only road that extends uninterrupted from the city’s eastern to western limits – to explain the facets of Portland’s housing crunch.
Burnside Street travels the width of Portland’s housing crunch.
The roadway plunges past Pittock Mansion to Powell’s Books and the skyscraper Big Pink. Over its namesake bridge to the Central Eastside Industrial District. Through North Tabor and over Interstate 205. Away to Hazelwood in east Portland…