[Chad_the_Impaler]

The Portland African American Leadership Forum (PAALF) objected to the proposed development partly because it feared that the new retail complex would eventually push up rental prices in the area...

In other words the PAALF feared the development might significantly improve the neighborhood, so they opposed it.

[freerepublicchat]

In other words the PAALF feared the development might significantly improve the neighborhood, so they opposed it.

Or rather, this is about keeping "those people" -- whites, out of the neighborhood.