Portland's prosperity bypasses many

Yeah. If the properity is passing you by and you're getting priced out, you have to move. Simple as that.

It's not a particularly kind thing to say, but it is what it is. Can't afford a car anymore? Sell it. Can't afford a city anymore? Move.

And before anybody says that some people can't afford to move, that's why you have to save money. Immigrants, who get by on far lower wages than we do, manage to save enough money to make it to America. Having savings allows you to preemptively avoid problems like this instead of being forced to take the problems as they come.

People without applicable skills having trouble in a modern economy. Regret over not buying something expensive when it was cheap. In other news, water is wet.