Margaret Salazar left a government career in 2023 to run one of Oregon’s largest housing nonprofits .

By the time she left the public sector behind, she’d served as an appointee of President Joe Biden, in charge of the Northwest region for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as the head of Oregon’s housing finance agency.

Today, as the chief executive of REACH Community Development, Salazar said she never expected to be back in the thick of a big federal action.

But on Thursday, as groups of protesters and news crews milled around outside, she spoke about how the past weeks and months have affected tenants at Gray’s Landing, the low-income apartment building that also houses REACH’s headquarters.

It sits directly across South Bancroft Street from the U.S. Im

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