2024 Best Practices Trip: Sacramento

Description

For 25 years, Portland civic icon Randy Miller has led delegations from the City of Roses on trips to other cities in the United States (and around the world) to learn best practices in urban and economic development. This year, the Portland Business Alliance and Greater Portland, Inc. are partnering with Randy to organize the next Best Practices trip to Sacramento, California. 

Sacramento aligns nicely with Portland. Both are mid-sized, West Coast cities with comparable populations, per capita income, and growth patterns. Both cities also share the same challenges: endemic housing shortages, rising cost of living, high tax burden, and waning population growth. This is why Sacramento was recently identified as Portland’s peer region in the Chamber’s 2024 State of the Economy report.