Portland Civil Rights Lawsuit Results in a Settlement of $2M and Some Land Back

A few dozen descendants of a historically Black Portland neighborhood who had their homes seized and demolished under threat of eminent domain are set to get a $2 million payout and some land back as part of a proposed settlement in a civil rights lawsuit.

The lawsuit was filed in 2022 by the Oregon Law Center on behalf of 26 Black plaintiffs whose families owned property in the Albina neighborhood near Legacy Emanuel Medical Center and were displaced by racist policies starting in the late 1950s into the 1970s.

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