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City agrees to pay $7.5 million in settlement with Black Portlanders for displacement from Albina district
Portland City officials laid the groundwork for paying Black Portlanders more than $7 million for displacing them from an ...
Portland City Council increases Albina settlement to $8.5M for displaced Black families
Portland City Council increased the settlement compensation from $2M to $8.5M for Black families who were displaced by 1960s ...
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City Council Approves $8.5 Million Settlement for Black Families Displaced from Albina Neighborhood
The Portland City Council on Thursday evening voted unanimously to approve a $8.5 million settlement of a federal lawsuit ...
Portland approves historic settlement agreement for displaced Albina Residents
The Portland City Council approved an $8.5 million settlement on Thursday for a group of Albina residents and their families ...
Portland to pay $2M, give land to Black descendants over razing of Albina neighborhood homes
Black families in Portland were forced to sell their Albina district homes in the 1960s and ‘70s for a planned hospital ...
City of Portland, Prosper Portland to pay $2 million, give land to Black descendants in Albina case
Settlement acknowledges "systemic discrimination” in urban renewal that destroyed nearly 300 homes in historically Black ...
Portland reaches settlement agreement with displaced families of Central Albina
The $2 million settlement also includes a number of pledges by the city in an attempt to right past wrongs that scattered a ...
Portland City Council to vote on $1 million settlement with displaced Black residents
The City of Portland is set to vote on its portion of a $2 million civil rights lawsuit settlement to 26 Black Portland residents displaced.
City of Portland, several 1970s displaced Albina residents reach settlement
On Friday, the City of Portland and more than 26 families, descendants, and the Emanuel Displaced Persons Association 2 ...
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After history of loss, Portland’s Albina district builds back
The Oregonian/OregonLive detailed the racist history of the Albina district, and the newspaper’s whitewashed coverage of Black peoples’ experiences, in May 2023 as part of its Publishing Preju ...
City of Portland, several 1970s displaced Albina residents reached settlement
On Friday, the City of Portland and more than 26 families, descendants, and the Emanuel Displaced Persons Association 2 ...