PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – The City of Portland and Prosper Portland announced on Friday that they settled with the 27 surviving Black Portlanders and the descendants of more than 150 Black families who were forced out of their homes in the central Albina District in the 1960s and 1970s.
In a three-year legal battle, the plaintiffs accused the city, Prosper Portland, and what is now Legacy Emanuel Health, of a “conspiracy to remove Black people” from what was once “Portland’s most vibrant Black neighborhood.”
Court documents show that between 1971 and 1973, the city condemned nearly 200 homes and buildings for a hospital expansion that never took place. Nearly 75% of those businesses and homes belonged to Black families and business owners…