Plaintiffs behind $8.2M Albina settlement share how lawsuit came about

Plaintiffs behind $8.2M Albina settlement share how lawsuit came about

This week, the board of Prosper Portland voted to finalize a settlement for more than 20 people whose homes and businesses in the Albina neighborhood were destroyed in the name of urban renewal from the 1950s through the ’70s.The group of Black Portlanders fought for years to get to this point, and eventually filed a federal lawsuit arguing that the city of Portland, Emanuel Legacy Medical Center and Prosper Portland conspired to destroy a previ…