PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Public officials could soon finalize an agreement with Black Portlanders who alleged they were displaced from an area their community once called home.

During a meeting on Thursday afternoon, Portland City Council is slated to reach a settlement involving the December 2022 lawsuit from Emanuel Displaced Persons Association 2. The association, representing 26 plaintiffs who live in the Albina district or descend from relatives who did, accused the officials of destroying Black people’s homes in the name of “urban renewal” in the mid-20th century.

About two and a half years ago, KOIN 6 reported that several residents were displaced by the construction of Interstate 5 and Veterans Memorial Coliseum in the 1950s and 1960s.

The following decade, about 188 properties w

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