The Greenwashing of a Portland Highway Expansion

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By Angie SchmittMay 16, 2018, 5:25 pm378 pts
The construction of Interstate 5 in northeast Portland in the 1960s was a classic urban renewal catastrophe. To make room for this highway, the state of Oregon bulldozed hundreds of homes in Albina, a majority black neighborhood, paying owners as little as $50 apiece. The neighborhood was never the same. In…

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