Neighbors go about their morning walks past the protester-erected barricades, Dec. 10, 2020 at the red house on North Mississippi in Portland. Protesters erected the barricades three days ago at the home of the Kinneys, a Black and Indigenous family that has lived there for over six decades and are facing eviction.
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For three days, protesters in Portland have been in a standoff with law enforcement over an eviction effort in North Portland. Protesters have rallied against the eviction of the Kinney family, a Black and Indigenous family in the heavily gentrified neighborhood. The protest has several similarities to the Moms 4 Housing protest in Oakland last fall, when homeless mothers occupied a house in West Oakland and argued that housing is a human right. Erin Baldassari is a housing reporter for KQED, and co-host of the podcast Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America. She tells us about Moms 4 Housing, and what the protests say about the state of housing in the United States.
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