The owner of the apartment building near the North Portland home that served as flashpoint late last year in the gentrification and racial justice movement has sued the owners of the empty lot next to the house. Ken Vonderach’s lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that the lot is a nuisance that has been transformed into a “major homeless encampment and staging ground for people to trespass” on .
Portland investor still aims to sell ‘red house’ back to Kinneys, but says bigger societal issues remain ‘about mortgages and laws and law enforcement’
Updated Dec 20, 2020;
Posted Dec 20, 2020
A Monday morning look inside the blocks-long stretch that includes the red house. Sentries guarding the south end of the area say the streets, still blocked, will be opened by 6 p.m. Monday night. December 14, 2020Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian
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Since they came to this country years ago, Ukrainian-born brothers Roman and Edward Ozeruga have lived the American dream.
While still in their teens, Roman got his contractor’s license and Edward, a real estate license. They learned the arcane details of land-use laws and building codes and by their 20s, were buying real estate.
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The owners of a home in Portland that has become another flashpoint between police and Antifa demonstrators protesting racism and gentrification stopped making loan payments while claiming to be citizens of a country they invented.
The small red house on North Mississippi Avenue has been in the Kinney family for 65 years and has been the site of protests since September, when authorities tried to evict them after the mortgage lapsed. An activist group that organized an eviction blockade that prevented access to the home has since reached an agreement with Mayor Ted Wheeler, it said over the weekend.