Lizz Fouther-Branch, 73, still remembers the Northeast Portland home that her family lived in when she was four years old.

It was two stories tall, she said, and had been subdivided into a duplex with her family living on the ground floor. And her community was close by — her great-aunt, who was like a grandmother to her, lived only a block away.

But that all changed when the Portland Development Commission declared eminent domain on her entire neighborhood in the mid-1950s, forcing her family and many others to move. Their homes were razed and the lots taken over to build Emanuel Hospital, which is now the Legacy Emanuel Medical Center. Her family had no choice but to move a mile north, and the days of being within walking distance of her great-aunt were over.

Almost 70 years later, th

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