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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: SB 1182 - The New Racism
Description: The Oregon legislature is about to pass Senate Bill 1182, which would authorize the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) to give away the half-billion dollar, four-acre, I-5 lid over the Rose Quarterâplus all property and development rights and contractsâto a single black-owned nonprofit, the Albina Vision Trust or AVT.ODOTâs Design Summary for the cover states that a âBlack-led, community development corporationâ would control the property and development. AVTâs leader states that âthe Black community should be able to have both the land on the freeway caps and the jobs that come with building them.âT...