Red House, Civil rights landmark in Humboldt neighborhood, Portland, US.
The Red House is a two-story red wooden house with horizontal siding on North Mississippi Avenue in Portland's Humboldt neighborhood, in the Albina district. Its front gable faces the street, with a plywood panel covering an upper opening. A porch with a dark gray shingled shed roof runs across the front; under it are a white door frame and two more plywood panels, with a wooden ladder leaning against the wall. A white sign on the lower fence reads "PRIVATE PROPERTY AND NO TRESPASSING".
The Kinney family, Black and Indigenous, owned the house for 65 years. In 2002 they mortgaged it to pay legal fees after their son William Kinney III was convicted at 17; the loan defaulted in 2016 and a non-judicial foreclosure in 2018 sold the house to a developer for $260,000 while $97,000 was owed. Sheriff's deputies evicted the family in September 2020, activists occupied the property, and a December 11 agreement removed barricades.
The house's name comes from its red horizontal siding, and the family called it "unceded territory." William Kinney III linked the foreclosure to gentrification, saying displacement follows "the same scheme—different word, different day." A white sign on the lower fence now reads "PRIVATE PROPERTY AND NO TRESPASSING."
The house is visible from the street and sits in a residential, accessible part of the neighborhood. Visitors should remember this is a private residential property and should be viewed from a distance.
The house had been in the Kinney family for 65 years when it was foreclosed in 2018; the family owed $97,000 and a developer bought it for $260,000. William Kinney III called the home "unceded territory" and argued that state and federal law held no jurisdiction over the family.
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