Protesters walk along a steel fence as federal officers launch tear gas during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Sunday, July 26, 2020, in Portland, Ore. (Marcio Jose Sanchez / The Associated Press)
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Erika Cherry and her husband Andre, have threatened to sue Seattle’s Department of Construction and Inspections for demanding they pay $11,000 to the city’s affordable housing fund to renovate their 650-square-foot home in the Highland Park neighborhood, the most diverse in the city. The neighborhood was one of those that was upzoned as part of the 2019 Mandatory Housing Affordability plan. The case is one example of how recent MHA upzoning, touted by some as a cure to housing discrimination, can disadvantage Black homeowners by making it harder for Black families to hold on to property in formerly-redlined neighborhoods, experts say. Katherine Khashimova Long story 214585

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Federal officers prepare for a possible skirmish with protesters at the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse early Saturday, July 25, 2020, in Portland, Ore. On the streets of Portland, a strange armed conflict unfolds night after night. It is raw, frightening and painful on both sides of an iron fence separating the protesters on the outside and federal agents guarding a courthouse inside. This weekend, journalists for The Associated Press spent the weekend both outside, with the protesters, and inside the courthouse, with the federal agents, documenting the fight that has become an unlikely centerpiece of the protest movement gripping America. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

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