Abstract Displacement of Blacks by unprejudiced whites who are willing to live next door to people of color continues to plague African Americans who suffer disrupted neighborhoods. African Americans in Portland, Oregon in the period between 1990 and 2000, were displaced by whites who moved to Northeast Portland because of significantly lower house prices, a consistent characteristic of Black neighborhoods. Hitherto insulated from inflated house prices because of racial prejudice, African Americans developed businesses and social institutions over the decades in which they were able only to purchase homes in Portland’s Black “ghetto.” A sea change in racial attitudes has led white home seekers, for decades unwilling to move into black neighborhoods (but quick to leave neighborhoods in which Blacks moved), to buy property in what had been an overwhelmingly African American neighborhood. As whites have found bargains in Northeast Portland, many Blacks have moved to Portland’s eastern suburbs in order to find affordable housing, far from their traditional neighborhood, separated from downtown Portland only by the Willamette River.