The Oregonian has coverage up today about the Restorative Listening Project in Portland, Ore. 

The project allows blacks and whites to discuss and vent on the issue of gentrification.  Based on the principles of similar projects that followed the Holocaust and apartheid, the project aims at getting Portlanders more comfortable discussing the issue, and perhaps aiding in resolution.

On the newspaper's Web site, you can hear 16 Portlanders--some black, some white, one Native American--discuss how the gentrification of Northeast Portland (the hub of Portland's black community) has affected them.

Results are personal and profound. Blacks are getting past their anger to talk about their pain. Whites are getting past their political correctness to admit their confusion. Some leave frustrated. Others experience relief. All can gain insight.