The State Agency Tasked With Monitoring Rents in Affordable Housing Failed at Two Portland Buildings Making policy is easy. Enforcing it is hard.
Tenants Find Landlords Unwilling to Take a Rental Assistance Check Designed to Get Them Through a Financial Pinch
Portland House Candidate Gets First-Ever Democratic Socialists Endorsement, Seeks to Become the First Trans Person Elected to Oregon Legislature On Sunday, June 9, Paige Kreisman announced her candidacy for the Oregon House of Representatives in District 42.
Portland Housing Activist Margot Black Returns to Tenant Leadership “I’m done apologizing,” she said, “for being a fierce, outspoken and powerful woman with a brain, opinion and voice.”
Oregon Rent Increases Will Be Capped at 7 Percent Plus Inflation, Under the Concept for a New Tenant Protections Bill A document obtained by WW shows the outlines of the legislation for tenant protections.
Housing Complex That Was Subject of $20 Million Jury Award Has a Tenants Union Demanding Action “The level of negligence and disregard here is just stunning.”
Portland Tenants Union Has Raised Nearly $3,000 for Holgate Manor’s Rent Strike A dozen tenants have so far elected not to pay rent this month over the conditions in the building.
Tenants in Southeast Portland Launch a Rent Strike, Hoping to Stay in Their Gentrifying Apartment Complex The extreme measure comes after the landlord offered cash incentives to uproot longtime residents.
A Swath of Democratic Socialists and Allied Activists Will Protest Gov. Kate Brown’s Special Session Next Week