Page 3 - Eviction Representation News Today

  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments:

Measure 26-238 is on the May ballot. Portland and county leaders have spoken out against the new tax. Proponents say it will help tenants facing rising rental costs.

Evictions are surging in Multnomah County with the loss of partial pandemic protections and rising rents. Nearly four times as many eviction cases were filed in January 2023 as in

As eviction rates surge, Multnomah County voters will consider guaranteeing legal representation for tenants.

A right to counsel in eviction cases exerts an outsize impact as an intervention in housing injustice.

In March 2021, Greg’s landlord casually informed him that he needed to move into the duplex apartment currently occupied by Greg and his girlfriend—and that the couple had to leave immediately. For Greg, who asked the Mercury to not print his real name out of fear of retribution, this news was both unexpected and startling. “I thought, ‘Isn’t there an eviction moratorium? Don’t we have some kind of protections?’” Greg recalled. After digging into l...