Portland voters soundly reject proposal to amend rent control limits
The measure proposed that landlords would be able to increase rents as much as they desired after a voluntary vacancy.
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The measure proposed that landlords would be able to increase rents as much as they desired after a voluntary vacancy.
Question A would eliminate the 5% cap on rent increases currently allowed when an apartment turns over.
Backers of Question A, which would remove the 5% cap on rent increases when apartments turn over, have raised and spent far more than opponents headed into the June 13 election.
I am going to vote “no” on Question A. The campaign being waged by the landlord-backed Rental Housing Alliance is deceitful. This organization claims it wants to fix the rent control ordinance. What it really wants is to chip away at it, so as to render it ineffective. Now a landlord-backed group, the Committee to […]
Backers of Question A have raised and spent far more than opponents headed into the June 13 election.