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Our View: Weak enforcement makes mockery of rent control ordinance

Por: Portland Press Herald Opinion January 24, 2024

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In a rapidly changing Portland, pushed and pulled in recent years by ballot questions brought to the electorate by petition, no proposal has received more sustained backing from the city voter than the proposal to initiate and implement a system of rent control. It’s disappointing, then, to discover that the system isn’t playing out as intended. A by this newspaper Sunday collected some damning numbers in the headline: “182 complaints, 37... + full article



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