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.
The effort to place a landlord-friendly loophole in our current rent control ordinance – an ordinance passed overwhelmingly by city voters – must be rejected.
In deep blue Portland, a landlord-led campaign to weaken the city’s rent control law has run up a $125,000 debt to a marketing group that has aided Republican candidates who subsequently championed Donald Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ and helped GOP officials who have engaged in what critics characterize as voter suppression. On June 13, Portland voters