Rent Control – Bad for Landlords, Tenants, and Portland
Fair Rent Portland (“FRP”) has a proposal on this coming Tuesday’s ballot (Portland Question No. 1, not to be confused with State-wide No. 1, regarding a casino in York County), seeking to implement what it calls “rent stabilization,” a term... Read More →
Portland Adopts “Housing Insecurity Policies”
After months of policy proposals, amendments and hearings, late Monday night the Portland City Council voted unanimously to adopt the Housing Committee’s five-point plan for addressing housing insecurity in Portland. The new provisions will require some additional fine-tuning to flesh... Read More →
Pay It Forward: Bad Movie, Terrible Policy
A few clients, tenants and landlords alike, have recently come to me to deal with situations caused by the rental policy of “paying it forward” when it comes to tenants’ security deposits. It’s a policy that comes up most commonly... Read More →