Quality Rental Housing Work Group

Landlords, tenants, and public health advocates build historic consensus

Ensuring safe and healthy rental housing is a perennial challenge because a few bad actors among both landlords and tenants can cause dramatic problems for everyone. Working together intensively, the work group appointed by Portland’s City Council systematically addressed the fundamental issues and forged a comprehensive agreement.

• Achieved full consensus on health and safety standards, education campaign, inspection process, fine schedule, and funding, including a per-unit fee supported by landlords.
• Unlike most public task forces, this work group reached out to city agencies and built a consensus that included them too

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