Yes on A: Fix Rent Control Portland

Check out our ad in the Portland Forecaster this week. We hope you are enjoying your Memorial Day weekend!

He said rent control made it nearly impossible for landlords who renovate and upgrade a vacant property to pay for that by charging a new tenant market rent.

"Take any unit where the tenant has been there for 5 years, 10 years, you've got to go in and do work,” Vitalius said, "And with costs that have increased – for labor, for taxes, for our utilities, you cannot catch up with a 5% increase. You can't do it. So, what do we do? We start raising the rent on all our tenants every year – that’s what’s happening.”

Rent control is on the Portland ballot again in June In Question A, landlords seek to repeal cap on rent hikes between tenants