RE: “East Portland Tenants Are Shaming Their Rent-Hiking Landlord In Front of His Neighbors” [Blogtown, Sept 8]. “East Portland tenants desperately trying to fight a looming 45 percent rent increase took a novel tack earlier this week: shaming their landlord in his own neighborhood,” wrote News Editor Dirk VanderHart. “Members of the Ash Street Tenants Association and supportive renters’ rights advocates spent Tuesday peppering Raleigh Hills homes and telephone poles with flyers taking to task local resident Landon Marsh.” Marsh bought the building, near SE 120th and Ash, in June—and “plans to charge $1,200 for a two-bedroom apartment at the complex, a $375 rent increase that many tenants say might as well be an eviction notice.”
These people got a great deal with below-market rent for years. Attacking the new owner for charging a market rate on a property is inappropriate. It is great that theMercury redacted the phone number and address, but they should have redacted his name as well.
econoline
“These people got a great deal”? These people work every day to make the owners of a shithole rich. Something’s got to be done about the obscene rent-gouging in this city, and apparently our city council can’t be bothered to do it.
Portland Tenants United has the support of this entire community—minus the greedy landlords and their clueless apologists—to take a stand against this immoral behavior.
Euphonius