Tenants United demands Portland rent freeze

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portlanders marched through the rain Downtown on Saturday, a year after the city’s declaration of a housing emergency.

Portland Tenants United organized the formal march to “demand a real response with real impact to our housing crisis.”

The rally started at city hall with protesters demanding a rent freeze, protesting large rent increases and no-cause evictions.

The Facebook event states the aim of the protest:

We cannot wait for more supply. We cannot wait for the state to act. How many more of our residents are forced to choose between rent and food, financially destabilized by rent increases and forced displacement, pushed into homelessness, or further and further out of the city (only to add to the growing traffic congestion by driving back in for work) before we say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!