LIKE SO many Portland renters these days, Suzana Levy and her partner Erika Guynes received a no-cause eviction notice recently.
“The first thing the landlords told us was, ‘You haven’t done anything wrong,'” Levy says. “They said, ‘You’re great tenants.'”
The house is owned by Holladay Park Plaza, a nonprofit retirement community in the Sullivan’s Gulch neighborhood of Northeast Portland, and sits in a lot adjacent to Holladay Park on NE Clackamas. The nonprofit wants to expand, and plans to demolish the 105-year-old home, build a new facility for its residents, and add more parking.
“I’m scared. In this rental market, it’s going to be hard to find something in our neighborhood,” Levy says. “But I’m trying to use this as an opportunity to make a stand for affordable housing.”
The risky part? Levy’s banking on her fellow Portlanders to make that stand with her. She’s hoping you’ll help move her house.