Landlords aren’t “fatigued”, Alex. They’ve just simply figured out that these news laws and fees are an additional cost of doing business in Portland and that like other business expenses, they can just pass it along to their tenants in the form of higher rents of up to 10% increase per year. Also, don’t confuse silence for “fatigue”. Landlords have also figured out they can sell and make a tidy profit while the new owners continue on with a profit making business. And given that all these new fees and laws are suppressing needed new rental housing supply, especially affordable private market supply, real estate investments continue to hold steady. The silence isn’t landlord “fatigue”. It’s simply landlords continuing to hum along while it’s the tenants who are the ones paying the price.

I own two single family rentals, and will pass this fee along to them at lease renewal time.

This is a funny little propaganda piece. There is actually another possibility: landlords know this council is stacked against them and aren't wasting their time. We've seen from the article in the O how little respect homeowners are given, Council's disdain for landlords is a hundred times that. Who on earth wants to subject themselves to that?
So landlords have ether quit - notice all those humble single family houses being demolished all over the city? Those USED TO BE affordable rentals. We should start calling it the pre-Chloe era. OR they are playing the game and just passing this fee (and all the others) onto the tenant. Either way the tenant loses.

You seem to be suggesting that the Legislature has stopped listening to the landlord lobbyists. That's absurd. The renter protection bill won't have any serious impact, and that's a direct result of the lockdown control that landlords have over some State Senators. Renter advocates were sidelined in Salem this year, as everybody down there was well aware.

If The Mercury wants to cover this issue, try getting the facts right.