RENT REVOLUTION
RE: “Pricing Out Portland’s Artists” [Feature, May 27], regarding high rents and development pushing creatives out of the city.
If we don’t stem the high rent in PDX, it will become as bland as a retirement village. Developers are sucking the life out of our historical neighborhoods. But it’s not just artists being pushed out, it’s singles, young families, the elderly—the core of residents who provide the joy of being here.
The city needs to establish landlord guidelines—and landlords need to be accountable to tenant rights. But everyone turns a blind eye…
- EVAN HUGHES