> The Permitting and Development bureau is exploring a code amendment to create a maximum indoor temperature standard for rental units, requiring landlords to install ACs or heat pumps in each one.

https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2025/07/ac-requirement-may-hit-rentals-in-portland.html

#portland #pdx #rent #landlords #landlordsAreParasites #rentIsExtortion #summer #heatPumps #airconditioning #oregon #rentControl #rentersRights

AC requirement may hit rentals in Portland

The proposal is still in the early planning stages and would require landlords to install air conditioners or heat pumps in rental units to maintain a maximum indoor temperature during summer heat.

oregonlive
Homeowner ends up in jail after calling police to remove squatter living inside her house

A homeowner found herself behind bars after attempting to reclaim her home from an alleged squatter.

WPEC

> โ€œI think the best way to combat corporate #landlords is to make their model less profitable,โ€ Nagy said. She said stronger tenant protections and rent stabilization laws are ways to achieve that. #Tenants may also withhold #rent when repairs arenโ€™t being made. And more tenants are speaking directly to pension funds or universities that pool their money into hedge funds and real estate investment trusts to get a profit.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/people-are-organizing-to-fight-the-private-equity-firms-who-own-their-homes/

#rentIsTheft #rentIsExtortion #landlord

People Are Organizing to Fight the Private Equity Firms Who Own Their Homes

How tenant unions are taking back power from their megalandlords.

VICE

#Landlords: Ok if i'm not a working person, then who did this?

#rentIsExtortion #eatLandlords

> a coalition headed by DSA and the Renters Action Network launched a proposal for a Renters Bill of Rightsโ€”a set of nine policy proposals designed to protect renters and boost their political power.

https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2024/08/06/47343221/advocates-say-portland-is-overdue-for-a-tenant-bill-of-rights

#rentIsExtortion #rentersRights #dsa #socialists #landlord #renting #rental #rentIsTheft #portland #pdx

Advocates say Portland is Overdue for a Tenant Bill of Rights

Over the last 10 months, following the overwhelming defeat of a ballot measure that sought to secure universal eviction representation in Portland in 2023, a group of door knockers from the Portland chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) resumed their canvassing efforts. They werenโ€™t organizing around a campaign. Instead, they were simply trying to connect with renters in lower-income, often overlooked areas of the city like East Portland to figure out what their...

Portland Mercury
Far-Left โ€œAnti-Landlordโ€ Activist Launches Address Directory Of โ€œEmptyโ€ Properties For Squatters To Seize - The Publica

Australian "anti-landlord" activists are sharing information on empty properties across the country for squatters to take over and potentially steal the deeds from their original owners. Jordie van den Berg, also known as "PurplePingers," has been posting the addresses of homes he has staked out in Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania. Van den Berg

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Been playing #cyberpunkred with some friends and the mechanic that everyone dislikes the most is rent.

In a fantasy set in a dystopian future, itโ€™s too much of a reminder of the dystopian present.

#ttrpg #RentIsExtortion