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Council advances several foreclosure initiations, refers four cases back to mayor's office for ongoing negotiations
Summary
Council considered a set of foreclosure-initiating ordinances; four properties were referred back to the mayor's office after negotiations were reported to be ongoing, and four others were moved to second reading for further council action.
Portland City Council on Sept. 24 considered a set of ordinance items to initiate foreclosure actions on multiple properties to collect delinquent city liens. The items were presented together; council staff and foreclosure-prevention staff provided an overview of process, redemption rights and community impact.
Christopher Hare, council operations policy analyst and staff to the finance committee, summarized that the full impact statements included budgetary and community impacts and that no verbal or written testimony had been provided prior to committee action. Kevin Foster, the city’s foreclosure prevention manager in the revenue division, and Mike Liefeld of the Property Compliance Division described the code-enforcement and lien process:…
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