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Tigard residents urge council to advance renter protections, ask for workshop on proposed policy
Summary
Several members of St. Anthony Parish's housing justice team told the Tigard City Council about mold, delayed repairs and harassment in rental housing and asked the council to reactivate local preliminary rental-improvement policy (PRI) work and hold a workshop with affected tenants.
Several Tigard residents and members of Saint Anthony Catholic Church’s housing justice team told the Tigard City Council on multiple public-comment turns that unsafe rental conditions, delayed repairs and landlord harassment are worsening and asked the council to restart local work on tenant protections.
The requests were presented by Cynthia Hernandez Rojas, Jim Awe, Cecilia Bolton (in Spanish with translation), Cindy White, Dee Hutchins and April Lacombe. ‘‘We want Tigard to be an exemplary place to live,’’ Cindy White said, asking the council to “reconsider and activate the preliminary policy approach already begun almost three years ago for living conditions.”
The petitioners described a pattern of delayed maintenance and what speakers characterized as…
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