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HREC hears accounts of dangerous rental conditions and presses city for resources and transparency
Summary
Commissioners described habitability and retaliation problems in rental housing and asked the city for more renter resources; the commission also demanded access to an internal report on an employee's allegations, and the city attorney said the report is a public record available on request at no cost.
Commissioners used the HREC roundtable Dec. 18 to raise urgent concerns about rental habitability, retaliation and limited resources for tenants in Bend.
Commissioner Ruth Vernadico described a specific building with nonworking radiators, missing grounding in electrical outlets and alleged retaliation against tenants who requested heat, saying some residents had been threatened with eviction when raising safety concerns.
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