The Portland City Council’s Housing Committee voted Wednesday to increase the amount of time landlords must provide before increasing tenants’ rent. The proposal was among a package of modest proposals designed to address housing security in the city’s hot rental market. The proposals will be forwarded to the council next month. Several members of the public criticized the five-member committee for not making more meaningful changes, such as adopting rent control or establishing a moratorium on no-cause evictions. West End resident Joey Brunelle urged the committee to show “more leadership and perhaps more ambition” in its effort to protect low-income renters, who are being squeezed out of Portland’s rental market. “I am flabbergasted that this is all that’s been proposed,” Brunelle said.
Portland Council’s Housing Committee Backs Longer Notice For Rent Increases
Randy Billings, Portland Press Herald
Wed, 09/28/2016 - 6:50pm
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Topics: Maine Cumberland County Portland
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