Portland renters will get the chance Wednesday to tell city officials how difficult it can be to find housing in a city where vacancies are scare and where increasing rents and stagnant wages have led to a growing affordability gap. The City Council’s Housing Committee, a five-member panel tasked with finding ways to increase housing supply in the city, is inviting tenants to testify about the market and about ideas to make the city’s housing more affordable.
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