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PopularTenants Union Fights Landlord at Rent Board Meeting
by Sampson Spadafore | Jan 28, 2022 | News, Reports
On Wednesday night, the Trelawny Tenants’ Union fought the Rent Board’s previous decision on a tax...
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LatestDemystifying Rent Control: Portland’s Tenant Protections
by Austin Sims | Oct 3, 2023 | Editorials, Podcast, Reports
For the second time this year, a coalition of landlords are attempting to undermine rent control...
Maine allocates $20 million for green housing construction
by Kate Sykes | Aug 4, 2021 | News, Reports
Socialists can walk and chew gum.
by Todd Chretien | Feb 23, 2024 | News
Portland City Councilor Kate Sykes talks about where she came from and where she sees the city going.
Read MoreDemystifying Rent Control: Portland’s Tenant Protections
by Austin Sims | Oct 3, 2023 | Editorials, Podcast, Reports
For the second time this year, a coalition of landlords are attempting to undermine rent control...
Read MoreAstroturfing is alive and well, even in winter
Landlords have brought forth a new referendum in Portland to allow unlimited rent increases when units turn over. This is a summary of how that would work and who is funding this political retaliation against successful tenant organizing.
Read MoreWhy We Must Pass Question B: A Tenant’s Story
by Erica Snyder-Drummond | Oct 28, 2022 | Opinion
The true story of a Portlander who had to leave the neighborhood they called home when their old apartment was converted to a short-term rental.
After weeks of searching while living with their partner, they managed to find a cramped one-bedroom apartment across town while their former home sits mostly vacant. Question B is out best shot at reducing housing insecurity in Portland.
Announcing the Maine DSA Campaign for a Livable Portland
by Maine DSA Local Campaign Committee | Jun 2, 2022 | News
Maine DSA’s Campaign for a Livable Portland filed paperwork with the City of Portland to pursue four citizen initiatives for November 2022. These referenda are a bid to make the city that we love and reside in livable: not only for business owners, not only for landlords, developers, and seasonal residents, not only for the 1%, not only for tourists. Portland must be livable for Portland’s workers, Portland’s tenants, Portland’s families and Portland’s most vulnerable— the entire working class that calls Portland home.
Read MoreTenants Union Fights Landlord at Rent Board Meeting
by Sampson Spadafore | Jan 28, 2022 | News, Reports
On Wednesday night, the Trelawny Tenants’ Union fought the Rent Board’s previous decision on a tax...
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