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Tenants Union Fights Landlord at Rent Board Meeting
On Wednesday night, the Trelawny Tenants’ Union fought the Rent Board’s previous decision on a tax...
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Socialists can walk and chew gum.
Portland City Councilor Kate Sykes talks about where she came from and where she sees the city going.
Maine Mural – Blueberry Fields Cooperative, Pt. 1
Recently, residents of Linnhaven Mobile Home Park in Brunswick formed the Blueberry Fields...
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Socialists can walk and chew gum.
Portland City Councilor Kate Sykes talks about where she came from and where she sees the city going.
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Demystifying Rent Control: Portland’s Tenant Protections
For the second time this year, a coalition of landlords are attempting to undermine rent control...
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Astroturfing 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.
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Why We Must Pass Question B: A Tenant’s Story
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
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.
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