Contact PTU:

info@pdxtu.org

Or send us a private message on Facebook or Twitter

***PTU is an all-volunteer union.  We will try to respond to your message as quickly as possible, especially if you and others in your building are trying to form a union and fight for your rights.  We DO NOT give legal advice and DO NOT have any money to help pay your rent.  If you have general questions about your rights as a tenant or need legal help or rent assistance, please contact the resources below***

Other Resources:

COVID specific

• The CDC has issues a national eviction moratorium effective until the end of 2020.
  • To qualify you need to fill out a deceleration form and mail it to your landlord.
  • The National Low Income Housing Coalition put together this very handy info sheet about the moratorium.
• OregonLawHelp.org has a page dedicated to housing protection during COVID-19
  • This includes a 3 page PDF explaining the current state of the eviction moratorium in Oregon

Tenant Rights Information

• oregonlawhelp.org - Detailed, understandable, and accurate information about landlord-tenant law
  • Legal Aid booklet - a run down from Legal Services of Landlord Tenant Law in Oregon
• ORS 90 - The Oregon Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, contains most important statewide landlord-tenant law
• Portland Rental Services Office: (503) 823-1303 or RentalServices@portlandoregon.gov
• Community Alliance of Tenants Renters Rights Hotline: (503) 288-0130 
  • Specifically check out their CAT's Know Your Rights information
• Manufactured Communities Resource Center: (503) 986-2145 or mcrc@oregon.gov
• PDX Renters Unite! - Facebook group where you can share your stories with fellow renters, many of whom have gone through the same things

Free or Low-Cost Legal Help

• Legal Aid Services of Oregon: (503) 224-4086     [Only serves low-income clients]
• Portland Defender: (503) 592-0606 or troy@portlanddefender.com [Pro bono]
• Community Law Project: (503) 208-4079 or info@communitylawproject.org [Reduced rates for lower-income]
• Oregon State Bar Modest Means Program: (503) 684-3763 or LegalHelp@oregonstatebar.org [Sliding scale]
• Fair Housing Council of Oregon:  (503) 223-8197
• Disability Rights Oregon: (503) 243-2081
• Don't Shoot PDX Community Legal Referral Services: contact@dontshootpdx.org or message them on Facebook
• Neighborhood Mediation Program: (503) 595-4890    [Helps to resolve landlord-tenant issues without going to court]

City and County Inspectors - They can force your landlord to make repairs

• Portland Neighborhood Inspections Program: (503) 823-2633
  • For help addressing rats, vermin and pest infestations, contact Multnomah County Vector Control at (503) 988-3464
• Multnomah County Environmental Health:  (503) 988-3464
  • The cities of Gresham and Wood Village have their own rental inspection programs.  Cities with (more limited) residential  code enforcement programs include Fairview and Troutdale.
• Clackamas County Code Enforcement: (503) 742-4452 or CodeEnforcement@clackamas.us 
  • Cities with (more limited) residential code enforcement programs include Lake Oswego, Milwaukie, Happy Valley, Gladstone, and Oregon City.
• Washington County Code Compliance: (503) 846-4875 or PDSCodeCompliance@co.washington.or.us 
  • Tenant mold hotline for Washington County is (503) 648-7723
  • The cities of Tigard and Tualatin have their own rental inspection programs.  Cities with (more limited) residential code enforcement programs include Sherwood, Beaverton, Hillsboro and Forest Grove.

Housing and Rent Assistance

• Call 211 for a regularly updated list of available housing and rent assistance. 
• You can also sometimes find cheap housing through Facebook groups like Portland OR Housing, Portland Housing/Roommates/Sublets/Roomster, Portland Queer Housing, Portland Area Transgender and Queer Safer Housing, or Portland Disabled Housing Network

Other Local Tenant Unions 

PTU operates throughout the Portland Metro area.  Check out some of these groups operating on different scales:

• North Portland Tenants Collective: nopotenantscollective@gmail.com
• Living Cully's Cully Housing Action Team: (503) 489-8334 or cameronh@livingcully.org
• Green Lents' Lents Strong Housing Team: (971) 319-0444 or LentsStrong@gmail.com
• Oregon Renters in Action (formerly SE Portland Renters in Action): 503-995-0250 or tenants@oregonrentersinaction.com
• Monmouth-Independence Tenants Union: mitenantsunion@gmail.com 
• Tenants United Corvallis: tenantsunited@riseup.net 
• Springfield-Eugene Tenant Association: 541-972-3715 
• Southern Oregon Tenants Union: (541) 708-3576 
• Residents Organizing for Change: rgillet@neighborhoodpartnerships.org [Statewide affordable housing tenants union]
• Community Alliance of Tenants: (503) 288-0130  [Statewide organization]
• Manufactured Housing/Oregon State Tenants Association: 1-800-423-9371 [Statewide mobile home park union]
• Tenants Union of Washington State: (206) 723-0500 [If you're just across the border in Vancouver, WA]
• Homes For All: (646) 360-5800 or info@homesforall.org   [Nationwide coalition of tenant unions]
• Right 2 Survive: (503) 839-9992 or right2survivesmg@gmail.com [Because our houseless neighbors need a union, too]