Oregon becomes the first state with mandatory rent control

 “The percentage of people in the United States who are rent burdened — or, people who spend more than 30 percent of their pretax income on rent — increased about 19 percentage points from 2001 to 2015, Pew reported. Those who were “severely rent burdened,” or spend more than 50 percent of their income on rent, almost doubled between 2001 and 2015. The problem is especially significant for black households, which are far more likely to be rent burdened than white households.”

Oregon becomes the first state with mandatory rent control

“Oregon has a strong history of kind of wrestling with these hard issues and trying to take action on them.”

 

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