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Rent Control Is Now The Law In Oregon
OPB.ORG ^ | 28 FEBRUARY 2019 | LAUREN DRAKE

Posted on 03/02/2019 7:20:49 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

Oregon is the first state in the nation with statewide rent control.

Gov. Kate Brown signed Senate Bill 608 into law Thursday. It takes effect immediately.

Brown called the legislation a groundbreaking, bold start.

“(This) will provide immediate relief to Oregonians struggling to keep up with rising rents and a tight rental market, but it doesn’t work on its own,” the governor said. “It’s going to take much more work to ensure that every Oregonian in our communities large and small have access to housing choices.”

(Excerpt) Read more at opb.org ...


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KEYWORDS: katebrown; oregon
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To: Rurudyne

“If you fled your failed state for economic opportunities in Texas, do not vote your failed state ways.”


41 posted on 03/02/2019 8:09:25 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: vette6387
I can live without an ocean.

Count your blessings. Have you been to a beach recently in one of these fascist states. Looking at the ocean without a permit is a felony

42 posted on 03/02/2019 8:11:50 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
A great example of rent-control would be soviet-bloc housing, which was substandard, communal, very small space and virtually zero privacy. The only ones with decent housing in the soviet union were party elites. In socialistic, communistic or dictatorships the only ones who enjoy a decent standard of living are those who rule - everyone else is at the mercy of the elites in those systems.

Those who fail to learn from history ......

43 posted on 03/02/2019 8:12:02 PM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: dadgum

my dtr lives there.....she talks about her and her husband moving back our way...I want to scream to her....DO IT NOW!


44 posted on 03/02/2019 8:12:20 PM PST by cherry
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To: Cen-Tejas

Even Massachusetts got rid of rent control 25 years ago.

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45 posted on 03/02/2019 8:13:40 PM PST by Mears
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To: sparklite2

Rent control in a tight rental market just means more rental housing will not be built, creating a downward spiral. This will not end well.

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It’s similar to the spiral that took down Venezuela.


46 posted on 03/02/2019 8:13:43 PM PST by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

this will do noting but price everyone except the wealthy out of Oregon ... but not my problem, i don’t live there and never will ...


47 posted on 03/02/2019 8:14:34 PM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: All

Leftists hate the concept of private property rights.


48 posted on 03/02/2019 8:15:52 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: AndyJackson

“Count your blessings. Have you been to a beach recently in one of these fascist states. Looking at the ocean without a permit is a felony”

Actually I have, since we own a second home in Carmel-by-the-Sea. Carmel Beach is wonderful and you can run your dog on it without a leash. Sunset Beach, the State Beach further south is another story. Gun-toting “rangers” who seem to relish making life miserable for the people who pay their salaries.


49 posted on 03/02/2019 8:16:47 PM PST by vette6387 (Fire Mueller)
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To: Valpal1

The Portland area is at the tip of the spear in implementing Agenda 21 / Sustainable Development.

AKA, the UN’s Communistic Plan to regulate and control every human and every human activity.


50 posted on 03/02/2019 8:16:49 PM PST by Captain7seas (UNexit. Make America Great Again!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Progressives love rent control not because it fixes problems, but because it drives minorities out of their neighborhoods. Rental properties in Oregon will convert to condos and be sold off, at high prices, disproportionally to whites. Blacks will leave the state.


51 posted on 03/02/2019 8:17:39 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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And so it begins.....


52 posted on 03/02/2019 8:19:12 PM PST by TnTnTn
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To: sparklite2
".... Rent control in a tight rental market just means more rental housing will not be built, creating a downward spiral. This will not end well...."

When the government controls anything, it gets worse.

Rent controls will end up meaning fewer rentals, not cheaper rentals.

Same thing happened in Hawaii when they placed price controls on gasoline years ago.

Instead of cheaper gas, they got less gasoline.

53 posted on 03/02/2019 8:19:38 PM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: vette6387

We visited Carmel beach in the 1970s and were informed we could not take away any seashells! Being a kid, I stuffed my pockets full of them! And so began my life of crime....


54 posted on 03/02/2019 8:25:21 PM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: LYDIAONTARIO

“We visited Carmel beach in the 1970s and were informed we could not take away any seashells! Being a kid, I stuffed my pockets full of them! And so began my life of crime....”

Well, we’ve owned a home there for 25 years and no one has ever mentioned that you could not take a sea shell Actually, the truth is there aren’t many.


55 posted on 03/02/2019 8:27:28 PM PST by vette6387 (Fire Mueller)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Rent is reality
The mortgage game is ridiculous
We’re renting. A house for 3 k thats worth 1.5 m
Pencil that
Now look we’ve got lots of experience with rent control here in California Berkeley San Fran

just going to places and probably always run into is 10 or later somebody moves out and additionally the landlords don’t want to fix anything because they’re not getting their property values

Rent control doesn’t work no longer how Marxist’s try

The mortgage game is rigged

No way a 1m $ house is worth that when me and my buddies can build for 150$k


56 posted on 03/02/2019 8:30:38 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: ladyjane
“Let them suffer.”

It is impossible for me to feel sorry for anyone that lives on the West Coast. California, Oregon, and Washington are the worst of the liberal strongholds. They will eventually go bankrupt and we all must fight the bailout from the taxpayer.
Time to start, is now, to end any Federal monies going to those states that do not enforce immigration laws. This blatant disregard for law must be punished or the cancer will spread and disorder will reign.

Every time I hear the phrase, “We are a Nation of Laws,” I want to throw up.
Horsehockey, we are a nation of scofflaws, from the government to the poorest bum in the street.

57 posted on 03/02/2019 8:31:29 PM PST by BatGuano
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To: dadgum

“Kate Brown and her fellow goddamned libs who fled California to find refuge in Oregon are destroying this state with their unicorn fart chasing ideology.

She is Cumb Dunt of the first magnitude.”

Unbelievable what these scumbag leftists are doing to this state. It’s bad enough that gov. slot licker is an illegal alien lover and pro-abort but now this. I’m out. Moving to Idaho.


58 posted on 03/02/2019 8:32:27 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

This must be tied in with illegal immigration

Oh, and people will own to keep and not rent anymore.... so there


59 posted on 03/02/2019 8:33:45 PM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
A post card to the governors's office works wonders. They hate to be mocked. It only costs 35 cents, and is appropriate for any elected official. Don't be shy, just say what you feel, telling them they are clowns, and f'''nig idiots.

Kate Brown, Office of the Governor, 160 State Capitol, 900 Court Street, Salem, OR 97301-4047. This supremely stupid woman may take the mantle as the stupidest elected official over Patty Murray, just across the state line. God help us, in the interim, mock them again and again, they hate that.

60 posted on 03/02/2019 8:34:21 PM PST by Fungi
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