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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2020
Most Oregonians paying
rent on time amid virus
conducted by Apartment
List, however, found that
31% of renters failed to make
complete on-time rental pay-
ments in the fi rst week of
October.
Renters in Class C apart-
ments, generally occupied
by low-to-moderate income
residents, have had a harder
time keeping up with their
rental payments. Only 72%
of renters in Class C units
made full or partial rental
payments by Oct. 6 as com-
pared to roughly 84% of rent-
ers in Class A and Class B
units, according to RealPage.
Gov.
Kate
Brown
announced at the end of Sep-
tember that she was extend-
ing the state’s residential
eviction ban through the end
of the year, citing the impacts
of the coronavirus pandemic
and wildfi res throughout the
state. Her announcement
came days after Multnomah
County extended its own
eviction moratorium to Jan.
8.
In
September,
the
Trump Administration also
announced a moratorium on
evictions through the end of
the year.
But renters in Oregon
and nationwide will still be
required to pay accumulated
back-rent when moratori-
ums expire, unless federal,
state or local governments
establish additional protec-
tions. That could lead to a
massive increase in evictions
next year. In Oregon, renters
will have six months to repay
missed payments after the
moratorium ends.
Doug Bibby, president
of the National Multifamily
Housing Council, said that
additional federal relief legis-
lation is needed to help rent-
ers and landlords. Congress
has been unable to come to
an agreement on new relief
legislation that could rein-
state enhanced unemploy-
ment benefi ts or provide
direct support to Americans
impacted by the pandemic.
“Policymakers need to act
now to forestall the health
and fi nancial crises we are
already grappling with from
evolving into a housing cri-
sis which would undermine
the economic recovery and
destabilize the country’s
housing market,” Bibby said
in a statement.
By JAMIE GOLDBERG
The Oregonian
The Oregonian photos
Protesters toppled a statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt in Portland’s South Park Block on Sunday night.
Protesters topple Lincoln,
Roosevelt statues in Portland
By JIM RYAN and
SHANE DIXON
KAVANAUGH
The Oregonian
Protesters toppled two
statues of former presidents
Sunday night in downtown
Portland, drawing the ire of
the current commander in
chief and marking the lat-
est such fi gures to be brought
down amid demonstrations
against racial injustice.
The protesters felled stat-
ues of Theodore Roosevelt
and Abraham Lincoln. They
also shattered the entrance to
the Oregon Historical Soci-
ety, broke windows and
destroyed a sign at the Port-
land State University Campus
Public Safety offi ce, smashed
storefronts and caused other
destruction. Police were not
visibly present while the
statues fell but eventually
fl ooded the area and arrested
three people.
President Donald Trump
sounded off about the event,
which was declared a riot, in
a series of tweets Monday
morning.
One of Trump’s social
media messages, which
included a video of the Roo-
sevelt statue, referred to dem-
onstrators as “animals.”
Another stated: “call in the
Feds!” — an apparent ref-
erence to Trump’s desire for
federal intervention in Port-
land protests.
The statues were toppled
during an event billed as an
“Indigenous Peoples Day of
Rage,” which came ahead of
Monday’s federally observed
holiday of Columbus Day.
Many states and cities now
recognize the day instead
as Indigenous Peoples Day
over concerns that Christo-
pher Columbus’ arrival in
the Americas helped launch
centuries of violence against
indigenous populations.
Roosevelt, for exam-
ple, later expressed hostil-
ity toward Native Americans,
according to an Indian Coun-
try Today account of his atti-
tudes and policies.
Protesters took down a statue of former President Abraham Lincoln in Portland’s South Park
Block on Sunday night.
He pushed policies that
promoted assimilation into
white culture including the
allotment system, by which
Native American land was
given to those who became
U.S. citizens and the remain-
der was made available to
white settlers. The policy
also weakened tribal govern-
ments — an effect reportedly
cheered by Roosevelt.
Spray-painted on the
base of Lincoln’s statue was
“Dakota 38,” a reference to
38 Dakota men executed after
the Dakota-U.S. War of 1862
in the largest mass execution
in a single day in American
history. Lincoln commuted
the same sentence, handed
down by a military tribunal,
for 265 others.
Protesters nationwide have
targeted statues as symbols of
longstanding oppression —
most notably the statues of
Confederate leaders that still
stood across the South —
during racial justice protests
touched off by the Minneap-
olis police killing of George
Floyd in late May.
Portland protesters have
felled two other statues of
former presidents: one of
Thomas Jefferson, who
enslaved more than 600 peo-
ple during his lifetime, and
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another of George Washing-
ton, who was also an owner
of enslaved people.
Portland Police Chief
Chuck Lovell said several
windows were broken at the
Oregon Historical Society
and that at least three lit fl ares
were thrown inside.
Kerry Tymchuk, the his-
torical society’s execu-
tive director, said the fl ares
caused little, if any, damage.
The society’s collection and
exhibits are safe.
A “priceless” African
American heritage bicenten-
nial quilt was taken, Tymchuk
said, but police found it sev-
eral blocks away. The quilt
was wet, but Tymchuk hopes
it can be displayed again.
Portland State’s Campus
Public Safety offi ce sustained
shattered windows and dam-
age to its front door, according
to university spokeswoman
Christina Williams. No one
was hurt, and the damage was
cleaned up Monday.
Shots were also fi red
through a restaurant window,
Lovell said, and two bullets
became lodged in the back of
the business, which he didn’t
identify.
Windows were also bro-
ken at other restaurants, a
jewelry store, a bank and a
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coffee shop, Lovell said.
A shooting was also
reported in southeast Portland
during the protest, Lovell
said, and police were redi-
rected from downtown to
deal with the incident. The
suspect fl ed on foot and was
ultimately taken into custody.
Oregonian writer Kale
Williams contributed to this
report.
The bulk of Oregon ten-
ants once again paid their rent
on time in October, but debt
is piling up for those who are
struggling to keep up during
the coronavirus pandemic.
Last month, the Port-
land Housing Bureau esti-
mated that Portland rent-
ers would have collectively
fallen behind on rent by over
$120 million by the end of
September.
Multnomah County, the
state of Oregon and the fed-
eral government have all
adopted eviction moratori-
ums to prevent people from
losing their homes if they
can’t pay rent. But none of
those measures include rent
forgiveness, which means
renters still owe the money
and may be expected to pay
it when the moratoriums
expire.
The vast majority of rent-
ers aren’t in that situation yet.
According to data compiled
by RealPage, a company that
provides property manage-
ment software, 87% of rent-
ers in Oregon and 85% of
renters in the Portland area
made full or partial rental
payments by Oct. 6.
Those numbers are down
roughly 5 percentage points
from the same date last year
when about 92% of Ore-
gon and Portland renters had
made full or partial rental
payments.
Data compiled by Mul-
tifamily NW, a rental indus-
try group whose members
include landlords and prop-
erty managers, shows that
between 12% and 15% of
renters in Oregon have been
unable to keep up with their
rental payments during the
pandemic.
Nationwide, more than
79% of renters made a full
or partial rental payment on
time in October, the same
percentage who paid their
rent on time a year earlier,
according to a nationwide
survey of 11.4 million pro-
fessionally managed apart-
ment units conducted by the
National Multifamily Hous-
ing Council, a trade orga-
nization representing apart-
ment owners.
A separate survey of
4,000 renters nationwide
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63 50
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Rain tapering Cloudy, showers
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around
Sunny
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Periods of sun
A shower
possible
65 49
58 46
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Aberdeen
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Wenatchee
Tacoma
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Lake
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Tonight’s Sky: Tuesday, before
sunrise, waning crescent moon
near Venus.
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High/low ................................ 60/51
Normal high/low .................. 62/45
Record high .................. 78 in 1987
Record low .................... 32 in 2008
Precipitation
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Month to date ........................ 2.10”
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Cape Disappointment
11:13 a.m. 7.0 4:24 a.m.
10:57 p.m. 7.4 4:50 p.m.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Sunrise today .................. 7:30 a.m.
Sunset tonight ............... 6:32 p.m.
Moonrise today .............. 3:08 a.m.
Moonset today .............. 5:32 p.m.
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Warrenton
11:32 a.m. 7.5 4:58 a.m.
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Knappa
12:14 p.m. 7.3 6:15 a.m.
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Boston
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Enterprise
Pendleton 58/37
67/46
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La Grande
61/40
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64/45 Lewiston
71/48
63/47
Salem
Pullman
65/38
Longview
63/50 Portland
64/49
58/39
Yakima 65/44
60/44
Astoria
Spokane
56/44
Corvallis
64/44
Albany
63/44
John Day
Eugene
Bend
64/46
65/37
67/41
Ontario
66/46
Caldwell
Burns
68/33
72/47
Medford
73/49
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69/39
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