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September 21, 2022
Rent Cap Increase
for Oregon Renters
Continued from Front
justified. The leading cause of the home-
lessness that we see throughout the state
is the rising cost of housing, and the lack
of affordable housing leading to evictions.
Having a job is no longer an indicator of
your ability to remain housed.”
JOIN is a homeless services agen-
cy helping families avoid homelessness
and get stable in housing after life on the
streets. Katrina Holland who is the Execu-
tive Director of JOIN says “More families
falling into new homelessness due to evic-
tions or rent increases will be stretching
our homelessness response system beyond
its already burdened capacity. What we
see with homelessness now is nothing like
what it could become. These conditions af-
fect not only our ability to say yes to folks
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looking for rent assistance, but also how
many people we can say yes to. Rent assis-
tance only goes so far for so many as rents
continue to increase.”
The Oregon Law Center advises if you
applied for rent assistance before July 1,
2022 and haven’t received it, you should
contact the agency they applied through to
see if they need anything else from you to
speed up the application. If your landlord
takes you to eviction court, contact the Or-
egon Law Center Eviction Defense Project
at 888-585-9638.
Stable Homes for Oregon Families is
a coalition of housing advocates, labor
unions, education and health professionals,
businesses, and citizens who believe in the
stability of home. They are a diverse coa-
lition of people and organizations that rec-
ognize Oregon's opportunity to help solve
the housing crisis and secure our future.