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On May 6, 2025, this blogger reported herein an audit from the Portland Tenants Union (PTU) surveying 240 rental listings and reporting “persuasive noncompliance” by many with city regulations – validating years of anecdotal complaints from Portland tenants.

The following is a response to that audit from the city’s spokeswoman received by mhn.com on May 14, 2025:

“Staff has started to go through the audit to verify the units listed in that report, but that work is not complete yet.  They have been steadily going through the list and putting them in different buckets:  ones that are already registered, ones that we already have an active enforcement case on, ones that are exempt, and ones that are not a valid violation.  So far we are at 70 that fall into those categories, which leaves 76 more to go through.  Staff is cotinuing to work through that list and will have it complete soon.

A couple examples of why there are units that actually are in compliance is because the official address is different than the physical or advertised address and some are due to a change in ownership.

Staff will be giving a presentation to the Council at a workshop on June 9 that details their full work enforcing rent control and rental registration.  So we’ll have more to offer at that time,” said city spokeswoman Jessica Grondin.