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PMPC 2024-2025 Candidate Questionnaire
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I am a candidate in the November 2024 election, and I pledge to support the entire Portland-Metro People’s Coalition 2024-2025 People’s Platform as outlined below.
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Right to Rest Ordinance. Prohibits discrimination in public spaces based on housing status. This ordinance protects unhoused people's right to protect themselves from the elements. Criminalizing necessary life-sustaining activities like sitting, lying, resting or eating in public when someone has nowhere else to do these things further entrenches people in houselessness. Ending the criminalization of houseless people is an essential component of ending houselessness in our communities.
Led by Sisters of the Road, Right 2 Survive, Hygiene4All
Friends of Portland Street Response Ordinance. Affirm the intent, structure, and independence of Portland Street Response, including full funding, staffing, resourcing, and culturally responsive materials and outreach for expanded 24/7 citywide coverage of this groundbreaking and lifesaving program in every budget cycle and determine a path forward for the program’s status as a co-equal branch of the first responder network. 

Portland Police Accountability. After Portland voters approved Measure 26-217, the Police Accountability Commission (PAC) spent 20 months researching and reviewing practices from around the country to develop a comprehensive plan for the new Community Board for Police Accountability (CBPA). In light of City Council’s decision to discard the majority of the PAC’s recommendations, we demand these key recommendations be adopted: Full investigative authority over ALL police misconduct complaints; removal of law enforcement representatives from the CBPA nominating committee to ensure genuine independence; elimination of problematic “anti-bias” language added by the City that could exclude individuals with lived experience from serving on the board; implementation of continuous improvement mechanisms, including systemic findings and regular reviews of PPB; restoration of community members’ right to appeal findings in misconduct cases. 
Led by a network of community groups, including the PMPC

Jewish Voice for Peace Portland. Jews, Palestinians, and passionate advocates of all faiths, ethnicities and backgrounds in Portland are working together to elevate the City’s collective voice and support the national cries for peace and an immediate end to the occupation of Palestine. We propose that the Portland City Council divest from Israel Bonds and companies that profit from the occupation. We also propose that the Council consider and pass a resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.
Tenant Protection Ordinance (TPO). Over the last few years tenants have won protections, including Portland’s relocation ordinance, the FAIR ordinance, and state legislation that banned most no-cause evictions and put a cap on rent increases. While these protections are crucial for supporting stability and livability for tenants, they also result in landlords adopting strategies to push tenants to "self-evict" so they can raise rents or retaliate against tenants who assert their rights. This Ordinance addresses the growing crisis of landlord harassment and constructive evictions by creating an explicit list of landlord actions that count as harassment and demanding a robust Rental Services Office that can support tenants in addressing housing issues. 
Rental Services Office. Low-income and other vulnerable renters who live in a perpetual state of housing insecurity have no real recourse when their landlords exploit their vulnerabilities through implicit and explicit intimidation and harassment. Landlords know when a tenant has limited options, and they take advantage of this powerlessness by acting with impunity. Vulnerable tenants are extremely reluctant to use the court system, go to the press, or otherwise try to assert their rights because they rightfully worry that they could lose their housing, or that it will impact their ability to find housing in the future. We must enact robust protections to protect tenants from bullying, harassment, and intimidation! 
Renters’ Bill of Rights. To protect renters and prevent increasing houselessness, we must require 6 months notice before all rent increases; mandate relocation assistance when rent increases more than 5%; protect children and education workers from evictions for late rent during the school year; protect renters from evictions for late rent during extreme weather events; cap fees such as "pet rent," late fees, laundry fees, and other excessive charges and deposits; require that code violations be resolved before rent can be increased; establish a right to counsel in eviction court – no tenant should go to court without legal defense provided; demand that local rent control be allowed throughout Oregon; and link rent to the minimum wage such that all full-time workers can afford a one-bedroom apartment with no more than 30% of their income. 

Maintain Multnomah County's Universal Preschool for All Program as passed by an overwhelming majority of voters in 2020. Carry out the will of the voters to create a universal free preschool program for every 3- and 4-year-old by 2030 that any household can access regardless of income; retain the tax that was resoundingly approved by a 2-to-1 margin of County voters; reject any further delay in fully funding Preschool for All; base decisions on what Preschool for All needs to succeed on input from program staff and other early childhood education experts — not anti-tax business lobbyists with little interest in the early childhood landscape. 
Led by the Universal Preschool NOW! Coalition and Portland DSA

Community Budgeting For All 2026. Initiative petition would send a charter amendment to the voters that would require the City to implement a process wherein all Portland residents would have the opportunity to decide how to spend a specified percentage of the City’s general fund discretionary budget through a participatory budgeting (PB) process implemented in the new City Council districts. The new, charter-mandated PB process would give all Portlanders — including groups that face the greatest barriers to influencing government decisions — greater voice and vote over how City funds are spent and, thereby, foster more equitable, trustworthy, responsive and accountable City government. 
Municipal Bank. This ordinance establishes a city-owned Municipal Public Bank that keeps our money in Portland, investing in the things we need, and creates new non-tax revenues for our public treasury in the process. Our municipal bank’s mission is to serve the interest of the people of Portland to create healthy, secure communities through affordable housing, low-cost student loans, small business lending and greatly reducing the cost of public infrastructure. The municipal bank would partner with already existing community banks and credit unions. A public bank could help end the cycle of more debt, more taxes, and cutting of public services. We also support a bill in the Oregon State Legislature that would enable municipalities in Oregon to form public banks; this is a necessary step toward forming a Portland Public Bank.
Community Broadband PDX. Seeks to create a publicly-owned and -operated fiber optic broadband internet utility—built to serve our community. Municipal Broadband will protect Net Neutrality, provide gigabit speeds at lower cost than current large monopolistic internet service providers, and will create a modern infrastructure that will provide technical and economic benefits to Portland Metro residents and businesses for decades. The buildout of the fiber optic network and operation of the internet utility will create family-wage jobs and generate economic opportunities for marginalized and under-resourced communities, including communities of color—and subsidized broadband will help close the current gap of the 30% of low-income households without broadband. 
CEI Hub. ​In this six-mile stretch of industrial-zoned properties along the lower Willamette River, flammable, combustible and toxic materials are transported and stored on unstable soils in a dangerous seismic zone, a wildland-urban interface fire zone, and railroad corridor. An accident in the CEI Hub would prove catastrophic to local ecological and social systems, and have economic consequences statewide. These materials should not be transported or stored on unstable soil. The City should hold public hearings on these dangers and how to deal with them; work with impacted communities and county, regional, state, federal and tribal governments to create prevention and risk-mitigation measures; provide disaster preparedness first-responder and public education programs with an equity lens; and create three overlay zones in sensitive industrial areas with additional land-use regulations that protect the environment and public health. 
Community Benefits Agreement CBA for the Willamette River Superfund Clean-Up. The City, Metro, Port of Portland, and other responsible parties shall adopt a CBA that will be developed by communities disproportionately impacted by Portland Harbor toxins, who will sign onto the legal agreement with agencies. Impacted communities include Native Americans, Black/African American, Immigrants, Refugees, and Houseless. The CBA will have benefits and standards for impacted communities, including: Construction (Cleanup & Restoration), including contracting (standards-created pre-bid process and enforced to all sub-contractors via CBA) and workforce (All contractors and sub-contractors will be binded via CBA); Public Access, Land Ownership, and Stewardship, including public access, land ownership, stewardship of wetlands; Health Awareness and Health Policy, including Health Awareness, Education, and Outreach; Community Health Funding and Health Policy Recommendations; Recreation; Pollution Control, Disposal, and Transportation; Ongoing Oversight of Water, Air, and River Sediment Toxins, including community stakeholders in leadership; Future Economic/Housing Development; and Community Grants and Endowment.
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