2024-2025 People’s Platform

The 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We must immediately intervene to protect renters, prevent further increases in houselessness, and build a sustainable future for all.

Maintain Multnomah County’s Universal Preschool For All Program as passed by an overwhelming majority of voters in 2020 (Measure 26-214).

Community Budgeting For All 2026 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.

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.