Aquiles Montas (running for Commissioner position 2)

Should policies be adopted to ensure every neighborhood in Portland welcomes more neighbors, through smaller, denser, lower-cost housing options like smallplexes, cottage clusters, and small-to-moderate-sized apartment complexes, via both the nonprofit and private markets?

I am against apartment sized complexes. no more home tare downs. I want to save our neighborhoods. No more multi level units. no more than 4 plex.

Should Portland expand transit-oriented development (allowing apartment complexes by-right within a short walk of all major transit lines) as a way to discourage the use of single-occupancy vehicles and reduce our city’s carbon emissions?

No. People still will have cars making it worse for street parking. Apartments should be required to have one parking space for each unit underground.

Should neighborhood associations have less, as much, or more power than other community organizations when it comes to questions of housing, such as whether new apartments or homeless shelters are permitted in a given neighborhood?

More power. They know day to day the impacts of new apartments with no parking that brings more cars to their streets. also should have restrictions on where the apartments should be located. for example: only on main artery streets such as: Interestate, 82nd, Barbur

Should Portland dedicate less, as much, or more money to regulated affordable housing? (If you answered "more money," what funding mechanism(s) would you pursue to build this additional housing?)

As much money. Problem is whats affordable to them is not real. Portland need to build own public housing in order to be at the level of low income-fixed people. 

Money is already there. they are misused by giving it to developers in form of subsidy. so its not that they need more money like what metro wants to do. 250 million per year for 10 years. dont think so. we are already over tax.

Would you support a citywide moratorium on evictions during the three coldest months of the year, as Seattle recently adopted?

No. No. we need to look at the root, the cause why people are not paying their rents. need to empower the people how to manage their income. why is winter worse than the other months? Why do landlords have to take on the burden? we have to think of the small landlords.

As Portland implements an anti-displacement plan, which policies from the Anti-Displacement PDX Coalition would you support? What additional anti-displacement policies do you support?

None of the above

90 days not enough. May 160 days six months. I may support the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase, need to know more information about it. 

90 days is not enough to find housing that fits your economic level and the area in the city. I rather have a 160 days, six months requirement.

What else should Portland pro-housing, pro-tenant community know about you & your candidacy?

Put restrictions on demolitions of homes in our neighborhoods, we must save them for our families, kids, schools. Multilevel units is not the solution to housing problem, is the cost. Portland needs to buy  or encourage developers to build housing developments for low to middle income people. I am pro business but not at the expense of people life, neighborhood community. I am a 43 year North Portland resident, husband, father of 3. immigrant, with public and private work experience community outreach, volunteer, advocate. promoter of education, music, arts, families, parks, outdoors. nature.

Montas received an F overall from our scoring committee. See all scores and read about our process here.