Portland: Neighbors Welcome August 2020 Election Candidate Scorecard

Portland: Neighbors Welcome prepared this candidate scorecard to ensure our city’s pro-housing, pro-tenant community knows which candidates share our values and priorities, and makes informed decisions at the ballot in the August 2020 city council runoff election.

Grades were assigned to the candidates below by the P:NW Policy & Partnerships Committee based on their answers to questions on middle housing, transit-oriented development, reform to neighborhood association privileges, affordable housing funding, bans on winter evictions, and anti-displacement policies.

The questionnaire was developed by the P:NW Policy & Partnerships Committee and adopted by the P:NW organizer steering committee (board members + committee officers).

You can find the full questions & all candidate answers here.

(Note: During the primary, due to the number of candidates and breadth of responses, Portland: Neighbors Welcome did not assign minus or plus grades. We opted to assign minus and plus grades for the runoff to convey the more nuanced differences between the two remaining candidates.)

(Candidates sorted by grade)