AJ McCreary

On Portland: Neighbors Welcome priorities, AJ McCreary is…

• OUTSTANDING on legalizing middle housing options everywhere

• OUTSTANDING on increasing housing capacity in close-in neighborhoods

• OUTSTANDING on incentivizing the development of middle housing

• OUTSTANDING on reforming undemocratic historic district privileges

• OUTSTANDING on increasing money for affordable housing

• VERY GOOD on strategies for addressing the shortage of lower-price homes

• OUTSTANDING on equitably distributing affordable housing across the city

• OUTSTANDING on compassionately & comprehensively addressing the homelessness crisis

• OUTSTANDING on advancing racial equity in housing access

• OUTSTANDING on creating new tenant protections

• OUTSTANDING on centering vulnerable communities in land use decisions

See AJ McCreary’s full answers to the Portland: Neighbors Welcome questionnaire here.

Dan Ryan

On Portland: Neighbors Welcome priorities, Dan Ryan is…

• GOOD on legalizing middle housing options everywhere

• OKAY on increasing housing capacity in close-in neighborhoods

• GOOD on incentivizing the development of middle housing

• GOOD on reforming undemocratic historic district privileges

• GOOD on increasing money for affordable housing

• DID NOT ANSWER on strategies for addressing the shortage of lower-price homes

• OUTSTANDING on equitably distributing affordable housing across the city

• VERY GOOD on compassionately & comprehensively addressing the homelessness crisis

• GOOD on advancing racial equity in housing access

• OKAY on creating new tenant protections

See Dan Ryan’s full answers to the Portland: Neighbors Welcome questionnaire here.

Renee Stephens

On Portland: Neighbors Welcome priorities, Renee Stephens is…

• GOOD on legalizing middle housing options everywhere

• OUTSTANDING on increasing housing capacity in close-in neighborhoods

• VERY GOOD on incentivizing the development of middle housing

• AWFUL on reforming undemocratic historic district privileges

• OKAY on increasing money for affordable housing

• WEAK on strategies for addressing the shortage of lower-price homes

• GOOD on equitably distributing affordable housing across the city

• OKAY on compassionately & comprehensively addressing the homelessness crisis

• GOOD on advancing racial equity in housing access

• GOOD on creating new tenant protections

• OKAY on centering vulnerable communities in land use decisions

See Renee Stephens’s full answers to the Portland: Neighbors Welcome questionnaire here.

Jo Ann Hardesty

On Portland: Neighbors Welcome priorities, Jo Ann Hardesty is…

• OUTSTANDING on legalizing middle housing options everywhere

• OUTSTANDING on increasing housing capacity in close-in neighborhoods

• GOOD on incentivizing the development of middle housing

• OUTSTANDING on reforming undemocratic historic district privileges

• VERY GOOD on increasing money for affordable housing

• VERY GOOD on strategies for addressing the shortage of lower-price homes

• OUTSTANDING on equitably distributing affordable housing across the city

• OUTSTANDING on compassionately & comprehensively addressing the homelessness crisis

• OUTSTANDING on advancing racial equity in housing access

• OKAY on creating new tenant protections

• OUTSTANDING on centering vulnerable communities in land use decisions

See Jo Ann Hardesty’s full answers to the Portland: Neighbors Welcome questionnaire here.

Kim Kasch

On Portland: Neighbors Welcome priorities, Kim Kasch is…

• BAD on legalizing middle housing options everywhere

• AWFUL on increasing housing capacity in close-in neighborhoods

• GOOD on incentivizing the development of middle housing

• BAD on reforming undemocratic historic district privileges

• OKAY on increasing money for affordable housing

• BAD on strategies for addressing the shortage of lower-price homes

• GOOD on equitably distributing affordable housing across the city

• GOOD on compassionately & comprehensively addressing the homelessness crisis

• BAD on advancing racial equity in housing access

• GOOD on creating new tenant protections

• BAD on centering vulnerable communities in land use decisions

See Kim Kasch’s full answers to the Portland: Neighbors Welcome questionnaire here.

Peggy Sue Owens

On Portland: Neighbors Welcome priorities, Peggy Sue Owens is…

• BAD on legalizing middle housing options everywhere

• AWFUL on increasing housing capacity in close-in neighborhoods

• GOOD on incentivizing the development of middle housing

• OKAY on reforming undemocratic historic district privileges

• BAD on increasing money for affordable housing

• BAD on strategies for addressing the shortage of lower-price homes

• VERY GOOD on equitably distributing affordable housing across the city

• OKAY on compassionately & comprehensively addressing the homelessness crisis

• OKAY on advancing racial equity in housing access

• GOOD on creating new tenant protections

• BAD on centering vulnerable communities in land use decisions

See Peggy Sue Owens’s full answers to the Portland: Neighbors Welcome questionnaire here.

Karellen Stephens

On Portland: Neighbors Welcome priorities, Karellen Stephens is…

• WEAK on legalizing middle housing options everywhere

• BAD on increasing housing capacity in close-in neighborhoods

• WEAK on incentivizing the development of middle housing

• AWFUL on reforming undemocratic historic district privileges

• AWFUL on increasing money for affordable housing

• BAD on strategies for addressing the shortage of lower-price homes

• BAD on equitably distributing affordable housing across the city

• GOOD on compassionately & comprehensively addressing the homelessness crisis

• BAD on advancing racial equity in housing access

• GOOD on creating new tenant protections

• WEAK on centering vulnerable communities in land use decisions

See Karellen Stephens’s full answers to the Portland: Neighbors Welcome questionnaire here.

Dale Hardt

On Portland: Neighbors Welcome priorities, Dale Hardt is…

• BAD on legalizing middle housing options everywhere

• AWFUL on increasing housing capacity in close-in neighborhoods

• AWFUL on incentivizing the development of middle housing

• VERY GOOD on reforming undemocratic historic district privileges

• AWFUL on increasing money for affordable housing

• AWFUL on strategies for addressing the shortage of lower-price homes

• OKAY on equitably distributing affordable housing across the city

• OKAY on compassionately & comprehensively addressing the homelessness crisis

• OKAY on advancing racial equity in housing access

• AWFUL on creating new tenant protections

• BAD on centering vulnerable communities in land use decisions

See Dale Hardt’s full answers to the Portland: Neighbors Welcome questionnaire here.

Ed Baker

On Portland: Neighbors Welcome priorities, Ed Baker is…

• GOOD on legalizing middle housing options everywhere

• OKAY on increasing housing capacity in close-in neighborhoods

• GOOD on incentivizing the development of middle housing

• AWFUL on reforming undemocratic historic district privileges

• BAD on increasing money for affordable housing

• BAD on strategies for addressing the shortage of lower-price homes

• GOOD on equitably distributing affordable housing across the city

• OKAY on compassionately & comprehensively addressing the homelessness crisis

• AWFUL on advancing racial equity in housing access

• AWFUL on creating new tenant protections

• AWFUL on centering vulnerable communities in land use decisions

See Ed Baker’s full answers to the Portland: Neighbors Welcome questionnaire here.

Joseph Whitcomb

On Portland: Neighbors Welcome priorities, Joseph Whitcomb is…

• GOOD on legalizing middle housing options everywhere

• OKAY on increasing housing capacity in close-in neighborhoods

• GOOD on incentivizing the development of middle housing

• AWFUL on reforming undemocratic historic district privileges

• BAD on increasing money for affordable housing

• BAD on strategies for addressing the shortage of lower-price homes

• GOOD on equitably distributing affordable housing across the city

• OKAY on compassionately & comprehensively addressing the homelessness crisis

• AWFUL on advancing racial equity in housing access

• AWFUL on creating new tenant protections

• AWFUL on centering vulnerable communities in land use decisions

See Joseph Whitcomb’s full answers to the Portland: Neighbors Welcome questionnaire here.

Rene Gonzalez

After several requests by email and phone, Rene Gonzalez did not respond to our questionnaire, so did not earn a score from us. However, our volunteers used publicly available sources to approximate his positions where possible:

NO PUBLIC RECORD on legalizing middle housing options everywhere

GOOD on increasing housing capacity in close-in neighborhoods

From his interview with HFO-TV: "If we're not adding to the housing stock, that's going to have a negative impact on affordability. It's going to drive prices up, other things being equal. ... I think part of the dialogue has to be that you know, you have to pick your poison a little bit. 'Do you want multifamily in there or do you want unregulated homeless camps in your neighborhood?' Right? Now, it's never that simple." We also note that Oregon Smart Growth, a lobby group for apartment builders, has co-endorsed him and Mozyrsky.

NO PUBLIC RECORD on incentivizing the development of middle housing

NO PUBLIC RECORD on reforming undemocratic Historic District privileges

WEAK on increasing money for affordable housing

From his interview with HFO-TV: "we may have to reallocate resources from longer-term housing investment into immediate crisis shelter options. And again, that does not fix all the systemic problems. I agree with those who are in favor of Housing First in that respect. But we have a material declining city right now and the unsheltered are a driving force of that."

NO PUBLIC RECORD on strategies for addressing the shortage of lower-price homes

NO PUBLIC RECORD on equitably distributing affordable housing across the city

BAD on compassionately & comprehensively addressing the homelessness crisis

From the candidate debate on OPB's Think Out Loud: Emergency shelters should and would offer "a more humane sleeping arrangement than is offered today on the streets of Portland." Also allows us to "enforce our existing laws and unsanctioned camping. … To kind of restore the social contract, we need to offer alternative shelter and then enforce existing laws." Gonzalez also supports mayoral staffer Sam Adams' concept to create 1,000-person mass shelters, because according to his campaign site “unsanctioned camps need to be promptly removed from all parks, sidewalks, and streets.” This narrow, police-heavy approach to homelessness prioritizes short-term bandaids without addressing the root causes of the crisis.

NO PUBLIC RECORD on advancing racial equity in housing access

BAD on creating new tenant protections

From the Oregonian candidates' interview: "Tenant protections, while well intentioned, have driven small landlords out of the business. We need to reverse that."

NO PUBLIC RECORD on centering vulnerable communities in land use decisions

Vadim Mozyrsky

After several requests by email and phone, Vadim Mozyrsky did not respond to our questionnaire, so did not earn a score from us. However, our volunteers used publicly available sources to approximate his positions where possible:

NO PUBLIC RECORD on legalizing middle housing options everywhere

OKAY on increasing housing capacity in close-in neighborhoods

From City Club's forum: "We're in a point where in about five years we will have another housing crisis because we don't have enough in the pipeline. ... We need to ensure that we build more around MAX stops and high-traffic areas so that people don't have to drive to work." We also note that Oregon Smart Growth, a lobby group for apartment builders, has co-endorsed him and Gonzalez. However, in Mozyrsky's own close-in neighborhood of Goose Hollow, he personally voted as a neighborhood association board member to oppose a new 17-story apartment building, a position later unanimously rejected by the city council.

OKAY on incentivizing the development of middle housing ... and simultaneously BAD on creating new tenant protections, since his only stated strategy seems to be to roll back tenant protections.

From the Oregonian interview: "An individual I spoke with just very recently ... has an investment business helping other people who are retiring who used to invest in Portland, buying these duplexes, triplexes, for income in retirement. She said they're no longer advising people to buy those in Portland due to the high barriers to being able to actually get tenants in and out of the buildings, to make sure that actually turns a profit for them. ... Those small housing units are cheaper ones usually." Mozyrsky shared similar views in his HFO-TV interview.

WEAK on reforming undemocratic Historic District privileges

From the Oregonian interview: "We need to involve the neighborhood associations and ensure that when there's concern about historic areas in Portland that we address those concerns, but we do need to find ways to have more housing in the small footprint that we have here."

NO PUBLIC RECORD on increasing money for affordable housing

NO PUBLIC RECORD on strategies for addressing the shortage of lower-price homes

NO PUBLIC RECORD on equitably distributing affordable housing across the city

WEAK on compassionately & comprehensively addressing the homelessness crisis

From the Oregonian interview: "Make a plan. Say that within the first year, I fully believe that we can decrease homelessness by 30%. And let's live up to that plan instead of saying that we're going to give that money away and hope - and hope - that it succeeds somehow.". Among the plans Mozyrsky says he supports is mayoral staffer Sam Adams' concept to create 1,000-person mass shelters in order to restore to the city the power to ban unsanctioned camping citywide. He has also refused to take a position on People for Portland’s proposal to defund effective housing strategies in favor of funding megashelters.

NO PUBLIC RECORD on advancing racial equity in housing access

WEAK on centering vulnerable communities in land use decisions

From Willamette Week's profile: “He thinks the citizens not being listened to most at City Hall are neighborhood associations, whose cries about crime and homelessness he says are going ignored."