Eugene Tenant Alliance

https://www.eugenetenantalliance.com

Eugene Tenant Alliance#

Eugene Tenant Alliance is a grassroots political action committee based in Eugene, Oregon, that represents and mobilizes tenants for political action in Lane County. The organization was launched as a Facebook group in February 2022 with the goal of pushing the Eugene City Council to pass 14 new consumer protections for renters.¹

The alliance’s membership includes voucher holders, LIHTC tenants, public housing residents, and people who have experienced no-cause evictions and homelessness.¹ It advocates for tenant protections at both the local and state level, and has been a leading voice in Eugene’s renter protection ordinances and Oregon legislative efforts on rent stabilization, screening fee reform, and eviction protections.

Policy Positions#

• Rent stabilization: Supports strengthening Oregon’s rent cap, including reducing the new construction rent stabilization exemption from 15 years to 7 years.²
• Application screening fees: Advocates for banning or strictly capping rental application screening fees charged to tenants. Successfully pushed Eugene to cap screening fees at $10 per applicant and has testified in support of statewide screening fee legislation.³
• Relocation assistance: Supports requiring landlords to provide relocation payments to tenants facing no-cause evictions or landlord-initiated lease terminations.⁴
• Security deposit limits: Supports capping security deposits to reduce upfront cost burdens on renters.⁴
• Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA): Advocates for TOPA policies that would give tenants the right to purchase their building before it is sold to a third party.⁵
• Algorithmic rent-fixing: Supports banning price-fixing algorithms such as RealPage that large landlords use to coordinate rent increases.²
• Eviction tracking: Advocates for comprehensive eviction reporting systems to improve transparency around both for-cause and no-cause evictions.⁶

Key Legislative Involvement#

• HB 3974 (2025): Testified in support of capping residential applicant screening charges at $20 statewide and requiring landlords to accept third-party screening reports.⁷
• HB 2967 (2025): Testified in support of prohibiting residential landlords from charging applicant screening fees entirely.³
• SB 611 (2023): Testified extensively in support of capping annual rent increases. Kevin Cronin submitted multiple rounds of testimony on behalf of the organization, and Amanda Buchanan, Donna Brown, and Gwen Curran also testified in support.⁸
• SB 799 (2023): Testified in support of extending notice periods for nonpayment-based evictions and postponing eviction proceedings while rental assistance applications are pending.⁹
• HB 3237 (2023): Testified in support of allowing local governments to adopt maximum applicant screening charges, reflecting the organization’s successful local advocacy in Eugene.¹⁰

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Legislative Testimony

2025

1 testimony

2023

67 testimonies