Build collective power with your neighbors.
Navigate local housing systems with support.
Affordable housing shouldn't be this confusing. The PDX Housing Network exists so tenants know what's happening where they live, and have time and company to decide what to do about it.
Free tenant rights education, a member community, and a public map of every publicly supported property in Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties, from apartment buildings to manufactured home parks and marinas. Built by WERQ TOGETHER, trans community centered, open to every tenant. No one turned away.
Start here, 60 seconds
Which law covers your home?
Two renters on the same street can have completely different rights. It depends on what kind of housing you live in. Answer three quick questions and find out where you stand.
Question 1 of 3
Do you own the home itself, and rent the ground it sits on?
Like a manufactured home, mobile home, floating home, or RV that belongs to you, on a rented space in a park or marina.
General information, not legal advice. Verified against Oregon statute and federal regulation, August 2026.
Free monthly workshop
Know Your Power
Second Thursday of every month, 5:00 to 6:30pm. Thirty minutes of teaching on one tenant rights topic, then forty minutes of problem-solving clinic where you bring your real situation. Free, trans community centered, everyone welcome.
What's inside
One network, three tools
The courses
Learn your rights
A free course library built from every Know Your Power session, plus a course for each legal situation: HUD buildings, public housing, parks and marinas, state-funded buildings, regular rentals, and RV spaces. Plain language, checked against the actual law, written for someone reading on a phone.
The community
Find your people
Ask a question, compare notes with tenants in places like yours, and hear about it early when something changes at a property. Tenants are the protagonists here. We're the guide.
The map
See the landscape
A public map of every publicly supported rental property in the tri-county area, with the timelines attached to each one. Housing information is public in theory and hard to reach in practice. We are making it easy to look at. First network meeting January 28, 2027.
How we work
Built to be trusted
Tenants only. Landlords and property owners are never members of this network. Not ever.
Free means free. No dues, no fees, no paid tier for tenants.
We don't replace anyone. Portland Tenants United and the Community Alliance of Tenants organize tenants where they live, and they're good at it. We teach the law, watch the properties, and make the introduction.
Education, not legal advice. When you need a lawyer, we hand you the number of a free one.
Trans community centered. Built by and for trans and gender-expansive Oregonians, and open to every tenant. No one turned away.
Your privacy is structural. The map tracks properties, never people. Clinic conversations are never recorded.
The map
Know the landscape you live in
There is a lot of publicly supported housing across Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties, and almost none of it is easy to look up. We are building one public map of it, so tenants and neighbors can see what is around them and find the people already doing good work nearby. More than 1,000 properties are mapped so far.
What's here
Where the homes are
Units, income levels, and which law applies to each kind of housing, so you know where you stand before you talk to anyone.
Who to talk to
Allies, not villains
Management, support services providers, and tenant associations already working at a property. There is no list of bad actors at the end of this.
What's ahead
Timelines, not surprises
When affordability restrictions are scheduled to change, so tenants and advocates can plan years ahead instead of finding out late.
Where this comes from
Public records, cited
Everything on the map is assembled from public government records: Oregon Housing and Community Services, HUD, the National Housing Preservation Database, PortlandMaps code cases, and Oregon Secretary of State filings. Every entry names its sources and the date we last checked them.