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Oregon · Oct 2, 2026
Oregon's Department of Administrative Services published the 2027 maximum annual rent increase on September 28, 2026: 10% for most covered tenancies, up from 9.5% for 2026. The cap is the lesser of 10% or 7% plus CPI under ORS 90.323 and 90.324, and it does not change the 15-year new-construction exemption, the first-year bar, or the 90-day notice requirement.
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Oregon · Oct 1, 2026
September 2026 Oregon Real Estate Agency guidance warns that tenants requesting a service animal or emotional-support animal cannot be required to route that reasonable-accommodation request through a third-party pet-screening platform — and that the vendor's recommendation never relieves the housing provider of responsibility for the decision.
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Federal · Oregon · Sep 3, 2026
HUD's August 31, 2026 enforcement guidance treats Fair Housing Act design-and-construction accessibility violations as discrete violations: the one-year window for HUD administrative complaints now runs from the building's initial certificate of occupancy. Reasonable accommodation and modification rights are expressly unaffected — and Oregon-law obligations don't move.
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Federal · Oregon · Aug 31, 2026
HUD's FY 2027 Fair Market Rent notice (Docket FR-6553-N-03), scheduled for Federal Register publication September 1, 2026, takes effect October 1 — with a rebuilt utility inflation component and local rent-survey data for four Oregon counties. FMRs drive voucher payment standards and several federal rent limits, but they are not the payment standards themselves.
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Oregon · Marion County · Aug 20, 2026
The Marion County Housing Authority announced that waiting lists for its MCHA-owned affordable-housing properties close to new applications effective August 21, 2026, through at least January 1, 2027. These are not the HCV/PBV lists that closed August 14 — and MCHA does not serve Salem or Keizer at all.
Read briefOHCS temporarily amended the Long-Term Rent Assistance rules (OAR 813-245) effective August 1, 2026: a new LTRA Guidance Manual, regionally administered program requirements, landlord reimbursement for qualifying tenant-caused damages, and a strengthened tenant dispute process with a 30-day review window and OHCS administrative review.
The Marion County Housing Authority accepted applications for its Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) and two project-based voucher waiting lists from August 1 through August 14, 2026. The window has now closed — and how that fact is handled is itself the compliance lesson.
Multnomah County's General Housing Assistance program for households connected to county Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities services reopened August 11, 2026, with monthly application windows on the second Tuesday. The eligibility gate — not the reopening — is the compliance-critical fact.
A May 22, 2026 HUD FHEO memorandum rescinds the 2020 and 2013 assistance-animal guidance and limits federal reasonable-cause findings to individually trained animals. It is an enforcement-priority change, not a repeal — and Oregon's own statutes, BOLI enforcement, and private lawsuits still reach untrained emotional-support animals.
Princeton Property Management v. Allen: the Washington Court of Appeals held that an eviction settlement agreement waiving tenant rights was void under RCW 59.18.230(1)(b) — and the case later resolved for a reported $725,000, described by tenants' counsel as the largest wrongful-eviction settlement in Washington history.
HB 4123 (Oregon Laws 2026, ch. 61) took effect June 5, 2026: landlords may not disclose a tenant's, former tenant's, or applicant's confidential information unless a statutory exception applies. A knowing violation exposes the landlord to twice the monthly rent — per individual disclosed.
New UTCR Chapter 18 rules take effect August 1, 2026: standardized complaint and judgment forms for residential eviction actions, a required ORS chapter 90 designation, and per-defendant judgment outcomes — adopted by Chief Justice Order 26-021 to power automated eviction-record sealing under ORS 105.164.
A staged Oregon case study on retaliation risk: a reported $32,000 verdict, a roughly $225,000 attorney-fee request that remains contested, and an appeal that remains pending — and the preventive workflow that keeps a repair charge from becoming one.
