OUR CAMPAIGNS
Our campaigns are time-based efforts focusing on electoral and community work, democratically endorsed by vote of chapter membership.
Care Corps
Care Corps is Portland DSA’s universal healthcare campaign, working closely with the Healthcare for All Oregon project to bring free healthcare to all Oregon residents. Where Healthcare for All Oregon focuses on policy and implementation, Care Corps invites people to join a mass movement to win these vital services for our communities.
General campaign meetings are 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month, 4-6pm. See our chapter event calendar to RSVP and join us!
Renter’s Bill of Rights – RELO Ordinance update
Portland’s Mandatory Renter Relocation Assistance Ordinance (“RELO”) requires that landlords pay relocation assistance fees to tenants if they raise rent by 10% or more over a rolling 12 months.
RELO was passed in 2017, and it needs an update now! Rents have increased an average of 49% since then. A 10% rent hike in 2026 will price many of us out of our current homes, forcing more people to relocate.
Tenants and Portland DSA are organizing to update the Relocation Assistance ordinance. The 10% threshold is too high and must be reduced to 5%. Take action here!
Our demand to update RELO is part of our Renter’s Bill of Rights Campaign. More info: https://pdxrenterpower.com/
Universal Preschool – Friends of Preschool for All
Multnomah County’s Preschool for All is a voter-approved and widely-adored universal preschool program that our chapter was instrumental in creating and getting to the ballot in 2020, where it was approved by voters 2-to-1.
Because of its popularity and success as an example of highly functional wealth redistribution to the benefit of the working class, it is constantly under attack. So we formed a coalition to continue to fight for it: Friends of Preschool for all.
Your Two Cents
The Your 2 Cents Campaign is an initiative petition and ballot measure campaign to give working-class Portlanders direct voice and vote over the Portland City Budget! It will allow all residents in the City— including 150,000 young people and non-citizens who cannot vote in elections- a decision making power over 2% of the general fund discretionary budget, moving towards a City Budget that works for working class needs not ruling class greed.
We need DSA members to get involved in signature gathering to submit 60,000 signatures by July, and then knock doors and phonebank to win on the ballot in November!