In order to work towards our mission of safe, stable and affordable rental homes, tenants need a place to call home. So the Education Program works to provide tenants with the basic information and strategies we need to know what our rights are and how to protect them.  With this knowledge, we stand a better chance of maintaining our housing and being able to focus on building more protections for tenants under the law. The Education Program is run almost totally by the membership- tenants helping tenants.  So we are able to provide something that no other group in Oregon can- concrete information about landlord-tenant law in everyday language, that real renters can understand.  We also work with folks one-on-one to come up with a strategy that fits their particular situation.  Because many of us have been through similar situations, we understand what people who use the hotline are going through.

Because the Education Program is so unique and so valuable, we are in high demand!  We get so many calls to the Renters’ Rights Hotline, and because we’re run on volunteer power, that means we always need help from people like you to run the hotline.  So if you have a question for the hotline, please call us, and please be patient- we will return your call.  Also, please consider becoming a volunteer with us so we can help more people!  Just to let him know that you’d like to volunteer with the Renters’ Rights Hotline, and he’ll send you info about the next training!

The Education Program has three components:
1. The Renters’ Rights Hotline gives tenants detailed information about their rights and practical suggestions to help protect those rights.  We can help renters anywhere in Oregon.  The hotline operates most afternoons and some evening and weekend times.

2. Workshops in the community (usually the greater Portland area) to provide an orientation to landlord-tenant law and to give renters information needed to protect our rights, and

3. A series of renter information brochures explaining the law in everyday language and suggesting courses of action that will increase the ability of renters to remain in our current homes.

All Education Program services are available in both Spanish and English, with access to other languages for many activities as well.