[KarlInOhio]

3,987 rental houses were lost in Portland over that period, a 14% reduction. The new report also said 6,417 rental houses were lost in the larger region, an 11% reduction during the same period. . . . .

Lost? Did they misplace them? Move them to Seattle? Burn them down? Leave them abandoned? Or were they sold to people who wanted to reside in their newly purchased homes resulting in 3,987 newly owner occupied homes in Portland?

Generally, when a neighborhood goes from owner occupied to rented, it is on the way downhill like where I live. Not too many yet, but more than before. Thus owners moving in would upgrade a neighborhood.

[Night Hides Not]

Move them to Seattle?

Nah, they moved them to Beaverton...lol