Relocation Fee Flow Chart and Exemption Application

Certain rental housing providers are exempt from having to pay relocation fees. Those exemptions include:

• Rentals outside the city limits of Portland
• Week-to-week tenancies
• Tenants who live in the same dwelling unit as the landlord
• tenants who live in a duplex unit with the second unit occupied by the landlord
• Tenants who live in an ADU on a property occupied by the landlord
• A landlord that rents out his or her principal residence during the landlord's absense of not more than 3 years
• Landlord that rents out a residence due to active duty military service
• A unit where the landlord is terminating the rental agreement for an immediate family to replace the tenant
• A dwelling unit regulated as affordable housing for at least 60 years

Download the relocation exemption application here. 

Otherwise, rental housing providers are required to pay out relocation fees as follows:

Relocation Assistance Flow Chart courtesy City of Portland

Click here to download a PDF version of this chart.