How does Portland really feel? Let's hear it — from Portlanders themselves.
Too often, policy reflects only the handful of people who show up to meetings. Ask Portland goes wider — gathering honest input directly from Portlanders and weighting it to mirror the whole city — so the people making decisions can see what residents actually want and believe. Independent, non-partisan, and transparent down to the method. We start with housing.
Housing & Your Home
A 3-minute, anonymous look at how Portlanders actually think about where they live.
Housing policy across the greater Portland metro — so decisions reflect what residents actually think.
Three steps, one honest number.
Everyone gets asked
We go wide — advocacy lists and Reddit, yes, but also neighborhood associations, senior centers, and culturally-specific organizations — so the sample isn't just the usual voices.
We weight to Portland
Opt-in samples skew. We post-stratify every response to the city's real age, income, and tenure mix — and show the raw share right next to the corrected one.
The data is everyone's
Results are public and live. Partners get their community's numbers first. The full method is published so anyone can check it — that's the whole point.
Built to be trusted by the people who disagree with it.
A survey is only worth anything if a skeptic believes it. So the method is the product: every release names its sample size, its channels, its known skew, and how it was weighted. We lead with the findings that hold even in a favorable sample.
Read the full methodologyShown raw and weighted
Never one disguised as the other. You always see what we collected and what we estimate.
Channels recorded
Every response is tagged with how it arrived, so representativeness is auditable.
Non-partisan by design
Neutral wording, no red/blue coding, courting every side openly — including the voices we under-sample.
Open method
The questions, the weighting, and how results are computed are all public — anyone can check our work.