Portland argues from anecdote. Let's argue from data.
Ask Portland surveys the whole city — not just the people who show up to meetings — and publishes honest, weighted numbers on where Portlanders actually stand. Independent, non-partisan, and transparent down to the method. We start with the fight everyone's having: housing.
Housing & Your Home
A 3-minute, anonymous look at how Portlanders actually think about where they live.
Sizing the homeowner coalition and the small-builder financing gap ahead of the Oregon 2027 long session and the state Housing Production Office's policy report.
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.
You see your own scoring
Finish the survey and we tell you exactly how your answers were read. No hidden classification.
“Homeowners” aren't one bloc. Neither are renters.
The housing survey sorts respondents into the segments that actually drive the politics — so we can see the coalition for more housing instead of guessing at it.