This story is Part 2 of “Getting by on Burnside,” an ongoing series from The Oregonian/OregonLive that uses Burnside Street – the only road that extends uninterrupted from the city’s eastern to western limits – to explain the facets of Portland’s housing crunch.
Zach Victor has been on and off the homeownership and equity-building train for the last decade.
Victor, 33, owned a condo in Seattle prior to moving to Portland a month before the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. He sold the Seattle property at a profit and rented an apartment in Portland…