Here you go again with a kind thought to house the indigent. You likely majored in liberal arts and were minted a democrat as were millions more. You have no practical experience if you think this aid is anything but a subsidy that will do more harm than good and will create and attract more of the needy.
Let me guess you caved to the developers that get millions from the local homeless industrial complex and got rid of a bunch of our important environmental regulations.
Funny. Not a single word about Governor Kotek's affordable housing campaign with its goal of 35,000 new homes per year. Is this meant to be Portland's contribution toward achieving the Governor's goals? Or did City Council decide to blow off the Governor as if she'd never mentioned the affordable housing crisis in the state or tried to do anything about it?
The taxpayers should never have to subsidize middle class housing. Living in Portland is not a human right.
Changing subjects, this is what the Housing Production Strategy document says about Fair Housing. I was hoping the section titled "Fair Housing" would have stated the City's commitment to complying with the federal Fair Housing Act. I was wrong. Good luck trying to understand this section or how it is meant to be applied in the real world:
Fair Housing
Fair housing is embedded in the Comprehensive Plan with Goal 5.B: Equitable access to housing. Stating that Portland ensures equitable access to housing, making a special effort to remove disparities in housing access for people with disabilities, people of color, low-income households, diverse household types, and older adults. This goal is directly implemented through the following policies:
• Policy 5.10 Coordinate with fair housing programs. Foster inclusive communities, overcome disparities in access to community assets, and enhance housing choice for people in protected classes throughout the city by coordinating plans and investments to affirmatively further fair housing.
• Policy 5.11 Remove barriers. Remove potential regulatory barriers to housing choice for people in protected classes to ensure freedom of choice in housing type, tenure, and location.
• Policy 5.12 Impact analysis. Evaluate plans and investments, significant new infrastructure, and significant new development to identify potential disparate impacts on housing choice, access, and affordability for protected classes and low-income households. Identify and implement strategies to mitigate the anticipated impacts.
Over in the real world where "equitable housing" is just more progressive word salad, there's a law called the Fair Housing Act that applies to the rental, sale and advertising of residential housing. It may be in conflict with Portland's definition of "fair housing." That's because in Portland "Fair Housing" means "equitable housing."
If there's one thing we know about "equity," it is that it often relies on present discrimination against white people to remedy past discrimination against black people so that people of color have the same outcomes as whites.
The City of Portland had better be careful not to let its fetish for equitable housing cause it to violate the federal Fair Housing Act:
Where are the trees and green spaces in this plan? With Portland's new housing code for residential properties, I see all the trees being cut down, and most of the lots being built out with multi story dwellings, with small strips of grass or patios left as outdoor space, and none of them large enough to accommodate trees of any size. It looks like this plan will support more of the same, except on a larger scale. Trees provide shade for people, pets, and the buildings themselves, as well as clean air and appealing aesthetics, as well as addressing the "heat island" effect found in neighborhoods without them. Everyone needs green spaces, and Portland will become much less livable and desirable as a place to live as we cut down more trees. With good design, we can have more affordable housing and large trees.
I think the most honorable option would be for you to withdraw from the mayoral race. I'm sure one of the unaccountable and ineffective nonprofits you have sent millions of our tax dollars to will hire you for a cushy executive director job.
Carmen, your excuse about why you received hundreds of parking tickets and subsequent misbehavior fell flat. Would you mind telling voters why you can't handle your personal financial affairs and why we should now trust you to be mayor of city with a 8 BILLION dollar budget? Thank you.
Here you go again with a kind thought to house the indigent. You likely majored in liberal arts and were minted a democrat as were millions more. You have no practical experience if you think this aid is anything but a subsidy that will do more harm than good and will create and attract more of the needy.
Let me guess you caved to the developers that get millions from the local homeless industrial complex and got rid of a bunch of our important environmental regulations.
Funny. Not a single word about Governor Kotek's affordable housing campaign with its goal of 35,000 new homes per year. Is this meant to be Portland's contribution toward achieving the Governor's goals? Or did City Council decide to blow off the Governor as if she'd never mentioned the affordable housing crisis in the state or tried to do anything about it?
The taxpayers should never have to subsidize middle class housing. Living in Portland is not a human right.
Changing subjects, this is what the Housing Production Strategy document says about Fair Housing. I was hoping the section titled "Fair Housing" would have stated the City's commitment to complying with the federal Fair Housing Act. I was wrong. Good luck trying to understand this section or how it is meant to be applied in the real world:
Fair Housing
Fair housing is embedded in the Comprehensive Plan with Goal 5.B: Equitable access to housing. Stating that Portland ensures equitable access to housing, making a special effort to remove disparities in housing access for people with disabilities, people of color, low-income households, diverse household types, and older adults. This goal is directly implemented through the following policies:
• Policy 5.10 Coordinate with fair housing programs. Foster inclusive communities, overcome disparities in access to community assets, and enhance housing choice for people in protected classes throughout the city by coordinating plans and investments to affirmatively further fair housing.
• Policy 5.11 Remove barriers. Remove potential regulatory barriers to housing choice for people in protected classes to ensure freedom of choice in housing type, tenure, and location.
• Policy 5.12 Impact analysis. Evaluate plans and investments, significant new infrastructure, and significant new development to identify potential disparate impacts on housing choice, access, and affordability for protected classes and low-income households. Identify and implement strategies to mitigate the anticipated impacts.
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Over in the real world where "equitable housing" is just more progressive word salad, there's a law called the Fair Housing Act that applies to the rental, sale and advertising of residential housing. It may be in conflict with Portland's definition of "fair housing." That's because in Portland "Fair Housing" means "equitable housing."
If there's one thing we know about "equity," it is that it often relies on present discrimination against white people to remedy past discrimination against black people so that people of color have the same outcomes as whites.
The City of Portland had better be careful not to let its fetish for equitable housing cause it to violate the federal Fair Housing Act:
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The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing because of:
Race
Color
National Origin
Religion
Sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation)
Familial Status
Disability
https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/fair_housing_act_overview
Where are the trees and green spaces in this plan? With Portland's new housing code for residential properties, I see all the trees being cut down, and most of the lots being built out with multi story dwellings, with small strips of grass or patios left as outdoor space, and none of them large enough to accommodate trees of any size. It looks like this plan will support more of the same, except on a larger scale. Trees provide shade for people, pets, and the buildings themselves, as well as clean air and appealing aesthetics, as well as addressing the "heat island" effect found in neighborhoods without them. Everyone needs green spaces, and Portland will become much less livable and desirable as a place to live as we cut down more trees. With good design, we can have more affordable housing and large trees.
https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/affordable-housing-meets-large-trees
https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/invisible-incentive-to-preserve-large-trees
Who is going to pay to maintain those trees?
Carmen,
After seeing this https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/09/portland-mayoral-hopeful-carmen-rubio-dogged-by-driving-record-damages-parked-tesla-then-walks-away.html
I think the most honorable option would be for you to withdraw from the mayoral race. I'm sure one of the unaccountable and ineffective nonprofits you have sent millions of our tax dollars to will hire you for a cushy executive director job.
Carmen, your excuse about why you received hundreds of parking tickets and subsequent misbehavior fell flat. Would you mind telling voters why you can't handle your personal financial affairs and why we should now trust you to be mayor of city with a 8 BILLION dollar budget? Thank you.
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/09/09/portland-commissioner-mayoral-candidate-carmen-rubio-150-parking-tickets-decades/
Nice, glad to see this. Let's build a ton of housing!
I bet Carmen supports Hacienda….
https://nypost.com/2024/08/24/us-news/first-time-homebuyers-in-oregon-get-30k-grant-americans-excluded/