The surest way to prevent more housing being built is to pass this bill.
More housing isn't always the answer. Cities should just let market forces work, and get out of the way with rent control etc. More housing creates more congestion, rent control causes a flood of prospective tenants for fewer vacancies. It's all mad.
So in my local paper, the city announced a plan to build some housing mixed in with civic buildings on city land, and will allow it to be up to 120 feet tall. Our homes are a mix of 1-story to 3-story residential homes. We're already dealing with traffic congestion that quadrupled after a bunch of commercial buildings that went up on vacant land. And rents and home prices have skyrocketed. More people, more traffic, more agony for old-time residents and grief for landlords. Crazy. Good luck Portland, you're going to ruin it for everyone.
It those silly socialists would let the free market work and build housing as dictated by market forces abundant housing would be available at a fair market price.
Oregon has huge amounts of good land to build upon. It is the socialistic government that distorts the housing market. The local left wing governments are what has distorted the housing market and they and they alone are the reason for the insane prices for housing and rent.
This is a self inflicted wound.
Go to google earth and look at the vast amount of land around Portland, Oregon. It is beautiful and should be used. Actually if you look at the land in Portland metropolitan area itself there are huge amounts of undeveloped land.
yup - the places with the most extreme housing shortages have the most anti-market rent regulations