/news/2010/12/15/local-housing-interests-take-issue-with-regional-affordable-housing-policy/ Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:40:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.6 /news/2010/12/15/local-housing-interests-take-issue-with-regional-affordable-housing-policy/#comment-47087 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:40:29 +0000 /?p=63729#comment-47087 Thanks to Robert Liberty for actually looking out for how to keep cities livable and not push poor people out to the margins of suburbia, where services are spread out and inaccessible without a car.
And on the other side (and what is the other side of livability, anyway), we have home builders and real estate agents. Do you think they’re looking out for affordability and equality? Nice people all, I’m sure, but it’s insincere to think those are anything more than second-order priorities. Their first priorities, respectively, are building houses and selling houses.

]]> /news/2010/12/15/local-housing-interests-take-issue-with-regional-affordable-housing-policy/#comment-47085 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:22:22 +0000 /?p=63729#comment-47085 Abolish Metro, period. Return control to local communities. All Metro is Government morass and economic inefficiency. I’d rather have so called “sprawl” than be just another guinea pig in Metro’s central planning experiments.

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