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Right, and I think advocating to preserve existing service should be paired with a vision of a future with a comprehensive light rail system to make both more effective.
Just clarifying - not arguing for streetcar expansion, but for MAX expansion.
The best thing you can do to help is to ensure our Masking, Identification, & Verification ordinance passes (so that we can finish that work and move on to Tear Gas).
It's the Right to Know Who's Policing You, and it's coming to the Community and Public Safety Committee from 3-5 PM on 3/17.
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Shout out to Poppy Baxter & the Quest at @reed.edu for covering @350pdx.bsky.social's Tear Gas Community Action Night, where I was honored to be asked to discuss upcoming legislation on indiscriminate chemical weapons, like tear gas, which poison us, and our kids, pets, trees, & neighborhoods.
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For the record, I voted for the storefront program.
Three months later, I also voted against the report, which I felt was incomplete and going in the wrong direction.
What is the process for becoming one of the "other people"?
Great reporting and a good opportunity to reup for the public that my office has produced a series of reports, documents and letters that makes the economic case for why it's such a crucial program, while debunking claims or intimations that the tax was driving people out of the county.
Yeah, it's terrible - that's why I am the Councilor who talks about fixing that every chance I get, and am touring Home Forward properties with the most vacancies in my district today.
I've got some info on single stair but not as much on small elevator reform. Anything you'd suggest looking into on that?
District 2 Budget Conversation with Councilors Dan Ryan, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, and Sameer Kanal. Saturday, March 14, 12-2 p.m. at the Doubletree by Hilton Portland, 1000 NE Multnomah St.
We're coming up on budget season, and we want to know your priorities, what is and isn't working, and what questions you have for your District 2 Councilors.
Yeah. That makes sense.
Upzoning tends to change the incentive structure for folks as well.
And living in the -neighborhood- you want doesn’t necessarily mean the -unit- you want. This isn’t an “everybody gets a McMansion” proposal. Mixed-income neighborhoods offer many different options.
Everybody!
March is a busy month for neighborhood association meetings. Next week I'll be at Beaumont-Wilshire, Cathedral Park and Kenton meetings Mar. 9, 10 & 11 and Portsmouth Mar. 14. Come join us! See the details below.
#Portland #NeighborhoodAssociations
... your rent is assessed, and it scales when you make more or less, helps ensure people can stay in their homes. Rent assistance can fill in gaps in the private sector in the short-term. We also have other concepts like renter co-ops to explore - it's not just one model.
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But fundamentally, the "tension" idea presumes a private-sector-only market. Social housing alleviates much of this. (Also, in Portland we don't have a ton of "old rental units demolished to build new better ones" stories.)
Social housing, where you can pay 30% of your income at the moment...
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In terms of displacing someone for new units, you're right - that is a tension point. (I've read stories about people in a small building who are displaced when it is demolished, but then 1-2 years later offered a unit in the new building at similar rent; it's not inevitable, just very common.)
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Thanks! I'll give a preliminary response here:
First, evictions are moving when you don't want to. While zero evictions is not achievable in the short term, we can still reduce the number.
One way the principle guides decisions: I support eviction legal defense, which reduces evictions.
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Upzoning helped achieve a lot of that in Seattle. (We can improve it - for example, in Seattle it was along major -driving- pathways, and I'd prefer along MAX/BRT here.)
When I talk about not moving unless you want to, I'm mostly talking about renters and people on fixed incomes getting priced out.
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
Please join me, @councilorkanal.bsky.social, and @councilordanryan.bsky.social for an interactive budget conversation on Saturday, March 14 from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. at the Doubletree by Hilton Portland.
Photo credit: Steve Morgan
Tell me more - how do they conflict?
There's always tradeoffs in funding or programmatic decisions, not sure about how there are on the principles though.
I could post a lot on the Work Session on how to use the unspent Housing Bureau dollars, but I want to state a guiding principle:
I am working towards a Portland where you can afford to live in the neighborhood you want, and where you move only if you want to.
Everything follows from that.
Tonight!
Eisenhower
The new issue of @npeninsulareview.bsky.social includes an obituary for Mike Verbout, who passed last week.
My familiarity with Mike was mostly about his work supporting schools (especially Roosevelt!), but he was involved in helping so much of civic life in North Portland. May he rest in peace.
I'm excited to join my colleagues @councilorepg.bsky.social and @councilordanryan.bsky.social at City Club of Portland's “Meet Your City Councilors” District 2 conversation moderated by @wweek.com's @sophiegreenleaf.bsky.social. Join us Wed., Mar. 4 at 6pm at Alberta Rose Theatre.
#orpol #Portland
For our #democracy and #environment, I enjoyed attending the @350pdx.bsky.social Day of Action event this evening about the Dangers of Tear Gas with Portland City @councilorkanal.bsky.social as one of the speakers. #DemocracyMatters #DemocracyInAction #BanTearGas #TearGasSucks
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- Federal response, including National Guard / ICE responses but also areas related to the City's Settlement Agreement (and both systems of police oversight in the City).
The CotW starts the week of 3/30, some committees the week of 4/6, the rest the week of 4/13.
See you there!
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