It seems to me that it is more important than ever to own a home. I can't afford to be at the mercy of a landlord who could/would keep raising the rent until I couldn't pay it or evict me without cause.
Being a sanctuary state isn't helping the problem at all. With over 300,000 illegal alien residents, oregon can't afford it in terms of housing. remove most of those and voila at least 30,000 cheaper housing units open up for legitimate residents ie citizens including long term multigenerational Oregonian families. California shoul ddo that with their several millions of them too. It's idiotic to exacerbate the housing shortage by allowing the unwelcome invaders to stay.
you are calling for welcoming out of staters, in a severe housing shortage? get real, that is the antithesis of helpful. the long term residents and thier children are having a terrible time of finding or keeping a decently affordable home, or any ! NO. we need to have residency requirements in all low cost apartments. no application until you've lived here a year or two or three. especially the lower range. That will help ensure that locals will get housed and stay housed. that is FIRST PRIORITY. GET OUTA HERE if you don't think so, because then you are our enemy and a big threat to our well being or lives. Not caring about the already existing residents, says a lot about you and it isn't good.
As someone who has been blessed with living in some very desirable locations, the Bay Area, Big Sur, Laguna Beach, Santa Barbara, Ventura, the Angeles National Forest, and the Sierras, I have one observation that holds true for all desirable locations, Oregon is no exception. If the area, state, city is desirable, people are coming. They are coming. No amount of NIMBYism, anti-Californication, shed a tear for yesteryear or get off my lawnism is going to stop people from migrating to desirable living locations and Oregon is desirable. So if you know that, why not get ahead of it and plan for a city, community, state that meets the needs of all, longtime residents, new residents, low, middle, and high income?
I live in Glenwood which is in Marty Wilde's district. It is likely the poorest neighborhood within Eugene and Springfield's urban area. Likely somewhere in the range of 1,000 Glenwood people live in trailer parks. Folks here only want to improve their living situations and community but can not attain any help from the State, Fed, or County to fix up their travel trailers, mobile homes, and old dilapidated houses. Why is that? It appears to all of us the city of Springfield, Lane County, and Oregon want to drive all the poorest folks out of Glenwood especially those in trailer parks so they can they gentrify all of Glenwood to benefit super wealthy developers and the bureaucratic class's tax salary cow. In 2020 Springfield wined and dined multiple developers who proposed to build a 20 story luxury hotel - conference center and four 7 story luxury condos here along the river. The city of Springfield and Lane County was willing to throw all sorts of tax exemptions and sweetheart deals at developers but it seems they found a more exploitable date somewhere else and opted out. https://eugeneweekly.com/2021/04/15/riverfront-song/ Btw, I lived in trailers park in Glenwood and Eugene from 1991 to 1994 until I could afford to buy property in Glenwood so I know what it like to be on the edge of homelessness. I also see new housing developments which has no benefit to most of homeless. Most homeless folks can't even afford 400 or 600 per month which is what most so called new low income housing costs per month. FYI. Interesting fact to consider too, the population of Oregon has decreased over the last few years. With that fact I wonder how many of these new houses built across Oregon are simply second homes, investments, or air B-N-B? So these facts sort of leads me to question many of Mr. Wilde's assertions about NIMBy's. Am I and my neighbors NIMBYs if we don't want to be squeezed out of our community as downtrodden as we are? How about more rural folks who don't want to see every square foot of their local undevelepeed open spaces including rivers and ocean beaches lined with apartment complexes, mcMansions, Air BnBs, & second homes?
It seems to me that it is more important than ever to own a home. I can't afford to be at the mercy of a landlord who could/would keep raising the rent until I couldn't pay it or evict me without cause.
Being a sanctuary state isn't helping the problem at all. With over 300,000 illegal alien residents, oregon can't afford it in terms of housing. remove most of those and voila at least 30,000 cheaper housing units open up for legitimate residents ie citizens including long term multigenerational Oregonian families. California shoul ddo that with their several millions of them too. It's idiotic to exacerbate the housing shortage by allowing the unwelcome invaders to stay.
you are calling for welcoming out of staters, in a severe housing shortage? get real, that is the antithesis of helpful. the long term residents and thier children are having a terrible time of finding or keeping a decently affordable home, or any ! NO. we need to have residency requirements in all low cost apartments. no application until you've lived here a year or two or three. especially the lower range. That will help ensure that locals will get housed and stay housed. that is FIRST PRIORITY. GET OUTA HERE if you don't think so, because then you are our enemy and a big threat to our well being or lives. Not caring about the already existing residents, says a lot about you and it isn't good.
As someone who has been blessed with living in some very desirable locations, the Bay Area, Big Sur, Laguna Beach, Santa Barbara, Ventura, the Angeles National Forest, and the Sierras, I have one observation that holds true for all desirable locations, Oregon is no exception. If the area, state, city is desirable, people are coming. They are coming. No amount of NIMBYism, anti-Californication, shed a tear for yesteryear or get off my lawnism is going to stop people from migrating to desirable living locations and Oregon is desirable. So if you know that, why not get ahead of it and plan for a city, community, state that meets the needs of all, longtime residents, new residents, low, middle, and high income?
I live in Glenwood which is in Marty Wilde's district. It is likely the poorest neighborhood within Eugene and Springfield's urban area. Likely somewhere in the range of 1,000 Glenwood people live in trailer parks. Folks here only want to improve their living situations and community but can not attain any help from the State, Fed, or County to fix up their travel trailers, mobile homes, and old dilapidated houses. Why is that? It appears to all of us the city of Springfield, Lane County, and Oregon want to drive all the poorest folks out of Glenwood especially those in trailer parks so they can they gentrify all of Glenwood to benefit super wealthy developers and the bureaucratic class's tax salary cow. In 2020 Springfield wined and dined multiple developers who proposed to build a 20 story luxury hotel - conference center and four 7 story luxury condos here along the river. The city of Springfield and Lane County was willing to throw all sorts of tax exemptions and sweetheart deals at developers but it seems they found a more exploitable date somewhere else and opted out. https://eugeneweekly.com/2021/04/15/riverfront-song/ Btw, I lived in trailers park in Glenwood and Eugene from 1991 to 1994 until I could afford to buy property in Glenwood so I know what it like to be on the edge of homelessness. I also see new housing developments which has no benefit to most of homeless. Most homeless folks can't even afford 400 or 600 per month which is what most so called new low income housing costs per month. FYI. Interesting fact to consider too, the population of Oregon has decreased over the last few years. With that fact I wonder how many of these new houses built across Oregon are simply second homes, investments, or air B-N-B? So these facts sort of leads me to question many of Mr. Wilde's assertions about NIMBy's. Am I and my neighbors NIMBYs if we don't want to be squeezed out of our community as downtrodden as we are? How about more rural folks who don't want to see every square foot of their local undevelepeed open spaces including rivers and ocean beaches lined with apartment complexes, mcMansions, Air BnBs, & second homes?