$2 billion spent on affordable housing since 2020, and every metric (homelessness, affordability, or homeownership rates) about housing is worse than before.
Government buries it’s head in the sand.
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Not a Home Run: the proposed location of a new MLB stadium create an intractable mess of parking and transportation
For the 10th time in two decades, the city gets "excited" about a baseball stadium.
Portland Cops and their broken ideas on harassing people with traffic stops
News data on traffic stops shows how reforms on gang enforcement has changed but is still flawed and broken.
A retrospective of the 2014 paper "Density At Any Cost"
I suppose it's really frustrating for people new to Portland to look around and see this city in such an ongoing crisis all the time, with bad news after bad news.
Cylvia Hayes 2.0 and a short list of Kotek's least favorite people.
Is now a good time to criticize the Governor for a moment?
Is Rep. Rob Nosse a Communist?
Can we find actual communists within the Oregon Democratic Party or the political establishment? Would anyone wear this on their sleeve and admit it?
Outlaw and Grifters
The con continues
Progressive Outcomes: Homeless death rate exceeds peak Vietnam War deaths
Unrelated ramblings of news and history
Silver Lining in the clouds - Analysis of Central City Task Force docs
Forecast still calls for the apocalypse.
TriMet's problems are exponentially worse than anyone is talking about
Public opinion of TriMet's decisions have been pretty mixed, mostly because TriMet's decisions are so convoluted that they can be a real challenge to understand. Let's look deeper and bigger.