Fitty
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We are entering year 11 of Charlie Hale’s housing emergency here in Portland…
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Fire on the Mountain day was a huge success- happy new year!!!
January 3, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Fire on the Mountain day was a huge success- happy new year!!!
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Oregon’s huge investments in substance use treatment beds began to pay off in 2025, when hundreds of new beds came online.
Oregon’s slow but steady progress adding substance-use treatment beds is at risk
Oregon’s huge investments in substance use treatment beds began to pay off in 2025, when hundreds of new beds came online.
www.oregonlive.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Oregon’s huge investments in substance use treatment beds began to pay off in 2025, when hundreds of new beds came online.
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“The value of future rent inflation is capitalized in home prices and counted as an asset for homeowners. But the cost of future rents is undetermined for any family at any given time…so…not counted as a liability.” @kevinerdmann.bsky.social www.mercatus.org/research/res... ht @steveroth.bsky.social
"We Are Not as Wealthy as We Thought We Were": Elevated American Household Net Worth Reflects Poverty, Not Wealth
Abstract
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January 2, 2026 at 6:39 AM
“The value of future rent inflation is capitalized in home prices and counted as an asset for homeowners. But the cost of future rents is undetermined for any family at any given time…so…not counted as a liability.” @kevinerdmann.bsky.social www.mercatus.org/research/res... ht @steveroth.bsky.social
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get in loser we're doing day one permitting reform
January 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
get in loser we're doing day one permitting reform
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If public policy can make elevators cheaper to build, not only will we build more homes in the middle of our amenity-rich and desirable neighborhoods, but all the homes we do build will be accessible to people who can't always take the stairs.
housing affordability and accessibility overlap!
housing affordability and accessibility overlap!
The Americas see about 3% of global elevator installations as of 2020. The U.S. & Canada: even less.
But we've stuck with our own unique set of elevator codes, as if elevator companies still have no choice but to beat a path to our door.
Nope! "Everywhere else" is a bigger common market now.
But we've stuck with our own unique set of elevator codes, as if elevator companies still have no choice but to beat a path to our door.
Nope! "Everywhere else" is a bigger common market now.
January 2, 2026 at 1:02 AM
If public policy can make elevators cheaper to build, not only will we build more homes in the middle of our amenity-rich and desirable neighborhoods, but all the homes we do build will be accessible to people who can't always take the stairs.
housing affordability and accessibility overlap!
housing affordability and accessibility overlap!
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Mamdani setting up a permitting reform and land inventory task force is some real sickos yes stuff.
January 1, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Mamdani setting up a permitting reform and land inventory task force is some real sickos yes stuff.
See you all at FOTM tomorrow
Happy new year!!!
Happy new year!!!
New Year's Day is officially Fire on the Mountain day here in Portland - congratulations to all who celebrate it
January 1, 2026 at 8:10 AM
See you all at FOTM tomorrow
Happy new year!!!
Happy new year!!!
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2026 is about affordable homeownership. No more "policy" this year. Feed the local fauna, befriend them, and then use them to overpower homeowners so you can occupy their dwellings.
January 1, 2026 at 7:05 AM
2026 is about affordable homeownership. No more "policy" this year. Feed the local fauna, befriend them, and then use them to overpower homeowners so you can occupy their dwellings.
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The concern is process and power. A newly self-formed caucus is coordinating policy and agendas outside the public process, turning public meetings into ratification.
Voters are wary of that shit and want to know more. Just like the past, it concentrates decision-making out of view.
Voters are wary of that shit and want to know more. Just like the past, it concentrates decision-making out of view.
January 1, 2026 at 2:03 AM
The concern is process and power. A newly self-formed caucus is coordinating policy and agendas outside the public process, turning public meetings into ratification.
Voters are wary of that shit and want to know more. Just like the past, it concentrates decision-making out of view.
Voters are wary of that shit and want to know more. Just like the past, it concentrates decision-making out of view.
The past: Decisions made in smoke-filled rooms, with the public meeting reduced to a formality.
The present: Decisions made in encrypted group chats, with the public meeting reduced to a formality.
The present: Decisions made in encrypted group chats, with the public meeting reduced to a formality.
Someone cursed me by forwarding a ranty NW Examiner article.
One thing that stood out was an allegation that P-Cauc folks are doing “back door dealings”
Messaging your colleagues about legislation & saying the exact same thing in public seconds later is not back door you disingenuous weirdos.
One thing that stood out was an allegation that P-Cauc folks are doing “back door dealings”
Messaging your colleagues about legislation & saying the exact same thing in public seconds later is not back door you disingenuous weirdos.
January 1, 2026 at 1:20 AM
The past: Decisions made in smoke-filled rooms, with the public meeting reduced to a formality.
The present: Decisions made in encrypted group chats, with the public meeting reduced to a formality.
The present: Decisions made in encrypted group chats, with the public meeting reduced to a formality.
New Year's Day is officially Fire on the Mountain day here in Portland - congratulations to all who celebrate it
December 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New Year's Day is officially Fire on the Mountain day here in Portland - congratulations to all who celebrate it
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Earlier this year, "Oregon Field Guide" joined more than 20 young Indigenous kayakers on a journey down a stretch of the Klamath River no longer hindered by four dams. But that exploration of community, science and meaning was just the tip of the paddle. Join us as we take a look back at 2025.
The best stories of 2025 from ‘Oregon Field Guide’ and ‘All Science. No Fiction.’
The Field Guide team looks back on their favorite videos of the year and shares behind-the-scenes stories about making them.
www.opb.org
December 31, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Earlier this year, "Oregon Field Guide" joined more than 20 young Indigenous kayakers on a journey down a stretch of the Klamath River no longer hindered by four dams. But that exploration of community, science and meaning was just the tip of the paddle. Join us as we take a look back at 2025.
Kotek set a goal of 36,000 new housing units per year when she took office in January 2023 btw…
6,286 new shelter beds and 2,800 new affordable housing units have been created over the course of my term. I won’t stop fighting until all Oregonians have a safe place to call home.
December 30, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Kotek set a goal of 36,000 new housing units per year when she took office in January 2023 btw…
At full capacity, $18k per year at 10,000 kids is $180m
We’ve taken in $200m per year on average, more than enough money.
We could have been giving every 3 and 4 year old a voucher for preK for the past 4 years.
Instead we aren’t close to universal coverage.
We’ve taken in $200m per year on average, more than enough money.
We could have been giving every 3 and 4 year old a voucher for preK for the past 4 years.
Instead we aren’t close to universal coverage.
As someone who respects Gov. Kotek & wants to retain the governorship, this is an important take.
Demotivating your campaign's likeliest supporters by opposing a voter-approved initiative saving families $18k/yr in childcare expenses doesn't improve affordability or help your campaign.
Demotivating your campaign's likeliest supporters by opposing a voter-approved initiative saving families $18k/yr in childcare expenses doesn't improve affordability or help your campaign.
I would knock a million doors, fundraise, cartwheel down the middle of my street for a candidate who promised to tax the rich and fully fund schools. I am not even sure I can muster energy to fill in the bubble on my ballot for whatever this is.
December 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
At full capacity, $18k per year at 10,000 kids is $180m
We’ve taken in $200m per year on average, more than enough money.
We could have been giving every 3 and 4 year old a voucher for preK for the past 4 years.
Instead we aren’t close to universal coverage.
We’ve taken in $200m per year on average, more than enough money.
We could have been giving every 3 and 4 year old a voucher for preK for the past 4 years.
Instead we aren’t close to universal coverage.
Scrabble champion today
Miss opportunity for Thong Song though
Miss opportunity for Thong Song though
December 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Scrabble champion today
Miss opportunity for Thong Song though
Miss opportunity for Thong Song though
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"Rent Control Creates Ghost Apartments" marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
December 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"Rent Control Creates Ghost Apartments" marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
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In 2010s, new housing production in Portland's lower density neighborhoods was overwhelmingly very expensive duplexes. Opponents of reform pointed to this, and said that's all we'd ever get.
In the 2020s, Portland is building new housing at price points that don't exist in west coast peer cities.
In the 2020s, Portland is building new housing at price points that don't exist in west coast peer cities.
Why has Portland been able to do what San Francisco can’t?
Bc of years of "big tent" organizing by @pnwelcome.bsky.social @1000oregon.bsky.social + lots more.
by @xianleonard.bsky.social for @sfchronicle.com
Bc of years of "big tent" organizing by @pnwelcome.bsky.social @1000oregon.bsky.social + lots more.
by @xianleonard.bsky.social for @sfchronicle.com
This liberal city sees San Francisco as a role model — for home building failure
While prices for starter homes in San Francisco have surged, Portland has seemingly found the key to produce “missing middle” houses for first-time buyers.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In 2010s, new housing production in Portland's lower density neighborhoods was overwhelmingly very expensive duplexes. Opponents of reform pointed to this, and said that's all we'd ever get.
In the 2020s, Portland is building new housing at price points that don't exist in west coast peer cities.
In the 2020s, Portland is building new housing at price points that don't exist in west coast peer cities.
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The first renderings of the Albina Riverside, including the retained Louis Dreyfus grain terminal, have me very excited www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...
December 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The first renderings of the Albina Riverside, including the retained Louis Dreyfus grain terminal, have me very excited www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...
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I wrote here about how to think about Portland's housing policy goals in this new environment: we should be eliminating the cost barriers to development. www.sightline.org/2024/02/07/a...
A Housing Agenda for Oregon: More Homes without Higher Prices | Sightline Institute
The usual way to get more homes built is wait for prices go up. But there is another way.
www.sightline.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I wrote here about how to think about Portland's housing policy goals in this new environment: we should be eliminating the cost barriers to development. www.sightline.org/2024/02/07/a...