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I love it so much when my cat hangs out on my pillow with me 🥺
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Classic Dan Ryan: voting to refer the measure to the voters and then coming out against it, while [not entirely incorrectly] pointing out that the measure is only necessary due to the poor financial management at the Bureau he used to lead www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Portland councilor says he’ll vote against parks tax increase he helped refer to voters
“I love our parks, but this levy asks Portlanders to pay for inefficiencies the bureau hasn’t fixed,” Councilor Dan Ryan said Friday.
www.oregonlive.com
They are not holding onto money to spend on social housing at some point in the future. Conducting a study on social housing is not in conflict with PHB’s other responsibilities, which by all accounts she was doing an excellent job at executing.
(There is no money to do so). PHB’s purpose is not to make shelters, it’s to create homes, and I don’t think Portland voters elected him with the idea that people would enter mass shelters and then… stay there indefinitely?
I mean city council unanimously adopted a resolution to have PHB study social housing in April. This isn’t brand new, and they aren’t going full throttle into social housing.
What a spectacular idea to have parks generate more of their own revenue instead of acknowledging them as a public good, and then undermine the ability to provide any of the services that do generate revenue 👍
Amazing take from the guy who was in charge of parks when they removed all of the light poles in Irving Park rather than replacing them because parks was broke 👍
The mayor is going to be hearing from me on this one, I hope he’s going to hear from you too. Really fucking frustrating.
Shake-up at the Portland Housing Bureau: Mayor Wilson put director Helmi Hisserich, an "unparalleled expert" on social housing, on leave with little explanation Thursday. She has been in the role since early 2024.
Mayor Wilson Puts Portland Housing Bureau Director On Leave
Mayor Keith Wilson has put Portland Housing Bureau Director Helmi Hisserich on leave, effective immediately. City Administrator Michael Jordan sent an email to city councilors and city leadership on O...
www.portlandmercury.com
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"Only billionaires should pay higher taxes" discourse is downstream from a general belief that policy change need not involve tradeoffs, and that the very existence of tradeoffs is an automatic dealbreaker. My run-ins with people who hold this view are what will finally cause my psychotic break.
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The responses this post is getting, combined with the animating grievances of large swathes of politics, has convinced me we need a kind of society wide PSA about how Buying Things Is Optional.

You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.
AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising
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The beds are empty because shelters are inadequate, especially when they’re only open at night and require people to stand in line for hours for a spot. We are spending so much on this stupid idea and we know the answer is real housing!
Mayors Wilson’s overnight shelters have a remarkable vacancy rate — some up to 80% empty on average night.

He says that’s a positive.

“I’ve told my team I need hundreds of empty beds every night.”

That’s because it will allow him to start enforcing the city’s public camping ban next month.
Portland Mayor Keith Wilson announces plans to open addiction recovery shelter beds
The beds will open as the mayor plans to begin enforcing the city’s camping ban.
www.opb.org
One thing that was nice about when everyone was on zoom was that if you were testifying and therefore in the zoom meeting you could see every councilor’s reactions (and there were only 5 of them to look at lol). Lots of “they nodded a lot at that!!” in the testimony chat
We all know that replacing a paved over parking lot with a new apartment building with onsite stormwater management will increase stress on our stormwater systems 😔
Gotta replace that Taggart D trunk line, would be pretty nice to have some more ratepayers to fund it 🤔
That’s my councilor babeeeeey
in the second cnn portland city councilor hit of the day, the anchor couldn’t keep a straight face
Truly a legendary speaker!! And (apart from a huge pile of other accomplishments) living proof that posting about housing can change the world 🫡🫡🫡
We are also incredibly excited that the Opening Lecture will be given by the one and only Michael Eliason, RA @holz-bau.bsky.social! The opening lecture will have limited seating, but there will be reserved seats for volunteer mentors (sign up here: pnwdreams.notion.site/mentor)
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We are also incredibly excited that the Opening Lecture will be given by the one and only Michael Eliason, RA @holz-bau.bsky.social! The opening lecture will have limited seating, but there will be reserved seats for volunteer mentors (sign up here: pnwdreams.notion.site/mentor)
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We are excited to announce that we are co-sponsoring a Single Stair Design Competition along with our friends at @strongtownspdx.bsky.social and the University of Oregon School of Architecture! The competition will be open to undergrad + grad students in Oregon and Washington pnwdreams.org
Biking + public nudity are separately some of the most freeing experiences ya can have imo, nothing to do but just throw yourself into it (this is my most hippie opinion I think)
I wish he would go away but probably not because the Portland business lobby loves nothing more than throwing money at losing candidates!
Man fuck this guy. And thank fuck he came in third in the mayoral race.
We never need this guy back in a position of power.