We need to be making it easier to build homes for Portlanders at all ages, wages and stages of life, and we’re grateful to see city council's leadership on streamlining our housing production. 🏘️🏘️🏘️

Too often, anti-housing advocates have been able to use the design review process to slow desperately needed housing construction, and the Landmarks Commission regularly wields de facto discretionary downzoning power.

PNW Board Member @amb.fyi testified in support of the Morillo Amendment at last night's council hearing.

Thank you to @councilormorillo.bsky.social, @councilorgreen.bsky.social, @jamiedunphy.bsky.social, @councilorkanal.bsky.social and @councilortkl.bsky.social for your support of the amendment.

We urge the City to make a better choice, one that accepts responsibility for the policy failures that have created this situation: we can spend our money and our energy creating housing options that serve everyone, not just the most fortunate among us.

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Every dollar spent on forcibly moving our unhoused neighbors from one wet sidewalk to another is a dollar not spent on programs like rental assistance, which keeps Portlanders from becoming unhoused in the first place.

Evidence shows that sweeps do not improve the conditions or prospects of the people they affect or the City of Portland as a whole. They are a harmful and inadequate strategy for addressing the challenges our homeless neighbors face every day.

One of the many reasons to make small multifamily buildings geometrically feasible on small lots is that they're much safer than the detached homes there today.

If people want to live in safer buildings, let's not stop them!

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