People living in District 4, indeed, all residents of Portland, should pay close attention to Mitch Green’s November 2026 campaign platform.
A majority of the Portland City Council has apparently instructed Wilson, behind closed doors, to ENFORCE Portland’s anti-camping rules.
All members of the Council support allowing illegal camping on public property in direct contravention of the will of Portland voters.
Voters can use this framework of questions to understand and hold accountable any elected official’s claimed knowledge of housing policy.
Voters Were Promised ACTION On REMOVING ILLEGAL HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS Not Endless Unproductive Arguments
The Portland Council has the money, legal authority and a mandate from voters to get all those illegally camping on public property removed.
With Historic Budget Passage The Portland City Council Is NOW ACCOUNTABLE For Deliveries Of ALL City Services
Chair Avalos ignores voters, LCDC, Metro, News Stories. "I’m new here. I don’t know what’s been happening during the last couple of years."
You cannot fix nor even have a meaningful conversation about housing if you don’t understand the language and the process of development.
This budget session failed to address several major issues which will not go away whether or not the Council deals with them.
The members of this committee continue to see themselves as Tree Surgeons not Forest Management. And that is a BIG problem.
Mayor Wilson says, “Homelessness is the most import political issue on the public agenda.” Sets 12-1-25 as HIS ACCOUNTABILITY deadline.
Will this new revelation of massive individual incompetence substantially decrease voter confidence in these officials and local government?
This committee, and the council, continues to deliberately avoid the most important item on the citizens’ agenda. This does not bode well.
No member of Portland’s city council is prepared to be personally accountable for setting their own housing goals, policies and plans.
Oregon voters demand to know HOW MUCH of their money is being spent on what categories of housing and WHERE.
A more transparent approach, adopting a Priority Budgeting process in place of the behind-the-scenes, status quo, “Horse Trading” game.
No solution to Portland’s homeless and housing problems can be resolved without a serious public confrontation with Metro and LCDC.
Copresidents Musk/Trump are wantonly slashing federal staff and programs which will create an increase in the homeless population
New report by Truth in Accounting analyzes Portland's financial report
Wherever you live in Oregon your jurisdiction will almost certainly face a dramatically increased housing crisis in the very near future.
Portland’s homeless population will increase in the near future. However, there is NO SENSE OF URGENCY to prepare for this eventuality.
Here are some thoughts that I hope will help you establish your committee’s credibility with the public.
NO Housing Goal = NO Housing Policy = NO Housing Plan = NO Executed Housing Plan = NO ACCOUNTABILITY
You cannot fix nor even have a meaningful conversation about housing if you don’t understand the language and process of housing development
All Republican Candidates For Partisan Elected Offices In Oregon Approve of Trump's behavior, Share his values and Blindly do his bidding.
OUR United States Supreme Court Is Now An Existential Threat To OUR American Democracy. It is No Longer A Legitimate Court.
Many of these candidates are part of the problem not the solution especially those who have been or are currently office holders
The same political climate that overshadows every public election in Oregon and America also clouds the Multnomah County DA’s race
What we have here is a regional version of the Federalism Conundrum. Who has the upper hand? Metro has the checkbook. Bring on the lawyers?
Elected Officials and Candidates Challenged To Confront Metro's Undelivered REGIONAL Public Housing Policy
Available evidence suggests that NONE of the current applicants for Matching Funds for Portland City Council are prepared for the new job.
New report by watchdog
The U.S. Conference of Mayors and Comcast Corporation Announce New $1.5 Million Grant Awards Program
53 elected public officials serving within Metro’s borders agree that the current Metro councilors demonstrated housing policy incompetence.
Metro does NOT have any official, documented, majority publicly voted on and approved REGIONAL Public Housing Policy.
The Metro/Oregon Public Housing Location Maps are a free online community resource provided by faculty and cartography students at PSU.
The Metro regional government has failed the taxpayers. It has failed to establish a regional Public Housing policy.
The report is based on the cities’ 2021 annual comprehensive financial reports, which are not analyzed on this scale by other organizations.
Using Public Housing Authorities as proxies for Metro’s direct delivery system is NOT what the voters paid for.