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What are your top 3 concerns for Portland?For your top concern, what ideas do you have to address it?
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the homeless, housing,disfunctional city councilcalm, reasoned solutions
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Homeless crisis and graffiti in the Inner East Side. Mayor Wheeler has failed Portland! Lack of police responsiveness.Aggressive arrests of people damaging property. I sent pictures of someone spraying graffiti and no police follow up or response.
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Homelessness, Mental Health, Homelessness and Mental HealthShelters and treatment centers outside the city core like Wapato!!
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1) Traffic safety for slow-moving pedestrians, 2) Late hours public transportation, 3) Violent protestsTraffic lights need to give pedestrians more time to get across the road before they turn. People in walkers, wheelchairs, old people, people with short legs cannot always make it across the roads before the light turns even if they start immediately when the light goes green. Harsher penalties for red-light runners need to be enforced as well. I would say the count on number of seconds before the light turns yellow need to be about 1.5-2 times as long as they are calibrated for now.
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Lack of civility, respect, and integrity in City Hall-- and statewide and nationally. Get better candidates in office who hold themselves accountable and hold agency leaders accountable. The lack of responsiveness, lack of a sense of urgency/timliness, and the amount of complacency is beyond disappointing. As someone who is "doing their part" and bringing a robust solution to the region through a extensive grassroots effort, I've seen and experienced the staff of electeds be unprofessional, lack facts and data for decision making, and contribute to a culture of uncivil bullies.
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A City-wide ban of gas-powered leaf blowers. More @ quietcleanpdx.org - we also have an email list of 300 people who are interested in this topic. We recently got the City to agree to eliminate them from City departments, but a full-on ban is needed. These things are toxic.

Re-vamping the city's tree code (11). A large group is working on keeping trees standing in Portland. We could use a champion on the City Council. Here's more on that issue. https://www.treesforlifeoregon.org/

Regarding the houseless - someone might want to raise the issue of population growth. We can't build ourselves out of this issue. Our population keeps growing, there are ways to keep that from happening or lessening it, but it will take someone speaking up about the issue. Or we can keep applying band-aids. 		Check out the websites I've listed above.
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Homelessness, homelessness, homelessnessFund more community shelters. Pass a statewide measure similar to Measure 98 but for building shelters and services throughout the State.
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Homelessness, unlawfulness, congestionThe city, county and Metro all have put dollars towards affordable housing but it takes years to see the results. There needs to be a better coordinated effort between public, private and nonprofit organizations to get the people off the streets now. This effort should be one individual directing all the efforts.
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-having REASONABLE fees and regulations
-urban planning that eases traffic congestion
-not having cops deal with social service issues as they are only trained to arrest. 		add some nuances to landlord regulation for ending tenants terms. i have 1 rental unit and a month to month longer term tenant who i charge under market value. i can never sell the house unless i want to give tenant $4500, this seems unfair. this regulation should exempt landlords that are simply renting 1 or 2 units as non-pro operators. draconian and short sighted policy that really does not help.
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Eliminate the commissioner system.
Homeless.
Crime and quality of life downtown 		Convening of community and business leaders to develop process to change city charter
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alleviating homelessness, responsible urban growth/preservation while creating and preserving green space, health and welfare of citizensaffordable housing, accessible drug programs and mental wellness programs, job training
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Impact of homeless population on productive citizens, identity politics in city government, city government pandering to antifa and similar groupsEnforce the laws against camping, aggressive panhandling, etc
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Housing Affordability and Supply, Transportation Infrastructure, Form of City GovernanceRecalibrate regulations, fees and incentives to re-start housing production.
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(1) inability to attract business relative to suburbs; (2) houselessness; (3) transportation infrastructureHard to compete with cities that have endless cheap land and water, and are typically giving it away. More emphasis on regional collaboration (Metro) and, additionally, tolls for any route into the City.
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Homeless, equity, Chinatown
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Sensible responsible leadership
Addressing homelessness and rampant garbage
Supporting children		Get rid of weak mayor system
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Affordable housing. Homeless population. Traffic congestion.Reduce/eliminate short term rentals.
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Transportation infrastructure (transit, ped., and bike), housing affordability (including home ownership), climate. Implement the residential infill project already!
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Homelessness, Climate Change, Economic DivideWe know what to do locally to address climate issues. We have a solid track record and just need to make it a priority again, but we first need to address the housing/economic policies that have exacerbated livability issues in Portland over the last decade.
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Homelessness; poor zoning and management of growth; ineffectual city governance modelCreate a more responsive and responsible city government that allows for larger picture vision and the implementation of coordinated, inventive, and strategic planning.
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homeless, affordable housing, parks and recreationdifferent funding was for Portland P & R
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Losing its personality, it's soul, and becoming a place for the rich just like Seattle, LA, SF and Vancouver BC

Our public dialog is toxic, and it paralyzes our ability to do constructive things.

Our thoughts about the future and what kind of City we could become - how we can be ahead of the curve again - is stuck in the ideas of the 1970s and 1980s. Actually, we think we're progressive, but in fact a large percentage of the population doesn't want things to change (i.e., they're actually conservative), they don't let the younger generation take over. It's like we're a sea of Bernie Sanders'.



Invest in and incubate researchers and investors willing to build pilot projects for compelling technology and practices/ideas that dramatically solve some of our climate issues - pick just one or two. Become the Silicon Valley of Sustainable Technology -- e.g., don't just rely on regulations to get us out of our cars, because that won't work and isn't working. We attained air quality compliance for CO in the 1980s due to unleaded gas and the catalytic converter not because people, began to carpool or take the bus. Can we find some new set of technologies that can help us mitigate the climate crisis?

Another idea that has affected me personally is that at 63 years old I'm no longer valued. I've had a 40 year career providing professional advice as a consultant (transportation and land use planning) and now I'm considered over the hill, a dinosaur, a "boomer". Could you somehow engage those who have retired or near retired in some kind of think tank - with people of all ages - to demonstrate how valuable people of my generation can be to solving civic problems. This would take little effort and you'd have no problem recruiting people of my generation because we discuss it all the time amongst ourselves. The more productive we are the longer we live the more we contribute, the more likely we'll have earnings that can go to paying local taxes, etc.
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Homelessness, Public Safety, Environment Please see my campaign messages found at www.dianebuckshnis.com and yes rudimentary website.

1) Don’t let Portland turn into another Seattle. Find one or two key agencies to deal with homeless and vulnerable people that may become homeless because of costs of rising housing and taxes.

Stratify housing mix to create more affordable housing - set up low barrier housing for those attempting to change their life around.

Safe streets and streets by schools are needed to ensure public safety.

Start community solar projects. Engage in experts that can give you additional program ideas to help reduce Greenhouse gases.
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Housing, pedestrian and cyclist safety, the environmentIncentivize the building of low and moderate income and temporary housing.
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1) Lack of enforcement for property & street level crimes, 2) A city council that has lost it's way and is catering to the loudest folks rather than all of us actual tax payers, 3) Keeping parks clean and needle free so families can enjoy themWe need to have a city council and mayor that will support police doing their job and not get them in trouble for wanting to make people living in cars move on.
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transportation, recreation, housingMore density to increase affordability and increase use of alternative transportation modes and
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Homelessness, transportation, too much growth I think government, business and citizens need to put together a plan to provide housing, jobs and services. Very complicated. And it may cost a lot!!

Building and widening freeways and roads is not the answer. Tolling will help. The city is doing well, working with its partners to encourage mass transit. Obviously, more needs to be done. And it will take time and money.

There are too many people in the metropolitan area. Infill zoning increases the population. And it increases transportation problems.
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Homelessness
Infrastructure maintenance
Transportation
Yes
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Homelessness, High Rent and urban development Expanding homeless services with the development of Wapato
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1. Homeless camping on our streets - hurts our businesses, tourism, and results in people avoiding our downtown.
2. Rent controls - continually empowering tenants rights has resulted in single family rentals being sold and investors taking their money elsewhere. Free markets are healthy markets.
3. The current makeup of Portland City Council MUST BE SHAKEN UP. They refuse to listen to taxpaying citizens, instead they stridently advocate AGAINST us. I am a Portland business owner and pay the tax for that privilege - when I voiced my concerns to a Portland staffer (professionally and calmly) I was told that I should move to Vancouver WA if I don't like Portland's structure. Wow!!!		Stop allowing public camping, urinating, defecating, trashing our streets, alcohol and drug use in broad daylight, and harassing good citizens. Employ zero tolerance for these activities. Wapato is a good new addition; we need more funding for homeless services so that there are adequate beds for those that NEED them. No one should be allowed to camp if there are empty beds. I will willingly pay more if I can be assured that the funds are dedicated to housing solutions.
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gap between rich and poor, lack of services for mental health issues, high cost of housingStrong unions help shrink the gaps between rich and poor; having the City require prevailing wages for all the construction projects it invests in will help low-income people who are construction workers both union and non-union; as well as the City continuing to work on equity in the construction workforce; Metro's C2P2 project - which the City has endorsed will help with access for diverse women and men of color to high wage trades careers; the City's continued efforts to overcome institutional racism will also help shrink the gap for people of color.
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1st) Property Crime and public safety
2nd) Homelessness & addiction
3rd) Traffic Congestion		I'm not sure, but something related to revitalizing our police's level of care and concern. Tara was robbed last year and I was able to locate the robbers by tracking transactions that they were making with our cards in real time... I lead the police to them and they had the opportunity to catch 3 people. They only stopped and questioned one, who passed off the cards and receipts to the others (visibly) and they did not arrest or charge anyone. This was infuriating... their attitude seemed so defeated and like "we don't even worry about stuff like this, there's nothing we can do." It was a very demoralizing experience. It's obvious that criminals doing things like this can and are thriving in our city.
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Homelessness, traffic, Chinatown (needs revitalization)If we can still use wapato for homeless, we should!
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Homeless, polarization of communities. public safety- Community education and engagement
- Greater focus on shelters (must get people off the street first - creating organized, self governing temporary communities on public and private property)
- Funding for supportive services such as Here Together
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1.Solving Homeless Problem
2. Keeping Portland Green while increasing density
3. Improving Transit and Walkability across entire city		More mental health services, more counseling if teens and their parents to avoid teen homelessness, more drug counseling and support.

I also think the city should work toward empowering the growing population of older folks to solve some of our problems, perhaps offering training for needed services in return for a commitment to serve. Also empower our citizens to address needed services like trimming brush along our streets, building trails, other needdd things, train them how to do it safely but eliminate red take to get itcdone.
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Bringing Prosperity and equitable access to goods and services to East Portland / influencing the market to build resilient places in East Portland; reducing Carbon Emissions; Repairing the damage done to the Springwater and adjacent natural areas done in 2015/16/17 Build a major arts and culture venue near Gateway Transit Center, move BDS and PBOT offices to Gateway, build a new community Center with a focus on outdoor and environmental education near 105th and Foster to leverage Zenger, Leach, the Foster Floodplain and Beggars Tick, direct Prosper Portland to start an effort to attract healthy grocery options to underserved areas, build a permanent indoor/outdoor market venue in the Jade District on one of the old car lots, Streetcar on 82nd from Lents to Montavilla
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Inadequate support for serious arts (symphony, OBT, opera company, art museum). Change the personnel at RACC; invest in a better theater complex; education for the public
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Homelessness, district based commissioners, continue road repair catchupProvide beds for all that will use them. Remove remaining campers with a no tolerance policy. Change as many regulatory roadblocks as possible. Move money from other bureaus as required. (I love our parks but......) Freeze all out of state staff travel. That will gain goodwill even if it is a small dollar item. Forge as many public private partnerships as you can with as much publicity as possible. Make this job #1. If the public sees progress, taxes can be raised to assist. Good luck!
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Transportation
houselessness, especially in Old town
Improve transportation infrastructure without pretending more money for bike lanes will cure anything. It won't. Be real because cars aren't going anywhere. I-5 expansion and the Columbia River Crossing must happen.
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LAck of real equity work being done by government. Need to make bigger strides in this work. Change Portland form of government. Commisiion form is not working. Affordable housing.Need to invest in equity work. Trainings, coaches, etc. Make it a priority. It seems we do small programs nut mone that stick or make real change
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1) homelessness 2)relationship to public schools 3)protection of public spaces/environment in the city1) what can we learn from other cities?
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HOMELESS SITUATION CRIME and SCHOOLS (pps is lagging and academic scorecards are trending down) No idea but the homeless situation. Is out of control
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The houseless population. The declining numbers of Police officers. Encourage private and public investment in affordable housing, medical services, and support centers for those who live on our streets.
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1. Lawlessness / Lack of law enforcement.

For example; a. right of way obstruction, b. public drug use/intoxication - [*intravenous heroine use *(I witnessed this 5 times in 2019 downtown - never have before - on one occasion two Tri-met Officers just looked on at SW Morrison and 12th as an individual shot up through his heel)] [*Rampant Meth Use *(my wife waiting for a bus was asked if she wanted a hit of meth - saw some guy smoking a block from City Hall around 10a.m.] [*Open Air Prescription Drug marketplace* - at the Pioneer Courthouse Square Starbucks - on any given day sit for 10 minutes and count the deals going down - I gave up my lease because my clients could not stand lawlessness in the Square] [*Public Intoxication* took my children downtown for Christmas Tree Viewing (2017) - drunks, stoners smoking in the square and filth (feces, urine and vomit everywhere) - not an officer to be seen], c. assault and battery are commonplace (my wife works on 12th and Yamhill and was battered by a male - probably intoxicated or ill), d. businesses are ignored in the city and are ignored when they report crime nothing happens - they eventually move out of the City (every year 3-6 clients move out of the City); e. Clean Water Act violations (open feces and urine everywhere going right into the drains); f. Drivers, Skaters, Cyclists and Peds do not obey traffic laws with the population increasing, this is not sustainable;

2. Traffic.

I'm seeing that planned congestion is a mistake - families (with school, lessons, work, sports, daily) cannot walk, ride bikes or take 45 minutes per leg of each trip on Trimet (Trimet does not have the assets, management skill or infrastructure to move people efficiently or to motivate people to ride). City is totally missing the future of transport and autonomous - they are solving 1970s transportation problems.

3. Failing Schools.

Bad teachers get promoted, good teachers get fired or sidelined.There is no meritocracy at PPS from teacher to student: I hired a Valedictorian - I found out there were 15 such valedictorians. My former employee had great self esteem, but was not ready to show up to work. We need accountability.		1. Enforce the laws.

Here is the plan: Day one, enforce the laws. Get a roof over everyone's head: (a). First, disaggregate the homeless population as follows: (i) institutionalize those with (I) profound mental illnesses and ensure they stay on their medical regiment as well as those who those who cannot feed, clean or clothe themselves (e.g. disabled, bipolar disorder, schizophrenics, may require daily medication, etc.); (II) addiction issues and get them into basic treatment; Second, (ii) incarcerate the mentally sound criminals: the violent, and the publicly intoxicated - the City must stop its hatred of Police Officers, they have a tough job and having a City council and mayor calling them names is pointless and immature; Third, (iii) all other homeless need a transitional roof over their head, access to phones, address, bed, food - the City needs to address the anxiety the Homeless Non-Profit Industry has that results in them blocking good ideas (for example the drama around Jordan Schintzer's project at Wapato) these Non-Profits need to look forward - their jobs are not going away they simply need to change. At the end of the day, make more roofs so these people can get basic needs, job skills and employment. Allowing camping is not compassion, unfortunately, that privilege has been abused, enabled by the city and made the city much worse off and enabled the people power of the disadvantaged to be squandered or ignored; and Lastly (iv) Honor law enforcement, instruct Police Officers to move people along and channel them to get the right help. Sure, instruct them on recognizing mentally ill from criminals, but do not train them to be social workers as some commissioners want - they have enough to do - you can redeploy people from the Non-Profit Industry.

My son worked with the Homeless for two years in Denver, he says these people need leadership, not simply short term compassion nor pity, compassion is a strategic goal - they can transition if you have high expectations and allow them to do it themselves.
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Getting people off streets into affordable safe, clean housing with supportive services

Traffic safety for bicyclists and pedestrians

Maintaining affordable middle class housing
Partner with private sector to Build housing for very low income with supportive services. Group housing. Housing allowing drug & alcohol use in their own private space

Build multi purpose off street trails/paths ie Springwater, North Portland Greenway

Continue with residential infill allowing duplexes triplexes and quads in residential zones.
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Homelessness, Supporting/Funding Community Centers
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1. The new FAIR ordinance will do the exact opposite of its intended goals, decreasing housing access and, in addition, it will substantially increase prices for rental housing above the standard rate. 2. Traffic continues to worsen, and Eudaly's plan to create lots of new dedicated bus lanes without any plan to increase ridership will make traffic dramatically worse. 3. There is no clear plan to reduce the total homeless population. The first rung on the housing ladder is not functioning in the region.I like OneApp's solution to create shared risk pools for tenants who don't qualify using traditional property management screening criteria. This shifts the risks of successful tenancy to a third party, not the property owner, and also creates an outlet for non-profits, tenants' rights advocates, MFNW, and the city to collaborate on a productive solution instead of continuing to see the issues as a fixed-pie, with parties sitting on the opposite sides of the table from each other.
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1.Fiscal sustainability 2. Commission form of government 3. Regulatory overreachBudget review toward a goal of reducing GF by 10%. City is already asking for additional tax resources, and the economy is blistering hot. Get ahead of the slow down. How? Implement efficiency technology much with a corresponding reduction in FTE. Work to eliminate non-core activities. Reduce middle management. Zero base budgeting, and my perceived sense of abuse inter-bureau chargebacks, and excessive increases in fees on the backs of citizens and businesses. I really don't know what it takes, but your deep knowledge of how the city works is one of your attractions to me. I believe some of solution to the housing affordability and inventory issues would benefit from a tighter more efficent bureaucracy. (no need to go out of your way to talk to me, but I think you know me :)
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Landlord/Tenant rights (density requirements, rent control, etc.), Homelessness (programs to help and house people on the streets), and our city government's efficacy (how are you and our local government going to move our city forward). I think rent control is a bad idea...history shows it doesn't help keep rents down or gentrification for that matter, and it hits "mom and pop" landlords the hardest. We need more supply and that's a density issue. I think we could be more creative with our affordable housing as well and incentivize more affordable housing construction/designation. It would help slow down gentrification and offer more options for lower income families. I think it's important to regulate our landlords and help protect our tenants (I love the tenant relocation fee...and I'm a landlord, not a tenant). But I think we should lean heavier on larger corporations/property owners than the local mom and pop landlords...and empower more locals to become landlords not companies that aren't even based here.
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Changes in density for residential housing in Portland; Homeless services;
Pedestrian safety		Perhaps the city has no control over this, may be a state decision, which is WRONG!, But there should be a limit of 2 houses on a stardard 50' × 100' residential lot
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Unconscious developers, building with no thought of aesthetics or over crowding. Homelessness not enough good resources. Public transportation infrastructure. Developers should have to go through community review to be able to build an eye sore. Homelessness more public housing, concentration on building jobs. Continue the bicycle infrastructure
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The impact of homelessness is #1. Get them off the streets for their sake. Even if we can't quickly triage the housing, end sidewalk camping, end it now. the effect on business, tourism, and general livability has reached a critical level.

My second issue is very timely, as a small business owner, there needs to be a better way for development to happen. The impact of development on small businesses located near a project is immense. There needs to be a new standard of communication, mitigation of project cased business losses, new PBOT guidelines for access, signage and new noise mitigation requirements. There needs to be up-front and ongoing business compensation through development fees. There need to be an understanding by PBOT (and planning agencies) that the weekend is the busiest time for retailers, and prioritize access.

*** I would love to have you tour the West End with me ***

Third, on my list is a concern is type of city council we have. I feel it's the cause of not being able to solve many of the city issues, thus I rate this as #3. Change our type of city government and solutions will follow.

I would take a bold and radical crisis management approach to the homeless problem. I would put it front and center with a massive homeless emergency triage center at Water Front Park. I would bring in FEMA style trailers/tents, I would require all agencies and stakeholders to have in-take facilities on-site. I would set up military-style medical, dental, mess tents, showers, bathrooms. It would stay until the crisis is over. The high visibility would bring the issue front and center and by displacing the many festivals the pressure that pushes for the solution will happen very fast.
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#1 Low and middle income housing with 2-3 bedrooms over current condo and curb-to-curb apartment development by investment corps.

#2 A separate response and care team for people with mental health issues. We need to stop relying on the fire and police depts as social services. It’s highly ineffective for those in need first and foremost; it causes higher burnout & turnover in our understaffed first responder fire and safety depts; it’s an inefficient distribution of resources.

#3 More equitable distribution of resources on our public schools. It’s appalling that in a town our size that PPS students’ resources are so vastly different. I say this as a parent of two children who went PreK-12 through PPS at “Foundation” schools and had a very privileged experience compared to others in underserved schools. 		Stop allowing outside investment corps to develop indiscriminately by instituting stricter regulations as well as a % for subsidized units requirement into EVERY new development that includes 2+ bedrooms for families. No. More. Hotels.
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Homeless, Traffic, ineffective/blocking off ideas on council.Homelessness: Let the folks that want to convert the jail try their idea. Traffic: Find a person to be the Czar paid by State, City, County, Metro.
Get you elected.
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1) Become a sustainability and climate leader again.
2) Change systems so that women, renters, minorities and other underrepresented residents have an equal voice in government. Not just the same insiders and neighborhood associations.
3) Make sure that the Portland Harbor Superfund site is cleaned up and redeveloped in a safe, sustainable and equitable way so that the river can become an amenity and integrated into our lives, not just a barrier with bridges to get between quadrants of the city. 		1) Inspiration - we are missing the leadership and inspiration to motivate us on sustainability & climate issues. Leadership + inspiration + redoubling efforts.
2) Commit to equitable outcomes in government. Audit and follow through on changing any government system that deliberately or inadvertently excludes resident engagement.
3) Prioritize the river! Be a coalition leader in the cleanup and develop a plan with engagement for redevelopment. EPA has lots of tools to encourage Superfund site redevelopment including liability protections, Ready for Reuse Determinations, comfort letters, etc. including a funding for developing wide community input/support for a vision.
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Affordable Housing, Traffic/Congestion, CrimeAffordable/subsidized/mixed income housing with quality construction and mindful community design.
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Homelessness Climate Change TransportationSupport good candidates
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Homelessness, stopping Chloe’s war on cars, attracting businesses downtownConvert Wapato Jail
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Homelessness, stop war on cars, change form of city govtConvert Wapato Jail
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Homeless criminals, trash on the streets and freeways, not feeling safe to walk in our cityMandated rehab or jail time for months. Criminals should not allowed to live on our streets.
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Helping homeless folks, closing inequality gaps, maintaining a progressive agenda.I have no great ideas on the homeless issue. A good education system for all and expanded mental health services would provide the foundation to try and address homelessness.
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Growth and support of white supremacy by its police forceJust spitballin'- I put them in a large straw basket then either close the lid and forget about it for six or seven decades, or put the basket in a comically large trebuchet. The construction of which I'll fund by bake sales and community fundraising. I suspect it'll be popular, but I'm also wild and wealthy enough to probably cover this part myself.

On my birthday (or yours, or the city's, not picky), we hold a 50/50 draw, and the winner gets half the proceeds and permission to trigger the trebuchet. We set up a monetized YouTube channel beforehand to also profit from the video's views, but the remaining 50/50 cash can probably go toward whatever other priorities people mention here.
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Unhoused folks, lack of community services for same, and traffic congestionMore funding (and transparency about how it's spent); more services, and some honesty about how troubled many people in Portland are about egregious behaviors by some
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Renters Rights, Affordable Housing, Equity www.frontdoorpdx.com is my one idea - Consumer Review Platform & Local Online Community for and by Renters of Affordable Housing. (1) move from making lists although that would be helpful since the local housing authority and the Oregon Housing and Community Service agency don't talk to one another, yet each deal with regulated housing as recently discussed in Willamette Week article here at https://www.wweek.com/news/state/2020/01/22/the-state-agency-tasked-with-monitoring-rents-in-affordable-housing-failed-at-two-portland-buildings/
(2) lists of affordable housing are mostly useless as there is near zero availability, but it might be helpful to know how useless it is; (3) regardless of availability there are significant management issues with affordable housing properties that keep the playing field tilted towards landlords and their property management surrogates who protect their interests and that of the landlord which have in my experience trumped even the safety of the people paying them rent (4) if it works for affordable housing i.e. subsidized, regulated properties it can be expanded to cover the private rental market where people somehow think that a 7% plus COL rent cap is acceptable - it is not (see blog post, "Too Little, Too Late." https://www.pdxcaringcommunity.com/single-post/2019/03/29/The-Rent-Cap-Too-Little-Too-Late).
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improve the neighborhood system, form of government, air qualityNew leadership at OCCL, increase funds to NAs, have a process to improve underrepresented group participation, consider changing some of the antiquated NA boundaries.
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Mental health and drug addiction on the streetsAllocate resources and establish a tax that provides services for this population and helps them regain their dignity, find work and look for housing. The homelessness is steeped in this issue, and should be framed as such and addressed accordingly. Affordable housing is a factor, but not as much as certain commissioners and city leaders suggest. We need to help people, not punish others.
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I have lived (owned a home in Colonial Heights) in Portland for 17 years. I have depressingly watched my beautiful neighborhood become a wasteland/toilet. I can't take my daughter to the park anymore without having to walk over needles, garbage and the smell of urine. I am scared to walk even to Safeway on Hawthorne after dark now (2 blocks away). This is so sad. So my personal safety of myself and my family is a huge concern. I used to live in a highly coveted neighborhood of beautiful homes - my car and home/garage have been broken into recently. As I feel bad for homeless - I don't see that Portland's current solutions are solving the problem - they are just inviting more homeless. I have no idea. I think SAM is amazing and I am excited for him to return to Portland Politics.
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Homeless issue, other cities have resolved why not Portland, lack of affordable housing, and over developmentHomelessness, let Homer lead the way, rent control, development based on actual need.
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Crime in NW, homelessness, infrastructure Increased police patrols, outreach programs, fix roads
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1.increasing I-5 for more lanes 2, homeless people, 3, rental costI feel we need to tap into Mr. Trumps promise of funding the infrastructure of freeways and airports and get the federal government to pay for there federal highway. They need to pay for a new interstate bridge and widening I-5 from 5 miles to the north to the Markham bridge. This way no tolls would be needed any ware in the city of Portland.
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Inefficient form of government, income inequality, homelessness Ballot measure to change Gov’t structure, income tax for people making over $200k. City sales tax on restaurant meals, open Wapato & build more homeless shelters
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1) The homeless issue along with the camping, drug use, litter, and threats to livability and enjoyment of our otherwise beautiful city.

2) Increased police presence and enforcement in our communities, including hiring more police officers, expanding and reimplementing our specialized police task forces designed to investigate and curb major crimes, such as gang enforcement, and other aspects of law enforcement, including traffic.

Specifically, increased traffic enforcement is needed to curb our increase in the accident and fatality rate rather than spending millions of dollars on reducing speed limits and chopping up our existing roads which just leads to more traffic issues and confused drivers. Enforcement is the best deterrent in making our streets safer.

3) Leave the neighborhood associations and other community oriented organizations alone! They are a core part of our community’s identities. They do not contribute to racism and exclusions in today’s modern society, as in the past and if there are instances of such perception, they should be addressed individually in the courts. Racism and exclusion is not widespread like some would have you believe and it largely exists only because the fires that were almost extinguished long ago (I speak for Portland specifically) are being stoked again by groups of people with their own interests. The media certainly helps stoke these fires. 		Addressing mental health and drug addiction would be a start in decreasing the homeless population. Unfortunately, this needs to be addressed on a national and state level as well. We need to resurrect increase forced and mandatory mental health confinements as well as utilize the prison system more efficiently when these folks commit violent crimes rather than repeatedly releasing them to repeat and reoffend. If we can’t fix these folks, we need to keep them away from the public.
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Affordability, Arts & Culture, Preservation of Urban Forestry & ArchitectureRegulations on real estate developers (esp. out-of-state corps and shell companies), commercial developers, and homeshare brokers.
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1. Houselessness and too many huge luxury apartment buildings while zombie houses remain abandoned, 2. preserving and protecting the Bull Run water supply, 3. potholes all over the city in streets and roads.Require all new apartment buildings to provide a percentage of low-incoming or subsidized housing. Penalized owners of new apartment buildings with empty units by levying fines and encouraging lower rents to get the units filled. Foreign investors should not be allowed to park money in real estate investments in empty apartment buildings.
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City's lack of upkeep in business areas
Homeless in the Street
City Council vs City Management		Change the City Council Model to a City management System to allow elected Mayor to take action without agenda driven city council.
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Homelessness. Housing costs. Portland’s antibusiness policies. Reduce red tape
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Humane homeless solutions, rising drug and gang crimes, safety of minorities.More transitional & affordable housing, greater mental health in needed populations, stop mainstreaming mentally dangerous students.
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Fighting the spread of "car culture" in Portland. Homelessness relief. Stopping violence.More bike infrastructure and transit prioritization. No expanding I5 through the city. What alternatives may exist that could be discussed. What about a bypass? Expert panels and discussion on how we can help the homeless find shelter and stability. Working with police and local business to have an ear to the ground regarding how to best meet their needs. There have been a bunch of frightening armed burglers targeting bars around town.
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Family wage jobs, housing, transportation1. Recognize that we have a growing wage gap. 2. Recognize that improving availability of low wage jobs (service and retail sectors) for minorities and non-college graduates is a recipe for increased inequity. 3. Identify sectors that employ high numbers of minority and non-college graduates in family wage jobs (industrial, medical, etc.). 4. Develop a long-term plan to enhance these sectors: protect land supply, incentivize growth, streamline permitting, improve transportation, create employment pipelines to east Portland neighborhoods, and improve transit options.
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Sustainability, Homelessness, public transportationSustainability: Cap and Trade; curbing diesel truck + auto emissions; more public transit to include walkable, bike able streets
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Homelessness and trash, Residential Infill Project, overall density and lack of design standards that contribute to our beautiful architecture. Ban camping in some areas, work with County to expand drug court. Stop the enabling! Regarding RIP, it won't help low income or people of color or families. it will only create options for white individuals with good paying jobs.
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Climate change homelessness Portland public schools
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Traffic, homelessness and City Council structure.Turning the major streets back into two lane, E. Burnside for example. Making it harder for folks to drive discriminates against so many people, the elderly, disabled and folks that have to carpool children. Portland changed the laws without changing the culture.
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 Shelter for the homeless, cleaner & more maintained city, increasing sustainability
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Homeless / tent camping
Maybe increased job training and housing support? Not sure what the solution is, but it’s a growing problem. An eye sore for our otherwise beautiful city, and I have concerns regarding safety, theft, and sanitation.
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Homeless population, our willingness to help people BE homeless, the lack of funding for police officers.Tough question! How do you convince a person to sign on to the dominant paradigm?? Portland is a *civilization.* Civilations have rules, like no pooping in public areas. How do you get members of a civilization invested in the societal mores? I wish I knew, and I’m sorry I’m asking more than answering.
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Homelessness, trash/graffiti, lack of investment in East portland (specifically infrastructure like sidewalks)Housing first programs like those used successfully in other cities. Get people off the streets! Wapato would also be a good venue to temporarily shelter the homeless while connecting them with services.
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Houseless individuals, "real" affordable housing, civilityI have worked for 2 years with a group of people on a project to create safe parking for houseless individuals living in a motor vehicle. There are viable and innovative options to utilize unused vacant City property. In late 2018 PFB chose it as a project as part of their Idea Launch Program. It is modeled after a very successful safe parking project in Eugene managed by the Salvation Army. Leadership changes at Council level caused it to diminish in importance. I have schematic plans, budget, feasibility, etc. I can provide all the info. I lost energy and hope, but would love to have a chance to share the info. PSU's HRAC project produced a report for designing a similar program for PSU students. Nothing has been implemented. Home for Everyone has had it in their workplan for over 2 years but no plan or work scope has been created. Services for our plan would be centralized. There are many benefits to the individuals challenged with their living conditions. MCDD has developed a project in coordination with Cascadia Health to help those people being evicted from camping on the levee (safety concerns). It has been funded by the drainage districts.The evicted individuals are connected with services and assigned a caseworker and connected with a myriad of services. The one thing missing is a place to "live" in their vehicle until safe, affordable housing can be identified. In the first year the cost for successfully placing 17 individuals in safe and sustainable housing, with various life stabilization needs was $7,500 total for all 17 individuals. JOHS stated it costs $10,000yr for per cot and one meal in a shelter. Service provision is an added cost. MCDD received an award of merit for large districts' innovative programs from the Special Districts Association of Oregon for their work. Columbia Slough Watershed Council will recognize them with an award for their leadership at the upcoming CSWC awards event. The City knows of the work but remains silent on providing support. Time to support successful programs to assist people in search of and need of safe parking while they pursue sustainable housing.
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I only have one concern for Portland. We need to eliminate homelessness; everyone should have a place to live.No more tax breaks for corporations. Portland is a hot destination for companies expanding outside of other more expensive areas. Giving them tax breaks is unnecessary as they will come here anyway. Also, TriMet should be free.
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Affordable Housing, Arts Funding, HomelessI would like to see the for-profit and non-profit housing professionals come together to create new ways to build and offer housing to a larger group of residents
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Transportation funding, implementing the RIP, climate changeMore dedicated sources of funding (gas tax, registration fees, payroll tax) to fund street, hwy and transit improvements
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Drug use, schools, rent controlDrug intervention and housing first. Reduce top heavy administration in PPS, eliminate rent control - it is destroying private landlords and making the problem worse.
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 - Zoning: protect our livable neighborhoods from demolition
- PBOT's policies are excluding many Portlanders including minorities, working class, disabled. Creating congestion in neighborhoods. Not working with neighborhood assn and public outreach is limited
- Homelessness		Zoning: stop removing affordable homes to replace with multiple unaffordable homes in our neighborhoods. RIP is not a solution.
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I'm cheating. #1 Maintaining an attraction for tourists. It's cheating because it is the objective tea leaf that raises the other issues of the mental health crisis (which also includes / coincides with the houseless crisis), transportation issues (which also includes traffic issues), and neighborhood concerns (which includes local business support and lack of trust in the police department, particularly by the POC community). #2 We don't have a political system to reasonably quickly and materially make change, as change is needed (see #1). Putting aside the need to make change to correct #1, as a city maturing into adulthood, our city's political structure needs to also mature so that we can have sound leadership going forward. #3 Despite cheating, I still struggle for #3. While overdue, we are not prepared for the Big One. While progressive, we are a bleeding-heart-liberal, racist city. While being deeply blue, the red around us has many implications that the city cannot control (bussing in rioters, not providing civil services, etc.). I took a lot of liberties; I hope this was still helpful and not harmful for the survey.I think addressing #2 above starts to help address #1 above. That's the easy answer, and one for the ideal world. But we don't live in an ideal world. To address #1 above, it would take a very comprehensive strategy with our current government (my cheating just backfired...). To be clear, we should make progress on #2, but cannot wait on it; so I'm more than happy to help talk more about the strategy for #1. It's just too much for typing in this box.
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Crime, lack of mental health services, homelessness Keep a police commissioner for more than 3 years. Support the police force, instead of tying their hands behind their back.
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Homelessness, housing prices, how we let out of city/state/country investors drive up our housing costs and take the money out of the area. We simply need to spend more money on housing and services for our homeless residents. And we need to use better data to evaluate and measure the effectiveness of our efforts. PDOT using data very effectively. Why aren't we mirroring that in other bureaus. Sometimes the data will point to solutions that are awkward or counterintuitive but we should examine and test them.
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Homelessness
Funding for the arts
Quality educational opportunities 		See Project Home In Philadelphia
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Spending
Affordable housing and the benefits provided to developers
Homeless		As a public agency, transparency is of the utmost importance. Beyond that, it’s equally as crucial to provide transparency in a fashion that the layperson can understand. $25 million dollar surplus, how? Why? And where is that money going?