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The recent State cap on rent at 7% plus inflation which could be 2%, may be too little, too late. I hope not. — Research estimated that a 10.0 percent increase in rent leads to a 13.6 percent increase in the rate of homelessness. — High rents are to blame for the severity of the state’s homelessness crisis. — Housing affordability (rather than personal circumstances) is the key to predicting the relative severity of homelessness across the United States. (Homelessness in Oreg

Today The Oregon Center for Public Policy published its research paper entitled, Oregon's Ultra-Rich Continue to Pull Away. Something to keep in mind when you stack commissions, committees and groups with supposed "stakeholders" and leave out residents, especially renters and even employees who work in the City Center neighborhoods of the Pearl, Downtown, and Old Town Chinatown. Or use City owned land to build a parking garage for tourists or "market rate" housing rather than