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Housing

Create a register for housing needs. Those who have no housing, under housed or pay too much of their funds on housing. Provide information and housing fairs on boarding houses and rooming houses for people interested in utilizing properties. Boarding houses include meals. Provide centralized areas in different parts of town for temporary camping centers that can offer services.

Boarding and rooming houses housed 40%-60% of Americans before the 1960’s. Communal living is cheaper when it comes to the amount of energy and space used. Providing meals, bedrooms, bathrooms, areas of a property such as, living, dining room, extra rooms, utilities, and outside spaces are shared. It is great living for some that can’t live on their own, don’t like living alone, or are very busy and would love the service offered in a board home. This form of housing provides a large variety from very high-end to very low-end in the cost and amount of services. Then the specialty services that may include eldercare, childcare, style of living, professional settings, and help with physical needs.

Ask for State and Federal housing funds to go directly to boarding and rooming houses.

Using the current housing instead of large apartment complexes keeps the rent money local instead of sending it out of state, which helps strengthen our economy. Less need for tax abatement removing funding from our vital services.

Use Oregon State housing funding directly to upgrade current properties so they can be fully utilized. Adding bathrooms, large windows, bedrooms, electric, and heating creates additional housing without large changes to the neighborhoods.

Put a hold on any of the large “housing complexes” that have changed our town and individual neighborhoods drastically. See what we can do to fully utilize existing properties which do not need new zoning, community notices, and meetings about adding new utility lines. Four people moving in next door instead of one person living alone is a lower impact than huge complexes squeezing into a small lot. If only homeowners decided to use their homes as boarding houses in Portland that is 150,000 properties. At a low rate of 10% is doable and that is 15,000 properties, boarding houses being 3-6 people and that is 45,000 – 90,000 people housed.

Temporary camping centers must be set up, so people DO HAVE a place to go and just BE still and not continually moved on. There are a few large parking lots with electricity that are near transportation, close to retail yet not adjacent to them and not in residential neighborhoods. Being parking lots there is no damage to the ground, lined spaces, electrical services, lights, and the ability to put up event tents to sit and hangout under.

Put a hold on any of the large “housing complexes” that have changed our town and individual neighborhoods drastically. See what we can do to fully utilize existing properties which do not need new zoning, community notices, and meetings about adding new utility lines. Four people moved in next door instead of one person living alone adding people here and there changes the neighborhood’s look very little. If only homeowners decided to use their homes as a boarding house in Portland that is 150,000 properties. At a low rate of 10% is doable and that is 15,000 properties, boarding houses being 3-6 people and that is 45,000 – 90,000 people housed.