Millions of New Residents, Not Nearly as Many New Jobs Projected for Portland in 2050

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Everything is awful.

Marq on October 19, 2009 at 9:32 AM

Overpopulation.

on October 19, 2009 at 9:50 AM

UGBs are soooo vital to preventing sprawl. Just look at how well they worked in the Bay area...

orgengine on October 19, 2009 at 11:17 AM

Hm, ten bucks says it was either Terry Parker or Jim Karlock with the loony diatribe. Can anyone confirm?

ElGordo on October 19, 2009 at 11:36 AM

@ElGordo: I just call them "Jim KarParker" and I'm sure I've got it somewhat close.

The pop/jobs ratio looks fine. Keep in mind that in 2050, 1/3rd of the people in the US will be over 65 and most likely retired. Add in the people that are under 18, the 'housewives,' the disabled, etc, suddenly it is clear that most of the people that don't have jobs won't actually be looking for them. They definitely aren't predicting 55% unemployment with those numbers, (if they were, they'd be talking about that problem a lot more than the housing problem...)

BobTheJanitor on October 19, 2009 at 1:26 PM

Sarah,

It may be ugly but the Metro building is at least recycled. It's an old Sears building reused for its current purpose.

Cheers,

Jim Middaugh
Metro staff

Jim Middaugh on October 19, 2009 at 7:39 PM

Projections that far into the future are entirely spurious, even with the extremely wide margin of error they've allowed themselves. I think the metro building is kinda cool looking.

Miranda Radik on October 20, 2009 at 3:03 AM