Oh, the entitlement.

the entitlement of living in a decent place without need to worry about developers driving you out? how about the entitlement of the developers (who got filthy rich building the suburbs no one moves to anymore) training their beady eyes on the city for their next cash cow? The entitlement that they can make as much money as they damn well please, use low wage contractors, and get pats on the back from the city for driving up property taxes? So what happens when these shitholes are falling apart in 15 years and the rich move back out again? Are we then entitled to move back?

"That will not benefit you whatsoever" this is incredibly ignorant. We can argue about the lack of affordable housing in mixed use developments, but density has benefits for everyone: improved property tax base, efficient use of public resources, demand for local business services, etc.


Stop pretending like Portland was some mecca before it developed its transit corridors instead of sprawling outward

I lived on 21 SE Ankeny from 1996 - 1998. I don't even recognize the hood any more.

Boo hoo

What'd be cool is if some wealthy people with real human values bought up neighboring properties and rented them for next-to-nothing as halfway houses or low-income housing.

These infesting termites are gonna wreck the city so many good people have worked hard to maintain for so long. It always happens that the jocks and thugs wanna ruin what the cool kids made.