As long as I keep earning above the median income in Portland (which I do), I don't really care. If I were to become poor, then I would care about housing for poor people.

I can't help but be amused at how people love to only care about issues when they immediately and inexorably affect them directly. Jobs are going overseas, so is our talent and brains; wages haven't kept pace with the cost of living and inflation in over forty years, and meanwhile CEO pay has skyrocketed egregiously Brazilian while the middle class gets whittled away into the trash bin of the lower classes; our government looks fated to default on its deficits, being even more fiscally irresponsible than even our city hall is ... yet nobody who has the means to live even modestly comfortably cares about such things as livable wages, infrastructure, justice, or even education.

Any policies that would diminish the transportation budget are unacceptable.
Wasn't Novick supposed to fix something? Didn't we have a big 50 million dollar year funding gap? What is the issue-- oh, right. Streets. We were supposed to fix the streets. Now he does things (direct money away from transportation) that put the goal of decent streets further away. That is not my definition of leadership...