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Aug 17, 2016
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A rape metaphor? Crass, Dirk.
Likewise, if and when Portlanders pull their head out of their tail, perhaps they’ll stop asking for the wrong things.
Three ways I know rent can increase; land use (growth boundaries), supply/ demand, and monopolies. But cities will continue to favor sustainable/ manageable density over sprawl, and supply/ demand only creates competition when there is a surplus – something developers avoid creating. The only promising thing is to break the monopoly if one exists, and one does; the concept of physical privacy.
I’m speaking t the wind here, but shelter/ hostel – type bunkers style infrastructure should be on the free rental market without the prison like qualities of shelters, without the esoteric out of state traveler requirements of hostels, and with the screening and accountability of monthly rentals. If and when this happens then we’ve introduced something which can produce results not witnessed in other cities that have been there done that and which gives this cocky developer from san fran the confidence that he can buy out and run through other people’s home.