Excerpt from a 02/21/2024 Boston Globe article "Make Milton an example":
"Politically liberal areas are some of the worst offenders when it comes to exclusionary zoning," said Richard Kahlenberg, author of a book called "Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See."
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An article (02/15/2024) from Business Insider reports: Investors bought a record 26% of the affordable houses in the US last quarter. Should there be limits on corporate or private investor home purchases? Should individuals that purchase multiple homes for personal use be included in this group? EastsideVotes is not taking a position here, just asking some questions.
On February 7th, current Bend City Council voted to sell 2 city owned properties in the Larkspur Neighborhood for the production of 26 "affordable" housing units. Details are here: Bend City Council Approves Surplus Land Sale for New Affordable Homeownership Project .
While we support affordable housing anywhere in the city, we must point out that, once again, it is landing in the Larkspur Neighborhood. Why? What is driving this concentration by our city government? When government intentionally concentrates poverty in a single geographic area, it perpetuates and reinforces the generational forces that frequently create poverty in the first place. There is a lawsuit moving forward in San Diego against the city's decades long history of concentrating poverty in Southeast San Diego. Read the full details here: Suit: San Diego housing policy worsens poverty, segregation - The San Diego Union-Tribune (sandiegouniontribune.com) To many, it may appear that Deschutes County and the City of Bend are replicating this pattern on the east side of Bend, specifically in the lower income and more diverse sections of the Larkspur Neighborhood. If true, we would like to see it stopped immediately. Why spend taxpayer money replicating a pattern that is now being formally challenged in the legal system? Bend and Deschutes County can do better!
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