Suppose we have direct democracy. Individuals vote on every significant policy decision-- at the *policy* level. This would be carefully worked out-- what is "policy", what is the structural level versus what is administration.
And we could, with the Internet, be enabled to change and update our votes on a continuous basis over time. So you would have direct polling probably 100 times a year. again, over the Internet. Imagine if a policy starts to fail, people logging in and changing their votes.
I mean, abolish the 1787 Constitution, abolish the Congress and president. And set up a more effective decisionmaking structure. as follows.
Since the world is complex, individuals can't actually make competent, rational choices on all the policies that affect us. It's too complicated and interrelated. Let's face the fact-- NONE of us. This is what's driving the anti-intellectual, anti-science movement. This problem must be corrected by formal, constitutional process quite different from "the 1787". so here's a solution:
For example, the federal government might be composed of 30 different agencies, similar to existing departments of transportation, environment, education, food, public health, defense, etc but many more, for example, budget, and public information. Each agency would be governed by a congressional committee which would be "tightly coupled" with its agency. All policy for each domain of knowledge would be authored by the relevant agency and its governing committee, not a general "congress".
There might not be any president at all. Who needs that guy? And there might not be any general "congress", at all, pretending to understand, know and guide everything as a whole. Which they never did, very well. I recommend approximately 30 governing committees or agencies for different aspects of governance-- including most of the present cabinet level agencies in the US but restructured into maybe twice as many agencies.
Furthermore, voters who are voting directly, for the first time, on these complex and detailed policies would *need* the right to appoint specialists we trust-- experts --as proxies to vote our votes on complex things like technology, telecoms, medical care, pharma, the monetary system, finance, foreign policy, etc.
There would be no elections for these proxies-- you could appoint anybody you like, but they might need to meet some qualifications, for the sake of everybody else in the country, not just your religious leader, your mother, etc. They could be accountable to professional licensing boards for each 30 domains, to pass tests, take continuing education, etc like other professions. No duopoly Party could block your choice.
Basically I want all significant policy *choices* to be thoroughly well explained and documented in the clearest, unambiguous language. The development of this semantic framework is one of the biggest tasks. This would require literally a "Department of Truth"-- some formal structure of linguists, perhaps lawyers, but deeply wise people to define the legal meaning of words, and phrases and the underlying realities of legislation. They would develop the wording on the 'referenda' we vote on. Do you understand the goals of this? It is to make voters' policy guidance exactly clear, making it enforceable upon the agencies of government-- not optional. And this would require very significant amounts of money for staff, continual investigation/auditing of agencies.
Because legislation would be exact, there would be less need for courts or high level apparatus in federal agencies to interpret or implement the law. The constitution and legislation would be properly written to anticipate problems and resolve them up front, or kicked back by the 30 agencies to their Committees' to clarify.
Basically I want to *see* the real legislation and have the right to vote on it, and expect this to happen about 100 times a year. I also want the right to delegate my vote or proxy, to experts in particular domains of expertise who I trust, for 20 or 30 categories like medical, transportation, military, foreign relations, energy, housing, toxics, climate change, etc. We MUST stop appointing one single politician for long terms of years, to decide EVERY policy that affects our lives, since they cannot possibly be expert in more than one or two of those domains.
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
So the U.S. is printing money at a rate of $1 Trillion a month. And the natives are restless, out in the colonies (China, etc) as the dollar declines and gold increases.
I expect three things. In the next few months, a deflation of the dollar bubble to protect the "reserve currency" status of the US Dollar, a huge, fascist crackdown on dissent in the US against the resulting pain upon the bottom half, and, another major war on the first country who "blinks", and tries to establish a new currency or other threat to the dollar.
At this point the EU as well as the BRICs want a new currency regime. This is bigger than Bretton Woods.
And the global banking cartel the BIS member banks, owe no loyalty to the $US dollar. The reserve currencies are fungible, from their POV.
But the global banking cartel *needs the US military* to maintain their absolute monopoly on maintaining the balances of accountholders, executing transactions (+/- transactions across accounts within their network, i.e. settlement), and prevent any alternative settlement system from getting started. So, count on the US to oppose any EU-BRICs breakout, and the US holding a gun to the head of the global banking cartel.
If the global banking cartel allows the nations of the EU or BRICs to dump the dollar, the US military will stop supporting the global banking cartel, and start wars directly for certain territory or resources like oil, allowing the global settlement system to go fuck itself-- whether the BRICs or the BIS.... This is big stuff.
I expect three things. In the next few months, a deflation of the dollar bubble to protect the "reserve currency" status of the US Dollar, a huge, fascist crackdown on dissent in the US against the resulting pain upon the bottom half, and, another major war on the first country who "blinks", and tries to establish a new currency or other threat to the dollar.
At this point the EU as well as the BRICs want a new currency regime. This is bigger than Bretton Woods.
And the global banking cartel the BIS member banks, owe no loyalty to the $US dollar. The reserve currencies are fungible, from their POV.
But the global banking cartel *needs the US military* to maintain their absolute monopoly on maintaining the balances of accountholders, executing transactions (+/- transactions across accounts within their network, i.e. settlement), and prevent any alternative settlement system from getting started. So, count on the US to oppose any EU-BRICs breakout, and the US holding a gun to the head of the global banking cartel.
If the global banking cartel allows the nations of the EU or BRICs to dump the dollar, the US military will stop supporting the global banking cartel, and start wars directly for certain territory or resources like oil, allowing the global settlement system to go fuck itself-- whether the BRICs or the BIS.... This is big stuff.
Friday, June 5, 2020
To: "mayorcouncilandcitymanager@ci.eugene.or.us"
Subject: First Decile Housing is too expensive. 50 ideas for you.
Cc: Isaac@HearthstoneRE.com, "Cliff Gray", , Sherri Schultz , "Eliza Kashinsky" , Timothy Morris , John VanLandingham , zondie zinke ,Kaarin Knudson , richieweinman@gmail.com, Laurie Hauber , Karl Eysenbach ,brittany.qw@me.com,Stephanie Jennings , Marty Wilde , lcbcccom@lanecountyor.gov, Sen.JamesManning@oregonlegislature.gov, Sen.LeeBeyer@oregonlegislature.gov
Policy reorientation required for First Decile Housing (housing the bottom 10 or 20 percent of incomes: make it less costly, remove barriers against the poor. This is way different than housing tools and strategies list of 80 items. )
At the level of basic assumptions or principles,
RECOGNIZE the human right of every human being to space somewhere, i.e. land, that is inherent in having a physical body and the right to exist.
Recognize the right of lower income people to build or occupy whatever shelter they can afford, consistent with public health and safety.
ABOLISH the idea that governments have a duty to existing homeowners to protect the sales value of their property, since every increase results in an exactly equal increase in cost to some other citizen, i.e., buyers, renters and displaced people.
Abolish the idea that governments have a duty to protect the "livability" of one class of citizen's housing, since that decreases the livability of others' housing outcomes.
Abolish the role of Neighborhood Associations in land use planning, since their overwhelming consensus will always be the self interest of existing residents.
ABOLISH code and policy based on percentages of AMI ("Area Median Income" published by Census Bureau) which results in excessively wide bracketing aggregating the destitute with lower middle class incomes to justify "affordable" workforce housing). REPLACE it by deciles of income. Establish guidance and policy of City and County to break down the population into tenths (deciles) of income, in order to apply public resources to the bottom deciles first. Recognize the displacement and homelessness of the bottom 20% as higher priority of governments than the "affordability" of middle class people complaining about their rents, or businesses needs for cheap working class housing.
Reject "Trickle down" housing theory, that building more middle income housing at $250,000 will result in more housing affordable by the bottom 20%.
---
Allow home owners to partition single-family lots.
Reduce the minimum lot size to 1000 square feet, sufficient for Tiny Houses. (the typical Tiny is 250sf)
Eliminate the many restrictions against ADU's (accessory dwelling units on existing lots) such as 7500 square feet minimum lot sizes. Implement SB 1051 in the spirit intended by the legislature.
Allow homeowners to rent space to RV dwellers, trailers, vans, etc. RV dwelling is already legal but the collection of rent by homeowners is prohibited.
Allow developers, optionally, to apply national building code for RVs for new home construction. If it's safe enough for RV's, it's safe enough for Tiny Houses on foundations.
Allow Yurts, Tuff sheds, and any other reasonable alternative housing types.
Give incentives for conversion of any garage or outbuilding that can achieve building code for insulation, heat and safety, to residential use (either as ADU or spare bedroom). (the New Housing Unit incentive.)
Implement HB2001 (2,3, and 4 plexes by right) as intended by the legislature.
Allow and encourage lofts or residential floors above bonafide business operations in commercial and industrial zones.
Amnesty and grandfather all the unpermitted housing that has been built in Eugene. With public gratitude.
Raise the height limits for housing in Eugene, and reduce slope and setback restrictions to make more housing feasable.
Make the property tax progressive rates, with no tax on the first 1000 square feet of land per household. and progressively higher rates thereafter, based on progressively higher land values in order to discourage land accumulations for investment.
Give property tax rebates to low income renters. We had a Renters Rebate.
End the mortgage interest deduction on any form of real estate.
Stop forcing non-drivers to subsidize drivers: ABOLISH Transportation SDCs (System Development Charges) for roads, upon housing construction.
Stop requiring on-site parking, to get a permit for new residential construction. (automobile subsidy)
Require vehicle owners to identify a place where they will park it, before they can get a vehicle registration at the DMV. i.e. issue building permits without driveways or parking. (this is common in other countries)
Flag vehicles at the registration level who don't have on-site parking, and prohibit those from parking the vehicle on the street. Perhaps a special flag on the license plate.
Abolish System Development Charges (SDCs) on qualifying low income housing.
Convert some of Eugene's 3 square miles of pavement, to low income housing. i.e. close some streets and sell them, or use them for RV parks with facilities.
Allow any block of street to be privatized if all the adjoining land holders agree, and fire access lanes and utility easements are maintained, and low income housing is built. City or county simply vacates the land.
Stop the public housing authority (Homes for Good) from liquidating low income housing and lands.
Cut the cost of construction of low income housing, which is recently exceeds $250,000 per unit. Use manufactured housing, capped at $50,000/unit.
Stop allowing neighborhoods to block low income housing developments. As, Seattle abolished their neighborhood associations' role in land use planning after they organized to kill the multiyear effort for reasonable density along major bus corridors.
Establish completely new code setting forth, what is low income housing by definition. It's less than $50,000 per unit, and less than 500 square feet for an individual, for example. Because otherwise it inevitably gravitates to higher rents.
Grant government lands for low income housing projects, both public and private, for the lowest incomes. All existing private and corporate "Title" in Oregon was originally "granted" by the federal or state governments, to "settlers" and homesteaders.
Modernize the County database for Section 8 and other services, and create a certified reliable ranking system for households who need public housing the most, integrating their household expenses as well as incomes.
Identify concessions or exemptions from all building or zoning code not necessary for health and safety, to be granted to housing for certified low income people.
Establish a new zoning type for low income housing with code concessions and incentives for cheap housing. but only for certified low income owners or tenants in the County database. "Low Income Housing" zoning (LIH) would have two components: cap on production cost e.g. $50,000 per unit to reduce likelihood of gentrification, and, restriction to qualified low income households.
Expand the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB)
Designate percentages of all annexations to the City UGB based on income deciles, ensuring 20% of the land goes to the bottom 20% incomes, and so forth.
Adopt the Portland plan whereby Housing Authority builds ADU for property owners who agree to rent it to certified low income household.
Restrict demolition of usable housing that is not end-of-life. Calculate the value of housing lost, collect fees from the demolisher based on those years of rental value, and apply to public housing programs.
End all public programs for "low income housing" that revert to private ownership and market rates later, e.g. LIHTC projects. Terminate Eugene's participation in LIHTC.
End the requirment for sewer connections, if approved, inspected compost toilets and graywater disposal.
Develop building code for Tiny Houses on steep slopes, e.g., 10x20 structures on one concrete pier, with gravel path access, with no parking requirement or road if conditions are met.
Abolish restrictions on the number of people who can live in a house (currently five people)
Abolish the MUPTE and all forms of city subsidies, land grants etc. for middle housing or luxury development.
Identify most progressive revenue streams by which to significantly fund municipally-owned social housing.
Remove restrictions upon, and provide funding and support, for SROs. (Single Room Occupancy hotels)
Levy a money-creation tax on the major banks' branches in Eugene, calculated as their share of the free-moneyprinting operations by the Fed. The cause of housing inflation is the money creation. We need to reclaim that free money, and use it as operating capital within a municipal bank.
Enact limitations on maximum lot size. Like 4000 square feet. Abolish new developments with these excessive lot sizes of the last ccentury.
Impose fees on single-story construction, to drive more intensive use of the space. Use the revenue for public housing.
Require new construction anywhere the lot is bigger than 4000sf, to be tight against one corner of the lot, in order that future generations can build another house on the land without tearing down the old house.
Stop prohibiting alley development.
Allow low-volume commercial activities such as food service in residential housing.
Enact the CET (construction excise tax) at the highest levels allowed by the Oregon statute, instead of half measures.
Require registration and quarterly reports from STRs (short term rentals) so we can understand the degree of impact on the bottom 10 or 20% of incomes.
Provide pre-approved plans for the low-cost houses, apartments, duplexes and ADUs
Terminate existing deed restrictions that limit occupancy or residential use of property.
Rezone some Commercial and Industrial land for Residential use.
Purchase or lease excessive and unused Union Pacific, EWEB, and other institutional land for low income housing.
Impose a TTIK Timber Tax in Kind on all logging, of 1% payable in lumber and sheet products for building LIH. The total Oregon harvest is like, 4 million board feet per year, enough for 200,000 current sized houses and a 1% TTIK would be enough wood for 3000 LIH units
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(1) two minute explanation of the right to some space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpjLCMc7x40
explanations of the other points,
Eugene Planning Commission Meeting: March 26, 2018
ADUs, Tiny Houses and smaller lot partitions
https://youtu.be/1lRvrk2AgXw?t=970
Eugene City Council Meeting: July 23, 2018
Request permission to video Housing Tools; Bracketing, Firewalling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynD-P69L1go&t=581s
Eugene City Council Meeting: November 26, 2018
A play in 4 acts. and, first decile has to be CHEAP. and, mashed potatos.
https://youtu.be/By1resPPKr4?t=1778
Eugene City Council Meeting: December 10, 2018
Calling for CHEAP HOUSING and 1000 sf lot partitions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbd6tGk_xk0
Eugene Planning Commission Meeting: December 11, 2018
36000 < $1000/month
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mB7pL2mjW0&feature=youtu.be&t=447
Eugene City Council Meeting: January 14, 2019
CET in perspective, straining at gnats; Social devastation of housing crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWCizyOJhXo&t=633s
Eugene Planning Commission Meeting: January 28, 2019
Cost of THOWs and, Two Wings of bird: CHEAP, and Limited to low income people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLvz4SgNORs&feature=youtu.be&t=442
Eugene City Council Meeting: January 28, 2019
Suggesting Two Wings of bird: CHEAP, and Limited to low income people
https://youtu.be/qX9N-fwlFvo?t=2948
Lane County Commissioners
50,000 low income people; the scale of the problem; Call for Humility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHHxW3-GQTM&feature=youtu.be&t=1694
Commissioner Sorenson responded in agreement,
https://youtu.be/tHHxW3-GQTM?t=6498
City Council Public Hearing: May 20, 2019
ADU Hearing,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHzbHyZGFlA&feature=youtu.be&t=460
Eugene City Council Meeting: March 11, 2019
General- against land ownership, courthouse etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6QDRNbTsAw&feature=youtu.be&t=747
Eugene City Council April 8, 2019
No on FCC control of 5G, No on the CET,
https://youtu.be/vfmdawZGPjs?t=495
Eugene City Council Meeting: May 13, 2019
TAC Report: Where is the housing? and WHY we must reduce stress on Low Income populations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdQiNzJRfb8&feature=youtu.be&t=815
Eugene City Council Meeting: June 10 2019
Recommending R-1L zoning for low income housing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6mR7eCKdjk&t=687s
Eugene Planning Commission Meeting: June 11, 2019
Recommending R-1L zoning for low income housing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee22N8znBzo&feature=youtu.be&t=390
City Council Meeting: July 8, 2019
Advocating for housing for the bottom two deciles, based on HUMAN RIGHT to housing.
https://youtu.be/rrtbzDKWUWM?t=1938
City Council Meeting: Sept. 23, 2019
Asked Council for housing that would be set aside for low income people:
1. must be cheap, 2. must be reserved for lowest income people, and 3. must be rent-capped.
https://youtu.be/A5oqenhMWaQ?t=995
City Council Meeting: Oct. 14, 2019
Discussed low-income housing ideas and concerns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQp1xQt_1ms&t=1950s
City Council Meeting: Nov. 11, 2019
Expressed concern about the Pledge of Allegiance, Low income housing; Eugene Wake up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trJ1ZuawYoQ&feature=youtu.be&t=823
City Council March 9, 2020
Demand City Council worksession on Human Rights of homeless,
and, attacked STR owners' pronouncements the STRs don't affect the poor.
https://youtu.be/kigL9QcKgCs?t=3960
Subject: First Decile Housing is too expensive. 50 ideas for you.
Cc: Isaac@HearthstoneRE.com, "Cliff Gray"
Policy reorientation required for First Decile Housing (housing the bottom 10 or 20 percent of incomes: make it less costly, remove barriers against the poor. This is way different than housing tools and strategies list of 80 items. )
At the level of basic assumptions or principles,
RECOGNIZE the human right of every human being to space somewhere, i.e. land, that is inherent in having a physical body and the right to exist.
Recognize the right of lower income people to build or occupy whatever shelter they can afford, consistent with public health and safety.
ABOLISH the idea that governments have a duty to existing homeowners to protect the sales value of their property, since every increase results in an exactly equal increase in cost to some other citizen, i.e., buyers, renters and displaced people.
Abolish the idea that governments have a duty to protect the "livability" of one class of citizen's housing, since that decreases the livability of others' housing outcomes.
Abolish the role of Neighborhood Associations in land use planning, since their overwhelming consensus will always be the self interest of existing residents.
ABOLISH code and policy based on percentages of AMI ("Area Median Income" published by Census Bureau) which results in excessively wide bracketing aggregating the destitute with lower middle class incomes to justify "affordable" workforce housing). REPLACE it by deciles of income. Establish guidance and policy of City and County to break down the population into tenths (deciles) of income, in order to apply public resources to the bottom deciles first. Recognize the displacement and homelessness of the bottom 20% as higher priority of governments than the "affordability" of middle class people complaining about their rents, or businesses needs for cheap working class housing.
Reject "Trickle down" housing theory, that building more middle income housing at $250,000 will result in more housing affordable by the bottom 20%.
---
Allow home owners to partition single-family lots.
Reduce the minimum lot size to 1000 square feet, sufficient for Tiny Houses. (the typical Tiny is 250sf)
Eliminate the many restrictions against ADU's (accessory dwelling units on existing lots) such as 7500 square feet minimum lot sizes. Implement SB 1051 in the spirit intended by the legislature.
Allow homeowners to rent space to RV dwellers, trailers, vans, etc. RV dwelling is already legal but the collection of rent by homeowners is prohibited.
Allow developers, optionally, to apply national building code for RVs for new home construction. If it's safe enough for RV's, it's safe enough for Tiny Houses on foundations.
Allow Yurts, Tuff sheds, and any other reasonable alternative housing types.
Give incentives for conversion of any garage or outbuilding that can achieve building code for insulation, heat and safety, to residential use (either as ADU or spare bedroom). (the New Housing Unit incentive.)
Implement HB2001 (2,3, and 4 plexes by right) as intended by the legislature.
Allow and encourage lofts or residential floors above bonafide business operations in commercial and industrial zones.
Amnesty and grandfather all the unpermitted housing that has been built in Eugene. With public gratitude.
Raise the height limits for housing in Eugene, and reduce slope and setback restrictions to make more housing feasable.
Make the property tax progressive rates, with no tax on the first 1000 square feet of land per household. and progressively higher rates thereafter, based on progressively higher land values in order to discourage land accumulations for investment.
Give property tax rebates to low income renters. We had a Renters Rebate.
End the mortgage interest deduction on any form of real estate.
Stop forcing non-drivers to subsidize drivers: ABOLISH Transportation SDCs (System Development Charges) for roads, upon housing construction.
Stop requiring on-site parking, to get a permit for new residential construction. (automobile subsidy)
Require vehicle owners to identify a place where they will park it, before they can get a vehicle registration at the DMV. i.e. issue building permits without driveways or parking. (this is common in other countries)
Flag vehicles at the registration level who don't have on-site parking, and prohibit those from parking the vehicle on the street. Perhaps a special flag on the license plate.
Abolish System Development Charges (SDCs) on qualifying low income housing.
Convert some of Eugene's 3 square miles of pavement, to low income housing. i.e. close some streets and sell them, or use them for RV parks with facilities.
Allow any block of street to be privatized if all the adjoining land holders agree, and fire access lanes and utility easements are maintained, and low income housing is built. City or county simply vacates the land.
Stop the public housing authority (Homes for Good) from liquidating low income housing and lands.
Cut the cost of construction of low income housing, which is recently exceeds $250,000 per unit. Use manufactured housing, capped at $50,000/unit.
Stop allowing neighborhoods to block low income housing developments. As, Seattle abolished their neighborhood associations' role in land use planning after they organized to kill the multiyear effort for reasonable density along major bus corridors.
Establish completely new code setting forth, what is low income housing by definition. It's less than $50,000 per unit, and less than 500 square feet for an individual, for example. Because otherwise it inevitably gravitates to higher rents.
Grant government lands for low income housing projects, both public and private, for the lowest incomes. All existing private and corporate "Title" in Oregon was originally "granted" by the federal or state governments, to "settlers" and homesteaders.
Modernize the County database for Section 8 and other services, and create a certified reliable ranking system for households who need public housing the most, integrating their household expenses as well as incomes.
Identify concessions or exemptions from all building or zoning code not necessary for health and safety, to be granted to housing for certified low income people.
Establish a new zoning type for low income housing with code concessions and incentives for cheap housing. but only for certified low income owners or tenants in the County database. "Low Income Housing" zoning (LIH) would have two components: cap on production cost e.g. $50,000 per unit to reduce likelihood of gentrification, and, restriction to qualified low income households.
Expand the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB)
Designate percentages of all annexations to the City UGB based on income deciles, ensuring 20% of the land goes to the bottom 20% incomes, and so forth.
Adopt the Portland plan whereby Housing Authority builds ADU for property owners who agree to rent it to certified low income household.
Restrict demolition of usable housing that is not end-of-life. Calculate the value of housing lost, collect fees from the demolisher based on those years of rental value, and apply to public housing programs.
End all public programs for "low income housing" that revert to private ownership and market rates later, e.g. LIHTC projects. Terminate Eugene's participation in LIHTC.
End the requirment for sewer connections, if approved, inspected compost toilets and graywater disposal.
Develop building code for Tiny Houses on steep slopes, e.g., 10x20 structures on one concrete pier, with gravel path access, with no parking requirement or road if conditions are met.
Abolish restrictions on the number of people who can live in a house (currently five people)
Abolish the MUPTE and all forms of city subsidies, land grants etc. for middle housing or luxury development.
Identify most progressive revenue streams by which to significantly fund municipally-owned social housing.
Remove restrictions upon, and provide funding and support, for SROs. (Single Room Occupancy hotels)
Levy a money-creation tax on the major banks' branches in Eugene, calculated as their share of the free-moneyprinting operations by the Fed. The cause of housing inflation is the money creation. We need to reclaim that free money, and use it as operating capital within a municipal bank.
Enact limitations on maximum lot size. Like 4000 square feet. Abolish new developments with these excessive lot sizes of the last ccentury.
Impose fees on single-story construction, to drive more intensive use of the space. Use the revenue for public housing.
Require new construction anywhere the lot is bigger than 4000sf, to be tight against one corner of the lot, in order that future generations can build another house on the land without tearing down the old house.
Stop prohibiting alley development.
Allow low-volume commercial activities such as food service in residential housing.
Enact the CET (construction excise tax) at the highest levels allowed by the Oregon statute, instead of half measures.
Require registration and quarterly reports from STRs (short term rentals) so we can understand the degree of impact on the bottom 10 or 20% of incomes.
Provide pre-approved plans for the low-cost houses, apartments, duplexes and ADUs
Terminate existing deed restrictions that limit occupancy or residential use of property.
Rezone some Commercial and Industrial land for Residential use.
Purchase or lease excessive and unused Union Pacific, EWEB, and other institutional land for low income housing.
Impose a TTIK Timber Tax in Kind on all logging, of 1% payable in lumber and sheet products for building LIH. The total Oregon harvest is like, 4 million board feet per year, enough for 200,000 current sized houses and a 1% TTIK would be enough wood for 3000 LIH units
---------
(1) two minute explanation of the right to some space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpjLCMc7x40
explanations of the other points,
Eugene Planning Commission Meeting: March 26, 2018
ADUs, Tiny Houses and smaller lot partitions
https://youtu.be/1lRvrk2AgXw?t=970
Eugene City Council Meeting: July 23, 2018
Request permission to video Housing Tools; Bracketing, Firewalling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynD-P69L1go&t=581s
Eugene City Council Meeting: November 26, 2018
A play in 4 acts. and, first decile has to be CHEAP. and, mashed potatos.
https://youtu.be/By1resPPKr4?t=1778
Eugene City Council Meeting: December 10, 2018
Calling for CHEAP HOUSING and 1000 sf lot partitions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbd6tGk_xk0
Eugene Planning Commission Meeting: December 11, 2018
36000 < $1000/month
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mB7pL2mjW0&feature=youtu.be&t=447
Eugene City Council Meeting: January 14, 2019
CET in perspective, straining at gnats; Social devastation of housing crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWCizyOJhXo&t=633s
Eugene Planning Commission Meeting: January 28, 2019
Cost of THOWs and, Two Wings of bird: CHEAP, and Limited to low income people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLvz4SgNORs&feature=youtu.be&t=442
Eugene City Council Meeting: January 28, 2019
Suggesting Two Wings of bird: CHEAP, and Limited to low income people
https://youtu.be/qX9N-fwlFvo?t=2948
Lane County Commissioners
50,000 low income people; the scale of the problem; Call for Humility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHHxW3-GQTM&feature=youtu.be&t=1694
Commissioner Sorenson responded in agreement,
https://youtu.be/tHHxW3-GQTM?t=6498
City Council Public Hearing: May 20, 2019
ADU Hearing,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHzbHyZGFlA&feature=youtu.be&t=460
Eugene City Council Meeting: March 11, 2019
General- against land ownership, courthouse etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6QDRNbTsAw&feature=youtu.be&t=747
Eugene City Council April 8, 2019
No on FCC control of 5G, No on the CET,
https://youtu.be/vfmdawZGPjs?t=495
Eugene City Council Meeting: May 13, 2019
TAC Report: Where is the housing? and WHY we must reduce stress on Low Income populations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdQiNzJRfb8&feature=youtu.be&t=815
Eugene City Council Meeting: June 10 2019
Recommending R-1L zoning for low income housing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6mR7eCKdjk&t=687s
Eugene Planning Commission Meeting: June 11, 2019
Recommending R-1L zoning for low income housing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee22N8znBzo&feature=youtu.be&t=390
City Council Meeting: July 8, 2019
Advocating for housing for the bottom two deciles, based on HUMAN RIGHT to housing.
https://youtu.be/rrtbzDKWUWM?t=1938
City Council Meeting: Sept. 23, 2019
Asked Council for housing that would be set aside for low income people:
1. must be cheap, 2. must be reserved for lowest income people, and 3. must be rent-capped.
https://youtu.be/A5oqenhMWaQ?t=995
City Council Meeting: Oct. 14, 2019
Discussed low-income housing ideas and concerns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQp1xQt_1ms&t=1950s
City Council Meeting: Nov. 11, 2019
Expressed concern about the Pledge of Allegiance, Low income housing; Eugene Wake up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trJ1ZuawYoQ&feature=youtu.be&t=823
City Council March 9, 2020
Demand City Council worksession on Human Rights of homeless,
and, attacked STR owners' pronouncements the STRs don't affect the poor.
https://youtu.be/kigL9QcKgCs?t=3960
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