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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green">Welcome to this roundup of the Land Use News!</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-measure-102-affordable-housing-result/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTOTU3MDkzODk1MzE4ODE1Nzk4MjIaMmY3NzAwZTIwOWJiOTYwYjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG1yCL7W-JjY67EioTIwWtXIDYvDA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Oregon</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">
Voters Pass Affordable Housing Measure 102 </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">OPB News
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">In early returns Tuesday, Oregon voters appeared on the way to approving a constitutional amendment advocates say helps address the state’s
housing crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Measure 102 would amend the Oregon Constitution and make it easier for cities and counties to use their power to borrow money for affordable
housing construction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/11/2018_metro_affordable_housing_bond.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBioTOTU3MDkzODk1MzE4ODE1Nzk4MjIaMmY3NzAwZTIwOWJiOTYwYjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNF6hpOXK7XTwXlZbGCJqNWc1u0vtA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">$653
million Metro affordable housing bond passes: Election results 2018 </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">OregonLive.com
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Portland-area voters on Tuesday approved a $652.8 million bond measure to build thousands of homes affordable for low-income residents.
Measure 26-199, referred to the ballot this year by the Metro regional government, was ahead 58 percent to 42 percent as of 9 p.m. It held a majority in each of the three metro-area counties in partial returns, though the margin in Clackamas County was less
than one percentage point.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://saportareport.com/for-georgias-affordable-housing-advocates-stuff-of-dreams-on-oregon-ballot/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjUzMzk4NTQxNTQyOTAyOTU0MTIaMmY3NzAwZTIwOWJiOTYwYjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFBKLTkWuKsjCuQikbwtFqIqo9LGw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">For
Georgia's affordable housing advocates, stuff of dreams on Oregon ballot </span>
</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">SaportaReport
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Voters in Oregon face a ballot initiative Tuesday that represents the stuff of dreams for some advocates of affordable housing in Georgia
– a proposal that is to produce more bang for each buck of public investment in homes affordable to those earning the salaries of schoolteachers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.dailyastorian.com/Local_News/20181031/warrenton-project-preserves-affordable-housing&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTc3MTcxMzE2NjkwMDAxNTUyNDkyGjJmNzcwMGUyMDliYjk2MGI6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFXX2c9IriQAQdMGiQHuuhxJULxJQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Warrenton
project preserves affordable housing </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Daily Astorian
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Some of the units in the Alder Court Apartments, a 40-unit complex in Warrenton managed by the Northwest Oregon Housing Authority, were
close to uninhabitable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Forty years of weather had left many units slowly rotting away on the inside and out, endangering one of the region’s largest federally
subsidized housing options for people over 55 and with disabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.beachconnection.net/news/deadzone110518_201.php&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMjAwOTkzMjk5NTk3MTE0NTY2NTIaMjVjYjA4Mjc1NWM2MDNjMzpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNHwpsOPjvAKuxn3R0WIqxzi83Xhhw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Dead
Zones Increasing Off Oregon Coast, Including California, Washington </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Oregon Coast Beach Connection
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Scientists from the central Oregon coast’s Hatfield Marine Science Center say the low-oxygen “dead zones” offshore are not only increasing
in size and frequency but they’ve been popping up along the coastlines of Washington and California as well. According to findings by Francis Chan of Oregon State University in Corvallis (of which the Hatfield in Newport is a part), Oregon has seen a decline
in oxygen in ocean waters near the seafloor for two decades now, resulting in what they term “hypoxia season.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://theworldlink.com/news/local/more-bike-racks-could-be-in-coos-bay-s-future/article_7c331ef6-3bfd-5111-97cf-bd37d5f6e3c2.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjUzMzk4NTQxNTQyOTAyODQ2NjIaMjFhYzg4MWE4MDVmOWQxMjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNH_ccs9p1dZ8nrnxk6uSQr4QDpQPw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">More
bike racks could be in Coos Bay's future </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Coos Bay World
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">The Coos Bay Downtown Association is seeking approval from the city council to move forward with plans to bring more bike racks to the
downtown area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">“We’re still in the very beginning stages. We’re just asking city council for approval of the design and locations,” said CBDA executive
director Holly Boardman. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.currypilot.com/news/6650794-151/transit-service-hopes-to-expand&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTOTg0NzM1OTkyMTU3NDAwMzEzNjIaN2QxMTZkOWMxYTYyMTAyMTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEEza5YXxvoX-0Cuj2x-njwYAvyBw"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Transit</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">
service hopes to expand </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Curry Coastal Pilot
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Curry Public Transit is already making plans for grant money it hopes to receive through the Statewide Transportation Improvement Fund
(STIF), which the county anticipates bringing $175,000 a year for transit service expansions. According to Kathryn Bernhardt, general manager of Curry Public Transit, last year’s passage of House Bill 2017 “Keep Oregon Moving” created a new dedicated source
of funding to expand transportation in rural communities throughout the state. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.dailyastorian.com/Local_News/20181108/for-uniontown-a-land-use-first-process&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTOTU3MDkzODk1MzE4ODE1OTM2MTIaMjVjYTgwNjJlNTBlMmZlMTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNELB5aMdpZrDdmnpDKrF2o4EhrUhA"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">For
Uniontown, a 'land use first' process </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Daily Astorian
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">“It's really about balance,” said Michael Duncan, senior regional planner and grant manager with the Oregon Department of Transportation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.registerguard.com/opinion/20181107/81-year-old-land-act-shouldnt-decide-todays-logging-plans&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTOTU3MDkzODk1MzE4ODE1NjQ4MDIaYzFmMTA3ZDFkODljN2MxYTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFx3ckWWquxMvReXJNa6y-oHdEf4w"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">81-year-old
land act shouldn't decide today's logging plans </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">The Register-Guard
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Global warming & climate change were not a consideration in 1937. Could someone please tell me why a dated act (O&C Lands) continues to
be used as a rationale for logging that contributes to such? Time after time, the BLM uses an 81 year-old act as grounds to ignore the serious ecological problem of our time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.tillamookheadlightherald.com/news_paid/oregon-utilities-commission-hears-testimony-for-pud-s-transmission-line/article_e82a298c-e2ce-11e8-abcd-a3e90d693788.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTYzMzU2MjI3NDc1NzUxMDQ0MTEyGjFlNTVhYjMzZWU3YjM2ZDQ6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNHjpe-pYAEppg-Dpl_RK7fO_npa4Q"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Oregon</span><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">
Utilities Commission hears testimony for PUD's Transmission Line Project </span>
</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Tillamook Headlight-Herald
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Officials with the Tillamook People’s Utility District (TPUD) along with opponents to the Netarts/Oceanside Transmission Line project
were called into a hearing with the Oregon Public Utilities Commission last week to answer questions proposed by the state agency in regards to the project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/11/solar-arrays-can-create-prolific-microclimates-on-dry-farmland/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTOTU3MDkzODk1MzE4ODE1NTg4OTIaY2UwZjQ5YTg1MDM1NmRhYTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFnR3SCiSZdYt-T8egRkL_crU8nLQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Neglected
pastures thrive under solar panels </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#737373">Anthropoce
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Solar panels could increase productivity on pastures that are not irrigated and even water-stressed, a new study finds. The new study
published in <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0203256">
<i><span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">PLOS One</span></i></a> by researchers at Oregon State College finds that grasses and plants flourish in the shade underneath solar panels because of a significant change in moisture. The results bolster the
argument for <a href="http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/09/the-resurgence-of-solar-agriculture/">
<span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">agrovoltaics</span></a>, the concept of using the same area of land for solar arrays and farming. The idea is to grow food and produce clean energy at the same time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/11/7/18069940/election-results-2018-energy-carbon-fracking-ballot-initiatives&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAyoUMTYzMzU2MjI3NDc1NzUxMDczMDYyGjc1MmFjMzdmZTEzOTNiZGU6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNGa5Bd9lAgRzmrdcN1qJeWTPTpuxg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Fossil
fuel money crushed clean energy ballot initiatives across the country </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">But there were several climate change- and energy-related
<a href="https://www.vox.com/a/midterms-2018/ballot-initiatives"><span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">ballot initiatives</span></a> up for a vote across the country as well. For the most part, they did not go well for fans of clean energy. The ones
that utilities and oil and gas companies mobilized and spent big against lost. After being boxed out of climate and energy policy at the federal level, the left has turned to states, but at least last night, the states did not deliver much good news.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of Oregon Cities announces new legislative director </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">The League of Oregon Cities announced its new legislative director on Wednesday morning. According to a press release from LOC, Jim McCauley
will step into the new role. As of now, he is the government affairs manager for Washington County, Ore. He replaces Craig Honeyman, who is retiring on Dec. 31 after having served 10 years as the LOC’s legislative director.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Skidmore Prize Winners </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">Her umbrella organization,1000 Friends of Oregon, is the watchdog nonprofit that defends and strengthens Oregon's statewide land-use planning
program. 1000 Friends, in turn, founded the Portland for Everyone Coalition in 2016 and hand-selected Kovacs to lead it. Her unique blend of communications experience and policy development know-how perfectly fit the role, and she's been helped considerably
by a background of community organizing and environmental activism that began in college.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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City Playbook </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">"Columbus, OH has unveiled <a href="https://smart.columbus.gov/playbook/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">a
playbook</span></a> for other cities to learn how to become a smart city," reports Katie Pyzyk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">"In the Smart Columbus Playbook, the city offers articles, contracts, webinars, case studies and data for other city leaders to leverage
and learn from when jumpstarting smart programs and initiatives," adds Pyzyk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://urbdezine.com/2018/11/06/new-urban-planning-and-community-development-software-under-development-by-oracle/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjUzMzk4NTQxNTQyOTAyODM5ODIaMDk0MGYxZDEwODIwMWU5ODpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFBYgzLeqLD_MGrmYP0OgGbWaEWww"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">New
urban planning and community development software under development by Oracle </span>
</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">The company has launched a cloud-based product called Oracle Public Sector Community Development, which will begin with a focus on permits
and inspections and then add new modular functionality as time goes on, in a move that will put it in competition with established market players like
<a href="http://www.govtech.com/100/Tyler-Technologies.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">Tyler Technologies</span></a> and
<a href="http://www.govtech.com/100/Accela-co.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">Accela</span></a>. That’s because permitting and licensing is a pretty core component of government work, especially at the local level — think
business licenses and zoning. So there are a lot of potential buyers out there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.salon.com/2018/11/04/despite-thorough-debunking-neoliberal-housing-politics-prevail-in-the-bay-area/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMjAwOTkzMjk5NTk3MTE0NTIyNzIaZWQxZDAxZTdlMzVlYzA5Zjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNH00dsEdHf-0V5rP8Q6BGzmFKxrYg"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">Despite
thorough debunking, neoliberal housing politics prevail in the Bay Area </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#252525">The YIMBY movement, an acronym for “Yes In My Backyard,” consists of developers, activists, politicians and a few political advocacy groups who
hew to a seemingly simple creed: To solve the housing crisis, we must simply build more housing. As much of it and as fast as possible, and of all types. The cheery acronym “YIMBY” is, of course, intentionally counterposed to “NIMBY”, shorthand for “not in
my backyard,” an anti-development philosophy often used as a slur and which <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/upshot/zoning-housing-property-rights-nimby-us.html">
<span style="color:#252525;text-decoration:none">predates</span></a> YIMBY by many years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/post/new-homebuyers-face-friendlier-housing-market-thanks-cooldown&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoTOTg0NzM1OTkyMTU3NDAwNjQ5MzIaMmY3NzAwZTIwOWJiOTYwYjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEaoch7xEGXNHEKTuB7_g8XA-bZMQ"><span style="color:#427FED;text-decoration:none">New
Homebuyers Face A Friendlier Housing Market, Thanks To Cooldown </span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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what's been happening across the country — except the rise in the city's real estate prices was more intense. The growth trends in Portland over the last decade have been "supercharged, relative to the national trends," Lehner says. In part that's because
of higher-than-average income growth. The pattern "is the exact same, it's just more pronounced," he says.
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