Supporters of RIP are planning on wearing blue to city hall. If this happens to you, make sure to check-in on the 16th. Portland Neighbors Welcome says it will be a packed hearing and people can sign up early on the 15th and expect the list to overflow to the next day. Organizers pressed the need to get RIP passed as soon as possible, and that the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability could work on additional proposals to improve it after adoption. When asked if supporting this option would delay the RIP even more, Heller responded that this potential amendment wouldnвЂ™t require any additional funding. The money shot: public subsidy required for deeply affordable housing by Neil Heller. Neil Heller illustrated (below) how these units could stretch out public subsidy dollars further by helping more people or be able to provide even deeper subsidies. Portland Neighbors Welcome is proposing a deep affordability option, where affordable housing developers could build up to eight units for housing affordable to families making 60% or 80% median family income. The Willamette Week recently reported that Commissioner Eudaly would like to see additional anti-displacement measures such as right of first refusal for tenants to purchase their property and city funding to help low income homeowners finance these projects. If you remove those spaces you also remove the opportunities for affordable housing developers to get in there and build affordable housing.вЂќ

вЂњThere has also been some chatter about removing some of the areas that are noted as being at-risk of displacement. Julia Metz, an affordable housing developer with Catholic Charities, cautioned against using displacement models and maps too literally. Larger basement ADUs in existing houses.Д«ureau of Planning and Sustainability Commission analysis showed that вЂњthere is a net reduction in displacement pressures across Portland as the result of the proposals.вЂќ Much like today though, displacement is not evenly spread out among neighborhoods.Visitable means no step entries, ground floor bathrooms, and wider doorways. вЂњVisitableвЂќ ADA access for at least one unit on lots with 3-4 units.If more units are built, the maximum building size can increase to 4,000 feet. On an R5 zoned lot the maximum house size will decrease from 6,750 square feet to 2,500 square feet for one unit. Homes with up to four units are considered residential and not commercial properties in banking and are available for a standard mortgage.ДЄ key to the proposal is that maximum homes sizes are set to significantly decrease from what is allowed today, effectively ending demolitions of single family houses for much larger single family houses. Why four? Splitting land costs four ways has a significant affordability boost compared to three units. The latest version of the RIP draft (PDF) allows more flexibility for housing options up to fourplexes. Housing types allowed in single family zoned lots with RIP. These decisions still impact housing prices today. Single family zoning was extended to more areas of the city in 1959. PortlandвЂ™s first zoning plan was approved by voters in 1924, at a time when the Klan was running Oregon politics. 40% of PortlandвЂ™s land area is currently zoned for single family housing and is expected to absorb twenty percent of PortlandвЂ™s population growth. The Residential Infill project will re-legalize duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes in single family zones. On Friday night I attended an information session at Lucky Lab in northwest organized by Portland Neighbors Welcome (along with SunrisePDX, Business for a Better Portland, and No More Freeways). The hearings are scheduled for Wednesday January 15 at 2:00 pm and Thursday January 16 at 5:00 pm. This week Portland City Council is hearing two days of public testimony for the long awaited Residential Infill Project (RIP). (Source: Bureau of Planning & Sustainability) ThatвЂ™s one reason housing and land-use is crucial if we want to reach our bicycling goals. When more people live closer to each other and to destinations, they will ride bikes more.

Suburbs are unwalkable