<-- slowly shakes head. Seriously, gary, at this point I am not surprised you are a former Oregon public school teacher. For the sixth time, gary; First, we need to restore the renters refund program, and stop taxing the working poor out of affordable housing to then squander tax revenue on subsidized housing many would not need if not for government taxing them out of a home. But liberals who dominate Oregon politics will not restore the renters refund program, and continue to tax the poor out of housing while lecturing we need to address the emergency poverty-affordable housing crisis by expanding the liberal plantation, the welfare state, EG Section 8 subsidized housing. one example of how liberals chain the poor to poverty, and prevent proven solutions from coming to fruition.
 Furthermore, in the 1940's when my Chickasaw grandma and her kids thumbed a ride to Oregon, to overcome abject poverty, Oregon faced a critical affordable housing crisis, and why my mother grew up in poverty