Eric Cress of Urban Development Partners , a local company that specializes in building and managing

As California's tech boom spills vacation rentals cape cod ma into Portland , there's a growing fear among housing developers and advocates that the bad parts of the Bay displaced cultures, closet-sized bedrooms and sprawling commutes for the many who can't afford to live near work might be on the way, too.
“We could become San Francisco,†Portland Housing Bureau program coordinator Kim McCarty said Friday at a conference organized by Housing Land Advocates about the role of transportation in affordable housing.
“Lots of people are moving here, which is creating more demand for housing,†explained Matthew Gebhardt of Portland State University's School of Urban Studies and Planning. “More people moving to the area means more demand at every single price point. … Vacancy rates are very low. There's not enough units to meet the demand of just the regular housing market, much less the affordable housing market.â€
A new wave of 6,000 new urban apartments starting to arrive on the market, Gebhardt said, are largely being financed by “institutional investors†such as pension and insurance funds who see the potential vacation rentals cape cod ma for long-term vacation rentals cape cod ma payoff as local rents keep climbing.
New construction may release some pressure from the system vacation rentals cape cod ma and slow the overall rise of rents, Gebhardt said. But in the short term, the buildings aren't lowering vacation rentals cape cod ma average prices in the city; just the opposite. Because they tend to be higher-priced per square foot than the buildings they replace, the immediate effect is to raise average rents .
Eric Cress of Urban Development Partners , a local company that specializes in building and managing upscale low-car apartment buildings on the east side , didn't disagree. Central-city rentals are attractive, he said, and people are willing to pay for them.
One conference attendee and HLA board member, Community Alliance of Tenants Deputy Director Justin Buri, said the logical response to a surge of developer investment would be to redirect some of that wealth toward constructing housing that would be required to be offered below the market price.
Buri said he hopes that Housing Land Advocates might be able to form an alliance with some developers: If developers throw political support behind policies vacation rentals cape cod ma such as inclusionary zoning , then that organization or its allies could mobilize their supporters vacation rentals cape cod ma to attend public hearings and rebut “not-in-my-backyard†opposition from nearby homeowners.
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This is a great post and a fantastic image by the P S folks. Though I am curious how a richer inner city will squeeze out low car life. Are you suggesting that because people with the means to own and drive a car are moving into formerly poorer parts of town there will be an uptick in miles driven? The tremendous growth of biking in most of the blue and purple areas on that map would seem to argue against that.
Yes, this is the problem we have in New York City. Bicycle amenities (among other things) are credited with making Manhattan apartments even more desirable, therefore more expensive. Hard cheese for lower-income folks who would like to be able to live walking distance from work.
My neighbor owns a business in the inner SE. He employs about a dozen skilled workers (skilled manual labor) and his biggest concern is that the city will force him to move to make way for coffee houses and overpriced McCondos.
vacation rentals cape cod ma He is a dying breed. Dow Disaster Restoration, the handy appliance parts store (they had everything) it all becomes a bar. I hope Langlitz Leathers can stay. All the car repair places on Division (gasp) employed blue collar guys, who are not welcome in the neighborhood anymore. I don't want to count all the little manufacturing places that no longer fit the image of the brave, vacation rentals cape cod ma new Portland. Remember that inexpensive furniture store? It's a restaurant now. All we can do is stuff our faces with expensive ramen
It's not the City forcing some older businesses out, it's the market. If your friend wants his business to stay in the neighborhood, he needs to make money on something approaching the scale of these other businesses that are competing for the same space. When he started vacation rentals cape cod ma his business in the Inner Southeast, his business license didn't come with a promise from the universe that nothing vacation rentals cape cod ma would ever change in his neighborhood and he would never have to adapt.
There are plenty of blue-collar businesses left in the inner southeast. Hawthorne vacation rentals cape cod ma Auto Repair does a pretty penny because vacation rentals cape cod ma it welcomes women customers and cares about the environment. Bike repair jobs are blue-collar too and there are tons of those. And there are hardware stores on Hawthorne and Division which seem to be doing quite well, if the steady stream of customers clearly willing to pay high prices for convenience and service is any guide.
Actually, his concern is the city, not the market. His business makes money but, the city has the power to zone him out of existence. He has new condos vacation rentals cape cod ma and hipster shops going in all around him and he's worried they will complain about the truck traffic going to and from his shop. Thus, the city will fine and ordinance him out of business, not the market.
Sounds like there is a potential conflict of uses in that area. Hard to even have an opinion about which uses should be prioritized without knowing vacation rentals cape cod ma more. I would hope that if the City decided to rezone his property, it would be relatively nice with the zoning thing and "grandfather" vacation rentals cape cod ma older businesses in with non-conforming use clauses (AKA you can keep doing what you're doing, but if you do major renovations, you need to conform to the new zoning and stop having tons of trucks). I don't know if that's actually the way the City works though....
Stretchy, you can't lay all the zoning blame on the city. Portland is required by law to adhere to Metro's zoning mandates. So, his concern is the regional government, the county, the city, *and* the market. These issues are never as simple as people make them out to be, and changing things at any of those 4 levels doesn't guarantee the problem will be effectively addressed.
That's a useful reframing around wealth, Chris -- though I'd add that the car ownership vacation rentals cape cod ma rates in neighborhoods like the Pearl and cities around the country suggest to me that when you put higher-income people in low-car neighborhoods, they still use cars a lot. In that sense, making low-car-friendly neighborhoods unaffordable is bad for the planet and for taxpayers as well as bad for poorer households: the marginal social benefits vacation rentals cape cod ma of making low-car life accessible to poor people are greater than the marginal benefits vacation rentals cape cod ma of making it accessible to rich people.
vacation rentals cape cod ma In walkable neighborhoods like the Pearl, I wonder how many miles car owning residents of that neighborhood actually drive compared to people living in less walkable neighborhoods, such as outlying suburbs.
There are cost and area use issues associated with car ownership, but if car owners vacation rentals cape cod ma living in a walkable neighborhood helps them substantially reduce the number of weekly, monthly and yearly miles they must travel by car, this is probably a good thing.
As for relative wealth effectively pushing out modest income low car or no car residents from their neighborhoods, possibly to neighborhoods whose available employment opportunities and services make low car or no car lifestyle impractical...that's not a good thing.
Bob, I think the question isn't it good those people vacation rentals cape cod ma in the Pearl aren't driving as much, it's more of couldn't those buildings been inhabited with people who might have less money and not drive AT ALL.
I suppose the answer to that question would have to do with whether the Pearl could ever have stood a chance of being successfully developed in large part for people that have less money. Maybe rent control could help do it. Also is probably a question of whether vacation rentals cape cod ma low income housing districts consisting of tower housing, can be economically feasible, and can avoid the fate of some of this countries' more notorious housing vacation rentals cape cod ma project disasters.
The Pearl WAS - in part - developed for people with less money. 30% of all the housing units in the Pearl are affordable, funded in large part by the property taxes generated vacation rentals cape cod ma by the units that sell at market rates. It's one of our city's affordable housing success vacation rentals cape cod ma stories. And generally the affordable buildings match the urban form of the other buildings. You'd be hard pressed to walk around vacation rentals cape cod ma the Pearl and tell which buildings are affordable housing and which are market housing.
The "...not drive AT ALL." part of daveness's question/statement: Is it thought that in the Pearl district, the city is satisfactorily and sufficiently meeting the demand from residents of this type? That is, those that don't drive at all.
You don't know many rich people, do you? They drive to the mountains and Cannon Beach and the Mac Club. So what if they have the groceries delivered. Big whoop. Those Pearl District condos have lots of bathrooms and square footage per person, and it's a joke that they're green. They are toaster vacation rentals cape cod ma ovens without air conditioning. But it was never, ever about the environment. Follow the money. And the Porsches in the garages.
vacation rentals cape cod ma When we bought our shoebox (without air conditioning, and built in the 19th Century) in the inner SE ten years ago no one else bid on it. It wasn't considered a real house, too small. We got it for less than the asking price.
This is purely anecdotal, but of the three of my friends living in the highly walkable NW 21st/23rd area a few years ago, two of them drove almost everywhere they went. Their commute was still car-driven because transit was close to them but not to their workplaces; they walked to get groceries and for occasional restaurant/coffee-shop outings, but they had friends everywhere else in the city and