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December 06, 2009
No Affordable Housing In South Waterfront After All
Amid a financial crunch, Oregon Health & Science University is close to a deal with the city of Portland to again delay construction of a big parking garage in the South Waterfront District.The agreement would also scrap a proposal for two affordable apartment towers above the garage. The apartments had been central to the city's push for lower income housing in a neighborhood dominated by expensive condos.
Somehow one always felt that when the rubber hit the road the "affordable housing" – the sugar coating on the pill everyone gets to swallow so we can have a bizarre, view-destroying apartment tower neighborhood on the South Waterfront that nobody actually seems to want – would go sooner or later.
Your tax dollars at rest.
Although you know times are hard when a freaking hospital (f'crying out loud) can't get a parking lot built.
Posted by The Chinuk at December 6, 2009 07:00 PM
