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President Trump endorses the idea of changing ICE to NICE foxnews.com/politics/trump…


Ilhan Omar pronounces "World War II" as "World War Eleven." UNBELIEVABLE





A developer in my market requested a tax break to build a mixed-use project on land that’s had several vacant, falling apart homes sit on them for years looking like a major eyesore. They offered in exchange for the credit a percentage of the apartments on the project to be affordable. Pretty standard stuff, nothing out of the norm. The locals absolutely lost it. “If they get a price reduction on taxes, then so do I!” “Double their taxes just for asking”! People really need to be educated. So you mean to tell me you’d rather look at several houses (on a commercial street) collapsed, than have more housing to help reduce housing costs and more retail/commercial which will help your community grow by creating jobs and more development. Not to mention the taxes this developer would pay are still 50x what the property taxes on the vacant land and dilapidated houses was. What these people don’t understand is a developer is not going to take tens of millions of dollars of risk and not take a profit/payday. Also the credit is necessary due to the labor and material costs to construct anything. NIMBY people are very short sighted. It’s one thing if they are knocking down peoples homes or building in a residential area but these are collapsed homes on a commercial corridor.





🙋🏻♀️who has had enough?!



Ben West has been a vocal supporter of the homeless services center being built in downtown Oregon City, titled "A Caring Place" and built by Hoffman Construction. clackamas.us/housingauthori…
















