And why you will continue to need us for many years into the future!
A Zillow report released in spring found that our area was among the top five "hottest" rental markets in the nation. Rent increases were high, housing supply remains low, employment remains high and the odds of anything changing quickly is low.
Our close association with Multifamily NW helped develop the Equitable Housing PAC. Our first goal is to raise significant funds to provide support for legislative candidates who see things our way. They must realize that the radical changes proposed are foolhardy as they only disrupt the market and produce absurd and harmful results for everyone. Two harmful bills were defeated in the last short-session of the legislature, although we do expect tenant advocates to reintroduce these issues in the 2017 legislative session. Included in these victories for us were defeating the requirement that landlords pay the tenant relocation assistance of one month's rent, the presumption of retaliatory actions within 6 months after a tenant's report regarding maintenance and language regarding unreasonable harassment of a tenant by a landlord.
As eventually agreed to as "Good", Inclusionary Zoning was viewed as not being rent control, but grants certain benefits to builders and developers (low or no cost permits and developer fees, tax breaks, etc…) in exchange for setting aside a certain portion of a development for affordable housing. The city or county may not require more than 20% of a development be affordable.
The following concessions were made to the tenant advocates in the short session. For month-to-month tenancies, no rent increases allowed in the first year. Rent increases require a 90-day written notice after the first year of occupancy.
The Community Alliance of Tenants declared a "Renter State of Emergency"; prompting the Portland City Council and the Oregon Legislature to approve many increased renter protections and to focus upon many others for the future.
Portland Metro continues to be the 15th most expensive rental market in the nation. Competition for contributing members of our communities include places where the quality of life is fairly high, but rents are actually dropping like Baltimore, Anchorage, San Antonio, Des Moines, El Paso and others.
On September 1st, police began a sweep of the homeless camps along Portland's Springwater Corridor. This massive relocation of homeless people had many unintended consequences. The homeless moved to camps on the streets, sidewalks and parking lots throughout the city. Squatters ended up in abandoned homes and vacant rentals (broken windows and kicked in doors). Many parked vehicles ended up with people living inside of them. This is a constant game of Whack-A-Mole.
Beginning April 1, 2017 at the direction of DEQ, Metro will implement screening requirements for additional types of construction materials arriving at their transfer stations. The new materials that will require testing for asbestos include drywall, interior textures, insulation, stucco, roofing materials, glazing compounds, vapor barriers and cement. This process is in addition to the current screening for lead based paint, vinyl flooring, etc… With all these new regulations it's almost illegal to go to the dump.
Portland City Council and the Oregon State Legislature seem to be in a battle of who can be the most sympathetic to the plight of the downtrodden. They both seem to ignore existing laws to consider enacting versions of rent control (perhaps limit increases to a certain percentage), adopt plans for rent stabilization schemes and/or repeal all city, county and statewide bans on rent control. They really hate the best instrument for control that landlords utilize—the No Cause Notice. This tool in our toolbox has a bullseye on its back.
Saving the best for last, in 2017 the City of Portland is planning on creating a landlord registration including mandatory rental inspections and oversight of applications and contracts. To pay for the programs, the City will assess a surcharge to all landlords. This is nearly identical to the process enacted in Gresham over the last few years. However, the Portland City Council is much more adept at creating a large infrastructure of regulation, administration and inspection supported by a projected new tax funding of seven million dollars annually. From an outside point of view regarding the creation of these new bureaucratic kingdoms; when they cannot effectively operate a complaint driven inspection system in order to eradicate slumlords, what real purpose (other than perpetuating itself) is served by registering, taxing and inspecting every property?
We continue to fight the good fight on your behalf. Every year will always have its share of challenges and our job is to help you navigate through them.
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Houston Disaster, Predictable ?
Peter Vaughan
From the very beginning, when Houston Texas was granted Incorporation on June 5th 1837, to the civil war in 1860, even when the Union forces won the war five years later (1865), Houston had began an historical record of events forming a pattern that has followed true,
The yellow fever that killed 12% of the population 1839
From the fire that razed much of Houston to the ground March 1859
49% of the population enslaved in 1860
The freeing of slaves 1870… and many more events were significantly marked over the historical track record of Houston's past.
Now, to the biggest natural flood in American history beginning 25th August 2017.
Hurricane Harvey made landfall on Texas, and rainfall of Biblical proportions turned the city and surrounding state into a giant, swirling wash of water. Many have died. Tens of thousands – if not more evacuees are in shelters, but was this too, a foreseeable event from my area of analysis? YES!
The activity RIGHT NOW follows the same cluster of patterns that have peppered Houston's past. And the future, well there are two and a half years of rebuild to follow and it means all hands on deck. New Zealand's City of Christchurch was brought to its knees in 2010/2011 with an earthquake, seven years on, the re-build of the city is still ongoing and there are only a few hundred thousand people in the region. Houston is another matter as the foundation of the water damage and the waterways must all be seriously reassessed, upgraded and rebuilt. This is a home for millions of people, and Nature has provided a massive lesson with her awesome power.
But, how can people do anything about a future they cannot see? They can't! So, can anything be seen ahead for this drowned city, is there any light at the end of the tunnel? Yes!
By the year 2020, Houston is back on its feet once more. The City will be up an running with another three years (2020 – 2023) of re-build and development; BUT, keep a keen eye on May through December 2023, as another significant change for the City of Houston is Indicated. The Initiation Marker for the up-and-coming changes will be seen by late February 2023 and build in intensity over the mid to later months. This is not a doomsday warning, far from it, but if the events of the past, the events of the present and what can be calculated in the period indicated, are all tarred with the same brush, why brush it off and ignore it?
If you are interested enough to learn about "The Vaughan Process" of analysis, let me know. I am about to launch a web based International Training Course.
Regards, Peter Vaughan
peter@petervaughan.net
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Love it. Though hard to believe anyone will think this kind of stuff can be predicted knowing how blinkered people are to anything that is not told via the papers, ultimately owned by politicians and media. Shame that people cannot think outside and embrace the unknown.
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Thank you Sarah. Your comment brought a cartoon to mind where a R&D developer in a company presents his new findings to a senior manager, and the Manager says "I'm sorry, we can't use this as it has never been tried before." Ha ha. Yes Sarah, you are right. People have blinkers on but not everyone. Yay to that!
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Thanks for sharing very interested in learning your methods in the near future.Alan Moffitt
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KISSINGER; ISRAEL'S INVASION OF CYPRUS
Kyrenia 1974.
Henry Kissinger wanted the Turkish military to invade Northern Cyprus.
"BRITAIN CAME close to war with Turkey after Turkey's 1974 invasion of northern Cyprus, the former prime minister, Lord Callaghan of Cardiff, has confirmed.
"Although Britain sent a task force to the area during the crisis in 1974, the Americans vetoed military action to deter Turkey, he said."
War over Cyprus was vetoed by US, says Callaghan.
Northern Cyprus 1974. Around half of all the Turkish Cypriots have now left Cyprus.
The German magazine Der Spiegel, in 19 August 1974, revealed that "hiding behind the Turkish invasion of Cyprus was Israel".
Antipodes: Israel's role in the invasion and occupation of Cyprus.
Northern Cyprus 1974.
Spyros Papageorgiou wrote:
"The Jews were during the Turkish invasion, continuously on the side of the Turkish military operation...
"An Israeli navy boat was within the Turkish invasion armada...
"At the end of 1972, the secret services of Israel sold Kalashnikovs' to EOKA B 'under the direction of the CIA'.
(Spyros Papageorgiou in his book The Attila impacts Cyprus, p. 27.)
Nicosia 1974.
Cyprus is now used for Israeli special forces' drills.
Israeli-military-training-ground
Israel seeks bases in Cyprus.
In mountains and cities of Cyprus, Israeli special forces train for war .
Henry Kissinger arranged the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, partly to please Israel.
15% of northern Cyprus now 'belongs to Israelis'
Colonel General Michael Goleniewski, a Polish Army intelligence officer in World War II, identified Henry Kissinger as having worked for a Soviet intelligence network in Germany during World War II.
Henry Kissinger - JR Nyquist
There is a belief that Kissinger and the Kosher Nostra have influence within all the top intelligence services, including the CIA, KGB and Mossad.
"Cyprus is a part of Eretz Yisrael."
Cyprus in Jewish eyes
"Limassol is where by my rough count there must be over 1,000 Israelis working in the internet sector.
"Most of the internet industry in beautiful Limassol focuses on forex trading, porn (companies like Coolvision) and internet gambling..."
Limassol, The Internet Capitol of Israel
Israeli forces in Cyprus .
Greek Cypriots complain that Israelis are buying up too many properties in Cyprus, thus pushing up prices.
Gas exploration refuels old Israel-Cyprus ties
The sea between Cyprus and Israel-Palestine-Egypt is reported to have vast reserves of natural gas.
(Oil and gas for Cyprus and Israel: Where there's gas, will there be a pipeline?)
There is co-operation between (Greek) Cyprus and Israel to construct a pipeline to transport gas to mainland Europe.
"Donald Trump's Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had a bank - Bank of Cyprus - perfectly suited to launder the money that Paul Manafort raked in."
"Manafort used Cypriot shell companies as part of a nearly $19 million deal with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska."
Paul Manafort used Wilbur Ross' Bank of Cyprus .
Above, we see Greek Cypriot soldiers training in Israel.
Cypriot, Israeli soldiers train together
Labels: 1974, Cyprus, Eoka, gas, IDF, Israel, Jews, KGB, Kissinger, oil
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6075295/Meet-worlds-dangerous-powerful-cartel-boss.html
Two objectives in one....the Jewish scammers fully intend to take over Cyprus just like Lebanon and Syria.....part of the Greater Israel plan.....It took them 60 odd years to get Jerusalem recognised as the capital....employing the easily identifiable (as a Jew) Jewish president Trump.
They'll have to concoct a story to get rid of the native inhabitants though....using their control of key countries in Europe....they'll probably persuade Cypriots to emigrate there....maybe by mass murdering some of them as they did with the Palestinians.
In Roman times it is said Jewish rebels killed over 240,000 people in Cyprus.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitos_War#Cyprus
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