Over 40 percent of Eugene residents are renters. Rents are too high for prevailing wages. We need more apartment buildings to bring rents down to what people can afford. Otherwise Eugene's working-class people will have to move somewhere else. Which might not help, because the lack of affordable housing is now a national crisis. Ever since the end of WWII the US has encouraged the growth of single-family home suburbia, but a large portion of our population cannot afford to live that way. Time to focus on apartments.