Rental returns are not nearly as profitable as some renters or the city seems to think. Property ownership for many people is simply a modest way to hold their savings locally at, hopefully, a little better than 1% interest. Barring, of course, another real estate recession.

If it weren't for my wife's insistence of owning a house, I'd rent  Home ownership, especially in a city like Eugene, that charges inordinately high property taxes, is over rated

In towns and cities where the rental housing codes have become stiffer, even draconian, the costs, as with property tax increases, are passed on, directly or indirectly, to renters.

If Eugene is to continue to have comparatively reasonable rents, the building code bureaucracy and property taxation need reasonable citizen driven containment.