Oregon Just Voted to Legalize Duplexes on Almost Every City Lot
Seems reasonable, but being a Portland resident I'm already annoyed at how hard it is to find parking.  Portland's mass transit is a joke (I can bike downtown end-to-end faster than MAX can crawl through it) and so people have no choice but to drive.  What's the point of putting duplexes in neighborhoods without good transit and roads at capacity?  California had a much more reasonable solution in SB827 and now SB50 [1] in that density increases would have only happened near transit.<p>I don't think the law will have the intended effects.  Home prices tend to be sticky, and I'm not aware of any North American city that successfully built its way out of a housing affordability crisis.  Wealth inequality is such that current property owners, and real estate speculators, will make out handesomely.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Senate_Bill_827" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Senate_Bill_827</a>