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The irony is that developers building housing that meets Oregon's mandated affordability requirements are still turning a profit, it's either just not as much profit as they make in other endeavors they're occupied with or they're foregoing bids in protest. If the city was willing to run it's own public development firm inside the Housing Bureau rather than merely issue grants and incentives to independent developers, the public could actually flip our own new construction at a profit to landlords if we're really that allergic to publicly owned housing.

It's pretty lame that the only solutions ever explored in most housing discussions, this article included, are more brakes and handouts for developers. And that while national-level trends get quick mention, the vast majority of this article functions as an indictment of an extremely modest attempt at slightly-below-market-rate inclusion requirements as being too burdensome.

We know that no level of stimulus for developers will ever cause housing costs to fall over the long term. Even developers don't make such claims. We know that any trickle-down effect that new luxury stock has on the cost of older housing does not offset overall market movement. We therefore know that no amount of industry stimulus can ever ease the pain of the housing crisis, that it can at best only slow it's exacerbation by willingly feeding the political beast of real estate capital.

Given these hard facts and the dire socio-economic danger they pose to city residents, why is Anthony Effinger of Willamette Week devoting most of this article's word count to claims sourced exclusively from the development industry? One real estate analytics firm in Virginia and two real estate investment firm principals are not dependable sources for a journalist seeking to prioritize the well-being of Portlanders.

I remember when I left the platform about ten years ago I actually had to call the company to finalize the deletion of my account, the process was so convoluted. I had a client who was also trying to leave, he literally contracted me to handle the account removal for him after I told him about my own ordeal. Hopefully it's at least automated today.

Meanwhile the tens of millions added to the police budget under Wheeler remain intact. Funny how you'll never see PPBs budget retracted.

For me the replacement depends on the culinary use it replaces.

For scrambles: Brick of extra firm tofu, sliced and crumbled to scrambled egg texture. Mix in 1tsp turmeric, 1tsp black pepper, optional 1tsp garlic powder. Heat up in a pan stirring occasionally, and the turmeric turns it yellow. Once cooked add the secret ingredient: Black salt / kala namak, a salt with a strong sulfur taste (Do this at the end as heat destroys that taste).

For fried: A mung bean-based liquid mix like Just Egg. If you don't want to pay the vegan tax for a bottle of Just it's easy and cheap to diy in the kitchen, lots of recipes out there.

For baking: A tapioca and starch-based mix like Bob's Red Mill egg replacer.

It's funny how job postings still pretend like a description of how demanding and psychotic they are makes them look attractive to prospective hires. "We are intense." "Our customers are fast-growing startups and enterprises, we obsess over listening to them." "We're ultra-responsive to customer feedback". Sounds like someone with issues they need to work out in therapy. Honestly I'd rather have my ear drum cored out with a drill press than work at a place like this. It's still an employer's job market until you see postings advertising benefits and work-life balance.

I used to have apparently atrocious credit due to delaying payments on my student loans for years. But with proof of income it didn't stop me from getting apartments in NYC. In the last place I asked the broker what my credit score was and while he wasn't at liberty to tell me he did say "Not good. But it's all student debt related which we don't consider relevant". Still seems weird to me today but I guess landlords often don't consider student debt to be a reflection of a tenant's ability to pay rent. Probably because most people prioritize paying for shelter over paying for the classes in their past.

WTF is Reddit?

Seriously though get off that site, it's not good for you.

...Dad? Haha I'm about to hit 40 and shitcoins are my brainy boomer dad's hobby.

Only if you act like one. You've got a great body, just make sure your mind and actions match! Learn to love yourself first, and others will follow.

They need an appropriate array of vitamins, nutrients, and calories to stay alive. The way they do this naturally is to eat meat, but it's not the meat specifically that they need.

Taurine and arginine are amino acids, building blocks for proteins, not proteins themselves. Animo acids are quite ubiquitous across life, not specific to any one type of life. eg Plants contain both taurine and arginine.