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Portland council frames five common goals, urges equity lens and task-force options for homelessness
Summary
Facilitator Lena Garrity presented draft common council goals — housing production and affordability, reducing chronic homelessness, pedestrian and bicycle safety, affordability through revenue policies and climate resilience — and councilors pressed to explicitly center equity and consider a task force on homelessness.
Facilitator Lena Garrity presented a draft set of common council goals that she said had emerged from earlier workshops and follow‑up work: increasing housing production and strengthening affordability protections; reducing chronic homelessness; prioritizing pedestrian and bicycle safety; easing affordability through new revenue policies and targeted tax relief; and advancing climate resilience.
Garrity said she mapped council‑suggested…
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