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Do you think rent control's the best affordable housing solution?
KTVZ Asked by KTVZ
736 Votes

Do you think rent control's the best affordable housing solution?

Yes, cap rent!

6

No, use another way

10

Yes, cap rent!

5 Comments
Brandy Barr
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Brandy Barr

ANYONE ON S.S.I. OR S.S.D. ONLY GET $780 A MONTH, SO HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSE TO PAY FOR RENT?! THEY CANT!!

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Ka San
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Ka San

Rents should be able to keep up with prop taxes and HOA fees that go up, but they should be commensurate with those things, not exceed. High rents contribute to the lack of affordable housing in Bend.

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Kenneth Swipies
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Kenneth Swipies

Without some kind of government control greed will drive the rise of rent due o the housing shortage. Wages will not keep up. Look at homeless in Christmas Valley, or in the Gilchrist area.

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Lisa Keeney
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Lisa Keeney

It should be affordable for people making minimum wage with children.

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Leta Johnson
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Leta Johnson

Landlords want to make huge profits on their rentals, so that they can keep buying more rental homes in the area. I believe this is recycling the unaffordable housing crisis. They're out of control!

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GT Thomas
GT Thomas

So go built a rental or stop.

No, use another way

9 Comments
Felix Pressler
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Felix Pressler

allow 2-4 unit(1-2Brs) structures along arterial streets on larger lots, e.g. 50/55'x100/125' homes on smaller lots are still expensive & do nothing to help renters

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Joseph Trueax
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Joseph Trueax

Rent control means government involvement the government can screw up a wet dream

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John Driscoll
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John Driscoll

Rent control makes an awful situation worse. The solution is for the state and local government to get out of the way of the productive sector.

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Angela Watson
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Angela Watson

Property taxes, insurance, HOA dues are all on the rise which forces rental increases. Landlords aren’t in this for charity!! Has to be some give there also otherwise owners will sell!

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Sam Ackerman
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Sam Ackerman

What a stupid ideal. It will just reduce the numbers of rentals even more.

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Len Parsons
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Len Parsons

Government needs to reduce cost such as SDCs and other taxes on rental property. A month ago Bend was considering reducing SDCs for day care - why not for rental housing?

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Barb Holcomb
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Barb Holcomb

We own 4 rentals in bend. If you put any rent caps on, we WILL sell all of them and move them and us to another state. We owned them during the recession when we were in the negative. Noone helped us

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GT Thomas
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GT Thomas

Liberals think big government is best but it is proven over and over the free market is best.

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JB Demaris
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JB Demaris

This is just another way to control a free market. Open up land to build new homes on and reduce the restrictions on land use laws

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Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?
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174 Votes

Have these high winds affected you or your home this week?

YES

0

NO

0

YES

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NO

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    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?
KTVZ Asked by KTVZ
1,337 Votes

    Do you agree with the May 1st deadline for homeless campers to move?

YES

12

NO

1

YES

12 Comments
Barb Hayden
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Barb Hayden

Never should have been allowed in the first place! Bend needs to develop a site with bathrooms, showers and rules,like NO drugs and NO trash. At least Redmond is trying to help these people. Take a. Lesson from them. Get off the dime and solve the problem

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Cheri Trettin
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Cheri Trettin

I say move the campers off forest land and onto main street if you want public funding for homelessness in Bend to become an immediate priority!!!

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Latterdaysaint
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Latterdaysaint

Yes and build more homeless shelters or provide jobs for them

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Tylor Meyer
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Tylor Meyer

They have had excessive amount of time to move off land they are not even allowed to live on!

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Just a voice Figg
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Just a voice Figg

They have had ample time to move. Vegetation reduction helps slow and or stop wildfires that will eventually hit that area and destroy millions of dollars worth of homes and people's lives.

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Jeff Sanders
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Jeff Sanders

Living in SE Bend I really enjoyed going to China Hat with my Jeep to off road and walk with my dogs. The thought of being shot has kept me from doing that for a while now. Good riddance to the homeless and make it where they can't come back.

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Joe Dillon
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Joe Dillon

it is public land, NOT someones home! The public cannot use it without fear of saftey. We DONT need another human caused fire that happens EVERY year out there, we have enough to worry about with mother nature fires. Time to move on!

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Linda Knowlton
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Linda Knowlton

Fire danger and trash in the forest

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jennifer stenkamp
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jennifer stenkamp

Being homeless is usually the result of bad choices. My taxes help pay for government land. Living there rent free and creating tons of garbage, being a true threat to causing wildfires, behaving in a lawless manner angers too many of us who manage to pay for real housing. Move them out now.

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Erin E Yates
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Erin E Yates

We all have problems in life why do they think it is ok to do what they are doing, when the rest of us pay our taxes, go to work, get counseling if we have problems. The amount they spend on drugs, they could pay rent. It’s a choice and their choice is to do drugs and not work. DEATH and TAXES!!!

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Goth Gaga
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Goth Gaga

This homeless problem is a choice. These people are drug addicts that need to get clean and go back to work. They should be put into rehab while being counseled for their personal problems. Once clean they should be put to work doing tasks that prisoners do. If they refuse, then jail them.

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Ron Rommel
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Ron Rommel

The Homeless Campers are the wrong people on the wrong landscape due to their lack of cognitive awareness of fire. I and many others are willing to share grace for their position in life when they are willing to improve their situation through counseling, accepting shelter to transition life.

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NO

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Diana Cockerill
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Diana Cockerill

They are humans and have no other options.We try not to let that happen to unwanted pets, yet have no problem in letting it happen to, what many consider, unwanted people!

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