Housing - SquareOffs

Do you support development of a 260 acre new Bend neighborhood?

Asked by KTVZ

486 Votes

Do you support development of a 260 acre new Bend neighborhood?

26%

Yes Yes

74%

No No

26%

Yes

2 Comments

Jane CommunityMember

The only long-term solution to high housing costs is more housing.

Stang1960

Tax Payer subsidized housing projects have been tried before... They Don't Work because government taxes/subsidies run out (New York). Get rid of Urban Growth Boundaries.

Todd Brown

It is the Right thing to do!

Stang1960

Why? Everything the government touches get more expensive and fails in the long run.

74%

No

4 Comments

Jeff

As an airline pilot and someone who previously walked in that area on the East side of Bend, I am totally against the city ruining yet another nice area of town. And the discounted homes for teachers is BS, These are the same people who ditched our kids during Covid while everyone else had to work.

Latterdaysaint

City developers are ruining bend

Jane CommunityMember

Right, that's why property values are plummeting and people are leaving in droves. 🙄

Stang1960

Sounds like a nice socialist housing project planned by government Marxist subsidized by hard working TAX Payers. Oregon needs to get rid of Urban Growth Boundaries and open land up for investment and create competition so contractors can build witch would increase supply & bring down some cost.

Kat Johnson

Bend is already overpopulated and has lost much of what made it such a nice place to live - namely, the beautiful natural areas in and around it that have been covered over with roads, subdivisions and businesses. If we stop building more neighborhoods and businesses, people will stop moving here.

Do you support the construction of permanent supportive units for the homeless?

Asked by KTVZ

581 Votes

Do you support the construction of permanent supportive units for the homeless?

28%

Yes Yes

72%

No No

28%

Yes

1 Comments

Sheree Cecil

Because I believe everybody deserves a chance to be housed when they have fallen because it's not how many times you fall as how many times you get up that counts and sometimes you just might be a helping hand

72%

No

9 Comments

Mark Mueller

More freebies won't solve the problem, just create more recipients! It is becoming more apparent that the city council wants Bend to be more like Portland.

Jeff Neely

If you give homeless people free stuff, more will come. Where is the personal responsibility to work, save and buy your own home or pay rent some place. You are rewarding drug use. Stop it and enforce the law and homelessness will drop.

Matt

You cannot force transients to get help. Our worthless city council and mayor have destroyed our city by allowing transients to terrorize the community with crime, fires, robbery, rape, drug use and destruction of property. They will not use places with rules and restrictions. Wake up Bend!

sandra zollman

Couldn't agree more. The liberals have spent years trying to make Bend into liberal Portland. If we don't get these city councilors and mayor out of office we will soon become the state that everyone fled to move here.

Kimmy Wasatch

Thorwing more money and free services will not solve the problem.

J-bird

Many of these people are older and have paid into the system, so your ignorance is pointless yet again.

Latterdaysaint

That's not solving the underlying issue of homelessness witch is mental health and drug use

J-bird

Supportive housing is intended to address those issues. Sobriety is mandatory and mental health counseling is among the services provided.

Larry Ewart

Homelessness is becoming an industry. Once we get thousands of people dependent on jobs there will be no going back.

Larry Merrill

More people are in the homeless business than are truly homeless. Help families and the working poor that can truly benefit.

Charleen Holstad

They seem to receive more opportunities then I do. I have worked all my life since I was 12, and for them to get free housing and free $1000.00 a month, that's more then I make. I think this bill failed, but it was in the works.

sandra zollman

Only if they have a 40 hour job and are willing to pay some rent or have social security and pay some rent. Handouts don't help people, they enable them.

Do you think more affordable housing will help the community?

Asked by 13 On Your Side

101 Votes

Do you think more affordable housing will help the community?

53%

Yes Yes

47%

No No

53%

Yes

0 Comment

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47%

No

0 Comment

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Housing SquareOffs

Do you support development of a 260 acre new Bend neighborhood?

26% Yes Yes

74% No No

26% Yes

74% No

Do you support the construction of permanent supportive units for the homeless?

28% Yes Yes

72% No No

28% Yes

72% No

Do you think more affordable housing will help the community?

53% Yes Yes

47% No No

53% Yes

47% No

About Housing

26%

Yes Yes

74%

No No

26%

Yes

74%

No

28%

Yes Yes

72%

No No

28%

Yes

72%

No

53%

Yes Yes

47%

No No

53%

Yes

47%

No