Archive - FidelityPDX’s Newsletter

$2 billion spent on affordable housing since 2020, and every metric (homelessness, affordability, or homeownership rates) about housing is…

Government buries it’s head in the sand.

Nov 26, 2024 •

September 2024

Not a Home Run: the proposed location of a new MLB stadium create an intractable mess of parking and transportation

For the 10th time in two decades, the city gets "excited" about a baseball stadium.

Sep 26, 2024 •

June 2024

Portland Cops and their broken ideas on harassing people with traffic stops

News data on traffic stops shows how reforms on gang enforcement has changed but is still flawed and broken.

Jun 25, 2024 •

May 2024

A retrospective of the 2014 paper "Density At Any Cost"

I suppose it's really frustrating for people new to Portland to look around and see this city in such an ongoing crisis all the time, with bad news…

May 20, 2024 •

March 2024

Cylvia Hayes 2.0 and a short list of Kotek's least favorite people.

Is now a good time to criticize the Governor for a moment?

Mar 27, 2024 •

February 2024

Is Rep. Rob Nosse a Communist?

Can we find actual communists within the Oregon Democratic Party or the political establishment? Would anyone wear this on their sleeve and admit it?

Feb 6, 2024 •

January 2024

Outlaw and Grifters

The con continues

Jan 5, 2024 •

December 2023

October 2023

The Bizarre Story of PBOT and a Transportation Ideology that Failed

PDX.Real digs into a street-level scandal

Published on Portland Dissent • Oct 10, 2023

June 2023

TriMet's problems are exponentially worse than anyone is talking about

Public opinion of TriMet's decisions have been pretty mixed, mostly because TriMet's decisions are so convoluted that they can be a real challenge to…

Jun 6, 2023 •

February 2023

The Tale Of The Sunken Hoboat

"Pirate Boats" or "Hoboats" whatever you want to call them.

Feb 14, 2023 •

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