April 2-3, 2025 Council Agenda

The agenda was approved by unanimous consent.

Motion to add "including identification of impediments such as Zoning Code, permitting process, and financing gaps" to the last Resolved statement: Moved by Green and seconded by Zimmerman. (Aye (12): Kanal, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney)

Motion to amend the Resolution to add two Whereas statements at the end and to add a new Section 6 to the second Resolved statement:
Whereas the 2022 State of Housing in Portland report shows that in 2022 the average Latino and Native American families could not afford a 3-bedroom house in any neighborhood in Portland, and the average Black family could not afford a 1-bedroom home in any neighborhood in Portland; and

Whereas the N/NE preference policy seeks to address many of these disparities and the city already has partners like the Albina Vision Trust poised to build 1000s of units under this preference policy,

6. analysis of pilot zones available for near-term implementation of social housing models at scale, including within the Albina Vision project area and other neighborhoods within the N/NE Preference Policy area: Moved by Pirtle-Guiney and seconded by Smith. (Aye (12): Kanal, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney

Motion to end debate and call the question: Moved by Green and seconded by Novick. (Aye (12): Kanal, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney)
 
Motion to add an additional Whereas statement second to last:
Whereas, based on 2020 U.S. Census data for Portland, the average Black household brings in about $3,000 in monthly income, Latino households earn $4,500, and Native American households earn nearly $5,000. In comparison to white Portland households who earn $6,400 on average each month. The report shows that white residents can afford a home in about one-third of Portland’s neighborhoods – mostly adjacent to the City’s eastern border: Moved by Smith and seconded by Green. (Aye (12): Kanal, Ryan, Koyama Lane, Morillo, Novick, Clark, Green, Zimmerman, Avalos, Dunphy, Smith, Pirtle-Guiney)

Continued to April 3, 2025 at 3:30 p.m. Existing registrants who have not testified may testify at the meeting, however verbal testimony is closed for new registrations.