Forever void from this debate is why Oregon democrats pushed through high density planning. When voters refused to increase property taxes in a deep recession our scamming rat *&^%#@ legislators conspired to raise property taxes through market manipulation at the development stage and bypass the pesky voters. HDP is based on the social engineering formula of forcing Z amount of homes per acre at Y value to achieve Z desired property tax revenue. Urban growth boundaries represent the X while the newly adopted inflationary "Uniform Codes" represent the Y. These codes outlawed affordable housing to increase property tax revenue. Until high density planning was adopted we could purchase a home earning the federal minimum wage. The public record documents our legislators fully understood HDP would cause poverty, homelessness to explode but chalked this up as collateral damage and necessary to prevent government from going bankrupt. (to be continued)