Burnside26 is a luxury apartment building plunked down in Kerns, a neighborhood that has traditionally been considered "affordable".  I know - I moved to 24th and Flanders when I came here in 1996.

Novick and Hales have been slow to react to the gentrification of inner North and Northeast Portland, spurred in part by PDOT projects like the realignment of Williams and Vancouver Avenues, which has turned them into a canyon of upscale apartment towers and put the streets into road starvation mode.  I-5 is a parking lot during much of the day, and the traffic has spilled over onto the neighborhood arterials as well.  Whoever gets PDOT is going to have to deal with paralyzing traffic (and, no, not everyone can ride a bike to work).