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The middle housing plan will help increase safety by putting more feet on our streets and sidewalks. It will provide greater financial security by keeping mortgages and rents relatively lower. It will help keep our city more diverse. It will allow more of our older citizens to age in place. It will provide increased demand for better public transportation and cycling infrastructure. Portland bucked national trends with our funding of the MAX in 1978. We should buck trends again by keeping the future of our city available to the widest range of people.

I am a homeowner in the Arbor Lodge neighborhood, where Arbor Lodge park is a central public space. The park is often busy with families and games and people walking. I want to see that vigor on all of our streets and sidewalks. Middle housing can help make that happen.

Christopher Jones
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Portland, OR 97217

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