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To increase affordability communities should support moderate-priced housing development. This increases housing options for middle-income households, and for lower-income through filtering, as households move from low- to moderate-priced units.
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Boulders Meant to Deter Homeless Cause a Ruckus in San Francisco
October 1, 2019, 11am PDT
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Boulders to Replace Rose Bushes in ODOT Effort to Inconvenience the Homeless
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The Oregon Department of Transportation anticipates spending about a million dollars to bring boulders to road embankments so that they are less hospitable to the homeless.
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