Todd Boyle: This city is auctioning off our city to the highest bidder, and housing is being allocated on an auction system of who’s got the most money, instead of who already is living here and has family and relations here, jobs here and trying to raise kids here, retired here.
Presenter Rewind with Todd Boyle goes back to the year 2019 and a series of statements in the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza in downtown Eugene.
Todd Boyle I’m Todd Boyle and I came to talk about the housing crisis for people who don’t make a lot of money. And the problem is growing worse and worse. And this causes homelessness. It causes broken families, it causes economic stress, and it causes runaway kids and runaway fathers. It breaks down society, basically. And so that’s the conveyor belt that causes homelessness.
I am here at ‘People’s Forum’ to point out this tile: ‘Principle Above Politics’ by Wayne Morse. None other than Wayne Morse. And the relevance of this to our housing crisis—and there is a housing crisis of which the homeless crisis is a big part—is that our policies shaped restrictions, the infamous anti-housing ordinances of Eugene…