The speech, held at Franklin High School in Southeast Portland, comes as the city faces a $93 million budget shortfall and a persistent homeless crisis. He’s not sugarcoating the situation.
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Mayor Wilson said he is releasing his budget proposal on Monday, and he says it includes significant layoffs along with increases in fees for some city services.
Regarding the housing crisis, the mayor and Gov. Tina Kotek are pushing to suspend system development fees to build 5,000 new housing units over the next three years.
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In an interview with KOIN 6 News’ Eye on Northwest Politics that will air on Sunday, Wilson said the plan will help solve two of the city’s other major problems in addition to housing.
“We have population decline, and we have the worst job creation in the nation,” he said. “What this will do is to bring good paying jobs back into Portland and start that transformation, or that revitalization that we need, so not only does it address our housing crisis, but it addresses our job creation crisis as well.”…