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OR currently ranks 4th in the nation in % of income spent on sheltering our families. Why? Outdated land use policies, soaring cost of construction, over-regulation, CAT tax, CPP, ever increasing taxes, impossibly high SDCs, imported timber instead of sustainable Oregon harvest.

Lots of updates to the Oregon Scorecard this month, including employment, GDP growth and state and local taxes per capita. Follow the link and check them out ⬇️ #orpol oregonbusinessindustry.com/o…

Yes! End the climate change grift! statesmanjournal.com/story/t…

A multi-part series on the imminent fall of Portland, due to crumbling real estate, Byzantine laws, usurious penalties and a government hiding the darkest secret Portland holds. Series continues in the comments. Posted on the Corrupted Governor Tina Kotek FB page by Mark Rogers. 1/ "THIS IS THE MAP THAT WILL DESTROY PORTLAND. -By SEP Asset Stabilization LLC EDIT: BELOW IS THE LIVE LINK google.com/maps/d/edit... This is our first part expose concerning the antitrust of Portland City and Multnomah county. This represents 8 billion of POTENTIAL AND IMMINENT LOSS to the city and county. Every blue dot is a brick building that can't be insured(without paying 3 to 10 time premium). Can't be financed or refinanced. Can't be sold at fair market value(10 cents on the dollar seems to be the going rate). And in many cases — can't even be auctioned. There are 1,369 of them. They are scattered across every neighborhood you care about — Parkrose, Old Town, Sandy Boulevard, Division, Alberta, Mississippi, St. Johns, Central Eastside, Montavilla, Lents. The restaurants you eat at. The apartments your neighbors live in. The small businesses that anchor your block. All unreinforced masonry. All under a mandatory seismic retrofit order from the City of Portland. Almost none of them have a funded path to compliance. Retrofit costs run $800,000 to $8,000,000 per building. The buildings are often worth less than the cost of fixing them. No conventional lender will finance a loan where construction cost exceeds collateral value. So the owners are trapped. They can't fix the building. They can't sell the building. They can't insure the building. And when they fall behind on property taxes — because of course they do — Multnomah County forecloses. And here's where it gets ugly. THE COUNTY ISN'T AUCTIONING THESE BUILDINGS. Oregon law requires it. ORS Chapter 275 lays out the foreclosure auction process. The county is supposed to auction tax-foreclosed properties and recover what it can. But what happens when you auction a building that nobody can insure, nobody can finance, and nobody knows how to retrofit? Nobody bids. And if nobody bids, the county is stuck holding a building it can't maintain, can't sell, and can't put back on the tax rolls. The assessed value collapses. The tax revenue disappears. The building rots. The county spent more administering the foreclosure than it will ever recover. So they stopped auctioning them. The county's own budget documents show foreclosure auction revenue collapsing year over year. Their Tax Title program page confirms the last public sale was May 2024. The next one? "Anticipated Spring 2026." We're in Spring 2026 right now. No properties have been posted. No auction has been announced. And the last time they did sell, it was bare land — strips and small parcels sold to adjacent property owners. Not buildings. Not the 1,369 buildings on this map. They are hiding the problem. Instead of auctioning buildings that nobody will buy, the county quietly absorbs the loss. Your tax dollars subsidize the gap between what these buildings owe and what the county can't recover. The county just settled a $3.5 million class action lawsuit for keeping surplus proceeds from the foreclosure sales it DID conduct — money that legally belonged to the original property owners. They were foreclosing on people, selling their buildings, and pocketing the difference."

Oregon's high taxes and excessive regulations continue to cost Oregonians thousands of jobs. State job growth has now trailed the national average for six straight years. Recognizing the problem isn't enough. Policymakers need to act. #orpol #orleg #sb1507 oregonbusinessindustry.com/o…

Let’s be clear: Republicans do NOT run Oregon schools. Democrats have had near-total control of this state for decades—funding, policy, leadership. Now Tina Kotek wants to blame Republicans for education failures? 🤯 medfordalert.com/2026/04/06/…

Portland (March 28) — Far-left rioters scaled the federal building, destroying security cameras and vandalizing the structure during the "No Kings" protest. Video by: @KatieDaviscourt

This Thursday, Apr. 2, Portland city council will hold its first public hearing on two new taxes to fund its always-out-of-money transportation bureau. In a weird twist, water/sewer ratepayers will be paying nearly all of the new taxes. Signup to testify here: portland.gov/council/agenda/…