ew letter housing

I read NextDoor and the Eugene Springfield bulletin board on facebook.  Every day there are pleas for help and gofundmes from those facing eviction.  Eugene has a 3% rental vacancy rate.  A fresh crop of students ages out of the dorm each term and starts a futile housing search.  Many are hard on their first post-dorm apartment.  Little incentive for prop mgmt to invest in energy-efficient appliances or amenities  like laundry rooms or community rooms with tv and games.

The kind-hearted posters on the forums assure the supplicants that they have only to reach out for funds and grants.

A prudent person will  track their budget on a spreadsheet, set up autopay for rent, utilities, internet and essentials, and have regular budget review meetings with housemates. 

According to maclist , Lane County’s principal employers (as of 2021) in terms of number of employees are as follows: Peace Health Corp with 5,347, University of Oregon with 5,038, Eugene 4J School District with 2,347, U.S. Government with 1,813, Oregon State Government with 1,805, City of Eugene with 1,733, Lane Community College with 1,721, Lane County Government with 1,552, Springfield School District with 1,130, and McKenzie Willamette Medical with 1,060.

not very diversified imho.

I personally had a massive AVM bleed while transcribing from a weekly rent motel and was discharged to the street at 1am by Sacred Heart.  Partner and I squatted in the Overpark garage and walked to the Lindholm service center, white bird and the Dining  Room while making calls to inch along the central housing waitlist and to keep in touch with social workers arranging aneurysm repair at OHSU.

Once again the residents of Lane County are asked to fund a stadium to entertain the privileged while we wait for the Cascadia fault to unleash a magnitude 7 to 9 quake.

Since we have no triage center this side of the Wilamette, millions of students and seniors will die in agony.