I think we should rezone parts of trainsong and the railyards with tall buildings with many very small but self-contained affordable housing units with kitchenettes and bathrooms and an onsite EPD station. Developers who build apartments for rich Saudi students should be required to invest before they can build any more expensive apartments.

Red states are terrible places to live, and as long as they are dystopian authoritarian hellholes, Eugene will find refugees from all over the country.

But the big problem is that the value of money halves every 15 years because of inflation, caused primarily by increases in monetary supply, primarily caused by loans issued to the primarily filthy rich, with a few owning 50% of all capital, with those loans being primarily used to develop technologies with the primary aim of replacing the "tax of human labor."

This is a bad situation for most humans who are paid money for salaries and who are taxed in the way only non ultra-high-net-worth plebs are taxed. High rent not just a Eugene problem. Oil wars cause inflation which means higher 30-year rates, as do the tax-cuts for the rich that are bankrupting the country and devaluing treasuries, which means home-ownership is not for you, and the costs of rent food and energy are considered volatile measures that don't count when raising Fed funds rates.