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Cities around the United States do not have land use planning like we have in Oregon, and they are all struggling with issues like affordable housing.

Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.

You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.

Frankly, people buying a home to let should not be squeezing out families who can't afford a home to buy.

If we allow more development, it will bring housing affordability.

So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing.

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites.

The second is there are some communities that we thought originally would take mobile homes that have decided they don't want them. And we're not going to cram mobile homes down the throats of communities in Louisiana and the Gulf - and other parts of the Gulf Coast.