text: My Chickasaw grandma, and her 12 children, thumbed a ride to Oregon from Oklahoma to escape abject poverty. That was 1942. My family lived in a one room dirt floor shanty for lack of affordable housing. Oregon invested in affordable starter homes to address this social crisis. By the time my mother came into adulthood this housing was so affordable that as a widow raising 2 children on 1 paycheck she was able to buy a 3 bedroom home in Portland to raise her kids in, and she bought a 3 bedroom in The Dalles for my Grandma. By 1981 this housing was so affordable these homes could be purchased earning the federal minimum wage. High density planning outlawed these homes because they not meet Y value, and cannot be taxed enough to sustain government spending. This is what specifically caused poverty, homelessness to explode after Oregon had poverty, affordable housing soundly beat. we can readily end poverty, homelessness today but our government will not allow true affordable housing.