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Fear and thrills prevalent in
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No end in sight for
city’s rent burdened
was $300,000. It’s $350,000
now because the inventory
has dropped dramatically. With
COVID, people are staying in
one place,” Smith said. “It’s a
diffi cult situation, and I have
no idea how we’re going to fi x
it, but we need to keep it as a
priority of the council going
forward.”
Witham said the council
could also decide it wants to
be more aggressive in applying
new development standards
along River Road North and
Cherry Avenue Northeast.
The city adopted a new over-
lay district to encourage mixed
commercial and residential
properties in early 2020.
“Applying some of the new
standards could put a more di-
verse supply on the market,”
Witham said.
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COVID has affected the hous-
ing situation,” Witham said.
Councilor Dan Kohler
asked what the options might
be for solving the problem of
rent burden.
“There’s a lot that we don’t
control, like Urban Growth
Boundary (UGB),” Kohler
said.
City manager Chris Eppley
said creating more affordable
housing would likely require
investment by the city, work-
ing to develop housing vouch-
ers or reducing costs such as
System Development Charges
(SDCs). Keizer’s only option
to affect immediate change
would be to reduce the SDCs,
but the city is already a bargain
for developers compared to
others in the Willamette Valley.
“Even if you build afford-
able housing, it may not stay
affordable. It’s going to con-
tinue to be a diffi cult topic,”
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Smith, a real estate broker,
added that the existing market
was tight a year ago and tight-
er now, which is causing home
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By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
A conversation about hous-
ing affordability came and
went with little fanfare at a
meeting of the Keizer City
Council Monday, Nov.16.
Keizer is required by state
mandate to hold an annu-
al public hearing on issues of
rent burdens in the city and
what might be done to allevi-
ate them.
Approximately 54% of
renters in Keizer are paying
more than a third of their
monthly income on rent, and
25% of homeowners are in the
same situation when it comes
to their mortgage. Nearly ev-
ery family making less than
$35,000 annually in Keizer is
rent burdened and it includes
elderly residents facing rising
costs in manufactured home
communities throughout the
city as well as younger resi-
dents just starting out.
Councilor Laura Reid said
the data illustrating the city’s
rent burden issues didn’t ap-
pear to have changed much
since the last such hearing in
2019.
Interim Community De-
velopment Director Shane
Witham said that was likely
a result of the time frame in
which the information was
By TJ REID
the fi rst episode ended and I spoon-fed anything in Monster-
For the Keizertimes
found myself bummed out in- land, and each episode has at
When it comes to consum- stead of terrifi ed. Monsterland least one moment that requires
ing horror media, I’m a bit of is a far-from-lighthearted affair the audience to come to their
an oddball. While I love scary that features heavy thematic el- own conclusions.
It is, in other words, a series
novels and listening to spooky ements and damaged people in
podcasts about ghosts, I abso- depressing circumstances. It’s that begs (well, let’s not go cra-
lutely hate horror movies and not what I would call “fun” by zy here… let’s say “asks polite-
television (with an exception of any stretch of the imagination, ly”) to be discussed and argued
Supernatural, but that’s another but that doesn’t mean it’s bad; over long after the credits roll
story). Why this is,
there are still bouts (or long after Hulu has skipped
I have no idea. Re-
of terror (and the to the next “recommended” se-
gardless, I knew this
occasional
helping ries). Or is “best of all” the fact
was something I had
of good old-fash- that one episode is set in our
Review
to overcome when
ioned body horror very own Eugene, Oregon? I
the Halloween sea-
and gore) to keep the can’t decide.
Like all anthologies, Monster-
son rolled around for
audience from wal-
the fi rst time since I
lowing in empathetic land has some episodes that are
better than others, but all-in-all
started these reviews; people despair for too long.
want scary this time of year, so I
Other pluses are the acting, the series is worth your time if
am going to review something which is well done in every you’re looking for something a
scary. One thing that caught my episode, the score, which is im- little more thoughtful and a lit-
eye was Hulu’s new anthology pressive, varied, and adds greatly tle less fun this fall. If a nonstop
series (or miniseries… that’s to the tension, and, best of all, rollercoaster of thrills and chills
kind of unclear from what I’ve the fact that the series treats you is something you’re after, how-
read) Monsterland.
like an adult. You’re never really ever, best look elsewhere.
But while I found it well
acted and occasionally fright-
ening, Monsterland is not real-
ly what I expected: Instead of
being a story about monsters
stalking people across the USA,
it is more about the mon-
strous things that we as humans
are capable of with a healthy
amount of social commentary
to go along with it. The actual
monsters are more of a feature
than the point, but if you know
this beforehand there is still a
good time to be had with Mon-
sterland.
Perhaps the focus on the
potential for evil in humani-
ty shouldn’t have caught me
off guard (the tagline for the
series is “fear the monster in-
side us all,” after all), but it was
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