The irony is that developers building housing that meets Oregon’s mandated affordability requirements are still turning a profit, it’s either just not as much profit as they make in other endeavors they’re occupied with or they’re foregoing bids in protest. If the city was willing to run it’s own public development firm inside the Housing Bureau rather than merely issue grants and incentives to independent developers, the public could actually flip our own new construction at a profit to landlords if we’re really that allergic to publicly owned housing.