An Oregon county is looking for solutions to youth homelessness—so it convened a random selection of residents to come up with ideas. Nick Romeo reports.
Kundmueller was being invited to join what is known as a citizens’ assembly. These gatherings do what most democracies only pretend to: trust normal people to make decisions on difficult policy questions. Many citizens’ assemblies follow a basic template. They impanel a random but representative cross-section of a population, give them high-quality information on a topic, and ask them to work together to reach a decision.
“It’s probably a bigger philosophical discussion,” Erik Kropp, the deputy county administrator for Deschutes, said. “I’m not sure how you limit the purchaser in terms of where they’re coming from.” When a second panelist mentioned a policy in Portland that used property-tax revenue to fund affordable housing, Benjamin, reading from his laptop, cited various places that tax buyers from outside of the region: “I have a list right here,” he said.
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