[downtownpdx]

Downtown Portland is fairly busy on the weekends, even surpassing 2019 foot traffic levels on a recent weekend. But weekdays we're at 40% of 2019 levels. So I guess people still want to come into the city to play, but not to work. This will be a long term trend like everywhere else I guess.

As is the case everywhere I'm sure, the overall job market recovered quickly and is strong right now, as opposed to the long slow recovery post Great Recession. But as that recovery led to strong inner city growth with software jobs etc, this one is strong everywhere but downtown.

Definitely much more homelessness with this crisis, partly since housing prices just kept rising amidst tight inventory compared to the glut and price collapse of 2008, and partly due to the drug abuse and related mental health issues. But the city is making progress on this.