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Portland housing bond: Why is the city taking so long to create new homes? Updated 7:30 AM; Facebook Share As winter wound down in 2018, Chardonai Jones and her young son bounced between living in a hotel room and her car. She was 18 with another baby on the way, had no credit or rental history, and her fiancé had an eviction on his record. Portland landlords didn’t think they were reliable tenants. But she and her family found home at The Ellington, an affordable housing complex that the city of Portland had just purchased as the first funded by a voter-approved housing bond. ....