Oregon Housing Blog

The Lane County Commission has an agenda item this morning that would move toward extending the 60 day tenant protection period found in SB 278 to 90 days in Lane County.
The briefing memo with background is HERE.
Legal Counsel has a separate memo HERE that explains the "risk exposure" that adoption of this extension might have for the county.....

Several of my recent posts have focused on housing production in Oregon's 49 largest cities for 2018-2020.
I have consolidated the data underlying those posts and created a new Excel workbook HERE.
The source data for the workbook are Excel files sent to me by DLCD staff; I am appreciative of their cooperation in making this data available....

In my last post I reported the count of housing units produced in Oregon's 49 largest cities from 2018-2020 and showed in two scenarios statewide projected production against the 3 year goal of producing 90,000 housing units.
Scenario 1: Assumed that the rest of the state outside these 49 cities produced units at the same rate as the 49 cities (14.01 units per 1,000 census 2020 housing units). In this scenario production would have been 76,218 units, or 13,782 units below...

The 2018 Oregon Business Plan called for a 30,000 annual housing production goal in Oregon for the next 10 years.
Subsequently released census data shows the actual net increase in housing units from 2010 to 2020 was 138,105 units or an average annual net increase of 13,810 units. (This net change is not limited to new production reflecting changes resulting from...