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Four Ways to Improve Portland’s Housing Affordability Mandate
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What Can Portland Learn from America’s Oldest Proportional Election System?
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It’s Time for Cascadia to Start Pruning the Gas System and Electrifying Whole Neighborhoods
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Getting Beyond the Detached House in Vancouver, BC
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BC Election Results Show Public Support for More Homes
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Alaska Primary Voters Had More Choice in 2022
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The Ambitious Housing Plans at the Center of Vancouver, BC’s, October Election
Which North American city will be the first to address its housing crisis with abundant apartments, city-wide? A growing handful of North American states and major cities have been scoring wins in the battle to undo the historic scourge of exclusionary zoning laws, notably Oregon, California, Massachusetts, Portland, Vancouver, BC, Minneapolis, and most recently, Charlotte. These are all relatively incremental changes, though. Laneway cottages here, and duplexes or quadplexes there....Read more » -
Troutdale Says Tax-Funded Housing Project Has a Problem: Too Many Homes
For years, the City of Troutdale, Oregon, has pushed other government agencies to force the people living in tents along nearby riverbanks to move somewhere else. Situated on the Columbia and Sandy rivers five miles east of Portland, the city of 16,400 that bills itself as the “gateway” to the spectacular Columbia Gorge has far more low-income residents than low-priced homes, according to a city-commissioned analysis. Zillow estimates that average monthly...Read more » -
How First Nations and YIMBYs Are Changing the Housing Game in Vancouver, BC
The conversation shared below was part of the YIMBYtown 2022 conference, cohosted by Sightline Institute and Portland: Neighbors Welcome.* Danny Oleksiuk, with Abundant Housing Vancouver, discusses the trends and policies shaping Vancouver’s housing shortage and affordability crisis, followed by Khelsilem, Council Chairperson of the Squamish Nation, detailing a novel housing development project their Nation is leading whose profits will fund key community social programs and services. Heidi Hart, of Portland:...Read more » -
What Do Housing Providers Have to Say about Zoning Reform and City Policies?
The conversation shared below was part of the YIMBYtown 2022 conference, cohosted by Sightline Institute and Portland: Neighbors Welcome.* “What is the first word that comes to mind when you hear the words ‘zoning reform’?,” Sightline’s Jeannette Lee asked panelists who develop and promote affordable housing. Their answers: Julia Metz of Catholic Charities of Oregon: “Opportunity” Paul Del Vecchio, of Portland-based Ethos Development: “Possibility” Preston Korst, Habitat for Humanity (Portland...Read more »