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Michael Andersen

Michael Andersen is Director, Cities and Towns with Sightline Institute. Since 2006, he has been writing about ways better municipal policy can help break poverty cycles, with a focus on housing and transportation. Michael’s work before joining Sightline in 2018 included reporting and editing for print and web in Longview and Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. He lives in Portland with a beautiful woman, a kid, and a cat. They park their car in the street. Find his latest research here, email him at michael@sightline.org , and follow him on Twitter, Bluesky, or LinkedIn.

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In Race after Race, People Keep Electing Pro-Housing Politicians

Takeaways The claim comes again and again like clockwork: That allowing homes to exist can be hazardous to a politician’s career.  Even ...
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Five Reasons Four-Story Apartment Buildings Are Good

Takeaways Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, YouTube, and Apple. They’re ...
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Audit Stretches to Find Trouble in Portland’s Affordability Mandate

Takeaways Auditors identified some legitimate problems with how Portland has administered its housing affordability mandate. Auditors also offered some policy ...
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The Missing Piece of Oregon’s Housing Package: Legalizing Apartments

This article is part of the series Housing Every Oregonian Takeaways In 2023, Oregon Gov. Kotek proposed a bill that ...
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Now Fully Funded, Portland’s Affordability Mandate Should Be a Model

This article is part of the series Housing Every Oregonian Takeaways Portland and Multnomah County just voted to fully fund ...
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A Housing Agenda for Oregon: More Homes without Higher Prices

This article is part of the series Housing Every Oregonian Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your ...
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Four Ways to Improve Portland’s Housing Affordability Mandate

Takeaways Portland’s mandatory affordability program seems to be fully funded in the Central City but underfunded elsewhere. A fully funded ...
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Oregon’s Untapped Gold Mine: The Homes that Don’t Yet Exist

Takeaways Gov. Tina Kotek set a very public goal of producing 36,000 homes per year, but each below-market home requires ...
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Troutdale Says Tax-Funded Housing Project Has a Problem: Too Many Homes

Takeaways Troutdale, a suburban city five miles east of Portland, requires each new home to come with at least 2 ...
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When Cities Switch To One-Winner Council Districts, Housing Growth Plummets

This article is part of the series Fairer Elections in Portland Takeaways Mingus Mapps and other Portlanders are proposing changing ...
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Oregon Just Slashed Parking Mandates. 5 Things That Might Happen Next

This article is part of the series Parking? Lots! On Thursday, Oregon approved the largest rollback to parking mandates in ...
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Oregon Nears Green Light for Big Parking Reform

This article is part of the series Parking? Lots! Update, July 21: Oregon’s Land Conservation and Development Commission unanimously approved ...
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