AOC President and Clackamas County Commissioner, Martha Schrader is prioritizing housing in her service as Association of Oregon Counties (AOC) President. With Oregon’s current 155,000 housing unit deficit knowing no bounds, hitting urban, rural, and [...]
House Bill (HB) 2002 expands the definition of publicly supported housing, for the purpose of determining which housing requires notice to local governments and Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) prior to sale. This [...]
House Bill (HB) 2377, Representative Brock Smith’s affordable housing bill, is still alive in the legislative process. The bill passed out of the House Human Services and Housing Committee on April 25 with a referral [...]
Speaker’s Top Housing Priority Gets First Senate Hearing On May 3 the Senate Human Services Committee held its first public hearing on House Bill (HB) 2004-A, Speaker Tina Kotek's priority bill allowing counties and cities to [...]
With a key deadline passing this Legislative session we have a better view of what housing issues are gaining traction. Speaker Kotek's priorities around rent control and the expansion of affordable housing continue, though the [...]