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Oregon restricts the development of farm and forest land. Oregon's law provides that the urban growth boundary be adjusted regularly to ensure adequate supply of developable land; as of 2018 the boundary had been expanded more than thirty times since it was created in 1980. [8]
Oregon's housing finance agency, Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS,) has released its annual report for 2023, touting the agency's surpassing of Governor Tina Kotek's housing production ...
In 2022, Oregon approved the building permits for 20,404 housing units. The state needs an additional 554,691 homes over the next 20 years to meet demand, and 176,300 of them need to be affordable ...
Last year, Kotek set a housing production goal of 36,000 homes per year. Oregon has produced an average of 20,000 units per year over the past five years.
The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development (DLCD) is the chief land-use planning and regulatory agency of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon. The DLCD administers the statewide land use planning program. A seven-member volunteer citizen board known as the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) guides DLCD.
Oregon House Bill 2001 is an Oregon law which allows for alternative, more economical types of housing in an effort to preserve outer-city rural areas, such as farms. The law is especially aimed at reducing the pace of urban sprawl in densely populated cities such as Portland, Oregon, with non-traditional land use zoning.
On her first day as governor, Kotek set a goal to build 36,000 homes per year in Oregon after a 2022 Oregon Housing Needs Analysis ranked the state fourth in the country in underproducing housing ...
The income elasticity of housing demand was estimated by one review in USA around 0.8 to 1.0 for renters and around 1.1 to 1.5 for owners. [88] The price elasticity of housing demand was estimated between −0.2 to −1.0 with variations for location, time delay and between renters and owners. [89]