Factual background and legislative updates on this specific area of concern.
With limited state funding available (such as Project Turnkey, which funded motel-to-shelter conversions in Medford and Ashland), local communities constantly debate the most effective way to help the unhoused. Some funding goes toward immediately acquiring hotels or building managed emergency shelter communities. Other funding is dedicated to long-term affordable housing construction, which takes years to complete but offers permanent stability.
These are real bills currently moving through the Oregon Senate related to this issue. Read the details and cast your vote below.
This Act sets up a bond fund to preserve low-cost housing and requires OHCS to report on low-cost housing barriers. (Flesch Readability Scor...
This Act changes some housing programs, agencies and laws and rules about home building. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Adjusts certain t...
The Act makes technical fixes and slight policy updates to some tax statutes. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Updates the terminology used...
This Act makes Portland-area cities and counties make up the usual costs to a builder when making the builder add low-cost homes. (Flesch Re...