Seriously. I would say we want to be your study. With the big threefive years, we see a reduction in the increase in rent in the increase in home prices that are born out o ive done. Weve done it very much in new york city and really sort of statewide. Its not just a new york issue. We want to do study for success. We would like to do it. Absolutely. Join me in thanking our wonderful panelist. [applause] our next guest will be the t ÷ governor of oregon interviewed by her chief executive officers. Give us two minutes and we will 5we are ready to go. I just got the thumbs up which is always a good sign. It is a pleasure to rejoin you up on the podium. I hopein you enjoyed the common housing challenges the states as diverse as montana and new york are facing. As well as a bipartisan collaboration and consensus thah is being built to issues. Our keynote guest certainly has a wealth24 of knowledge and ides to add to this discussion today. I am dplregon to join us for housing. A constant and consistent champion for increasing housing supply and affordability. In the state legislature as a n. Reporting the reporting that the only bill she introduced in the legislative session is focused around funding and other measures for Housing Access in the state. She truly is a champion and trailblazer on this issue. They could not be more worthy on our focus and im really excited our housing policy was able to bring this d i will turn it over to sue so she can begin the conversation. Thank you very much. All right. It is a rare opportunity i get to geek out on this stuff. Thank you for coming. We will talk about what you have done in oregon around housing supply and affordability. You have done amazi things theresa. I know everyone in this room is deeply engaged in housing issues across thehe country. It is a rare state that is not struggling with some variation with some of the things you and oregon have been trailblazers on given that, lets talk a little bit about how you have done your work. You have done it i would argue you have done it in a data driven pragmatic problemsolving bipartisan way which is sort of near and dear to usertis how we. Tell us how you approach the work you have done inre starting as speaker of the housi when you were working there and got some amazing legislation passed. Thank you, oin sue. Thank you for the opportunity to be here. Appreciate the stay policy work that you do. We all know that stuff happens at the state level. I think that briefly, when i first got into Public Policy work, i was an advocate. The families that we saw who were suffering from food insecurity, the one that would be most successful, the one that could afford their housing, that year as governor, one of the commitments i made was every county in the state of oregon. Oregon is a pretty large state. Four and a half million people. Thirtysix counties. We visited every county. The number one issue people talked about was housing. The significant issue they were seeing on the streets for people that were unsheltered to pple whoov the community that had pretty good jobs lined up but could not find a place to live. I got into housing probably was speaker. Gly imu we started working on this issue in very specific ways. What are the barriers . Why are things not getting built what could we be doing differently. Think about it. In most states, housing, housing policy, very muchh locally drivn what we heard over and over again is we want to do things, but we dont havewe want to do t too much pushback. A real role for the state we hae statewide parameters with local variation, we will make more progress. Hous iy bipartisan issue. When you say to anybody and say, hey, you need housing, yes, we do. It is an opportunity for us to come together into Public Policy that exists a true partnership. All you already answered part of my nextly question. When you were speaker you introduced a pass legislation that. Walking on almost every street in washington and you will see this. Accessory dwein unit so that folks could put them, which, i am now newly familiar with. My eldest daughter moved to portland, oregon. The only portland. [laughter] and she called me shortly after they moved out there and said, oh, this is exciting when you retire you can move out to portland. I take that as a compliment that my daughter wants to do that, im notot sure i want to live in my daughters backyard, but it is awesome that they have that opportunity. That was due to a lot of the work that you and others did in oregon. Talk about why you took that approach. In a place like oregon, we really value local■■6 and inn oregon, theory significantly about how we7 d. I am one of those people that is like, okay, we can build singlefamily homes in multi family apartments, remember, it is the norm. Being someone who grew up on the east coast, where the townhomes, where they do plexus. Some committees do not allow you to buildho duplexes. I wasike, what . Av that does not make any sense. Shout out to minneapolis folks for doing your city work. We looked at what you did. For a state to do it, but for me , it was like we dont want to have untended consequences. Because if we say to cities you can do this, you will take moving around. Every community of a cerin size. We took a mandatory approach and said here is what you have to do here is your timeline have evere certain size covered by our legislation, the law, now complying. They have codes to allow middle Housing Options to be. Now we have to get them built and fill in those existing neighborhoods to give people more options. When i first started doing ts work it was about allowing. You would have thought we had killed puppies. Now we are talking about different things. I thinko what we are struggling with now isg sure their financial incentives to get thah mental housing going because it is really critical. I dont know in many who followed our law and work in oregon they came out in support of mental housing. I justng want us focus on this r a second. Think about. It. When you are aging out of your barge singlefamily home and you want to stay in the community you areas living had folksas saying i cannot live in my community anymore because i cannot find a place to live. Now we want to see the different type o housing. There are huge equity issues there. If neighborhoods stay the way they are, we opportunities unless we get different Housing Options. A lot of different issues there. You touched on this a little bit, but the bill you championed as speaker has been a place for a handful of years now. What have you learned as the laws are slowly being implemented and are there things you have to do to kind of move things along . One of the things for this years legislation is greater acceptance of the issue. Everybody is meeting the requirements and allowing things things to now we are hearing about some financial incentives to help private developers, as we all know, that is to states. Seeing how they can do with these housing arrangements. Having a shared wall versus a cottage. Trying to put some money on the table to incentivize those things to move faster. That is our biggest challenge at the moment. That willak time. What are you going to do in the meantime other than middle housing d, what are some of■ approaches . When we passed the housing bill in 2021, this idea that we did not quite know what communities goals were, so, we now inregon have the housing analysis as a structure within our state. Each community will be able to say here is what we have. Ce■i here is a type of housing that we need. If you dont have goals, you cannot move forward. It is really helpful to have that north star. Having a better idea of what communities have planned for, what they need so we can as a state move in and say what else can we do for you. One of t the things that is important, a longer conversation about oregon but im sure other states are dealing with this, the inability off local government to do this work quickly. We are spending time on Technical Assistance grants, all of those things where we just want to make it easier for you. I think that is a big deal. We are setting up housing accountability prowscess a the state level to provide this kind of guidance. That is a really interesting point. It would be terrific if in a Perfect World local government and states with partner together what can you do to make it easier otherer than some of the things you have mentioned. The things that the mayors need ass they are moving this forward. To be very honest, we all deala with that not in my backyard syndrome where statesor can be helpful. We asee this. We will help you figure out howo it looks a little different in your community. That was one of the things that i heard. Early on was, we really want to do this, but our city council is just a nightmare. You need to help us here. We will help you implement at the local level. Really important. Policy form reform. It is never. It would be awesome if you had a proposal and it was all sunshine and rainbows and everybody loved it and you moved ahead. Thats not how it works . Doesnt happen. Doesnt happen. I have competing interest to not in my backyard to know i hate this policy and i dont know how to do it. If any policy will be past unita reasonably broadbased system of support. How did you build that unless you had sunshine and rainbows when you introduce your proposal first of all a shared understanding that we have a problem. There is nothing more stark that we have a housing problem in oregon and other places and seeing people outside. Then you have an entry point for conversation about housing is the ultimate solution here for folks that are ult whether they are families whose kids are moving around three times in a school year to someone who housing and they have no other option than livingt. In a tent. So, people understand that there is a problem. We have to paint that picture for them. Having a shared understanding that there is a problem is huge. Its hard to ask people to help with the problem if they do not think that there is a problem. You have to bring everyone in for discussion. We need to do these types of codes. What do you need to see . Working with local government then i have the last couple of years. They need to be heard, they need tol have their back when they move forward during hard things. The power of coalition and partnership is huge. There is not a employer, no matter what the sector, who does not think housing is a problem for them. Laboreo unions no that their housing. Educators know that their kids are suffering because, you know, they are experiencing housing and security. The housing, oregon legislature, you are in session. It is a menu of things that we need to there are 50 plus organizations from housing producers to labor unions to organizations represent the black Indigenous People of color communities in oregon whoi all know that housg is an economic a justice issue. There are a lot of people that understand we need to pass. What i said to everyone is we will do one bill. Every item that we need. It is not the sole solution. You have to talk about financint streamlining regulation. You have to talk about all of these things so local communities will have a full slate of thingss they can use to move production forward. I have told our state we need to build 36,000 units a year for the next decade. We are significantly undersupplied in oregon. You have to throw everything at it and someone says which part . I just say no, you do it all. You hav it. How do you keep the momentum up to do that for 10 years . Well, you said good infrastructure in terms of the systems and you just keep driving that goal. It is great when you start with the shared problem. A policy hard to pass is when people do not agree that therepl is a problem or they dont agree problem. We have done a lot of research saying the housing shortages driving up housing costs and higher housing costs are drivin. Do you agree with that and if so , how does that increase your approach to the probl of unsheltered folks in oregon . The housing prices are up. This is a national problem. It does come down to supply and. Emand a lot of people need housing, not a lot of supply, prices go up. What we buildom affordable. In my bill, for example, we do allow for expedited expansion tools. We have very specific landuse systems. Urban growth boundaries. If they are allowed to expand quicklnd they have to show that they need the land have an affordability problem and theyre willing to do new construction at least 30 which would be affordable. We cannot just build new. We have p to guarantee some levl that will be affordable for people. Its the number one. And it is driving up rent, home prices, you name it across the board. I do believe problem, but it will require risk being comfortable. You talked a little bit about accountability. Lets rev bit. How are you holding the state accountable, thew counties accountable, a lot of people, a lot of plea places that need to pitch in. This is a newer role for the state. We have not been as heavily involved. We have set goals for communities. Good luck with that. We have t a lot more of a partner with them saying we need to see, you set goals, where you on those things . They have to sho let me give you one example, it really does help the situation. When i came in as a new governor, my first thing was to declare an emergency on unsheltered homelessness. We every up that thiss y but inan the first year, based n the resources we are located in working with communities within emergency mindset, we exceeded all of our goals in preventing homelessness, creating new homeless capacity and rehousing people. In the first year. You set goals, you put money behind it and then you sit down and talk with folks and call them up and say, how is thating. Moving the issue forward. I think people want that support i was expecting, you know, people want these in their communities. They want the state to step up. If you are coming in as ak partner in addition to Holding People accountable, it is a little bit easier. Right now we are struging to get the needed resources in my bill. The legislature is about halfway there. Halfway. I will take halfway. We have two weeks. There at about 200. I think they can do better. Investing in housing is a healthcare issue. An economic issue. It is the best way to spend money right now in oregon what will it take to get the bill over the finish line . From a policy perspective, i feel like we are on a good track but we compete with other things i will keep reminding folks that there isac not anything more important. Like many other states, we are dealing with an immigration crisis. We need to get more Behavioral Health treatment. If they have nowhere to live, we are back in■w the cycle again. Everything comes back to housing are we meeting the goals. Working with local communities and make sure the construction is actually happening. Do you have advice for folks in other states that may be an earlier stage in you and oregon are and they are setting on this journey to deal with some of the housing issues . What kind of advice would you give them as tould you have done differently, do you think, if anything . That is a good question. Well, frankly, i wish i had started 10 years ago. I am glad halfway through my nine andusears as speaker became a top priority. We could have started earlier just because i dont think i had a good sense of up to high p . It just kept coming back to housing. It absolutely did. ■3 we were working hard to expand Health Insurance in the state of oregon, for the first time in 40 years we had a new Funding Source for education. My kids are not in the classroom because they are on house. It just kept coming back to housing all the time. Here is the other thing, you all do housing, i am guessing, housing policy, it is super complex. It is largely upheld by they private sector. So, you really just have to dig intous the details unlike a lotf other policy areas. So you need champions. Getting those legislators, those state leaders that know enough to be dangerous and can sitay wy have to work on this. Dont reinvent the wheel. Weve tried things. It is working. They can say here is your menu. Start there. Engage as soon as you can and then ask local communities what you need. We have pushed back. Anytime youre trying to change it, theres a little bit of fear when you make it a human issue, dont you think everyone shoul . How about some different options people will eventually warm up to that but you have to start the human goal. As quickly as you can. Background as a community organizer. I was a public advocate, little bit of a comni organizer and, you know, i do believe Public Policy if done right can move mountains. I suspect that puts you in good status. You started down this path. Housing becomes about the politics, too; right . If you are a housing producer, what is your Comfort Level being part of the solution . I created a housing in miserly leisure that gave us 15 recommendations on what we can do differently. Ursome of which are included iny everything. Ar. For folks that are building homes, they have to make at what point do you say, how much overage do i need . If im trying to work hard to make your job easier, you also have to meet me. This is such a crisis level. We cannot assume of returns on housing. The fact that housing in this country is also become mostly an people are not local, that is a real issue, too. When you dont have local owners inou community that upkeep your housing or build your housing, that is also a challenge. I have toe get back to what it means to provide hou■4sing in or communities. We will not be healthy, we will not be secure, we certainly will not be safe. Anything you want to say to the folks working on these issues . Im just super excited everybody wants to learn about housing. Reach out to us. We are here to provide guidance. I have some great folks in my office office. ■hooked other s well. We appreciate being seen as a leader. You are all doing great work carveout, work hard, weve g ho. [laughter] its important for all of our communities. Thank you for being so engaged. 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