Co-op Housing In Springfield First Of Its Kind In Oregon klcc.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from klcc.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This City Club program is the second in a three-part series on local housing issues.
From the City Club of Eugene:
Oregon’s Legislature took the historic step to re-legalize traditional “missing middle housing” in 2019, but the work to build housing diversity and more inclusive neighborhoods has just begun.
One promise of “missing middle housing” is that it can deliver “affordability by design” that per-unit development costs can come down when we design more efficient housing units and share land costs among multiple homes. In Portland, where the City’s missing middle housing implementation was ahead of Oregon’s new state law, some community members raised the objection that affordability was not guaranteed by the policy changes. In response, housing advocates crafted Portland’s “Deeper Affordability” code amendments: an affordable housing density bonus equivalent to a $150,000 subsidy for each project. It turns out that accomplishing affordability is abo