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Oregon lawmakers: The time to house homeless is now by Tim Gruver, The Center Square | February 24, 2021 08:30 AM Print this article
Year after year, Oregon lawmakers are faced with the same problem legislating ways to house the homeless: paperwork.
No matter the cost or the scale of a state housing project, cities and counties are often bogged down by complex land use rules and local politics to give them the green light.
In 2019, state lawmakers took a big step in freeing up public land for duplexes, banning cities of more than 10,000 people from limiting areas to single-family homes. In the Portland metro area, cities and counties must permit quadplexes and cottage housing clusters to be built around a common yard.