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Lynne Terry/Oregon Capital ChronicleOregon lawmakers last week previewed some of their ideas to build more homes and lower rents and home prices for Oregonians struggling with the high cost of housing. -
Illustration by Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters; iStock, RentCafeCalifornia and federal prosecutors have accused software company RealPage of enriching itself 鈥漚t the expense of renters who pay inflated prices.鈥�
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Looking at the data, it鈥檚 mostly bad news for the state of housing across Oregon, from a lack of supply to an increasing homeless population. And in recent years, the median home price has increased seven-fold compared to wages. -
Coos Bay needs 600 new homes by 2040. A planned subdivision could get the city most of the way thereEconomic development officials along the south Oregon coast say a housing crunch is hindering growth. -
Housing projects are waiting more than a year for vital equipment to connect new apartment buildings to the grid. The cause is complicated. -
Humboldt County passed a rent control measure for mobile home communities back in 2016. That measure now applies to RV parks. And the county is expecting a lawsuit. -
Oregon farmworkers, many of them immigrants, face a housing market that is fraught with substandard living conditions or is financially out of reach. -
A new poll from the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California shows California voters are almost evenly split on two housing-related measures appearing on the ballot this fall. -
California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Friday that could have made immigrants without legal status eligible for loans under a state program offering assistance to first-time homebuyers. -
As Oregon Coast communities are increasingly dominated by tourism, many long-term residents are struggling with housing instability, and homelessness. -
Taking advantage of new state funds, some California healthcare providers are starting to offer what their homeless patients really need: housing. -
A housing affordability council with the state of Oregon approved an additional $12 million dollars on Friday to purchase new homes for a mobile home park that burned down in the 2020 Almeda Fire. The money will replace homes the state bought that were found to be defective. -
The governor said she wanted more information on specific projects, including two in the Rogue Valley, that are part of the housing package approved by the Legislature earlier this year. -
Tenants in many new privately owned, low-income units will be protected from double-digit increases. So will some in existing units, after a state committee on affordable housing imposed a rent cap.
