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Oregon's system for people with profound mental illness is broken. We examine two major problems and two promising strategies.

Oregon is on track to spend $200 million to help homeless residents move into houses, give people who have fallen behind on rent more time to pay and create new goals for cities to build homes under a pair of measures approved Wednesday by the state House.

The Oregon Legislature鈥檚 marquee housing package cleared a key legislative hurdle on Friday, paving the way for what supporters hope will be a new approach to building homes in the state while also making a dent in the homelessness crisis.

On Tuesday, the city council in the Orange County town of Huntington Beach 鈥� a regular fount of anti-Newsom sentiment 鈥� followed through on its pledge to pass an ordinance blocking a contentious state housing law within its sun-soaked borders.

OPB's "Think Out Loud" host Dave Miller talked with Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek about homelessness, affordable housing, education and other top challenges facing the state.

The idea of the bill is straightforward: turn empty, boarded-up commercial or office buildings, many vacated during the COVID-19 pandemic, into much-needed housing units.

Gov. Tina Kotek鈥檚 housing goal and the homelessness crisis have changed the political calculus in Salem when it comes to housing and development.

Oregon lawmakers plan to spend nearly $200 million within the next few weeks to address housing and homelessness, describing it as a 鈥渄own payment鈥� with more to come.

In 2021, it was big news 鈥� the 鈥淐alifornia exodus.鈥� Now, it just looks like the new trend: California鈥檚 population is still shrinking.

For northern California housing politics, judgment day has come.

In Oregon, mass timber is increasingly being viewed as a construction material that could help the state build more affordable homes and revive rural logging towns.

Housing is the priority this session, but lawmakers also face challenges in behavioral health, education and a lack of public defenders.