How inclusionary zoning could drive housing prices higher - Podcast Portland’s housing market could soon face some serious unintended consequences from a city effort to boost affordable housing. In fact, that effort, called inclusionary zoning, is likely to drive housing prices higher, says Vanessa Sturgeon of...
City set to kick off $195M reconstruction of the Portland Building, shroud Portlandia statue. Folks looking to get some business done with the city of Portland have been met with closed doors since earlier this fall — at least at the city's Portland Building. That's because all 1,400...
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Portland's officially declared "housing emergency" does not have a clear end in sight. The emergency declaration, initially instituted by the Portland City Council two years ago to lessen barriers to abating the city's affordable housing crisis, was scheduled to sunset at the end of the month....
PORTLAND, Ore. — After seven years of strong economic growth, real estate experts say Portlanders may soon notice prices are dropping. "It's hard to predict when economic expansions end," said Gerard Mildner, director of Portland State University's Center for Real Estate. Mildner says that while growth has slowed...
Portland market saturated with empty studios; family-size rentals slow to come online In Portland, 75 percent of market-rate apartments built between 2012-2017 are studios or one-bedrooms. There's a disparity between that and what the market demands as Millennials, the new largest generation, begin to start families...