Workforce Housing
Commonwealth Development Corporation And Wnc & Associates Announce Development Of Affordable Housing Community In Phoenix, Ore.
The new development will provide 72 units of affordable housing to area recovering from the 2020 Almeda Fire By Press Release – March 26, 2024 Commonwealth Development Corporation, one of the nation’s largest, majority woman-owned, affordable housing development companies, and WNC & Associates, a family-owned business known as both a…
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Clatsop County tackles ‘urban scale’ housing issues
Cloudy skies loomed over the small coastal town of Seaside on a November morning earlier this year, but the rain stayed away as a group of residents, health care workers, and city officials gathered outside of what was, up until a few months ago, a Red Lion Inn. The group…
Read MoreOregon takes first step to giving tax breaks to homeowners who rent out rooms
Oregon moved a step closer Tuesday to giving homeowners tax breaks for renting out rooms in their houses. House Bill 3032 would allow homeowners to subtract up to $12,000 per rented room from their state taxable income each year. The House Committee on Housing and Homelessness endorsed the measure on a…
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250-unit workforce housing development in Ashland moving forward
Bob Kendrick, an Ashland developer is moving forward with his “Grand Terrace” project that he has been working on for 7 years. The 17 acre site on the north end of Ashland will have 12 buildings when complete. He plans on building 4 at a time. Each building will contain…
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Fire Victim Housing : A progress report
By Jim Teece Publisher – Southern Oregon Business Journal It has been nearly seven months since the wildfires of 2020 devastated Oregon with over 2,500 homes lost just in Southern Oregon. I noticed that the FEMA trailers that were parked at the Jackson County Expo, that have been there for…
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People’s Bank built a new mixed-use building in Klamath Falls with a Branch and Workforce Housing
I sat down with Steve Erb, Chief Strategy Officer of People’s Bank to talk about the new mixed-use bank building he just oversaw the construction of in Klamath Falls. It’s the first mixed-use building the bank has built and might become a blueprint for future branches. The bank occupies the…
Read MoreWho Benefits from the Housing Market?
By Josh Lehner Oregon Office of Economic Analysis oregoneconomicanalysis.com One of the darker, underlying currents to the housing discussion is something along the lines that it’s the builders and developers who benefit the most, often described as exploiting or eroding our livability and quality of life. Usually this is couched…
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