This report fulfills the House Bill 2003 directive to develop a methodology and then use that methodology to produce findings about housing need for every region and every city in Oregon. In its simplest terms, to meet this requirement, the methodology must estimate the number of households in each income category and in each region that will need dwelling units that are affordable to them, now and over the next 20 years, and allocate those units down from the regional to the city level. The result is an estimate of the number of needed housing units by income for each of Oregon’s 241 cities (which this report sometimes refers to as the local allocation of housing need). The methodology and complete requirements are described in Exhibit 2, which also details the process used to develop the methodology and provides recommendations for advancing this methodology to statewide use.
Implementing a Regional Housing Needs Analysis Methodology in Oregon: Approach, Results, and Initial Recommendations
ECONorthwest
Year: 2021