Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that appropriates $200 million for affordable housing initiatives.

Highlights:

• Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to conduct a statewide housing analysis and give out a housing need for each city on a yearly basis (Sec. 2). 

• Requires that the Oregon Department of Administrative Services give housing production targets to each city with a population 10,000 or greater and to each unincorporated urbanized area within the Metro urban growth boundary (Sec. 3). 

• Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to update their housing equity indicators yearly (Sec. 5). 

• Requires the the Department of Land Conservation and Development be guided by the following principles (Sec. 14): 

• Increasing housing production;

• Increasing housing production;

• Developing affordable and equitable housing;

• Forming partnerships with cities and with other public bodies;

• Responding proportionately to housing underproduction;

• Escalating enforcement to address persistent, repeated or deliberate noncompliance with housing production targets; and 

•  Considering the availability of state resources to support housing production.

• Requires that every 6 years a distract a city that is within a metropolitan service district and has a population of 10,000 or greater do the following (Sec. 26): 

• Inventory the supply of buildable lands within the city and determine the housing capacity of the buildable lands; and

• Conduct an analysis of the city’s existing and projected needed housing to determine the number of units and amount of land needed for each needed housing type. 

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