Affordable Housing

Californians will decide on $44 billion in bonds when the vote on Propositions 1, 37 and 38. They’d take out debt to pay for housing and medical research.

Bandon has 69 vacation rentals. A city committee wants to allow only a few more, along with new fees and a one-year wait for some buyers.

Residents in search of affordable housing on Oregon’s South Coast now have more options, as the region’s housing authority leases out 105 new apartments in North Bend.

A clever solution or a confusing gimmick? Like it or hate it, almost everyone has questions about Proposition 37. Here are a few of the big ones — with the best available answers.

Supporters say California desperately needs money to fund housing construction and make a dent in its homelessness and affordability crisis. Critics say bond financing isn’t the way to do it.

Experts say eviction filings are almost twice as high as before the pandemic, driven by rising costs and stagnant wages.

Prop 45 would set deadlines on environmental reviews and lawsuits for projects like housing, roads and water systems, shifting power toward the people proposing those projects.

Starting next summer, homeless seniors will have a new tiny home village to move into, under the management of the Gospel Rescue Mission, a Christian nonprofit.

Two city councilors have proposed a series of changes to Ashland's land use code, with the goal of making housing development easier and clarifying the process.

The state has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each subsidized apartment has nearly doubled. But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, Oregon doesn’t have to provide the details of that spending.

The federal housing bill does a lot of little things. Supporters hope it will put a dent in both California and the nation’s housing shortage.

The modular development will include a community center and on-site services designed to help residents age in place.