Why Affordable Housing is Unaffordable
By Randal O’Toole Last week KGW news reported that Portland area rents are…
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Metro Should Scrap Visioning and Long-Range Planning
By Randal O’Toole Metro will soon be revising its 1995 Regional Framework Plan,…
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Affordable Housing Does More Harm Than Good
By Randal O’Toole So-called affordable housing is anything but affordable. Instead, it is…
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Metro Should Scrap Visioning and Long-Range Planning
By Randal O’Toole Metro has begun rewriting its 1995 “Future Vision,” which is…
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Providing Homes Oregon Families Can Afford Is a Solvable Problem
By Kathryn Hickok This month, Cascade Policy Institute is releasing a new report…
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The Affordable Housing Scam
By Randal O’Toole Executive Summary U.S. taxpayers spend tens of billions of dollars…
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Portland’s Housing Affordability Debacle
By Stew Robertson The City of Portland’s housing state of emergency, first declared…
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PDX to Invest $150,000 in Failed Housing Policy
Portland’s policy of Inclusionary Zoning makes housing less affordable for families. By Vlad…
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Portland’s Homeless Policy Must Switch Gears to Achieve Long-Term Results
Doubling down on failing policy puts both homeless residents and taxpayers at risk…
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Vlad Yurlov, Policy Analyst at Cascade Policy Institute, provided testimony on Portland City Council’s Shelter to Housing Continuum
Via emailMarch 30, 2021 Portland City Council, I’m Vlad Yurlov, policy analyst at…
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Why Is “Affordable Housing” So Expensive?
By Vlad Yurlov Why is “affordable housing” so expensive? Many politicians, bureaucrats, and…
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Homelessness in the Portland Region
Some straightforward solutions to a complex problem By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. and Vlad…
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Winter Is Coming, the Homeless Need Shelter, and the Expo Center Has the Space
By Eric Fruits. Ph.D. Winter is coming to Oregon, and it might be…
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Residents Say Portland is Not the City that Works
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. What if the self-proclaimed “City that Works” isn’t working?…
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Portland’s City Council Wants Rent to Go Up
By Micah Perry The Portland City Council recently passed a new ordinance that…
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Public Debt for Public Housing
By Vlad Yurlov In the 2018 general election, voters approved a bond measure…
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Portland’s Affordable Housing Bond: Nothing for Money
By Eric Fruits, Ph.D. Remember that song about getting money for nothing? In…
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What’s Causing Oregon’s “Housing Affordability Crisis”?
By Miranda Bonifield Here’s a question for you: Why is housing so expensive…
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The Housing Affordability Crisis: The Role of Anti-Sprawl Policy
By Randall Pozdena, Ph.D. Executive Summary So-called smart growth policies are advocated as…
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Private Developers Leading the Way for Affordable Housing
By Rachel Dawson The Metro Council voted June 7 to place a housing…
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Is Metro’s Affordable Housing Plan Really That Affordable?
By Rachel Dawson The Metro City Council voted June 7 to place a…
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Poll Shows Voters Are Smarter Than Politicians Think
By John A. Charles, Jr. In November the regional government, Metro, released the…
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Using Disparate Impact to Restore Housing Affordability and Property Rights
By Randall O’Toole Executive Summary Portland, Bend, Medford, and to a lesser degree…
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