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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Portland’s Housing Affordability Debacle
Description: Full text: The City of Portland’s housing state of emergency, first declared in October 2015 and recently extended into next year, is set to turn six years old this fall. Over the course of two mayors, we were told the declaration would expedite the building of affordable housing and help alleviate our housing shortage.
By that measure the city has failed. In fact, the city has taken steps to make things worse. One of these steps was 2017’s “inclusionary zoning” ordinance.
Portland’s inclusionary zoning law requires developers of any project over 20 units to set aside at l...