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"Rent Control Creates Ghost Apartments" marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
December 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"Rent Control Creates Ghost Apartments" marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
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In 2010s, new housing production in Portland's lower density neighborhoods was overwhelmingly very expensive duplexes. Opponents of reform pointed to this, and said that's all we'd ever get.
In the 2020s, Portland is building new housing at price points that don't exist in west coast peer cities.
In the 2020s, Portland is building new housing at price points that don't exist in west coast peer cities.
Why has Portland been able to do what San Francisco can’t?
Bc of years of "big tent" organizing by @pnwelcome.bsky.social @1000oregon.bsky.social + lots more.
by @xianleonard.bsky.social for @sfchronicle.com
Bc of years of "big tent" organizing by @pnwelcome.bsky.social @1000oregon.bsky.social + lots more.
by @xianleonard.bsky.social for @sfchronicle.com
This liberal city sees San Francisco as a role model — for home building failure
While prices for starter homes in San Francisco have surged, Portland has seemingly found the key to produce “missing middle” houses for first-time buyers.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In 2010s, new housing production in Portland's lower density neighborhoods was overwhelmingly very expensive duplexes. Opponents of reform pointed to this, and said that's all we'd ever get.
In the 2020s, Portland is building new housing at price points that don't exist in west coast peer cities.
In the 2020s, Portland is building new housing at price points that don't exist in west coast peer cities.
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The first renderings of the Albina Riverside, including the retained Louis Dreyfus grain terminal, have me very excited www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...
December 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The first renderings of the Albina Riverside, including the retained Louis Dreyfus grain terminal, have me very excited www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...
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I wrote here about how to think about Portland's housing policy goals in this new environment: we should be eliminating the cost barriers to development. www.sightline.org/2024/02/07/a...
A Housing Agenda for Oregon: More Homes without Higher Prices | Sightline Institute
The usual way to get more homes built is wait for prices go up. But there is another way.
www.sightline.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I wrote here about how to think about Portland's housing policy goals in this new environment: we should be eliminating the cost barriers to development. www.sightline.org/2024/02/07/a...