Fitty
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Fitty
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"Rent Control Creates Ghost Apartments" marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
December 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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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.
December 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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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
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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